Weak monsoon event at 4.2 ka recorded in sediment from Lake Rara, Himalayas

Quaternary International

Volumn 397, Issue , 2016, Pages 349-359

  Nakamura, Atsunori ^a   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,b   Maemoku, Hideaki ^c   Yagi, Hiroshi ^d   Okamura, Makoto ^e   Matsuoka, Hiromi ^e   Miyake, Nao ^e   Osada, Toshiki ^f   Adhikari, Danda Pani ^g   Dangol, Vishnu ^g   Ikehara, Minoru ^e   Miyairi, Yosuke ^a   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^g TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

4.2 ka event; 14C age offset; Himalayas; Indian monsoon; Manganese; X ray fluorescence (XRF)

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MANGANESE; MONSOON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EAST AFRICA; HIMALAYAS; INDUS RIVER; KARNALI; NEPAL; RARA LAKE;

EID: 84930853076     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.053     Document Type: Article

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