Indus-Ganga-Brahmaputra Plains: The Alluvial Landscape

World Geomorphological Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 53-63

  Sinha, Rajiv ^a   Tandon, Sampat K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Alluvial plains; Fluvial hazards; Geomorphic diversity; Himalayan foreland; Large rivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937399416     PISSN: 22132090     EISSN: 22132104     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8029-2_5     Document Type: Chapter

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