Climatically controlled Late Quaternary terrace staircase development in the fold- and -thrust belt of the Sub Himalaya

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 356-357, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-26

  Dutta, Sharat ^a   Suresh, N ^a   Kumar, Rohtash ^a  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aggradation and incision; Alluvial fan; Pleistocene Holocene Fluvial terraces; Sub Himalaya; Tectonic and climate; Yamuna River

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIAGENESIS; EPHEMERAL STREAM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LUMINESCENCE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; RIVER BED; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRACE;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; YAMUNA RIVER;

EID: 84861443809     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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