Sediment storage and release from Himalayan piggyback basins and implications for downstream river morphology and evolution
(2015)
Journal Article
Densmore, A., Sinha, R., Sinha, S., Tandon, S., & Jain, V. (2016). Sediment storage and release from Himalayan piggyback basins and implications for downstream river morphology and evolution. Basin Research, 28(4), 446-461. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12116
Piggyback basins developed at the mountain fronts of collisional orogens can act as important, and transient, sediment stores along major river systems. It is not clear, however, how the storage and release of sediment in piggyback basins affects the... Read More about Sediment storage and release from Himalayan piggyback basins and implications for downstream river morphology and evolution.