Luminescence dating of the sediments from a buried channel loop in Fatehabad Area, Haryana: Insight into vedic saraswati river and its environment

Geochronometria

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-35

  Saini, H S ^a   Mujtaba, S A I ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Northwestern Haryana; Palaeoenvironment; Vedic Saraswati

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651059828     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10003-010-0021-5     Document Type: Article

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