Palaeoenvironmental significance of fluvial facies and archives of Late Quaternary deposits in the floodplain of Damodar River, India

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4145-4161

  Ghosh, Sandipan ^a   Guchhait, Sanat Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Caliches; Floodplain facies; Fluvial archives; Lithofacies; Morpho stratigraphical unit; Palaeoclimate; Southwest monsoon

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FACIES; FLOODPLAIN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

DAMODAR RIVER; INDIA;

EID: 84907251421     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-1079-y     Document Type: Article

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