Early Holocene monsoonal fluctuations in the Garhwal higher Himalaya as inferred from multi-proxy data from the Malari paleolake

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-458

  Srivastava, Pradeep ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a   Mishra, Akanksha ^b   Meena, Narendra K ^a   Tripathi, Jayant K ^b   Sundriyal, Y P ^c   Agnihotri, Rajesh ^d   Gupta, Anil K ^a  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Indian Summer Monsoon; Mineral susceptibility; Organic phosphorus; Paleolake profile; Semiarid Himalaya; Solar forcing

Indexed keywords

HIMALAYAS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; PALEOLAKE PROFILE; SOLAR FORCING;

LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PHOSPHORUS;

LAKES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MONSOON; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SUMMER;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84887091958     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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