Paleoclimatic, paleovegetational and provenance change in the Ganga Plain during the late Quaternary

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1141-1152

  Agrawal, Shailesh ^a,b   Sanyal, Prasanta ^c   Bera, Melinda K ^c   Dash, Jitendra K ^d   Balakrishnan, Srinivasan ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

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

^d PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ganga plain; Isotopic ratio; Late quaternary; Monsoonal rainfall; Plants; Soil carbonate

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLANT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

EID: 84878463672     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 0973774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-013-0332-9     Document Type: Article

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