Sediment yield in the upper Krishna Basin,Maharashtra, India |
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| Authors: | S P Gole J McManus |
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| Abstract: | A 235.5 km2 headwater catchment of the Krishna River in the Deccan plateau lavas is dry for eight months of the year but receives intense monsoonal rains during four months. High initial suspended sediment concentrations fall as rapid vegetation growth provides increasing protection. During a six-year period annual suspended sediment yields from the deeply weathered kaolinitic soils ranged between 36.9 and 275.3 t km?2 in dry and wet years respectively. |
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| Keywords: | Sediment yield Small catchments India Monsoon rains |
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