A 13,000 year record of environmental magnetic variations in the lake and peat deposits from the Chandra valley, Lahaul: Implications to Holocene monsoonal variability in the NW Himalaya

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 440, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-127

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

Environmental magnetism; Himalaya; Holocene; Indian summer monsoon; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PEATLAND;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; LAHAUL VALLEY;

EID: 84924230566     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.08.044     Document Type: Article

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