The present study has been a pioneering effort examining the role of an annual flood as a potent stimulus inducing changes in channel geomorphology of the Mayurakshi River, India. Twenty cross sections have been considered for the measurement of various hydro-geomorphic attributes of the river in both the pre- and post-flood conditions in 2018. The study sensed an escalating trend for channel width, width/depth ratio, and wetted perimeter while the reverse was also detected for average depth, maximum depth, cross-sectional area, and hydraulic radius. For example, the width/depth ratio recorded an increase of?~?11%, and the hydraulic radius depicted a decrease of?~?8%. Furthermore, channel asymmetry, bed asymmetry and bed relief index experienced a decrease after the flood. The sudden hydraulic impulse during monsoon flood as manifested in velocity, discharge, specific stream power, Reynolds number, Froude number increases the erosivity of the fluid. Besides the hydraulic factors, bank material (massive sandbank susceptible to hydraulic action and mixed bank constituted by alternate bands of sand and silt, and vulnerable to failure by piping action) brings substantial changes in channel morphology. Moreover, anthropogenic interventions such as sand mining are found to play a significant role in channel behaviour. The role of the multiple factors driving the morphological changes of the cross sections has been unpacked using canonical component analysis.
Natural Hazards - The present study focuses on investigating the impacts of a sudden dust storm on the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over Ahmedabad (23.02°N, 72.57°E), an urban site... 相似文献
Several major earthquakes affected the stable continental Indian peninsular shield in recent past due to the activity of fault movements. This necessitates identifying the active faults in the region for future monitoring. The far field co-seismic and post-seismic effects of recent major earthquakes occurred at Sumatra, 2004, Pakistan, 2007 and Indonesia, 2007 on HYDE and IISc IGS GPS stations were studied by small span GPS analysis. Different type of movement pattern on displacement components ensure the reactivation of existing fault planes signifying an integral relationship between GPS displacement vectors and geological structure of the region. 相似文献
We consider a system of nonlinear spinor and a Bianchi type I gravitational fields in presence of viscous fluid. The nonlinear
term in the spinor field Lagrangian is chosen to be λF, with λ being a self-coupling constant and F being a function of the invariants I an J constructed from bilinear spinor forms S and P. Self-consistent solutions to the spinor and BI gravitational field equations are obtained in terms of τ, where τ is the volume scale of BI universe. System of equations for τ and ε, where ε is the energy of the viscous fluid, is deduced. This system is solved numerically for some special cases.
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U-Pb isotopic analyses of eight single and multi-grain zircon fractions separated from a syenite of the Diana Complex of the
Adirondack Mountains do not define a single linear array, but a scatter along a chord that intersects the Concordia curve
at 1145 ± 29 and 285 ± 204 Ma. For the most concordant analyses, the207Pb/206Pb ages range between 1115 and 1150 Ma. Detailed petrographic studies revealed that most grains contained at least two phases
of zircon growth, either primary magmatic cores enclosed by variable thickness of metamorphic overgrowths or magmatic portions
enclosing presumably older xenocrystic zircon cores. The magmatic portions are characterized by typical dipyramidal prismatic
zoning and numerous black inclusions that make them quite distinct from adjacent overgrowths or cores when observed in polarizing
light microscopy and in backscattered electron micrographs. Careful handpicking and analysis of the “best” magmatic grains,
devoid of visible overgrowth of core material, produced two nearly concordant points that along with two of the multi-grain
analyses yielded an upper-intercept age of 1118 ± 2.8 Ma and a lowerintercept age of 251 ± 13 Ma. The older age is interpreted
as the crystallization age of the syenite and the younger one is consistent with late stage uplift of the Appalachian region.
The 1118 Ma age for the Diana Complex, some 35 Ma younger than previously believed, is now approximately synchronous with
the main Adirondack anorthosite intrusion, implying a cogenetic relationship among the various meta-igneous rocks of the Adirondacks.
The retention of a high-temperature contact metamorphic aureole around Diana convincingly places the timing of Adirondack
regional metamorphism as early as 1118 Ma. This result also implies that the sources of anomalous hightemperature during granulite
metamorphism are the syn-metamorphic intrusions, such as the Diana Complex. 相似文献
The development of structural elements and finite strain data are analysed to constrain kinematics of folds and faults at
various scales within a Proterozoic fold-and-thrust belt in Pranhita-Godavari basin, south India. The first order structures
in this belt are interpreted as large scale buckle folds above a subsurface decollement emphasizing the importance of detachment
folding in thin skinned deformation of a sedimentary prism lying above a gneissic basement. That the folds have developed
through fixed-hinge buckling is constrained by the nature of variation of mesoscopic fabric over large folds and finite strain
data. Relatively low, irrotational flattening strain (X:Z-3.1-4.8, k<1) are associated with zones of near upright early mesoscopic
folds and cleavage, whereas large flattening strain (X:Z-3.9-7.3, k<1) involving noncoaxiality are linked to domains of asymmetric,
later inclined folds, faults and intense cleavage on the hanging wall of thrusts on the flanks of large folds. In the latter
case, the bulk strain can be factorized to components of pure shear and simple shear with a maximum shearing strain of 3.
The present work reiterates the importance of analysis of minor structures in conjunction with strain data to unravel the
kinematic history of fold-and-thrust belts developed at shallow crustal level. 相似文献
Landslide susceptibility zonation (LSZ) is necessary for disaster management and planning development activities in mountainous regions. A number of methods, viz. landslide distribution, qualitative, statistical and distribution-free analyses have been used for the LSZ studies and they are again briefly reviewed here. In this work, two methods, the Information Value (InfoVal) and the Landslide Nominal Susceptibility Factor (LNSF) methods that are based on bivariate statistical analysis have been applied for LSZ mapping in a part of the Himalayas. Relevant thematic maps representing various factors (e.g., slope, aspect, relative relief, lithology, buffer zones along thrusts, faults and lineaments, drainage density and landcover) that are related to landslide activity, have been generated using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The LSZ derived from the LNSF method, has been compared with that produced from the InfoVal method and the result shows a more realistic LSZ map from the LNSF method which appears to conform to the heterogeneity of the terrain. 相似文献
The Curie depth map of India compiled from MAGSAT data has been used for preparing the lithosphere thickness and the surface
heat flow density maps of the Indian Craton, utilizing the concept of magnetothermometry. The lithosphere thicknesses of the
major Indian geological units/provinces, as obtained from the prepared map, are found to be in reasonably good agreement with
the previously published values for these regions. Also, the surface heat flow density values obtained from the prepared maps
closely follow the previously published results. The maps are useful in providing first order estimates of lithosphere thickness
and surface heat flow density of the important geological units/provinces of India. 相似文献