Reconstruction of buried channel-floodplain systems of the northwestern Haryana plains and their relation to the 'Svedic' Saraswati

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1634-1643

  Saini, H S ^a   Tandon, S K ^b   Mujtaba, S A I ^a   Pant, N C ^c   Khorana, R K ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

'Vedic' Saraswati; Buried fluvial systems; Northwestern Haryana Plains; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949091253     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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