Sediment provenance, reworking and transport processes in the Indus River by U-Pb dating of detrital zircon grains

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 33-55

  Alizai, Anwar ^a   Carter, Andrew ^b   Clift, Peter D ^a   VanLaningham, Sam ^c   Williams, Jeremy C ^e   Kumar, Ravindra ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^e NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate; Erosion; Provenance; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN SEA; CLIMATE; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; HIMALAYAS; HOLOCENES; INDUS RIVER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LESSER HIMALAYA; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; STEADY STATE; SUMMER MONSOON; TEMPORAL CHANGE; THAR DESERT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TRANSPORT TIME; U-PB AGES; U-PB DATING; WATER DISCHARGES; ZIRCON AGE; ZIRCON DATING; ZIRCON SAND;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD; RIVERS; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ZIRCON;

BEDROCK; COASTAL EROSION; DATA SET; DELTA; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DRAINAGE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIBUTARY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARABIAN SEA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDUS RIVER;

EID: 79952315877     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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