A record of lake outburst in the Indus valley of Ladakh Himalaya, India

Current Science

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1712-1718

  Sangode, S J ^a   Phadtare, N R ^b   Meshram, D C ^a   Rawat, S ^b   Suresh, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Liquefaction; Outburst; Paleolake; Seismites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959745427     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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