Hyperconcentrated floods cause extreme gravel transport through the sandy rivers of the Gangetic Plains

L Quick, MJ Creed, HD Sinclair, M Attal… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Gangetic Plains comprise steep gravelly river channels that transition to low
gradient sandy channels 10-40 km downstream of the mountain front. This “gravel-sand …

Geomorphic connectivity and its application for understanding landscape complexities: a focus on the hydro‐geomorphic systems of India

M Singh, R Sinha, SK Tandon - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geomorphic processes operate at multiple spatio‐temporal scales and different levels of
hierarchy. It is therefore necessary to understand the linkages of landscapes across various …

Impact on endangered Gangetic dolphins due to construction of waterways on the river Ganga, India: an overview

D Aggarwal, N Kumar, V Dutta - Environmental Sustainability, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The charismatic Gangetic dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica, is distributed in
the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Karnaphuli–Sangu river systems of India …

Hyperconcentration of floods required for extreme transport of coarse bedload in the Gangetic Plains

L Quick, H Sinclair, M Creed, M Attal… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - research.ed.ac.uk
Results Conglomerate event bed descriptions. Two significant conglomerate beds (in terms
of thickness) are recorded 400 m below the Middle to Upper Siwalik contact within the …

Incorporating Hydromorphological Assessments in the Fluvial Geomorphology Domain for Transitioning Towards Restorative River Science—Context, Concepts and …

S Mondal, PP Patel - Fluvial Systems in the Anthropocene: Process …, 2022 - Springer
Almost every civilization has seen rivers from an utilitarian perspective, resulting in a series
of irreversible hydromorphic changes that have disrupted all former balances between the …

Hydrodynamic modelling to assess habitat suitability of the Ganga River dolphins

G Kailash Sonkar, K Gaurav, V Kumar, Z Beg - Ecohydrology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Ganga River hosts a metapopulation of endangered aquatic species. This
study uses a hydrodynamic model (HEC‐RAS) to assess the habitat suitability of the Ganga …

Ecogeomorphological Investigation of Anthropogenic Changes in the Kızılırmak River Mouth, Türkiye

A Uzun, K Erciyas-Yavuz, F Karaer, N Polat, G Bakan… - Wetlands, 2024 - Springer
This study was prepared to investigate the ecogeomorphological aspects of the Kızılırmak
mouth and its immediate environs, which have been seriously subjected to anthropogenic …

An Experimental Study of Manning's Roughness Coefficient with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Method of the River Ganga at Gandhi-Ghat Site, Patna …

M Mardi, SK Murmu - Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series …, 2024 - Springer
The accurate determination of Manning's roughness coefficient is crucial in hydraulic
studies, especially in open channel flow analysis, as it significantly influences the design of …

Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of river Ganges in different climatic conditions and regions of Uttarakhand, India

P Kumar, A Kothari, SRM Yadav, S Kumar, A Mandal… - The Nucleus, 2024 - Springer
Heavy metal exposure has increased progressively because of anthropogenic, industrial,
and agricultural activities as well as modern industrialisation, all of which have adverse …

Assessment of the eco-geomorphological conditions of Udmurtia, European Russia

A Kirillova, E Likhacheva, O Kokin - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Udmurtia located in the European part of Russia was chosen for assessment eco-
geomorphological conditions, because it is well-developed region (ferrous and non-ferrous …