Glacial dammed lakes in the Tsangpo River during late Pleistocene, southeastern Tibet

Lacustrine and alluvial terraces and sediments record the extent of at least three stages of late Pleistocene glacially dammed lakes, along the Tsangpo River at the Dazhuka-Yueju gorge, the Zangga-Gyaca gorge and the Grand Bend gorge, in southeastern Tibet. Analysis of lacustrine samples in the Tsangpo River valley by Optically Stimulated Luminescence and pollen analysis showed that the three dammed lakes in the Tsangpo River valley occurred during the early stage of the last glaciation, the later stage of the last glaciation (the Last Glacial Maximum), and the Neoglacial.