Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

Rudra, Kalyan

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“…Although officially (by the Indian government institutions and agencies) as well as popularly referred to as Ganga in Sanskrit, Hindi and other Indian languages (Figure 1), internationally it is known as the Ganges [2,4]. All the major tributaries and distributaries are shown in the map of the Ganges Basin, together with its sub-basins as insets ( Figure 1).…”

Section: Ganges Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After traversing a distance of about 3000 km and crossing the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, the Ganges Rivers bifurcates into Padma and Bhagirathi (namesake of one of the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas described in the next Section 2.2) rivers shortly after Farakka ( Figure 2) in Murshidabad District of West Bengal [4,5]. While the Padma River flows SE through Bangladesh, and after meeting Jamuna and Meghna rivers, empties itself into the Bay of Bengal, the other distributary, i.e., Bhagirathi River, flows within the Indian state of West Bengal [2].…”

Section: Ganges and Hooghly (Hugli)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After flowing through the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and being joined by several tributaries (Figure 1), the Ganges River passes through the Rajmahal Hills (Figure 3) in the Jharkhand state of India to the south and flows southeast to Farakka in the West Bengal state of India, at the apex of its delta, where the Ganges River bifurcates [2,4,6]. Padma, one of the two streams formed as a result the bifurcation of the Ganges River, flows into Bangladesh and is joined by the Mahananda River from the north.…”

Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Bhagirathi-Hugli River itself is joined by several tributaries, flowing in from the west, viz. Mayurakshi, Ajay, Damodar and Kasai (Figure 3) [2,4,6]. In Bangladesh, a number of distributaries branch off from Padma River to the south to form the river's vast delta.…”

Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

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“…In Bangladesh, a number of distributaries branch off from Padma River to the south to form the river's vast delta. In Bangladesh, the Ganges (Padma) River is joined by the Jamuna River (which in its upper reaches in Tibetan Autonomous region of China is known as Yarlung Tsangpo River and is known as Brahmaputra in India, where it flows through the plains in the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam) [2,4,6]. The combined stream, there called the Padma, joins with the Meghna River [2,4,6].…”

Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Note on “Metal Distribution and Short-Time Variability in Recent Sediments from the Ganges River towards the Bay of Bengal (India)” by Bonnail et al. (2019)

Alam

2020

Geosciences

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A careful reading of Bonnail et al. (2019)’s work points out some issues in the description of the Ganges River, e.g., describing it in a way that gives impression to the readers unfamiliar with the Indian rivers that it flows by the national capital New Delhi, after reading “it receives inputs from highly populated cities of India, including New Delhi and …”. However, as a matter of fact, it is not the Ganges, but the Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganges, that passes through the National Capital Region of Delhi. Moreover, authors identify the studied river as the Ganges, whereas it is one of the distributaries of the Ganges called Hooghly (anglicized version of its local name Hugli). They have referred to the seasonality of the studied river; however, the flow of the studied (Hooghly) river is controlled by a barrage on the Ganges River. Moreover, Hooghly River receives input from its own tributaries; viz., Mayurakshi and Damodar, flowing through highly mineralized and coaliferous areas of Jharkhand state of India. Bonnail et al. (2019) have attributed the contamination of the river sediments to anthropogenic activities alone, by not evaluating likely natural sources. A correction factor for the underestimated total organic carbon (TOC) content obtained using Walkley-Black method should have been applied before using TOC values for factor analysis to overcome the underestimation issue with this method. This work intends to serve as a compendium, rather than a critique, to otherwise commendable work by Bonnail et al. (2019).

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Section: Ganges Rivermentioning

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Section: Ganges and Hooghly (Hugli)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

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Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Origin and Trajectory Of The Ganges Rivermentioning

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A Note on “Metal Distribution and Short-Time Variability in Recent Sediments from the Ganges River towards the Bay of Bengal (India)” by Bonnail et al. (2019)

Alam

2020

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Assessing the Benefits, Threats and Conservation of Reservoir‐Based Wetlands in the Eastern Himalayan River Basin

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Chakraborty

2021

Wetlands Conservation

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Impact of human intervention structures on the rivers: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variation of grain size in the Tista River, eastern Himalayas

Ghosh

Chakraborty

2022

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In order to investigate the effect of intervention structures like dams and barrage on the sediment grain size distribution, we examined a $75 km stretch of the Tista River in the foothill alluvial plain of the eastern Himalayas. However, studies on the impact of dams on streamflow and sediment in the Himalayan rivers are constrained due to inadequate historical gauge data. Therefore, we employed a simple method to track the initial formation of some of the existing river landforms that formed before the dam/barrage operations from yearly satellite images for in situ sediment sample collection. Hence, the collected sediment grain sizes analysis is used here as a proxy to comprehend the pre-, syn-and post-dam river sediment-transport pattern. We have grouped 23 landforms into three temporal clusters: (i) those formed before 1997, earlier than the dams/barrage interventions (TOL); (ii) formed between 1998 and 2010 during the upstream dam construction (TML) and (iii) formed after 2010 (TNL) when upstream dams and the barrage were fully operational. A total of 116 sediment samples from these landforms indicate the overall grain size reduction for TML and TNL sediment due to reservoir sequestration of coarser grains. In comparison, the coarsest TOL sediment with downstream fining trend represents the pristine river condition. The coarsening trend with a poor correlation coefficient of TML is primarily assigned to partial trapping of the coarse bedload and massive sediment generation by the upstream under-construction dams, resulting in the downstream erosion of the riverbed and transport of the coarser bedload further down.Similarly, post-dam sediment trapping and controlled flow were responsible for the weaker trend with a distinctly finer size of TNL. The historical satellite images and data on streamflow and suspended sediment reveal that contemporary river behaviour is consistent with the earlier interpretation.

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Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

Cited by 61 publications

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A Note on “Metal Distribution and Short-Time Variability in Recent Sediments from the Ganges River towards the Bay of Bengal (India)” by Bonnail et al. (2019)

A Note on “Metal Distribution and Short-Time Variability in Recent Sediments from the Ganges River towards the Bay of Bengal (India)” by Bonnail et al. (2019)

Assessing the Benefits, Threats and Conservation of Reservoir‐Based Wetlands in the Eastern Himalayan River Basin

Impact of human intervention structures on the rivers: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variation of grain size in the Tista River, eastern Himalayas

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