Catastrophic partial drainage of Pangong Tso, northern India and Tibet

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-121

  Dortch, Jason M ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^a   Caffee, Marc W ^b   Kamp, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be dating; Floods; Himalaya; Ladakh; Pangong Tso; Strath terraces

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; INCISED VALLEY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SPILLWAY; VALLEY GLACIER;

ASIA; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; KARAKORAM FAULT ZONE; LADAKH; PANGONG LAKE; XIZANG;

EID: 78349307066     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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