2020
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020032
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Late Quaternary sedimentation history of the Himalaya and its foreland

Abstract: 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 Ganga foreland act as an artery that helps registering climate and tectonic signals into its geomorphology and sedimentary history. The paper discusses the late Quaternary landscape evolution of the mountain and its foreland and reviews the published literature in the context. It mainly focusses on the alluvial landscape and compiles t… Show more

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“…The Rarh plains (RP) form mostly the western part of LGP (Bagchi & Mukherjee, 1979; Bandyopadhyay et al, 2015; Biswas, 1987; Chaudhuri, 1985; Kumar et al, 2020), which is located more than ~200 km upstream of the modern‐day tidal limit (Figure 1). The area is mainly contributed by the western tributaries of the Bhagirathi‐Hooghly River system (a distributary of the Ganga River system) and has long been considered the oldest part of the Ganga‐Brahmaputra delta (GBD) (Bagchi, 1944; Basu, 1973; Niyogi, 1975).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The Rarh plains (RP) form mostly the western part of LGP (Bagchi & Mukherjee, 1979; Bandyopadhyay et al, 2015; Biswas, 1987; Chaudhuri, 1985; Kumar et al, 2020), which is located more than ~200 km upstream of the modern‐day tidal limit (Figure 1). The area is mainly contributed by the western tributaries of the Bhagirathi‐Hooghly River system (a distributary of the Ganga River system) and has long been considered the oldest part of the Ganga‐Brahmaputra delta (GBD) (Bagchi, 1944; Basu, 1973; Niyogi, 1975).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Gangetic rivers experience high ood discharges and temporal variability where bulk of the rainfall happens between June to September. The rivers on the western portion of Ganga plain are incised in nature whereas the eastern rivers are shallow (Kumar et al, 2020). Therefore, the annual oods in the Ganga-Brahmaputra plain are morphologically more signi cant rather than the occasional large oods due to the channel abandonment, avulsion, bank erosion etc.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%