Inter-seasonal variability of internal tides in the western Bay of Bengal     

Himansu K. Pradhan  A. D. Rao  Sachiko Mohanty 《Natural Hazards》2016,84(2):809-820

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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of anorogenic(?) granitoids of west Garo Hills,Meghalaya     

D. K. Choudhury  A. K. Pradhan  S. Zakaulla  K. Umamaheswar 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2012,80(2):276-286

The granite in Samingiri — Dilsekgiri area occurs as discordant, isolated pluton within the migmatitic terrain of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya. The pluton is exposed over 140 sq km (18 km × 8 km). It exhibits structures of solid state and piecemeal stoping effect proximal to the contact and enveloped by a contact metamorphic aureole of albite-epidote-hornfels facies. Modally, it is biotite-monzogranite and biotite-syenogranite with minor biotite, chlorite, epidote and sericite and accessories like zircon, apatite, allanite, pyrite, magnetite and sphene. Geochemically, it is marked by restricted composition (69–76 wt% SiO₂), high alkalies, low Ca, metaluminous to strongly peraluminous (Molar Al₂O₃/CaO+Na₂O+K₂O = 0.95 ? 1.54), high FeO/MgO, high Ga/Al, high contents of Rb, Sr, Ba, Y, Zr and Ce and depleted in Ti and P. The field observation, mineralogical and geochemical aspects indicate the post-tectonic nature of West Garo pluton more like as A-type granite formed by partial melting of lower crustal blocks followed by low to moderate degree of fractional differentiation. Low Ca, alkaline nature and peraluminous character point to A-type nature of West Garo granite significantly different from other granites of Meghalaya Plateau. Rb-Sr age (616±86 Ma) of granite, however, corresponds to widespread Middle to Upper Pan African activity, a thermal event prevailed during Late Proterozoic — Early Palaeozoic (500–800 Ma) period, manifested in the form of several granitic intrusions in the basement gneissic complex and the overlying Proterozoic metasediments of the Shillong Group in Meghalaya Plateau.  相似文献   

An artificial neural network model for flood simulation using GIS: Johor River Basin, Malaysia   总被引：7，自引：2，他引：5  

Masoud Bakhtyari Kia  Saied Pirasteh  Biswajeet Pradhan  Ahmad Rodzi Mahmud  Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman  Abbas Moradi 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,67(1):251-264

Flooding is one of the most destructive natural hazards that cause damage to both life and property every year, and therefore the development of flood model to determine inundation area in watersheds is important for decision makers. In recent years, data mining approaches such as artificial neural network (ANN) techniques are being increasingly used for flood modeling. Previously, this ANN method was frequently used for hydrological and flood modeling by taking rainfall as input and runoff data as output, usually without taking into consideration of other flood causative factors. The specific objective of this study is to develop a flood model using various flood causative factors using ANN techniques and geographic information system (GIS) to modeling and simulate flood-prone areas in the southern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The ANN model for this study was developed in MATLAB using seven flood causative factors. Relevant thematic layers (including rainfall, slope, elevation, flow accumulation, soil, land use, and geology) are generated using GIS, remote sensing data, and field surveys. In the context of objective weight assignments, the ANN is used to directly produce water levels and then the flood map is constructed in GIS. To measure the performance of the model, four criteria performances, including a coefficient of determination (R ²), the sum squared error, the mean square error, and the root mean square error are used. The verification results showed satisfactory agreement between the predicted and the real hydrological records. The results of this study could be used to help local and national government plan for the future and develop appropriate (to the local environmental conditions) new infrastructure to protect the lives and property of the people of Johor.  相似文献   

Relative effect method of landslide susceptibility zonation in weathered granite soil: a case study in Deokjeok-ri Creek,South Korea   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Ananta Man Singh Pradhan  Yun-Tae Kim 《Natural Hazards》2014,72(2):1189-1217

The objective of this study was to produce and evaluate a landslide susceptibility map for weathered granite soils in Deokjeok-ri Creek, South Korea. The relative effect (RE) method was used to determine the relationship between landslide causative factors (CFs) and landslide occurrence. To determine the effect of CFs on landslides, data layers of aspect, elevation, slope, internal relief, curvature, distance to drainage, drainage density, stream power index, sediment transport index, topographic wetness index, soil drainage character, soil type, soil depth, forest type, timber age, and geology were analyzed in a geographical information system (GIS) environment. A GIS-based landslide inventory map of 748 landslide locations was prepared using data from previous reports, aerial photographic interpretation, and extensive field work. A RE model was generated from a training set consisting of 673 randomly selected landslides in the inventory map, with the remaining 75 landslides used for validation of the susceptibility map. The results of the analysis were verified using the landslide location data. According to the analysis, the RE model had a success rate of 86.3 % and a predictive accuracy of 88.6 %. The validation results showed satisfactory agreement between the susceptibility map and the existing data on landslide locations. The results of this study can therefore be used to mitigate landslide-induced hazards and to plan land use.  相似文献   

Application of probabilistic-based frequency ratio model in groundwater potential mapping using remote sensing data and GIS   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

Mohamad Abd Manap  Haleh Nampak  Biswajeet Pradhan  Saro Lee  Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman  Mohammad Firuz Ramli 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(2):711-724

The main goal of this study is to investigate the application of the probabilistic-based frequency ratio (FR) model in groundwater potential mapping at Langat basin in Malaysia using geographical information system. So far, the approach of probabilistic frequency ratio model has not yet been used to delineate groundwater potential in Malaysia. Moreover, this study includes the analysis of the spatial relationships between groundwater yield and various hydrological conditioning factors such as elevation, slope, curvature, river, lineament, geology, soil, and land use for this region. Eight groundwater-related factors were collected and extracted from topographic data, geological data, satellite imagery, and published maps. About 68 groundwater data with high potential yield values of ≥11 m³/h were randomly selected using statistical software of SPSS. Then, the groundwater data were randomly split into a training dataset 70 % (48 borehole data) for training the model and the remaining 30 % (20 borehole data) was used for validation purpose. Finally, the frequency ratio coefficients of the hydrological factors were used to generate the groundwater potential map. The validation dataset which was not used during the FR modeling process was used to validate the groundwater potential map using the prediction rate method. The validation results showed that the area under the curve for frequency model is 84.78 %. As far as the performance of the FR approach is concerned, the results appeared to be quite satisfactory, i.e., the zones determined on the map being zones of relative groundwater potential. This information could be used by government agencies as well as private sectors as a guide for groundwater exploration and assessment in Malaysia.  相似文献   

Coupling effect of ozone column and atmospheric infrared sounder data reveal evidence of earthquake precursor phenomena of Bam earthquake,Iran     

Ali Amani  Shattri Mansor  Biswajeet Pradhan  Lawal Billa  Saied Pirasteh 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(4):1517-1527

Understanding the source mechanism of earthquakes may be the key to predict earthquakes. The testing of radioactive radiations and reactionary hypothesis of gases before and after quake events can help predict and monitor earthquake occurrence. In this study, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and the column ozone (O₃) were applied to evaluate the December 26, 2003 earthquake of Bam city in western Iran. The results show that ozone concentration (column density) decreased about 30 DU and or 807?×?10E15/cm² molecules. Using high-resolution AIRS data for the study area, we were able to discriminate gases that formed and changed before the main shock at least a day before the occurrence of the quake in Bam.  相似文献   

Extraction of soil moisture from RADARSAT-1 and its role in the formation of the 6 December 2008 landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa,Kuala Lumpur   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Abdalhaleem Abdalla Hassaballa  Omar F. Althuwaynee  Biswajeet Pradhan 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(7):2831-2840

Active microwave has a huge potential in the estimation of soil moisture especially over large areas where the meteorological observations are seldom. The large contrast in dielectric constant between different types of soil is considered as the main factor for measuring the moisture content. This study is aimed at the extraction of soil moisture over the areas of Bukit Antarabangsa, Malaysia using active microwave remote sensing technique in order to examine the impact of moisture content dynamically on landslides occurrence, which have been a basic challenge that threaten Bukit Antarabangsa area, particularly in falling of monsoon seasons. This study addressed a specific event that took place in 6 December 2008 due to a very high level of precipitation that resulted in a raise in ground water table causing the occurrence of landslide. One Radarsat-1 image acquired in July 2008 before the landslide was used for generating the moisture content map. The resultant moisture content map showed a reasonable distribution of the moisture concentrated over the forest areas which has previous records landslides. Moreover, it was found that the previous landslide events were within the high moisture zone indicating the presence of high moisture content. Subsequently, three moisture maps were extracted from Landsat-7 ETM+, which were then used for validation process. A statistically based validation technique was used by calculating area under the curve that correlates the high moisture values of three images. In order to validate the Landsat-7 ETM+ moisture content, monthly rainfall data was plotted against the high moisture values derived from three Landsat-7 images. The validation result indicated an acceptable compatibility. The spatial relation between high moisture areas in Landsat-7 ETM+ images along the year resulted in a good fitting in the high–low moisture distribution areas with sensitivity ranged of 60–70 %. Finally, the moisture content map generated by Radarsat-1 was validated using a landslide inventory map. The resultant validation produced an area under curve of 0.704 (70 %).  相似文献   

Manifestation of remote sensing data and GIS on landslide hazard analysis using spatial-based statistical models   总被引：15，自引：10，他引：5  

Biswajeet Pradhan  Ahmed M. Youssef 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2010,3(3):319-326

This paper presents landslide hazard analysis at Cameron area, Malaysia, using a geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing data. Landslide locations were identified from interpretation of aerial photographs and field surveys. Topographical and geological data and satellite images were collected, processed, and constructed into a spatial database using GIS and image processing. The factors chosen that influence landslide occurrence are topographic slope, topographic aspect, topographic curvature, and distance to rivers, all from the topographic database; lithology and distance to faults were taken from the geologic database; land cover from TM satellite image; the vegetation index value was taken from Landsat images; and precipitation distribution from meteorological data. Landslide hazard area was analyzed and mapped using the landslide occurrence factors by frequency ratio and bivariate logistic regression models. The results of the analysis were verified using the landslide location data and compared with the probabilistic models. The validation results showed that the frequency ratio model (accuracy is 89.25%) is better in prediction of landslide than bivariate logistic regression (accuracy is 85.73%) model.  相似文献   

Tensile Strength of Rock Under Elevated Temperatures   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

V. Vishal  S. P. Pradhan  T. N. Singh 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2011,29(6):1127-1133

Rock strength affects the behaviour of rocks differently under different conditions such as temperature, time, pressure, presence of fluids, rock mass characteristics and stress history of rock in a natural environment. It is not always easy to replicate such conditions of undisturbed rock in a laboratory scale. Hence, it is imperative to study the rock behaviour with respect to every such condition which the rock experiences since its time of formation. Temperature is one of the key parameters which influence the rock throughout its history, ranging from the conditions of formation, experience of depth (loading/unloading) or deformational and metamorphic history. Also, increase in rock temperature; say due to the thermal stress changes like disposal of spent nuclear fuels affects the strength of the surrounding rock. In this work, the effects of temperature on the tensile strength of rock have been studied. The results obtained were interesting as the strength of rock is found to increase considerably up to a particular temperature after which it starts falling by as much as 70% around 250°C.  相似文献   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987110000356   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

P. Mahesh  Bhaskar Kundu  J.K. Catherine  V.K. Gahalaut 《地学前缘(英文版)》2011,2(1):17-22

We have analyzed the July 15,2009,Fiordland earthquake(M_w 7.8),which occurred in the southwestern part of the South Island of New Zealand.This thrust-related earthquake in the southern Fiordland subduction zone is the largest New Zealand earthquake in the past 80 years.We have constrained a rupture model for this earthquake using coseismic offsets derived from the continuous geodetic network(Global Positioning System) of the New Zealand Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Science).Our anal...  相似文献