Variability of Indian monsoonal rainfall over the past 100ka and its implication for C 3-C 4 vegetational change

Quaternary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-170

  Agrawal, Shailesh ^a   Sanyal, Prasanta ^b   Sarkar, Anindya ^a   Jaiswal, Manoj Kumar ^b   Dutta, Koushik ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

C 3 C 4 plants; Late Quaternary deposit; Monsoonal rainfall; Optical dating; Soil carbonate; South central Ganga Plain

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; C 3-C 4 PLANTS; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY; OPTICAL DATING; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL VARIATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOUTH-CENTRAL GANGA PLAIN; TIME-PERIODS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATION; ISOTOPES; SOILS; VEGETATION;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RAINFALL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

EID: 84855342807     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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