A framework for Late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations in Lake Karakul, eastern Pamir, focusing on lake-glacier landform interaction

Geomorphology

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 198-211

  Komatsu, Tetsuya ^a   Watanabe, Teiji ^a   Hirakawa, Kazuomi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closed basin; Eastern Pamir; Glaciation; Lake Karakul; Outwash fan; Palaeoshoreline

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIATION; GLACIER; GLACIER ADVANCE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORAINE; OUTWASH; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; REGRESSION; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; TERRACE; TRANSGRESSION;

PAMIRS;

EID: 77952671972     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.03.025     Document Type: Article

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