Climatic variability in Central Indian Himalaya during the last ~1800 years: Evidence from a high resolution speleothem record

Quaternary International

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-192

  Sanwal, Jaishri ^a   Kotlia, Bahadur Singh ^b   Rajendran, Chittenipattu ^a   Ahmad, Syed Masood ^c   Rajendran, Kusala ^a   Sandiford, Mike ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; KUMAUN HIMALAYAS; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84880579470     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.03.029     Document Type: Article

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