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| Dixit, Yama; Hodell, David A.; Giesche, Alena; Tandon, Sampat K.; Gazquez, Fernando; Saini, Hari S.; Skinner, Luke C.; Mujtaba, Syed A. I.; Pawar, Vikas; Singh, Ravindra N.; Petrie, Cameron A.. |
| Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (delta O-18 and delta D) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from similar to 5.1 +/- 0.2 ka BP,... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00434/54589/55970.pdf |
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