Geomorphic change in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta

A Paszkowski, S Goodbred Jr, E Borgomeo… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
More than 70% of large deltas are under threat from rising sea levels, subsidence and
anthropogenic interferences, including the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM) delta, the …

The geologic history of plants and climate in India

P Sanyal, SP Adhya, R Mandal, B Roy… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
India's diverse vegetation and landscapes provide an opportunity to understand the
responses of vegetation to climate change. By examining pollen and fossil records along …

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

JL Raff, SL Goodbred Jr, JL Pickering… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The principal nature-based solution for offsetting relative sea-level rise in the Ganges-
Brahmaputra delta is the unabated delivery, dispersal, and deposition of the rivers'~ 1 billion …

Rapid rise in effective sea-level in southwest Bangladesh: its causes and contemporary rates

J Pethick, JD Orford - Global and Planetary Change, 2013 - Elsevier
Evidence is presented from three estuarine tide gauges located in the Sundarban area of
southwest Bangladesh of relative sea level rise substantially in excess of the generally …

[HTML][HTML] Waste-water impacts on groundwater: Cl/Br ratios and implications for arsenic pollution of groundwater in the Bengal Basin and Red River Basin, Vietnam

JM McArthur, PK Sikdar, MA Hoque… - Science of the Total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Across West Bengal and Bangladesh, concentrations of Cl in much groundwater exceed the
natural, upper limit of 10mg/L. The Cl/Br mass ratios in groundwaters range up to 2500 and …

Changing river courses in the western part of the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta

K Rudra - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ganga–Brahmaputra delta is the largest on Earth, the product of two of the
world's largest and siltiest rivers. It is formed in a basin located over the zone where the …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean

T Rixen, G Cowie, B Gaye, J Goes… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Decreasing concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the ocean are considered one of the main
threats to marine ecosystems as they jeopardize the growth of higher organisms. They also …

The Sundarbans and Bengal Delta: the world's largest tidal mangrove and delta system

KG Rogers, SL Goodbred - Landscapes and landforms of India, 2014 - Springer
The Sundarbans is the name given to the heavily forested, tidally dominated region of the
enormous Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river delta shared by India and Bangladesh …

Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization

A Sarkar, AD Mukherjee, MK Bera, B Das, N Juyal… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The antiquity and decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in the Indus-Ghaggar-
Hakra river valleys is an enigma in archaeology. Weakening of the monsoon after~ 5 ka BP …

Widespread aggradation in the mountainous catchment of the Alaknanda–Ganga River System: timescales and implications to Hinterland–foreland relationships

Y Ray, P Srivastava - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Cut-and-fill type fluvial terraces are ubiquitous in the Lesser Himalayan zone of the
Alaknanda–Ganga (Ganges) rivers system, which flows perpendicular to Himalayan …