Late Quaternary valley infill and dissection in the Indus River, western Tibetan Plateau margin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 102-119

  Blöthe, Jan H ^a   Munack, Henry ^a   Korup, Oliver ^a   Fülling, Alexander ^b   Garzanti, Eduardo ^c   Resentini, Alberto ^c   Kubik, Peter W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Erosion; Glaciation; Himalaya; Indus; Lake sediment; Valley fills

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

GLACIATION; HIMALAYAS; INDUS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; VALLEY FILLS;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BEDROCK; DISSECTION; GLACIATION; GORGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LUMINESCENCE; PLATEAU; PLEISTOCENE; RELIEF; TRIBUTARY; VALLEY FILL;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; INDUS RIVER; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LADAKH; LEH VALLEY; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ZANSKAR VALLEY;

EID: 84900820083     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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