Palaeoclimatic conditions in the late Pleistocene Wadda Lake, eastern Kumaun Himalaya (India)

Chronology of relict lake deposits in the Spiti River, NW Trans Himalaya: Implications to Late Pleistocene–Holocene climate-tectonic perturbations

“…The period c. 60-28 ka BP, the older Phase-I, corresponds to wet Marine Isotope Stage-3, and the younger Phase-II of 12-7 ka BP to Marine Isotope Stage-1 (Prell and Kutzbach, 1987;Kotlia et al, 2000;Bookhagen et al, 2005b). The OSL data presented here and the published monsoon records suggest that lake existed at least during two major phases in the Spiti River valley, first around 50-30 ka and then between 14 and 6 ka BP (Fig.…”

Reconstruction of Last Glacial to early Holocene monsoon variability from relict lake sediments of the Higher Central Himalaya, Uttrakhand, India

“…However, a broad framework of monsoon variability reconstructed from the Himalaya, Gangetic plain and Thar desert (western India) show that the major climatic excursions were broadly in phase with the Goting lake record. In the eastern Central Himalaya Kotlia et al (2000) based on pollen record from relict lake sequence suggested a humid condition between ca. 21.7 ka and 18.2 ka followed by less humid condition.…”

Stalagmite Inferred High Resolution Climatic Changes through Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northwest Indian Himalaya

“…Although various archive-proxy based palaeoclimatic researches through Pleistocene-Holocene transition are available from the Indian Himalaya [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] but the poorly dated profiles obstructs their being most ideal high resolution records except for the Tsokar and Tso Moriri multi-proxy high resolution studies [39][40][41] respectively. Further, precisely dated stalagmite based multi-decadal records are rare through the Late Pleistocene-Holocene transition [42] although δ 18 O precipitation variability during Middle to Late Holocene has been obtained through U/Th dated speleothems [21,22,43,44].…”