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| | Tackling Brahmaputra, the river of sorrow : HindustanTimes.com |
 | | In one of the articles co-authored by Prof D. Goswami, a well-known water resources expert and authority on the Brahmaputra river system, and Partha J. Das in Ecologist Asia, said that the floods of 1988 and 1998 were the worst in recent history. | | | A large number of people have settled near the Brahmaputra, who are now facing the consequences. | | | Deposited on the riverbed, the silt had led to rise in the riverbed level. |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/2005/Jan/06/5922_1173861,0015002000030002.htm
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| | SECONDARY FLOW AND CHANNEL CHANGE IN BRAIDED RIVERS |
| | The predicted widening of the Brahmaputra River linked with a westward migration is estimated to make a further 578 000 people homeless over the next 15 years, 399 000 of whom would have to seek new homes in the island chars. | | | After the catastrophic flooding of 1987 and 1988 the Flood Action Plan (FAP) was initiated at a meeting in London. | | | These people are constantly under threat from erosion and flooding which can destroy crops, kill livestock and render them homeless. |
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| | SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Brahmaputra River |
| | Relief workers struggled on Saturday to reach about 30 million people stranded in their homes or huddled in schools or on mud embankments and highways, according to the government. | | | Cluade Arpi who has done extensive research on the issue warned that the large-scale direct interventions on the Brahmaputra river inside Tibet are a security threat to India (Phayul, Tibet) | | | A third of Bangladesh has been affected, with hundreds of thousands of people cut off in their villages and a number of dead. |
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| | India Rafting Adventures Reach New High on the Brahmaputra River |
| | This year an experienced crew of rafters and kayakers have put together a rafting expedition down the mighty Brahmaputra. | | | The Tsangpo is at its worst just before it enters India at Gelling. | | | This formidable force is now called the Siang and it forms the stage for an expedition called the Great Brahmaputra Descent. |
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| | Inviting Apocalypse: India to support China’s plans to harness the Brahmaputra River - www.phayul.com |
| | Inviting Apocalypse: India to support China’s plans to harness the Brahmaputra River - www.phayul.com | | | Inviting Apocalypse: India to support China’s plans to harness the Brahmaputra River | | | While Chinese Communist leaders see many politico-economic reasons to harness the water resources of the Brahmaputra watershed within their territory, it is mind-boggling that certain Indian leaders would support the gagging of the very precious water resources on which the livelihood of millions of their people depend. |
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| | The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 596 |
| | Around one million people have been rendered homeless due to river erosion in the country over the last three decades as the mighty Brahmaputra-Jamuna continues to widen due to decrease in its depth for heavy rush of sediments from the upstream and poor erosion management in the downstream. | | | According to the CEGIS study, the Brahmaputra-Jamuna had eroded 87,790 hectares of land during 1973-2004 and 12,490 hectares were accreted during the period. | | | Around 60 to 70-square km land is being devoured by the Brahmaputra- Jamuna, leaving 60,000 to 75,000 people landless every year, said a research report of Water Resources Engineering department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet). |
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| | off-the-shelf: By Popular Demand 6 |
| | Also the little known fact is that the river was named by Amercian servicemen for the evil alien in Dan Dare comics, due to the resemblance of local communist party officials to the cartoon character." | | | Goerge Orwell wrote of the indolence and apathy of the people along its banks, an indolence created by the military repression, in his book 'Burmese Daze'. | | | This is roughly the order I put them in, except that I put the Brahmaputra ahead of the Mekong, mostly based on the number of people it influences in conjunction with the Ganges. |
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http://www.olympus.net/personal/thowell/o-t-s/Demand05.html
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| | IWRA: Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basins |
| | The idea of water transfer from the Brahmaputra to the Ganges also had a few supporters. | | | This was the fourth such regional forum on sustainable management of internacional river systems that was convened by the IWRA Committee on International Collaboration. | | | The Ganges-Brahmaputra river system is the third largest freshwater outfall to the world's oceans: it is exceed only by the Amazon and the Congo rivers. |
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http://www.iwra.siu.edu/committee/ganges-forum.html
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| | Holy River Brahmaputra Travel Guide, Hindu Pilgrimage, Package for Holy River Brahmaputra |
| | The experienced crew of rafters and kayakers have put together a rafting expedition down the mighty Brahmaputra. | | | The Brahmaputra enters India in the far eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh after traveling hundreds of miles across Tibet as the Tsangpo from its birthplace near the holy lake of Mansarovar. | | | aimed at putting India on the international white water map 180-km stretch of the Brahmaputra will mark the first non-military expedition on the river and the first commercial foray in the politically sensitive region. |
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http://www.pilgrimageindia.net/holy_rivers/Brahmaputra_river.html
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » India's northeast braces for fresh floods as Brahmaputra swells |
| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » India's northeast braces for fresh floods as Brahmaputra swells | | | River traffic was suspended on parts of the river after a central water commission bulletin warned that it had crossed the danger mark at two places. | | | The Brahmaputra river had receded last week giving some respite to thousands of displaced villagers. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2bc2efc915e7aa68c1256d520055d663
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| | A Chinese declaration of war? |
| | This led Chinese experts to look around for water. | | | The project was first reported in Scientific American in June 1996. | | | Beijing knows about the Vajpayee government's project to link most of the Indian rivers during the next 10 years. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/oct/27spec.htm
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| | Amazon.com: River Dog: A Journey Down The Brahmaputra: Books: Mark Shand |
| | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | In River Dog, celebrated travel writer Mark Shand chronicles his attempt to complete the “last great Asian adventure.” Lively and evocative, it is a marvelous account of an epic journey and a touching portrait of the friendship between a traveler and his dog. | | | This loveable mutt, which amazingly turns out to be an ancient pedigree breed is initially rescued from the back streets of india and is then launched on an amazing journey with shand both hiking and sailing down the mighty brahmaputra river. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0349115141?v=glance
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| | Brahmaputra River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Bodos call this river Bhullumbutter, which some have suggested, has been sanskritised to Brahmaputra. | | | The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt. | | | This river eventually meets the Ganges (called Padma in Bangladesh) and Meghna rivers to form the largest river delta in the world, most of which is in Bangladesh. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra_River
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| | AQUATERRA WELCOMES YOU |
| | This river had never been run in its entirety. | | | Thousands of people have undergone the Aquaterra Adventures experience, and reveled in it. | | | Celebrating a decade of offering the most varied range of adventure travel in India, Aquaterra Adventures completed the second raft descent in 19 years of the Tons river, in May 2005, it was also the first Indian descent. |
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| | Ganges River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unfortunately, this is a boom time for leather processing in India, which many view as a form of eco-environmental dumping on the third world, and with the lax and lubricable implementation systems of the Uttar Pradesh government, it does not seem likely that this will go down. | | | The Yamuna River — a major river in its own right, and nearly as sacred — is a tributary of the Ganga, and their confluence is near what is the site of the traditional holy Hindu city of Prayag, now known as Allahabad. | | | One of the densest human population belts on earth is built around the Ganga. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_River
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| | The Brahmaputra's Changing River Ecology |
| | The river ecology in Dibrugarh, which was once attuned to the life-style of the people, has been alienated by engineering measures and other development work without considering need-based long-term planning. | | | Floods were tackled in an indigenous way and were hardly considered a menace. | | | The floods which occurred regularly in suburban Dibrugarh due to the Brahmaputra were not considered a threat to the people living in the ‘water ecology’. |
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| | Brahmaputra River -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | U.S.-based organization engaged in conservation of watersheds and rivers. | | | Georgia-based organization engaged in exploring the world's most remote rivers. | | | Eight of the twenty longest rivers in the world are found in Asia. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110539
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Situation report - Assam floods, 13 Jul 2004 |
| | The water level of the river Brahmaputra as well as tributaries Manas and Beki are reported to be rising. | | | The Brahmaputra river with its 34 tributaries causes regular floods in the state. | | | Trains in the Rangia-North Lakhimpur section have been suspended since 9-7-2004. |
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| | Dateline ACT: India |
| | Rather than fertile topsoil, she said that in recent years the Brahmaputra has left behind more and more silt, and she is getting one-quarter less rice from her fields as a result. | | | Yet with help from Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, a global alliance of churches and related agencies, people who live along the Brahmaputra are learning how to live with the massive floods. | | | Several dams have been built on tributaries of the Brahmaputra, yet critics say they seem to have added to the problem, despite promises that they would help control flooding. |
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http://www.act-intl.org/news/dt_nr_2005/dtindia0605.html
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| | Brahmaputra on Encyclopedia.com |
| | INDIAN GOVERNMENT: Three persons killed in the derailment of Brahmaputra mail 4056 UP. | | | Author: GOH CHAI HIN Publication: Agence France Presse Source: PICS | | | A deluge of rain brought the Brahmaputra River and numerous tributaries out of their banks in severe flooding that has displaced almost |
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| | China's designs on Brahmaputra River |
| | This may cause extensive desertification, some of the effects of which may spill over into Tibet and India as well. | | | This summary appraisal report is based on the stunning information provided in an article which appeared in the Scientific American, June 1996. | | | It is called the Yarlung Zangbo (also spelled, Tsangpo) in Tibet, the Brahmaputra in Assam and the Jamuna in Bangladesh. |
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| | Ganges-Brahmaputra |
| | The river channels drain some of the highest mountains present on the planet, the Himalayans. | | | The image shown in Figure 43 was taken during low water period; during flood season, most of the channel islands are inundated with flood waters. | | | These scars are apparently remnants of former courses of the Ganges River and many of its distributaries. |
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http://www.geol.lsu.edu/WDD/ASIAN/Ganges-Brahmaputra/ganga.htm
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| | Bhramaputra River |
| | This river eventually meets the Ganges and Meghna rivers and their distributaries to form the largest river delta in the world, most of which is in Bangladesh. | | | The floodplains are heavily cultivated in both India and Bangladesh, and the river is navigable for 1,285 km/800 mi from the sea, prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt. | | | A detailed but large file size satellite photograph of the river is at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/upload/2/26/Brahmaputra-verlaufsgebiet.jpg. |
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| | Background to Brahmaputra Flood Scenario |
| | The 1998 flood is considered to be the most severe one since 1950. | | | Breaching of embankment had been a major cause of intenfication of the 1998 flood hazard which recorded as many as 139 breaches. | | | The water yield of the Brahmaputra basin is among the highest in the world(Goswami, 1985). |
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| | PIB Press Releases |
| | After the declaration of Dhubri-Sadiya stretch of river Brahmaputra as National Waterway No.2, annual schemes of river conservancy works including bandalling, channel marking etc. have been executed on year to year basis, with a view to maintaining navigable channel. | | | This information was given in the Lok Sabha today by Shri Shripad Y. Naik, Minister of State for Shipping in a written reply to a question by Shri A.F.Golam Osmani. | | | However, Techno Economic Feasibility study for development of Karimganj-Lakhipur sector of river Barak has been conducted. |
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| | Deportation, death lurk for these Muslims |
| | Like many Muslim settlers in Assam, Begum is living in fear of deportation -- or even death. | | | MOIRABARI, July 29: For more than two months, Sarifa Begum has been a virtual prisoner in her small neighbourhood on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam. | | | The campaign has seen thousands of Muslims flee their homes and threatened to snare millions of legal Muslim settlers like Begum. |
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| | BANGLAPEDIA: Old Brahmaputra River |
| | The severe earthquake reported from Mymensingh region in 1782 may also have contributed to this shift. | | | This shifting followed a major flood in the same year. | | | The most dramatic was the shifting of the courses of the tista, Brahmaputra and lower ganges river channels as evident from maps prepared hundreds of years ago. |
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| | Kamat's Potpourri: The Brahmaputra River |
| | Brahmaputra is not, however, navigable between the mountains of Tibet and the plains of India, and not until 1901 it was not known that Tsangpo and Bramhaputra are indeed the same river. | | | In its lower course, the river is both a creator and a destroyer -- depositing huge quantities of fertile soil but also causing disastrous and frequent floods. | | | It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganga River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers join the Bay of Bengal. |
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| | Brahmaputra River Rafting - Brahmaputra White Water Rafting Brahmaputra Expedition Aquaterra Adventures |
| | Brahmaputra River Rafting - Brahmaputra White Water Rafting Brahmaputra Expedition Aquaterra Adventures | | | Aquaterra Adventures ran the first open fixed departure on this river in Nov-Dec 2002, running a crew of over 50 down a path breaking trip which documented the river for all who care to join future expeditions. | | | An exciting, true expedition style journey down one of the world's greatest rivers, The Tsang Po river, after flowing gently eastwards through Tibet, cuts the Greater Himalaya and the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, Namche Barwa before it enters Arunachal Pradesh, where the expedition begins, a few miles inside the line-of-control with China. |
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http://www.treknraft.com/river-rafting-india/rafting-india-brahmaputra.htm
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| | Brahmaputra River Cruises |
| | A vast river island in the Brahmaputra, on which are a number of unique Vaishnavite Hindu monasteries, famous for performances of religious dance-drama. | | | The tank besides which the main temple stands is said to be the world's largest man-excavared reservoir. | | | Offshore lies Peacock Island with its temple, while on a hill above the town, Tantric rites are practised at the Kamakhya Temple. |
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| | Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (IM0105) |
| | Most of the ecoregion lies within the eastern Indian state of Assam, but small sections extend into the neighboring states of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland and also into the southern lowlands of Bhutan. | | | The riparian areas along the Brahmaputra River that have been cleared are characterized by wet grasslands with similar communities and dynamics as described under the Terai-Duar Savanna and Grasslands [IM0701] description. | | | The wide Brahmaputra River is also a biogeographic barrier for several species. |
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| | GEO_PLATE_F-13.HTML |
| | The "Old Brahmaputra," seen at the bottom center of the image, is a pre-1800 course of the river that was so abandoned. | | | The Brahmaputra is one of the world's great rivers. | | | This scene shows the curve of the Brahmaputra around the Shillong Plateau, also known as the Assam Plateau, which consists of horizontal Eocene sandstone and limestone overlying Precambrian crystalline basement. |
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| | Animal Info - Ganges River Dolphin |
| | Deliberate killing of Ganges River dolphins for meat and oil is believed to have declined in most areas, but it still occurs in some locations. | | | The current population size has been reduced by an unknown amount compared to historical levels, but it is still thought to be large enough to be viable in the long-term if adequate conservation measures are taken soon. | | | More such structures are planned or are under consideration. |
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| | Brahmaputra River Descent |
| | So we were finally there and the first 15 km of the river had never been done so we entered the unknown. | | | Day two on the river, we were joined by the rafts who couldn’t do the previous day as it was unraftable. | | | Before we set off there was a flagging off ceremony, as the local school had shut for the day and the local tribe leaders came to wish us well, as quite a few hadn’t seen white folk before. |
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| | Channel and Bed Morphology of a Part of the Brahmaputra River in Assam |
| | A study on a 183 km long reach of the river in the eastern part of the Assam Valley reveals that the average bed levels were consistent in some sections and variable in others at different times. | | | The Brahmaputra consists of primary and secondary channels. | | | Level 4 is affected by peak discharge during the monsoon months. |
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| | Assam - India travel & tourism information |
| | For six hundred years, the Ahoms ruled Assam, from their state capital of Charaideo near present-day Sibsagar, before the arrival of the British. | | | The mighty Brahmaputra river that has its origins in Tibet charts its majestic course through this state. | | | This mystic land of eternal blue hills and beautiful rivers is renowned for its tea, rich flora and fauna, the world famous one horned rhinoceros and other rare species of wildlife on the verge of extinction. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra: Books |
| | You can view sample pages from another edition of this book. | | | The Brahmaputra is one of Asia's longest rivers, and tracing its course from Tibet to Bangladesh is perhaps "the last great Asian adventure". | | | An unputdownable river journey, following the course of the Tsiang Po - Brahmaputra from Tibet through the remote Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and on into Assam and Bangladesh. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT Travel: A travel feature on Assam, India |
| | Known by numerous local names -- Lohit, Dihaang Di and Budalohit -- the Brahmaputra is steeped in legend and myth. | | | The Kamakhya Devi temple, believed to be once the sacrificial site of Khasi people, was fascinating and a not-to-be-missed tourist site. | | | Looming large, like a huge snake, out of the darkness, was the mighty Brahmaputra river. |
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| | Arunachal Pradesh - India travel & tourism information |
| | Its fertile lands are watered by 5 major rivers, primary amongst them being the River Siang, the mighty Brahmaputra of Assam. | | | Other primary rivers are the Kameng, Subansiri, Lohit and the Tirap and their numerous tributaries, whose turbulent waters and lush regions, with their remote tribal villages, offer tourists limitless opportunities for white river rafting, angling, climbing, trekking and tribal tours. | | | The mighty Siang River (starting as the Tsangpo in the Mansarovar in Tibet) fed by thousands of rivers and streams en route through Arunachal is the mighty Brahmaputra River of Assam. |
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| | M2 Presswire: Rajya Sabha -- River-route of Brahmaputra.@ HighBeam Research |
| | M2 Presswire: Rajya Sabha -- River-route of Brahmaputra.@ HighBeam Research | | | Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. | | | M2 PRESSWIRE-19 December 2000-Indian Government: Rajya Sabha -- River-route of Brahmaputra (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD |
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| | Xigazê - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education |
| | The second (after Lhasa) most important trade center in Tibet, it is on the ancient caravan route (now a modern highway) from Lhasa to Nepal, W Tibet, Kashmir, and Xinjiang (China). | | | It is in the center of a small, heavily populated alluvial plain near the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) River. |
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| | HIMALAYAN CATCHMENT AND HYDROLOGIC REGIME OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER,INDIA : SELECTED CASE STUDIES |
| | Patterns of correlation of concurrent flows in different tributary rivers and among various stations on the mainstream are examined. | | | The Brahmaputra is a major river system of the world covering a drainage area of 580,000 sq.km, of which 50..5 % lie in China, 33.6% in India, 8.1% in Bangladesh and 7.8% in Bhutan. | | | Few extreme climatic events recorded so far in the Eastern Himalaya are analysed and their hydrological consequences mainly in regard to water-induced mountain disasters like flood,landslide etc are discussed. |
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| | Oil major awaits go ahead with Brahmaputra river project- The Times of India |
| | “there are reasons to believe that a hydrocarbon reserve is lying underneath the mighty river. | | | guwahati: oil major, oil india limited, have pointed out an immediate need for an extensive survey of the brahmaputra river belt, as it might yield a storehouse of hydrocarbons. | | | Oil major awaits go ahead with Brahmaputra river project |
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| | Indian Holiday, Discover India, People - Winds of Change, Naga Hills, Brahmaputra River, Nagaland's society, Kohima, ... |
| | It was into these rich, forested hills that Mongoloid-featured people, later to be called Nagas, came more than 4,000 years ago. | | | Indian Holiday, Discover India, People - Winds of Change, Naga Hills, Brahmaputra River, Nagaland's society, Kohima, the state capital | | | Step into a world of culture and colors |
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| | Brahmaputra River Cruises |
| | This 4-night cruise starting and finishing at Guwahati is ideal for those who wish for a short taster of life on the river, and can be combined with many land-based options such as Kaziranga, Shillong, Bhutan, Sikkim or Darjeeling. | | | Highlights are Manas National Park and the archaeological site of Sri Surya Prahar. | | | Highlight of Cruise 6 is definitely the beautiful Manas National Park, but there are also good opportunities to enjoy Assam& town and village life. |
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| | EXTREME LOCALIZED EROSION IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYAN SYNTAXIS: RESULTS OF FISSION-TRACK AND U-PB ICP/MS DATING OF ... |
| | Detrital zircon fission-track ages from sediment samples from the Siang River are exceptionally young. | | | All other forms of reproduction and/or transmittal are prohibited without written permission from GSA Copyright Permissions. | | | Using two independent techniques, U-Pb Laser-Ablation ICP/MS and fission-track dating of detrital zircons, we demonstrate ~50% of the sediment flux in the Siang River, a principal tributary of the Brahmaputra River, is derived from ancient gneisses exposed in the deep (>6,000 m) Tsangpo gorge in Tibet. |
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| | The image was acquired during the post-summer wet monsoon period, reflecting a river that has not received much runoff from the surrounding terrain for several months. | | | The extensive floodplain, the braided channels, and the large, light-colored sand bars are all indications of low water conditions in the river. | | | You must login or create a new account to submit comments |
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