Geography - Master Dissertation

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    Study Of Microfossils (Foraminifers) From The Khari Nadi Formation Of Jangadia Section Kutch: Palaeoenvironmental Implication
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Haobijam, Johnson; Sharma, K. Milankumar
    The study area lies in the Kutch of Gujarat which is western most part of the Indian subcontinent. This dissertation attempts to study the systematic palaentology of the foraminifera and palaeoenvironment of the Khari Nadi formation of Jangadia section of lower Miocene time. After the thorough study and taking photograph by using trinocular sterozoom microscope nearly 160 specimen are found and most of them are benthic foraminifera and only few of them are planktonic. The benthic foraminifera is best to study the palaeoenvironment of the particular area. The specimen Elphidium are found at the lagoonal environment. Quinqueloculina and triloculina are found in the nearshore environment. Nonion and Nonionella are found in the outerself environment. So, the Khari Nadi formation of Jhangadia section was lagoonal to upperslope environment during the time of lower Miocene which the was slowly transgressive over a stable shelf
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    Analysis Of Land-Use Land-Cover Change In Rajouri District, Jammu And Kashmir
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Ahmed, Ishtiaq; Guite,L.T. Sasang
    An attempt was made in this study to detect the land use and land cover changes in Rajouri district of J&K during the period from November 2008 to December 2016. The LULC change over a span of 08 years (2008-2016) was investigated through remote sensing approach using two different time satellite images. Supervised classification in GIS software has been adopted in LISS-III (2008) and Landsat-8 (2016) images of the study area. To identify LULC changes from these pictures, post classification are used. The findings of Land-use Land-cover change shown that the study has experienced a decrease in forests by 6 percent and with an increase in agricultural land and open fields and settlement areas during the study period. These amendments in the land-use and land cover of the study area convey us that this change is due to rising anthropogenic burden on forests and high level of deforestation is responsible. Nonstop assessments of land-use/land-covers changes in this city and the implementation of proper land use planning are mandatory for ideal and systematic development.
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    Analysing The Impact Of Sand Mining On The Flow Of Tawi River, Jammu And Kashmir
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Salgotra, Vishabh; GUITE, L.T. SASANG
    The river Tawi in Jammu and Kashmir faces indiscriminate sand mining practice where large amount of sand is being mined from the river bed between Nagrota and Sidhra area. The increasing pace of urbanization and associated developments in Jammu City and nearby areas are responsible for this practice. The mining activity in Tawi river involves massive digging of river bed materials upto 3-4 mts depth with the help of heavy duty excavators used by the mining contractors, whereas, the Geology and Mining Department gave the permission to extract the materials up to 3 mts depth. Moreover, the sand mining has impacted the flow of river Tawi particularly between Nagrota and Sidhra. In this study, the locations of sand mining sites in Tawi river between Nagrota and Sidhra are mapped from 2007 to 2018 and an attempt made to analyse the possible impact of sand mining on the flow of river. The mapping is done by using GIS technique and a field visit is also carried out for acquiring the coordinates and photographs of present sand mining sites in river Tawi
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    Urban Green Space And Question Of Distributive Justice: A Study Of Cities Of Punjab Using Geo-Spatial Approach
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Navjotpreet; Singh, Kiran K.
    Urban green parks play vital role in providing fresh and healthy environment in urban areas. But conspicuous problem remains in unequal distribution of parks. This problem raises various questions. One of them is distributive justice. This study was conducted for four major cities of Punjab: Ludhiana, Bathinda, Amritsar and Chandigarh, to check the location of parks and slums in these cities to look into the problem of distributive justice. In study, the buffer analysis is used to know the serving area of parks and to represent over-served, served and un-served area of parks. GIS (Geographical Information System) is used to derive the serving area of parks. The result shows that major concentration of parks is in exclusive areas in these cities like elite class residential localities. It also highlights that most of the parks are far away from the slum areas. The study also shows that well planned areas have the high facility of parks than others. Overall, these findings help in underscoring the problem of distributive justice in allocating parks in urban areas.
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    Mapping of Surface Water Bodies in Punjab and High Resolution of Remote Sensing Data
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Ahmed, Mukhtar; Singh, Kiran K.
    This study is an attempt to create boundary of Punjab state and surface water bodies map from NATMO atlas map, SOI map, Landsat-8 data and Google Earth image using GIS software. It has also compared the variation in status which is extracted from the data or image of various scale or resolution. According to NATMO data, the water bodies in Punjab are 1476. 109km2 (excluding canals), according to Landsat-8 are 2844.55 km2 (including canals), according to SOI are 764.93 km2 and according to Google earth are 141.06 km2. Variation in the status of the area and length of surface water bodies is due to the scale and resolution of images. High resolution image is capable of creating precise boundaries. The purpose of this study was to create precise boundaries of the state and water bodies. Management of water bodies calls for generation of multiple inventories and demarcation of precise boundary is one of the inventories. This study also suggests the Map making organisations to revise their maps by using recent geospatial technologies.
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    Paleoclimatic and Environmental Interpretation using Clay Mineralogy and Surface Textural Analysis of Quartz Grains from Miocene deposits of Tapar, Kutch, Gujarat
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Mahmud, Hassan; Sharma, Milankumar
    The Tapar area situated in Kutch district of Gujarat is exposed of the miocene deposit. Extensive work has been done on Kutch basin on paleontological aspects but very less on sedimentological aspect. Clay assemblages is a great tool to understand the paleoclimate and environment of deposition. The study of the clay assemblages in the area show a higher amount of kaolinite and very less amount of dickite assemblages with negligible amount of Vermiculite and clinochlore indicating a tropical climate. Quartz being highly resistive mineral can withstand normal chemical weathering and physical weathering. Surface textural study of quartz grains indicates towards fluvial condition
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    Geochemistry Of Terrace Deposits Of Upper Alaknanda Basin
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Mohd, Yusuf; Pattanaik, Jitendra Kumar
    Geochemical and clay mineralogical study of terrace deposits in the higher altitude will provide the information of nature and extent of chemical weathering in the upper reaches of the river basin. In this study sediment samples from terrace deposits of Badrinath valley, upper Alaknanda basin were collected for clay mineral identification and quantification, and geochemical analysis to understand chemical weathering intensity prevailing during sediment deposits. The deposits are interlayered with the pebble and the boulder layers which are due to the changing energy condition caused by climatic variations. Bulk and clay mineralogy, grain size distribution of <38 micron size suggest that physical weathering is dominated in the study are compare to chemical weathering. Presences of illite in specific site indicate a colder climatic condition (i.e. glacial period) during development of terraces. CIA, A-CN-K, A-CNK-FM ternary diagram suggest low intensity of chemical weathering in the upper catchment area and grain size reduction is mainly due to physical weathering. Bulk geochemistry is indicating felsic source rock.
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    Spatial Pattern Of Urban Crime in Bathinda City Using Geographical Information System
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Arshdeep; Singh, Kiran K.
    Cities are place of hope and opportunity not only for people of the city but also for the surrounding areas. Cities seem very beautiful to people when they see tall buildings, malls, parks, and well-designed roads but there is a dark side of cities also. In cities, people feel insecure, even in their own streets and houses with the rise in criminal activities. There is a big fear of crimes in the mind of people in the city, which arise from inequality, poverty, segregation, and injustice. This study focused on the six urban crimes in Bathinda city such as crime related to alcohol under Excise Act, drugs related crime under NDPS Act, gambling, snatching, house-break, and vehicle theft. The crime pattern of Bathinda city has been explored by using Geo-Spatial techniques for the period 2007-2017. Changing pattern of crimes from year 2007 to 2017 is represented by graph diagrams. Hotspot analysis of these six crimes has been done of year 2007 and 2017
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    A Geographical Study Of Tourism In Rajouri And Poonch District, Jammu And Kashmir
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Ahmed, Sarfraz; Guite,L.T. Sasang
    Tourism is basic desirable human activity deserving the praise, encouragement of all the people and all government. In the early years of this century, tourism was not looked as an industry but with the increasing standard of living, fast technological revolutions today it has undoubtedly become an industry. Tourism basically is an infrastructure based service product. Tourism is a regular industry involving a lot of resources and potential. Tourism is the composite of activities services and industry that delivers travel expenditure, involving transportation, accommodation, entertainment, hospitality related services and integrated infrastructure. Moreover, it is socially relevant and commercially important industry.
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    Mapping Of Urban Green Spaces Using Remote Sensing Technique: A Study Of Cities Of Punjab
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Mandeep; Singh, Kiran K.
    Urban green spaces are important part of urban areas for good/fresh environment. These spaces are helpful in controlling and reducing the pollution and the temperature. These urban spaces provide a variety of services like biodiversity conservation, noise reduction, mitigation of urban heat island effect, prevention of soil erosion and carbon sequestration. Due to increasing urbanization, the quantity and quality of urban green spaces are degraded. So urban authorities are concerned about the management of green areas in the cities. Mapping of vegetation and green spaces play an important role to conserve the environment and sustainable environment in urban areas for authorities. In the study, the remote sensing is used for the mapping the urban green areas. This study probes the vegetation change detection in the four cities of Punjab over the period of 17 years from 2000 to 2017 based on NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) by using remote sensing images of Landsat 7 and Sentinel 2 data.