Holocene Climate Change and Environment

Holocene Climate Change and Environment presents detailed, diverse case studies from a range of environmental and geological regions on the Indian subcontinent which occupies the central part of the monsoon domain. This book examines Holocene events at different time intervals based on a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy records (pollen, spores, NPP, diatoms, grain size characteristics, total organic carbon, carbon/nitrogen ratio, stable isotopes) and other physical tools from all regions of India. It also covers new facilities in chronological study and luminescence dating, which have added a new dimension toward understanding the Holocene glacial retreats evolution of coastal landforms, landscape dynamics and human evolution.

Each chapter is presented with a unified structure for ease of access and application, including an introduction, geographic details, field work and sampling techniques, methods, results and discussion. This detailed examination of such an important region provides key insights in climate modeling and global prediction systems.

1. The prelude to the Holocene: tropical Asia during the Pleistocene Robert J. Morley and Harsanti P. Morley 2. Contemporary dynamics and Holocene extent of glaciers in the Himalayas Milap Chand Sharma, Ishita Manna and Elora Chakraborty 3. Holocene climatic record of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya Binita Phartiyal, Debarati Nag and Priyanka Joshi 4. Late Holocene advancements of denudational and depositional fronts in the Higher Himalaya: A case study from Chandra valley, Himachal Pradesh, India S.J. Sangode, D.C. Meshram, A.M. Kandekara, Amol Abhale, S.S. Gudadhe and Suman Rawat 5. Holocene regional-scale behavior of the rivers of Indian Peninsula Vishwas S. Kale 6. Holocene vegetation and climate change from central India: An updated and a detailed pollen-based review Md. Firoze Quamar 7. Holocene climate and sea-level changes and their impact on ecology, vegetation and landforms in South Kerala Sedimentary Basin, India D. Padmalal, Ruta B. Limaye and K.P.N. Kumaran 8. Reading source, Holocene climate change and monsoon signatures in surface and core sediments from western Bay of Bengal Ganapati N. Nayak, Purnima Bejugam and Janhavi Kangane 9. Holocene environmental magnetic records of Indian monsoon fluctuations N. Basavaiah, J. Seetharamaiah, Erwin Appel, Navin Juyal, Sushma Prasad, K. Nageswara Rao, A.S. Khadkikar, N. Nowaczyk and A. Brauer 10. Application of tree rings in understanding long-term variability in river discharge of high Himalayas, India Vikram Singh, Krishna G. Misra, Akhilesh K. Yadava and Ram R. Yadav 11. Potential utility of Himalayan tree-ring d18O to reveal spatial patterns of past drought variability—Its assessments and implications Santosh K. Shah, Nivedita Mehrotra, Narayan P. Gaire, Lamginsang Thomte, Bimal Sharma, Uttam Pandey and Om Katel 12. Bond events and monsoon variability during Holocene—Evidence from marine and continental archives Upasana S. Banerji and D. Padmalal 13. Indian Summer Monsoon variability on different timescales and deciphering its oscillations from irregularly spaced paleoclimate data using different spectral techniques Phanindra Reddy A and Naveen Gandhi 14. Monsoon variability in the Indian subcontinent—A review based on proxy and observational datasets Ankit Yadav, Bulbul Mehta, Ambili Anoop and Praveen K. Mishra 15. Holocene hydroclimatic shifts across the Indian subcontinent: A review based on interarchival coherences Pa.vani Misra, Aqib J. Ansari, Ambili Anoop and Praveen K. Mishra 16 Application of precipitation isotopes in pursuit of paleomonsoon reconstruction: An Indian perspective Supriyo Chakraborty, Amey Datye, Charuta Murkute, Subrota Halder,Anant Parekh, Nitesh Sinha and P.M. Mohan 17. Mangrove Ostracoda species fluctuations, habitual adaptation, and its environmental implications—A review S.M. Hussain, Mohammed Noohu Nazeer, K. Radhakrishnan,A. Rajkumar and V. Sivapriya 18. Late Quaternary landscape evolution of Peninsular India: A review based on fluvial archives M.R. Resmi, Hema Achyuthan, Gaurav Chauhan and Hritika Deopa 19. The imprints of Holocene climate and environmental changes in the South Mahanadi Delta and the Chilika lagoon, Odisha, India—An overview Siba Prasad Mishra and Kumar Chandra Sethi 20. Holocene changes in fluvial geomorphology, depositional environments, and evolution of coastal wetlands—A multiproxy study from Southwest India K. Maya, D. Padmalal, M. Vandana, S. Vishnu Mohan, V.R. Vivek, Ruta B. Limaye and K.P.N. Kumaran 21. Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands—A case study from Southern Kerala, India S. Vishnu Mohan, M.S. Aneesh, K. Maya, K.P.N. Kumaran and D. Padmalal 22. Late Quaternary geoarcheology and palynological studies of some saline lakes of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India B.C. Deotare, Sheila Mishra and S.N. Rajaguru 23. Late Quaternary geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental aspects of Kurnool Basin in the Indian Peninsula Ravi Korisettar 24. Holocene vegetation, climate, and culture in Northeast India: A pollen data–based review Anjali Trivedi 25. Late Holocene vegetation, climate dynamics, and human-environment interaction along Konkan coast, India Ruta B. Limaye, K.P.N. Kumaran and S.N. Rajaguru

• Provides data and research from environmentally and geologically diverse regions across the Indian subcontinent
• Presents an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, including considerations of human impacts
• Features detailed case studies that include methods and data, allowing for applications related to research and global modeling