Hydrological evolution during the last 15 kyr in the Tso Kar lake basin (Ladakh, India), derived from geomorphological, sedimentological and palynological records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1138-1155

  Wünnemann, Bernd ^a,b   Demske, Dieter ^b   Tarasov, Pavel ^b   Kotlia, Bahadur S ^c   Reinhardt, Christian ^b   Bloemendal, Jan ^d   Diekmann, Bernhard ^e   Hartmann, Kai ^b   Krois, Joachim ^b   Riedel, Frank ^b   Arya, Nidhi ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FAUNA; CLIMATE CONDITION; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIMALAYAS; HOLOCENES; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; LATEGLACIAL; LOW LEVEL; MINERAL COMPOSITION; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALYNOMORPHS; PROXY RECORDS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER MONSOON; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS; TERRACE FORMATIONS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; XRD;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; PERMAFROST; SOIL CONSERVATION; TECTONICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LAKES;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BASIN EVOLUTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GLACIER ADVANCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; MONSOON; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALYNOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; TSO KAR;

EID: 77950595353     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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