Badland formation along the Pravara River, Western Deccan, India. Can neotectonics be the cause?

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 349-370

  Joshi, Veena U ^a   Nagare, Vikas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Badland; Deccan; Holocene; Lineament; Pleistocene; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

BADLANDS; HOLOCENE; LINEAMENT; MORPHOMETRY; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL EROSION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DECCAN; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; PRAVARA RIVER;

EID: 84881395455     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2013/0109     Document Type: Article

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