Timing and extent of late Quaternary glaciation in the western Himalaya constrained by 10Be moraine dating in Garhwal, India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 815-831

  Scherler, Dirk ^a   Bookhagen, Bodo ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ^c   Rood, Dylan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; FAR FIELD; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; HIMALAYAS; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; LATE QUATERNARY; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MONSOON STRENGTH; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PROXY DATA; REGIONAL SCALE; STEEP GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS;

GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; MORAINE; OROGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMACHAL PRADESH; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 77649336137     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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