Sediment records as archives of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene hydrological change in the alluvial Narmada River basin, western India

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-202

  Sridhar, Alpa ^a   Chamyal, L S ^a  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

Alluvial reach; Lithofacies assemblages; Narmada River; River hydrology

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LITHOFACIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENTATION;

INDIA; NARMADA BASIN;

EID: 77953692246     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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