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Suvrat Kher
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- January 13, 2010
- 09:20 AM
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Diagenetic History Of The Great Barrier Reef Of Australia
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
That giant organism is slowly giving up its deepest secrets.
From the November 2009 issue of Sedimentology : The Great Barrier Reef: a 700 000 year diagenetic history - Colin J. R. Braithwaite and Lucien F. Montaggioni
Most people rightly tend to think of the Great Barrier Reef as a living wonder. But the current living ecosystem, the coral communities and associated faunal and floral assemblages have been built on a foundation of a community of dead corals. And that ancient community when........ Read more »
BRAITHWAITE, C., & MONTAGGIONI, L. (2009) The Great Barrier Reef: a 700 000 year diagenetic history. Sedimentology, 56(6), 1591-1622. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00982.x
- February 10, 2012
- 11:15 AM
- 623 views
U-Pb Dating For Fingerprinting Himalayan Rivers: Implications For Harappan Agriculture and Vedic Aryans
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
Recent works shows that the river Yamuna and Sutlej shifted course away from the river Ghaggar, also identified as river Sarasvati by early Holocene. His has implications in understanding Harappan civilization water use and agriculture and also informs about the culture wars surrounds the origin of Vedic Aryans... Read more »
Clift, P., Carter, A., Giosan, L., Durcan, J., Duller, G., Macklin, M., Alizai, A., Tabrez, A., Danish, M., VanLaningham, S.... (2012) U-Pb zircon dating evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and capture of the Yamuna River. Geology. DOI: 10.1130/G32840.1
- June 15, 2012
- 01:01 AM
- 610 views
Fluvial History And The Fortunes Of the Harappan Civilization
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
A summary of geomorphologic reconstruction of the Fluvial landscapes in northwest India and Pakistan and their link to the Harappan civilization along with some comments on the glacial Saraswati controversy... Read more »
Giosan, L., Clift, P., Macklin, M., Fuller, D., Constantinescu, S., Durcan, J., Stevens, T., Duller, G., Tabrez, A., Gangal, K.... (2012) PNAS Plus: Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112743109
- October 25, 2012
- 12:49 PM
- 547 views
Trekking Among The Stratigraphy And Structure of the Lesser Himalayas In Kumaon And Gharwal
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
Clarification of the stratigraphy and structure of the Lesser Himalayas of the Kumaon region of Uttarkhand... Read more »
Celerier, J., Harrison, T., Webb, A., & Yin, A. (2009) The Kumaun and Garwhal Lesser Himalaya, India: Part 1. Structure and stratigraphy. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121(9-10), 1262-1280. DOI: 10.1130/B26344.1
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