Open AccessPowerful Glacial Floods Heave Himalayan Boulders
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo151318
Subject(s) - glacial period , geology , geomorphology
Many of the house-sized boulders that litter Himalayan river channels were transported thousands of years ago by glacial lake outburst floods, new observations suggest.
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