Loessic silt deposits in the Western Himalayas : their sedimentology, genesis and age
Asia ; Clay mineral ; Dating ; Grain size distribution;Granulometry ; Himalaya ; Karakoram ; Loess ; Microstructure ; Pedogenesis ; Sedimentology ; Surface deposits ; Thermoluminescence
Fieldwork and sedimentological analysis including grain size, mineralogy and microfabric showed that the loessic sediments have been reworked and some have undergone weak pedogenesis. It is concluded that care must be taken when using loessic silts
The AA. interpret the sedimentological, pedological, stratigraphic and thermoluminescence data as indicating that the period of loess deposition in the Kashmir valley dates to the last 200,000 yrs, with loess deposition and palaeosol formation
This paper concentrates on the Recent and Pleistocene sediments produced in the Karakoram glacial and paraglacial environments in terms of their sedimentological characteristics, landforms and the processes that produced them. Two main types
In this study deposits formerly mapped as moraines and outwash have been re-examined in detail, with particular emphasis on morphological and sedimentological characteristics. The results suggest that de Terra and Paterson misinterpreted the origin