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Climate footprints in the Late Quaternary–Holocene landforms of Dun Valley, NW Himalaya, India [1]

The Himalayan mountain front is characterised by front parallel longitudinal valleys called Dun, that occupy the synformal troughs. The perennial glacial fed rivers Ganga and Yamuna experience first major gradient loss along the valley floor of Dehra Duyn and produce characteristic landforms and deposits by the gradational processes of streams that are often controlled by climate fluctuation.

Publication Date: 
25/01/2014
Anand K. Pandey [2], Prabha Pandey [3], Guru Dayal Singh & et al [4]
Current Science [5]
106
2
245-253
Tags:
Climate Change [6], Climate Science [7], Himalaya [8], Ganga [9], Yamuna [10], Glaciers [11], Alakananda [12], Bhagirathi [13], India [14], Dehradun [15], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [16]
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