Dey, SaptarshiSaptarshiDeyChauhan, NaveenNaveenChauhanVashistha, AnushkaAnushkaVashisthaJain, VikrantVikrantJain2025-08-282025-08-282021-06-0110.31223/X5M91Ghttps://d8.irins.org/handle/IITG2025/19688Understanding the response of glaciated catchments to climate change is fundamental for assessing sediment transport from the high-elevation, semi-arid to arid sectors in the Himalaya to the foreland basin. The fluvioglacial sediments stored in the semi-arid Padder valley in the Kashmir Himalaya record valley aggradation during ~19-11 ka. We relate the valley aggradation to increased sediment supply from the deglaciated catchment during the glacial-to-interglacial phase transition. Previously-published bedrock-exposure ages in the upper Chenab valley suggest ~180 km retreat of the valley glacier during ~20-15 ka. Increasing roundness of sand-grains and reducing mean grain-size from the bottom to the top of the valley-fill sequence hint about increasing fluvial transport with time and corroborate with the glacial retreat history. Our result also correlates well with late Pleistocene-early Holocene sediment aggradation observed across most Western Himalayan valleys. It highlights the spatiotemporal synchronicity of sediment transfer from the Himalayas triggered by climate change.en-USDeglaciationLast Glacial MaximumLuminescence datingKashmir Himalayae-Printhttp://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/2487/download/5085/e-Print0123456789/475