Journal
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 443, Issue -, Pages 188-199Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.017
Keywords
Eastern Great Rann; Mid-Holocene; Fluvial aggradation; Harappan civilization; Medieval warm period
Funding
- DST [SR/S4/ES-TG/02/2008]
- DST-SERB Fast track Project [SR/FTP/ES-49/2013]
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The present study is an attempt to reconstruct the paleohydrological conditions during the midHolocene in the hyper-arid terrain of the northern Great Rann of Kachchh. Remote sensing, detailed field geomorphology, sedimentology, geochemistry and optical chronology suggests that the fluvial sediments fringing the Khadir Island were transported locally and deposited during the extreme hydrological events corresponding to the mid to late-Holocene Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) variability. Overall five extreme hydrological events are deciphered during the last 5 ka which broadly correlates with periods of strengthened ISM. Our data indicate that the emergence and decline of the Harappan civilization was unrelated to any major fluvial system in the region. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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