Abstract The Thar Desert is a major sediment depocenter located in southwestern Asia and
bordering the Indus drainage system to its east. It is unclear where the sediment that built the …

Rapid groundwater depletion from the northwestern Indian aquifer system in the western
Indo-Gangetic basin has raised serious concerns over the sustainability of groundwater and …

This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a
diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South …

Urbanism in the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation (~ 4.6–3.9 thousand years before the present,
ka) has been linked to water resources provided by large Himalayan river systems, although …

The present study aims to understand the hydrochemical evolution of groundwater in the
Ghaggar River Basin, representing a zone of excessive abstraction of groundwater in the …

Intensive irrigation in northwest India has led to growing concerns over the sustainability of
current and future groundwater abstraction. Environmental tracers and measurements of …

Palaeochannels are remnants of rivers or stream channels that flowed in the past and have
been currently filled or buried by younger fluviatile sediments. There are a number of …

Sediment burial can lead to significant lag times during sediment transport and is an
important component of the sediment cycle. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is a large …

Unsustainable exploitation of groundwater in northwestern India has led to extreme but
spatially variable depletion of the alluvial aquifer system in the region. Mitigation and …

Abstract The Indo‐Gangetic foreland basin has some of the highest rates of groundwater
extraction in the world, focused in the states of Punjab and Haryana in northwest India. Any …