Style and stages of valley fill aggradation-incision cycles in the Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India

Prizomwala, S. P.; Yadav, Gunjan; Solanki, Tarun; Das, Archana; Chauhan, Gaurav; Makwana, Nisarg

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“…16,17,and 18). Quaternary tectonic activity along various faults of the KRB is also confirmed by using Neotectonic, tectono-geomorphic and paleoseismic, GIS, and remote sensing techniques (Thakkar et al 1999, 2012a, b, 2020a, Thakkar 2018aMaurya et al 2003aMaurya et al , b, c, 2008Maurya et al , 2013Maurya et al , 2016Patidar et al 2007Patidar et al , 2008Malik et al 2008Malik et al , 2017Prizomwala et al 2014aPrizomwala et al , b, 2016aPrizomwala et al , 2016bPrizomwala et al , 2019Goyal et al 2015;Kothyari et al 2015Kothyari et al , 2016aKothyari et al , b, c, 2018Kothyari et al , 2019Kothyari et al , 2020aKothyari et al , 2020bKothyari et al , 2020cDas et al 2016aDas et al , b, 2017Das et al , 2019Das et al , 2020Padmalal et al 2019;Bhattacharya et al 2019;Dumka et al 2019;Shaikh et al 2019Shaikh et al , 2020Kandregula et al 2020;Lakhote et al 2020a, b;Mishra et al 2020;Rajendran et al 2020). Quaternary climate and sea level processes also resulted in fluvial, aeolian, and marine erosional and depositional features in the Kachchh landscape, and Quaternary sediments are found along the coast, and the Rann exposes some spectacular evidence of sea level changes.…”

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“…The various episodes of Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentation that took place along various river courses in Mainland Kachchh, the Island belts, and Wagad have been documented and are important for reconstructing the history of climate and tectonics spanning the last 100 ka (Figs. 11 and 18c, d) (Maurya et al 2003a(Maurya et al , 2003b(Maurya et al , 2003c(Maurya et al , 2008(Maurya et al , 2013Khonde et al 2011Khonde et al , 2017aKhonde et al , 2017bChowksey et al 2010;Das et al 2016aDas et al , 2016bDas et al , 2017Prizomwala et al 2014aPrizomwala et al , b, 2016aPrizomwala et al , 2016bPrizomwala et al , 2019Patidar et al 2007Patidar et al , 2008Kundu et al 2010;Bhattacharya et al 2013aBhattacharya et al , b, 2019Ngangom et al 2012, Ngangom and Thakkar 2016Makwana et al 2019;Sane et al 2020;Durga Prasad et al 2021).…”

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The Unique Geoheritage of the Kachchh (Kutch) Basin, Western India, and its Conservation

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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 great importance for basic and applied research by geoscientists. The fossil-rich stratigraphy of the Kachchh Basin represents the past 200 million years of geological history from the Jurassic Period to the present day, including through the Neogene Period. Both Mesozoic and Cenozoic sequences are highly fossiliferous with a variety of mega, macro, and microfossils, including invertebrate, plant, trace, and vertebrate fossils. Crucially, the Kachchh Rift Basin demonstrates a uniquely well exposed, syn to post-rift tectono-sedimentary sequence formed from the Late Triassic to the Early Cretaceous during the break up of Eastern Gondwanaland. The basin is bounded by reactivated primary faults forming tilted horsts and half-grabens. Tilted-up edges of the uplifted fault blocks are represented by uplifted hilly ranges, whereas the intervening subsiding blocks are the geomorphological expression of the low-lying Rann and Banni plains (mudflats, marshes, and grassland). This activity was followed by an inversion cycle initiated in Late Early Cretaceous following the aborting of the rift and is active in the present neotectonic cycle. Thick Deccan Trap lava flows and basic intrusive bodies indicate associated deeper crustal and mantle processes associated with this rift basin evolution. Easily accessed, well-exposed continuous sedimentary sequences with scanty vegetation provide a unique window of opportunity to looking into the geological past of this unique landscape which has preserved the evidence of the evolution of life both in near shore, coastal, and terrestrial environment, as well as a rare opportunity to understand a history of syn/post-rift-fill sedimentation, volcanism, and tectono-geomorphical evolution. More recently the terrain has become a hotspot amongst the planetary scientists as it provides a terrestrial analogue for Lunar and Martian landscapes. These and many other features justify why the unique geological heritage of the Kachchh Basin should be conserved for posterity not only for geoscientists from all over the world but also for local communities and visitors who could learn from its 200 million year history. We therefore propose that the landscapes of the Kachchh Basin should be conserved as a National Geopark in India to achieve such ambitions, and we believe that in this, they have an immense potential to achieve many of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. It is proposed to create 9 geo-stations (for administration) and 75 geosites grouped under these stations within the proposed Kachchh Geopark.

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“…Alvioli et al (2018) used TRIGRS to define the rainfall event-duration (E-D) threshold for Upper Tiber River Basin in Italy. Bordoni et al (2019) used TRIGRS to define the E-D threshold for an area of Oltrepò Pavese in Italy. Marin and Velásquez (2020) used TRIGRS to define the I-D thresholds for the Envigado Basin of Colombia under the conditions of different soil hydraulic properties.…”

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Water-Related Natural Disasters in Mountainous Area, volume II

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“…Reconstruction of past climatic and tectonic perturbations has been a topic of debate, especially in dryland environments, where sediment availability and transport capacity is nonlinear (Bhattacharya, Rastogi, Thakkar, Patel, & Juyal, 2014; Candy, Black, & Sellwood, 2004; Mathew, Singhvi, & Karanth, 2006; Prizomwala et al, 2016, 2019; Waclawik, Lang, & Krapf, 2008). Additionally, in tectonically active regions the preservation of landforms, especially the valley fill deposits, are limited due to intense erosional processes.…”

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Reconstructing Late Quaternary Palaeo‐environmental change from the dryland fluvial landscape of the Southern Kachchh Mainland, western India: Insights from new OSL and sedimentological datasets

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The southern Kachchh Mainland (SKM) of western India, situated in a seismically active intraplate region with a considerable Quaternary landscape, provides an opportunity to reconstruct the roles of climate and tectonics. Employing geomorphology, detailed sedimentology supported by geochemistry and optical dating, we integrate the fluvial to fluvio-marine records to evaluate the potential of dryland environments in archiving the palaeo-events. The climate reconstructions suggest that the fluvial systems have responded to the variations in monsoonal strength through widespread aggradation during 57 until 41 ka, corresponding to the later part of the MIS-3. Following this, a relative weakening of monsoon and onset of aridity is observed between 28 and 11 ka, with short spells of enhanced monsoon. The monsoonal conditions again strengthened during 11 to 6 ka, reaching its maximum during the Early Holocene optima, which triggered a sea-level rise during the Middle Holocene period, that is, 6 to 3 ka. Following this, the sequences incised in response to the relative sea-level fall to the present level in post 3 ka. We have also employed this OSL ages to reconstruct the phases of aggradation and incision of valley fill sediments/estuarine tidal terraces from the SKM during the last 57 ka. The present study illustrates and contributes to the advancement in understanding of complex processes and their influence on climatic/tectonic signals in dryland landscape as well as their decoupling. K E Y W O R D S aggradation-incision cycle, dryland valley fill, OSL chronology, southern Kachchh Mainland, western India 1 | INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of past climatic and tectonic perturbations has been a topic of debate, especially in dryland environments, where sediment availability and transport capacity is nonlinear (Bhattacharya, Rastogi,

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Style and stages of valley fill aggradation-incision cycles in the Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India

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The Unique Geoheritage of the Kachchh (Kutch) Basin, Western India, and its Conservation

The Unique Geoheritage of the Kachchh (Kutch) Basin, Western India, and its Conservation

Water-Related Natural Disasters in Mountainous Area, volume II

Reconstructing Late Quaternary Palaeo‐environmental change from the dryland fluvial landscape of the Southern Kachchh Mainland, western India: Insights from new OSL and sedimentological datasets

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