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Evolution of the Drainage System in Yamuna-Sutlej Interfluve — Multi-disciplinary Approach
The Yamuna-Sutlej interfluve area has been important because of the presence of several palaeochannels that are hypothesized to be linked to Rigvedic...
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A Deep Ecological Exploration of Indian River Systems: Review of Its Cultural Landscape and Triveni Sangam Case
Indian river systems (IRS) are a constituent part of India’s geographical landscape and her culture that have evolved over thousands of years. Indian...
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Saraswati River: It’s Past and Present
Vedic Saraswati River flowed in full vigour about 5000 year BP and before as an independent river system between the Indus and Ganga systems. The...
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Delineation of Paleochannel and Groundwater Resources in the Khari River Basin, Kachchh using Transient Electromagnetics
The paleochannels are riverine geomorphic features, which are either buried or shifted due to tectonic, climate, and anthropogenic activities. In...
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Facies architecture and spatio-temporal depositional variability in the Pliocene Sandhan fluvial system, Kutch Basin, India
The glaciation-induced base-level fall and basin physiography straightforward controls fluvial style in any coastal setting. An alternate climatic...
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Evaluating Groundwater Sources and Dynamics along the Paleochannel Network of Northwest India Using Isotope Tracers
The word paleochannel is formed from two words, viz. paleo and channel, meaning an old channel. Paleochannels hold unconsolidated or...
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Map** of the Buried Paleochannels on the Terminal Fans in the Western Ganga Plain: A Geomorphological and Ground Penetrating Radar-based Approach
Paleochannels are valuable tools for delineating tectonics, climate, anthropogenic activities, reconstructing the paleogeography, and studying the...
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First record of sulfate-driven anaerobic methane oxidation and associated dolomite precipitation in Kachchh Basin, western India
The present study investigates the processes responsible for Middle Eocene dolomite occurrences in Kachchh Basin in the western Indian Continental...
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Palaeoecological Analysis of Benthic Molluscs from the Eocene of Kutch, Gujarat Reveals an Event of Storm Induced Concentration of Shells in a Quiet Marginal Marine Environment
The Eocene deposits of the Kutch basin are characterized by predominance of plane-laminated shales and low diversity mollusc faunas. These features...
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Conservation and Sustainable Development of Geoheritage, Geopark, and Geotourism: a Case Study of Cenozoic Successions of Western Kutch, India
Geoheritage is a concept concerned with the preservation of features with importance to earth science, such as landforms, natural exposures of rocks,...
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The Unique Geoheritage of the Kachchh (Kutch) Basin, Western India, and its Conservation
The Kachchh Basin is a peri-cratonic rift basin in the Gujarat state of Western India which exposes a vast range of geological features which are of...
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Alakhnanda–Bhagirathi River System
India has large numbers of rivers where human civilizations have flourished in the past. There has been a change in the landform caused due to...
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Eternal Relation of Human Emotions and Rivers in Hindi Literature
Rivers—‘The rich source of water’ is the basic need of life. We cannot think about the life on earth without water. The life of human being, animals,...
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Hooghly River
Hooghly is one of the most important rivers of West Bengal, and it is also the centre for industrial development of West Bengal. Due to increasing...
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Portrayal, Identification and Delineation of the River Saraswatī
The Saraswatī was a highly venerated river in the times it watered the vast expanse of the land known as Saptasindhav—the land of seven rivers...
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Morphometric data on topotype assemblage of Miogypsina (Lepidosemicyclina) droogeri, foraminifera from Kachchh, Gujarat
Miogypsina ( Lepidosemicyclina ) droogeri Zone occupies an important position in the Indian biochronostratigraphy since the reservoirs of the giant oil...
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Sediments Deposited by the River Saraswatī
Emerging in the interior of the Himālaya and flowing through four lithotectonically contrasted and geomorphologically distinctive subprovinces or...
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Quaternary Cover and Tectonism: Peninsular India
The Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentation in the Indo-Gangetic Plains has been dealt with comprehensively in Chap. 22.