Drainage Analysis in a Part of the Brahmaputra Valley in Sivasagar District, Assam, India, to Detect the Role of Neotectonic Activity

Sharma, Sangeeta; Sarma, J. N.

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“…Drainage morphometric parameters are essential to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics of any basin (Thomas et al 2010;Castillo et al 1988). It is also useful to understand the structural controls of any basin (Sharma and Sarma 2013). The hydro-sedimentary flow regimes are also determined by basin characteristics (Raux et al 2011).…”

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“…It also plays an important role to characterise the soil erosion, flood condition and geomorphological processes (Chavare and Potdar 2014). The evolutionary history of any basin can be best understood through the implication of different relief morphometric measures of drainage basin (Sharma and Sarma 2013). The different morphometric characteristics like linear parameters (stream order, stream number, bifurcation ratio, strength length, mean stream length), areal or basin parameters (circularity ratio, elongation ratio, drainage density, drainage frequency) and relief parameters (dissection index, ruggedness index, hypsometric characteristics) are important for any river basin management.…”

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“…In general, most of morphometric studies of river basin are conducted to measure the morphometric values. There are very few studies aims to unearth the hydrological and morphological characteristics from its morphometric parameters in different morpho-climatic settings (Raux et al 2011;Sharma and Sarma 2013). In addition to this, most of studies in the world are involved to understand the morphometric characteristics in either plateau, plain or mountain area (Vittala et al 2004;Pareta and Pareta 2011).…”

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The significance of morphometric analysis to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics in two different morpho-climatic settings

Mahala

2019

Appl Water Sci

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Drainage morphometric parameters are important indicator to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics of any region. Present study aims to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics in two different morphoclimatic settings from drainage basin morphometric parameters. Remote sensing and GIS have been used as efficient tools in delineating and understanding of any drainage basin morphometry. The Kosi River basin of northern India for the mountain-plain tropical environment and Kangsabati River basin of eastern India for the plateau-plain sub-humid environment has been selected for the present study. The geological, geomorphological, hydrological, fluvial characteristics have been stressed out under linear, areal and relief aspects of morphometric parameters. The drainage morphometric parameters have been determined and measured after using the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer global DEM (90 m) in ARC GIS 10.1. All the linear morphometric measures of mountain-plain humid Kosi River basin indicate its high flood potentiality, whereas, linear morphometric measures of Kangsabati River basin indicate less flood potentiality and plateau landform characteristics of sub-humid environment. The mean bifurcation ratio also indicates Kosi River has greater flood potentiality than Kangsabati River. Kosi River has drained large amount of water due to its near-circular basin shape than Kangsabati River which has an elongated shape. All the relief characteristics indicate that tropical mountain-plain environment dominated Kosi River basin is in rejuvenated or young stage of geomorphic development, whereas sub-humid plateau-plain dominated Kangsabati River basin is in mature stage of geomorphic development. Most of the morphometric characteristics indicate there are high geologic and geomorphological controls on river basin characteristics. The remote sensing and GIS tool have been successfully implemented throughout the study to understand the morphometric characteristics in two different morpho-climatic settings. Also, the results can be used for plan formation and sustainable management of the study area.

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2019

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“…Hortan [2] had introduced "morphometry" [3]. Morphometric analysis of a river basin is generally required to understand evolutionary history of basin, study hydrological behaviour of basin, figure out runoff and groundwater potential, detect and evaluate seasonal changes occurring in characteristics of basin and know issues related to management of soil and water erosion due to the high flow occurrence [3][4][5][6][7][8]. The linear, areal and relief aspects of the basin are used for morphometric analysis [9,10].…”

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Morphometric Study of Dhatarwadi River Basin Using RS and GIS Techniques

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Sondarva

2021

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Aims: Morphometric study of Dhatarwadi river basin. Place and Duration of Study: This study is a work done for the research work in Ph.D. degree at College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, Gujarat, India. Methodology: Morphometric analysis involved determination of linear, aerial and relief aspects of the Dhatarwadi river basin, which was carried out using 30 X 30 m SRTM DEM in ArcGIS 10.5 software using standard formulae. Results: The obtained results revealed that the Dhatarwadi river basin is 6th order drainage basin. The total number of 1327 streams were identified out of which 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th order streams are counted as 1036, 239, 42, 7, 2 and 1 number, respectively. The mean bifurcation ratio value is 4.31 for the study area which indicates that the geological structures are not distorting the drainage pattern. Stream length ratio varies between 0.14 and 2.14 indicates late youth geomorphic stage. The length of overland flow was found as 0.3084 km which also indicates very less structural disturbance, low runoff conditions and having higher overland flow. The stream frequency of the basin is 1.5448 km-2, indicates that this basin is having high permeable geology, low relief and the almost flat topography. The form factor, elongation ratio, circularity ratio and compactness coefficient are found as 0.3951, 0.7094, 0.3126 and 1.7882, respectively of the study basin is suggests that the Dhatarwadi river basin shape is elongated. The drainage texture is 7.1426 km-1 which shows that the Dhatarwadi river basin has short duration for peak flow. The relief, relief ratio and relative ratio of the basin are found as 0.438 km, 0.009372 and 0.2352, respectively. Conclusion: All these parameters indicate that the Dhatarwadi river basin is of flat terrain with small hillocks/inselbergs having low to medium runoff potential.

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“…Coleman (1969), Schumm (1977), Ouchi (1985), Schumm (1986), Holbrook and Schumm (1999), Valdiya (1999), Schumm, Dumont, and Holbrook (2000), Jain and Sinha (2005), Das, Dutta, and Saraf (2007), Burbank and Anderson (2012) have carried out work on response of alluvial rivers to active tectonics. Details on active tectonics of the Brahmaputra valley are given in the works by , , Das (2010), Sarma, Acharjee, and Gogoi (2011), Sinha (2012, 2014), Sharma and Sarma (2013). In contrast to these studies, some basement structures within the valley region have not received adequate attention of the researchers.…”

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Structural controls on topography and river morphodynamics in Upper Assam Valley, India

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Drainage Analysis in a Part of the Brahmaputra Valley in Sivasagar District, Assam, India, to Detect the Role of Neotectonic Activity

Cited by 23 publications

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The significance of morphometric analysis to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics in two different morpho-climatic settings

The significance of morphometric analysis to understand the hydrological and morphological characteristics in two different morpho-climatic settings

Morphometric Study of Dhatarwadi River Basin Using RS and GIS Techniques

Structural controls on topography and river morphodynamics in Upper Assam Valley, India

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