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Publications on Ganga Plains

Sinha, R. and Sarkar, S. (2009) Climate-induced variability in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene fluvial and fluvio-deltaic successions in the Ganga plains, India. Geomorphology,113, 173-188.

Mahajan, A.K., Arora, B.R.,. Ghosh, S.K and Neetu Chauhan (2008) Sub-surface features of Dehradun valley using multichannel analysis of surface waves technique in Dehradun, NW Himalaya, India- Communicated to Journal of Geophysics.

Sinha, R. (2008) Late Quaternary Shallow Sub-surface Stratigraphy of the Ganga plains. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 71(3), 446-47.

Tandon, S.K., Sinha, R., Gibling, M.R., Dasgupta, A.S., Ghazanfari, Parvez (2008) Late Quaternary evolution of the Ganga Plains: myths and misconceptions, recent developments and future directions. Golden Jubilee Memoir of the Geol. Soc. India, No. 66, 259-299.

Sinha, R., Bhattacharjee, P., Sangode, S.J., Gibling, M.R. and Tandon, S.K., Jain, M. Godfrey, D. (2007). Valley and interfluve sediments in the southern Ganga plains, India: exploring facies and magnetic signatures. Sed. Geol, 201, 386-411.

Sinha, R. & Friend, P.F. (2007) Quaternary fluvial systems of India. QI, 159, 1-5.

Sangode, S. J., Sinha, R., O. S. Chauhan, B. Phartiyal, R. K. Mazari, N. Suresh, Sheila Mishra, Rohtash Kumar, T. N. Bagati, P. Bhattacharjee (2007) Environmental magnetic studies on some Quaternary sediments of varied depositional settings in the Indian subcontinent: Implications for detrital to authigenic controls. Quaternary International, 159, 102-118.

Roy, N. G. and Sinha, R. (2007) Understanding confluence dynamics in the alluvial Ganga–Ramganga valley, India: An integrated approach using geomorphology and hydrology. Geomorphology, 92/3-4, 182-197.

Sinha R., S.K. Tandon, P. Sanyal, M.R. Gibling, D. Stuben, Zsolt Berner and P. Ghazanfari (2006). Calcretes from a monsoon-dominated Late Quaternary interfluve in the Southern Ganga Plains : isotopic data and palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 242/3-4, 214-239

Tandon, S.K., Gibling M.R., Sinha R., Singh V., Ghazanfari P., Dasgupta A., JainM. and JainV. (2006) Alluvial valleys of the Gangetic Plains, India: causes and timing of incision. In: Incised Valleys in Time and Space, SEPM Special Publication no. 85, 15-35.

Sinha, R. (2005). Why do Gangetic rivers aggrade or degrade? Current Science, 89(5), 836-840.

Roy, N. and Sinha, R. (2005) Alluvial geomorphology and confluence dynamics in the Gangetic plains, Farrukhabad-Kannauj area, Uttar Pradesh, India. Current Science, 88(12), 2000-2006.

Sinha R., Jain V., Prasad Babu G., and Ghosh S. (2005) Geomorphic characterization and diversity of the fluvial systems of the Gangetic plains. Geomorphology, 70/3-4 pp. 207-225.

Gibling, M.R. Tandon, S.K., Sinha, R. and Jain, M. ( 2005). Discontinuity-bounded alluvial sequences of the southern Gangetic plains, India: aggradation and degradation in response to monsoonal strength. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75(3), 373-389.

Sinha, R., Tandon, S.K., Gibling M.R., Bhattacharjee, P.S. and Dasgupta, A.S. (2005) Late Quaternary geology and alluvial stratigraphy of the Ganga basin, Himalayan Geology, 26(1), 223-240.

Sinha, R., Gibling, M.R., Tandon, S.K., Jain, V. & Dasgupta, A. S. (2005) Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Kotra section on the Betwa river, Southern Gangetic plains, Uttar Pradesh. Jour. Geological Society of India, 65, 441-450.

Sinha, R., Gibling, M.R., Jain, V. & Tandon, S.K. (2005) Sedimentology and avulsion patterns of the anabranching Baghmati river in the Himalayan foreland basin, India. In: Fluvial Sedimentology (eds. Blum, M. and Marriott, S.), Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists, 35, 181-196.