Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and Indian summer monsoon record from the Lahaul, Northwest Himalaya, India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-181

  Rawat, Suman ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a,b   Sangode, S J ^c   Srivastava, Priyeshu ^c,e   Nainwal, H C ^d  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^d H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Himalaya; Indian summer monsoon; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Palynology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CARBON; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; PEAT; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION; WIND;

CARBON ISOTOPES; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALYNOLOGY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MEADOW; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION HISTORY;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; LAHAUL VALLEY; PIR PANJAL RANGE;

ALNUS NEPALENSIS; ARTEMISIA; BETULA UTILIS; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CEDRUS; JUGLANS REGIA; LILIACEAE; POACEAE; POLYGONUM; QUERCUS; ULMUS;

EID: 84924227352     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.032     Document Type: Article

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