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The role of climate and tectonics in aggradation and incision of the Indus River in the Ladakh Himalaya during the late Quaternary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

Anil Kumar  and
Pradeep Srivastava
Anil Kumar
Affiliation:
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Dehradun, India
Pradeep Srivastava*
Affiliation:
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Dehradun, India
*
*Corresponding author at: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Dehradun, India. E-mail: pradeep@wihg.res.in (P. Srivastava).
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Abstract

The geomorphic evolution of the upper Indus River that traverses across the southwest (SW) edge of Tibet, and the Ladakh and Zanskar ranges, was examined along a ~350-km-long stretch of its reaches. Based on the longitudinal river profile, stream length gradient index, and river/strath terraces, this stretch of the river is divided into four segments. Valley fill river terraces are ubiquitous, and strath terraces occur in the lower reaches where the Indus River cuts through deformed Indus Molasse. Optically stimulated luminescence ages of river/strath terraces suggest that valley aggradation occurred in three pulses, at ~52, ~28, and ~16 ka, and that these broadly coincide with periods of stronger SW Indian summer monsoon. Reconstructed longitudinal river profiles using strath terraces provide an upper limit on the bedrock and provide incision rates ranging from 1.0±0.3 to 2.2±0.9 mm/a. These results suggested that rapid uplift of the western syntaxes aided by uplift along the local faults led to the formation of strath terraces and increased fluvial incision rates along this stretch of the river.

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Indus RiverNW Ladakh HimalayaAggradation-incisionLuminescence dating
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Quaternary Research , Volume 87 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 363 - 385
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Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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