Clay minerals record from Late Quaternary drill cores of the Ganga Plains and their implications for provenance and climate change in the Himalayan foreland

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 356-357, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-37

  Pal, D K ^a   Bhattacharyya, T ^a   Sinha, R ^b   Srivastava, P ^c   Dasgupta, A S ^b   Chandran, P ^a   Ray, S K ^a   Nimje, A ^a  

^a ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF SOIL SURVEY AND LAND USE PLANNING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Climate change; Ganga Plains; Interfluve; Monsoonal forcing; Provenance

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; FORELAND BASIN; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CORE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84865860935     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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