A decade of investigations on groundwater arsenic contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, India

D Saha, S Sahu - Environmental geochemistry and health, 2016 - Springer
Groundwater arsenic (As) load in excess of drinking limit (50 µg L− 1) in the Gangetic Plains
was first detected in 2002. Though the menace was known since about two decades from …

Geology of large river systems

SK Tandon, R Sinha - Large Rivers: Geomorphology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the origin and evolution of large rivers across the globe in a variety of
tectonoclimatic settings. Hydrological and sedimentdispersal aspects of the large rivers …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogeological typologies of the Indo-Gangetic basin alluvial aquifer, South Asia

HC Bonsor, AM MacDonald, KM Ahmed… - Hydrogeology …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Indo-Gangetic aquifer is one of the world's most important transboundary water
resources, and the most heavily exploited aquifer in the world. To better understand the …

A Rousebased method to integrate the chemical composition of river sediments: Application to the Ganga basin

M Lupker, C FranceLanord, J Lavé… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Ganga River is one of the main conveyors of sediments produced by Himalayan
erosion. Determining the flux of elements transported through the system is essential to …

Environmental risk assessment of coal fly ash on soil and groundwater quality, Aligarh, India

I Khan, R Umar - Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 2019 - Elsevier
An open and indiscriminate disposal of coal fly ash causes extensive changes in
physicochemical properties of soil and water. Few studies propose that coal fly ash is a …

Geomorphic characterization and diversity of the fluvial systems of the Gangetic Plains

R Sinha, V Jain, GP Babu, S Ghosh - Geomorphology, 2005 - Elsevier
The extensive Gangetic alluvial plains are drained by rivers which differ strongly in terms of
hydrological and sediment transport characteristics. These differences are manifested in the …

Piecing together the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River delta: Use of sediment provenance to reconstruct the history and interaction of multiple fluvial systems …

SL Goodbred Jr, PM Paolo, MS Ullah, RD Pate… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Three main rivers—the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna—coalesce in the Bengal basin
to form the world's largest delta system, which serves as filter and gateway between the …

Role of hydrological regime and floodplain sediments in channel instability of the Bhagirathi River, Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta, India

SK Guchhait, A Islam, S Ghosh, BC Das… - Physical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This research deals with the surface dynamics and key factors–hydrological regime,
sediment load, and erodibility of floodplain facies–of frequent channel shifting, intensive …

Assessment of arsenic and uranium co-occurrences in groundwater of central Gangetic Plain, Uttar Pradesh, India

SK Yadav, AL Ramanathan, M Kumar… - Environmental earth …, 2020 - Springer
Arsenic and uranium in the aquatic environment are recognized as a major catastrophic
problem worldwide and have natural as well as human-made sources such as mining …

Evolution of the Quaternary alluvial fan system in the Himalayan foreland basin: Implications for tectonic and climatic decoupling

R Kumar, N Suresh, SJ Sangode, V Kumaravel - Quaternary international, 2007 - Elsevier
The Quaternary evolution of an alluvial fan system in the Himalayan foothills reveals two
distinct phases. The Early Quaternary Siwalik system (I) and the Late Quaternary …