Timing and climatic drivers for glaciation across monsoon-influenced regions of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-182

  Murari, Madhav K ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^a   Dortch, Jason M ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^c   Dietsch, Craig ^a   Fuchs, Markus ^d   Haneberg, William C ^e   Sharma, Milap C ^f   Townsend Small, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^f JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Garhwal; Glacial geomorphology; Himalaya; Mid latitude westerlies; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ASIAN MONSOON; GARHWAL; GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HIMALAYAS; MIDLATITUDES; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; TIBET;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CORRELATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATITUDE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAPPING METHOD; MASS MOVEMENT; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84896692263     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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