The Thar or the Great Indian Sand Desert

World Geomorphological Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 79-90

  Kar, Amal ^a  

^a A 1 6 Baitalik Housing Society KMDA Housing Complex   (India)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Climate change; Fluvial; Human pressure; Lacustrine; Landforms; Quaternary; Sand dunes; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941803731     PISSN: 22132090     EISSN: 22132104     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8029-2_7     Document Type: Chapter

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