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Clay minerals as paleo-climate proxy in Quaternary Dun sediments, NW Himalaya, India
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023-10-17)Purpose: Clay mineral assemblages are widely used for deciphering paleoclimatic information, where diagenetic and detrital clays provide different signatures. The type and amount of clay present in the alluvial fan sediments ... -
Climate Change Impact on Major River Basins in the Indian Himalayan Region: Risk Assessment and Sustainable Management
(Springer International Publishing, 2023-03-10)Billions of people relay on water resources of the Himalayan region for drinking, irrigation, and other domestic purposes. Abundance of natural resources makes this region suitable for human settlements, despite the fact ... -
Lepidosauromorphs and associated vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic Tiki Formation, South Rewa, Gondwana basin, India: implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography
(Springer Nature, 2023-03-27)Tiki Formation is well known for the presence of rich vertebrate fossil assemblages including archosaurians, cynodonts, xenacanthids, hybodonts and actinopterygians in the Gondwana succession of India. Here, we report ... -
The first report of cf. Zygolophodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Mammutidae) from the Upper Miocene of Kutch, India
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Evolution of the Permo-Triassic Satpura Gondwana Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India: Insights from geochemical provenance and palaeoclimate of the siliciclastic sediments
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2022-10-19)Geochemical study in the siliciclastic sediments of a basin provides an understanding of palaeoclimate, provenance and subsequently, it can be used to reconstruct the palaeo-tectonics and evolution of the basin. Sedimentation ... -
Collective Affirmation in Action: Understanding the Success of Lockdown in India During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, 2022-08-29)Background: This study explores the role of collective affirmation in attracting mass cooperation to motivate people to observe preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Using a qualitative research design, ... -
First report on late Miocene (Tortonian: ~ 11�10�Ma) charophyte gyrogonites from Tapar, Kachchh District, Gujarat State, western India
(Springer Nature, 2022-09-05)This paper describes the first record of charophyte gyrogonites from the late Miocene (Tortonian; ~ 11�10�Ma) Tapar locality of Kachchh, Gujarat State, western India. The recovered charophyte assemblage is constituted by ... -
Open Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions and the Way Forward
(Springer Nature, 2022-09-02)Everyone agrees that scientific communication should be free for all. Unfortunately, accessing publications from many reputed journals comes at a high cost�a cost that many researchers and institutions cannot afford. ... -
Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the middle Miocene deposits of Palasava, Kutch, India: implication for paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography; [Faune de chondrichtyens et d�ost�ichtyens provenant des d�p�ts du Mioc�ne moyen de Palasava, Kutch, Inde: implication pour le pal�oenvironnement et la pal�obiog�ographie]
(Academie des sciences, 2022-12-13)The Neogene of Kutch, India is well known for its rich marine and terrestrial vertebrate assemblages. However, the data of piscean fauna from the middle Miocene of India is very scarce. We report here additional chondrichthyan ... -
Application of analytical hierarchy process and GIS techniques to delineate the groundwater potential zones in and around Jorhat and Majuli areas of eastern Assam, India
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022-10-26)Groundwater is regarded as prominently reliable natural resources available as fresh water. However, as the world advances at a tremendous rate, this hidden water resource is exposing continuous threats owing to numerous ... -
Evaluation of seasonal dynamics of the surface water hydrochemistry using multivariate statistical techniques and aquatic macrophyte productivity in a mountainous lake, Northeast India
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022-05-13)The present work elucidates the effective application of multivariate statistics in understanding the probable relations between surface water hydrochemistry and aquatic macrophyte productivity and their underlying seasonal ... -
New rodents shed light on the age and ecology of late Miocene ape locality of Tapar (Gujarat, India)
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022-08-05)The Miocene ape (Sivapithecus) locality of Tapar in Kutch (Gujarat, India) has yielded a diverse rodent assemblage that includes: a new murine Progonomys prasadi sp. nov., a new gerbilline Myocricetodon gujaratensis sp. ... -
Geochronology and oxygen fugacity of the pelitic granulite from the Diwani hills, NE Gujarat (NW India)
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-08-01)The Diwani hills are located SE of Balaram-Abu Road in the Banaskantha district of north Gujarat. The crystalline rocks of the Diwani hill area are a diverse assemblage of Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks. These ... -
Career challenges for young independent researchers in India
(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2022-04-15)The scientific enterprise in India has grown dramatically in the past few decades, with research emerging as a viable and important career option for students of science. The country thus has a large population of young ... -
Biogeochemistry of the antarctic coasts: Implications for biodiversity and climate change
(Wiley Blackwell, 2022-04-01)Notwithstanding its largely lifeless appearance, Antarctica hosts considerable biodiversity and ecosystem (trophic-level) complexity. Antarctic soils, ice-covered areas, coastal regions, and the surrounding Southern Ocean ... -
Listriodon dukkar sp. nov. (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Pasuda (Gujarat, India): the decline and extinction of the Listriodontinae
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022-03-17)The Listriodontinae were a common and widespread group of Suidae (pigs) that lived in an area extending from Portugal to China and to southern Africa. Here, we describe the new species Listriodon dukkar from Pasuda (Gujarat, ... -
Luminescence chronology of Late Quaternary palaeo-lake deposits from the Upper Alaknanda Basin, Uttarakhand, India: Implication to palaeoclimate and depositional settings
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-01-06)Lakes downstream of the glaciers receive glacial meltwater and sediment supply resulting in formation of thick succession of lacustrine deposits. In this work, we have identified one such palaeo-lake deposit in the Upper ... -
Quality assessment of surface water and groundwater giving emphasis on water quality index and irrigational indicators in the southeastern part of Manipur Valley, north-east India
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021-12-21)Water quality index (WQI) and irrigational indices for surface water and groundwater in the southeastern part of Manipur Valley in north-east India has been examined. The water samples were collected during the pre-monsoon ... -
Distribution of neotectonic variability between the Kachchh Mainland Fault and Vigodi Fault, Northwestern Mainland Kachchh, Western India
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-01-13)As per the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the Kachchh region of the western peninsular India falls under seismically active region, where the faults experienced existence of several moderate to high magnitude earthquakes ... -
A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021-11-25)The Miocene beds of Kutch in India are well known for their mammalian assemblages including an extinct ape Sivapithecus. We here report new amphibian and snake fossils, which have been recovered from two stratigraphic ...
