Holocene aridification of India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ponton, Camilo ^a,b   Giosan, Liviu ^b   Eglinton, Tim I ^b,c   Fuller, Dorian Q ^d   Johnson, Joel E ^e   Kumar, Pushpendra ^f   Collett, Tim S ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^f Institute of Engineering and Ocean Technology   (India)

^g DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES;

ARIDIFICATION; BAY OF BENGAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CULTURAL CHANGES; HIGH SALINITY; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LATITUDINAL RANGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTH INDIA; STRONG LINK; MONSOON; NEOLITHIC;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARIDIFICATION; CIVILIZATION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PALEOCLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

INDIA; INDUS BASIN; PAKISTAN; BAY OF BENGAL; GODAVARI RIVER; INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 84863149404     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050722     Document Type: Article

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