A ∼200 ka record of climatic change and dune activity in the Thar Desert, India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3095-3105

  Singhvi, A K ^a   Williams, M A J ^b   Rajaguru, S N ^c   Misra, V N ^c   Chawla, S ^a   Stokes, S ^d   Chauhan, N ^a   Francis, T ^a   Ganjoo, R K ^e   Humphreys, G S ^f  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

^f MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCRETES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC REGIMES; CONSISTENT VALUES; DUNE SANDS; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL FORMATIONS; THAR DESERT; TIME INTERVAL;

ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS;

SOILS;

ARTIFACT; CALCRETE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUNE; GEOACCUMULATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MESOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL;

THAR DESERT;

EID: 77957362105     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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