Chronology and sediment provenance of extreme floods of Siang River (Tsangpo‐Brahmaputra River valley), northeast Himalaya,Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

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Chronology and sediment provenance of extreme floods of Siang River (Tsangpo‐Brahmaputra River valley), northeast Himalaya
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 , DOI: 10.1002/esp.4893
Sandeep Panda ₁ , Anil Kumar ₁ , Satyabrata Das ₁ , Rahul Devrani ₁ , Santosh Rai ₁ , Kuldeep Prakash ₂ , Pradeep Srivastava ₁

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This study explores paleoflood deposits of the Siang River, known as the Tsangpo in Tibet. The river that often experiences large floods brings down huge amount of sediment and water that adversely affect the downstream regions with large human populations in the states of northeast Himalaya and its foreland. Along it's ~300 km mountainous stretch we collected samples for sedimentological, petrographic and Sr–Nd isotopic study to explore sediment provenance and dated the paleofloods (via optically stimulated luminescence, OSL). Geomorphic indices including precipitation and a geomorphic swath profile across the Brahmaputra catchment were studied to understand the interplay of mountain relief and rainfall that determine potential zones of high erosion and sediment supply. The OSL technique indicated the Siang River experienced at least eight large floods between 7 and 1 ka, possibly under the influence of warm and wet climatic conditions. The petrographic and isotopic data suggests that the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, which has the highest uplift and exhumation rate in the area, is not always the highest sediment producing zone. In some instances, the Tibetan plateau produces higher fluxes of sediments via glacial and landslide lake outburst floods (GLOFs and LLOFs). © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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