The origin of the Bengal basin, the cradle of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta (GBD), was
started in the Jurassic period with initiation of rifting of the Pangaea supercontinent and was …

River avulsion as studied in small-sized and medium-sized rivers is partly explained by the
water surface gradient advantage of a new channel course over the old course, caused by …

The progressive and sequential shifting of the banklines and centerlines (thalweg) due to
bank erosion and channel bar formation, as well as channel planform changes and avulsion …

Abstract Rudra (2014, Geomorphology, 227, 87-100) presented a review of geomorphic
changes of the Indian part of the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta (GBD) during the last~ 240 …

Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a
clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of …

Himalaya and its foreland acted as a coupled system that responded to the climate
variability and evolved as a thrust and fold belt. The river systems draining the Himalaya, the …

Ferricrete deposits are one of the most important geomorphological and geological features
of eastern India. Different archaeological sites of eastern India have shown that the …

The present article brings forward the results of recent exploration of the Quaternary
sediments and associated prehistoric cultural materials of the Subarnarekha river valley …

More than one hundred copperplate and stone inscriptions of the early medieval period
record transfer of land within the orbit of historical Bengal. Of these, nineteen plates hail from …

Packages of fluvial systems in the Lower Ganga plains (LGP) archive the changes in
stratigraphic architecture induced by perturbations in the climatic system. In some parts of …