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Geomorphic Changes Related to Anthropogenic Interference Along the Ganga River From Rishikesh to Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India: Geomorphic Response of the Ganga to Tehri Dam
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Author(s): Manish Pandey (University Center for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Mohali, India), Aman Arora (Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India), Rajesh Kumar (Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Vijendra Kumar Pandey (Department of Geography, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India)and Akshay Kumar (Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 19
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Spatial Information Science for Natural Resource Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Suraj Kumar Singh (Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India), Shruti Kanga (Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India)and Varun Narayan Mishra (Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5027-4.ch014
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Abstract
The authors, in this study, have quantified the changes in the geomorphic activity of the Ganga River between Rishikesh and Haridwar by using Survey of India (SOI) 1:5000 scale topographic sheets, satellite data, digital elevation model (DEM), and hydrological data from published resources. They have also correlated the change in settlement area in Haridwar and Rishikesh and connected it to the changing geomorphic features in the downstream reach of the Tehri dam site. The study finds that the change in geomorphology of the river in the studied reach of the Ganga River is attributable to reduced water and sediment supply. The study area being in the active tectonic zone, bound between MCT in the north and HFT in the south, may have experienced offsetting of the reduction in sediment supply by dam in the post dam era (after 2006) due to massive earthquakes delivering sediment directly delivered to streams through enhanced landslide and other mass wasting processes.
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