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Spatial Variation in the Grain Size Characteristics of Sediments in Ramganga River, Ganga Basin, India

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The Ramganga River is the first major tributary of Ganga River, which flows from the hilly region of Kumaon Himalayas throughout the forests of Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand district and the Ganga floodplains in Uttar Pradesh. Due to high amount of sediment load and water discharge carrying by Ramganga River, causing numerous floods in major cities of Uttar Pradesh. Evaluation of grain size and sediment yield is important for studying sediment erosion rate, for dams and reservoir engineering, for predicting the response of climate and anthropogenic activities on river system, and for understanding the trace and heavy metal micropollutants and pathogens. In the present study, the characteristics of suspended and bank sediments were assessed pertaining to the grain size. Twenty samples of water and bank sediments were collected during July 2014 from River Ramganga and its tributaries to identify with their individual influence. The result for the spatial variation corresponding to the size of bank and suspended sediment of the river varies from 85.8 to 370.3 μm and 6.3 to 222.6 μm, respectively, in case of mainstream, whereas 68.3–338.8 μm and 9.6–116.9 μm, respectively, in case of tributaries. The result also shows that suspended sediments are mostly very fine sand to coarse silt in nature. In the case of bank sediments, grain size mostly varies from fine sand to very fine sand in nature.

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Khan, M.Y.A. (2018). Spatial Variation in the Grain Size Characteristics of Sediments in Ramganga River, Ganga Basin, India. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_50-1

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