Session OSM 06

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Past Changes in Fluvial Systems, Floodplains and Estuaries

Convenors

Thomas Hoffmann, Onkar S. Chauhan, Peter Gell, Rajiv Sinha

Description

Fluvial systems are the major dispersal agents of water, sediment and nutrients from the continents to the ocean and have sustained civilizations for more than 5000 years. Unraveling past changes of fluvial and lacustrine processes in response to tectonics, climate, and land use change is a key area of research in fluvial geomorphology and paleolimnology.

Major themes of this session include:

-Methodologies to investigate floodplain response to environmental change at different spatial and temporal scales using alluvial, limnic and estuarine records.

-Reconstruction of fluvial dynamics and its impact on coastal systems in response to external perturbations.

-Cause-effect relationship between environmental change and floodplain development, scale-dependency of fluvial processes and their importance for buffered and delayed fluvial and lacustrine response.

-Connectivity structure of channel networks and sediment fluxes – implications for biogeochemical (e.g. C, N, and P) cycles and sediment infilling.

-Interactions of river morphology, hydrology and ecology and their implications for river and wetland restoration, and ecosystem services.

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Talks and Posters

Talks

Friday, 15 February 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Onkar S. Chauhan, Peter Gell, Rajiv Sinha

11:00 - 11:15
Deciphering landscape dynamics from the Late Quaternary stratigraphic records of the interfluves and valleys of the southern Ganga plains (solicited talk)

Sampat K. Tandon, Rajiv Sinha, Martin R. Gibling, Mayank Jain

11:15 - 11:30
Exploring the Channel Connectivity Structure of the August 00 Avulsion Belt of the Kosi River: Application to Flood Risk Assessment

Rajiv Sinha, Kumar Gaurav, Shashwat Chandra, Sampat Tandon

11:30 - 11:45
Sedimentary archives of wetland-river interactions: the lower Murray River, Australia
Peter Gell, Rosie Grundell, Michael Reid

11:45 - 12:00
Forests, large floods and sediment transport (solicited talk)
Robert Wasson

12:00 - 12:15
Evidence for transformation of floodplain lake and wetland ecosystems at a regional scale due to agriculture and water resource development in south east Australia

Michael Reid, Peter Gell, John Tibby, Jennie Fluin, Matthew Tighe

12:15 - 12:30
Late Holocene Hypolimnetic Anoxia in Lake Victoria at Napoleon Gulf as inferred from Geochemical Proxies

Morgan Andama, Julius B. Lejju, Casim Umba Tolo, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Immaculate Ssemmanda, Janet Ayebare

Posters

Display: Friday, 15 February and Saturday, 16 February
Author attendance: Friday 16:00 - 18:00
Chair: Onkar S. Chauhan, Peter Gell, Rajiv Sinha

A preliminary study on the removal of earth materials from the river basins in Sri Lanka
Upali De Silva Jayawardena

A simulation of the Neolithic transition in the Indus valley
Carsten Lemmen, Aurangzeb Khan

Depositional Environment of intertidal Mudflat and Mangrove Environments with Time within a Tropical (Vaitarna) Estuary, West coast of India
Samida Volvoikar, Ganapati Nayak, Aninda Mazumdar

Early diagenetic processes of clay matters in decadal time-scale in tropical coastline sediments – case study in Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc

Fluvial packages as archives to the Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations in SW Saurashtra, western India
Vishal Ukey, Nilesh Bhatt

Fluvial response to 3-2 ka sea-level lowering: an example of the latest Pleistocene to Holocene incised-valley fills in the Tokyo Lowland, central Japan
Susumu Tanabe, Yoshiro Ishihara

Geochemistry of buried river sediment in Ghaggar plains, NW India: Inferences on Late Quaternary palaeoclimate
Ajit Singh, Debajyoti Paul, Sunil K. Singh, Rajiv Sinha

Hydrological and Nutrient budget of Bhitarkanika Mangrove Estuary, East coast of India
Rita Chauhan, AL Ramanathan, TK Adhya

Main stem- tributary sedimentation in response to flood events during last 1000 years in lower Narmada basin, India
Alpa Sridhar, Ravi Bhushan, Shraddha Band, Laxmansingh Chamyal

Mid-Holocene environmental changes deduced from sedimentary records in the lower reaches of the Yeongsan River, Korea
Wook-Hyun Nahm, Jaesoo Lim

Neogene Palynofloral evolution of Ramganga Basin , Uttarakhand, India
Samir Sarkar

Response and recovery from the effects of 100 years flood: significance of long term slope-channel coupling in Damodar River, North-Eastern India
Sujay Bandyopadhyay, Ritendu Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Ghosh

River channel response to climate change and human impact: case study of Russian plain
Irina Kargapolova

Sea level and coastal changes during the Holocene in the Cauvery River delta, southern India
Pramod Singh, P.P. Mohapatra, Z.A. Malik, S. Doradla, A.H. Laskar, J. Saravanavel, C.J. Kumanan, M.G. Yadava, S. Balakrishnan, Anupama Krishnamurthy

Sedimentary archives of wetland-river interactions: the lower Murray River, Australia
Peter Gell, Rosie Grundell, Michael Reid

Stratigraphic response to Late Quaternary monsoonal fluctuations in a buried valley complex in Ghaggar plains, NW India
Ajit Singh, Kristina Thomsen, Rajiv Sinha, Sanjeev Gupta, Jan-Peter Buylaert, Andrew Murray, Mayank Jain

Submarine fill of a drowned large incised valley. The legacy of eustatic and climatic forcing
Vittorio Maselli, Fabio Trincardi, Alessandra Asioli, Alessandro Ceregato, Federica Rizzetto, Marco Taviani

The development of sand dunes around Lake Balkhash and Ili delta in Southeast Kazakhstan: the effects from hydrological environment changes and the Holocene Climate changes, in Central Eurasia
Akio Sato, Toshihiko Sugai, Kunihiko Endo, Reisuke Kondo, Hitoshi Shimizu, Tatsuro Chiba, Jean-marc Deom, Takashi Chiba, Yasunori Nakayama

The rise and fall of palaeo-megalake Bungunnia and the birth of the Murray-Darling basin in southeastern Australia: new palaeomagnetic and cosmogenic nuclide constraints on rates of geomorphological change
Ian Snowball, Eeva Haltia-Hovi, Sandra McLaren, Ala Aldahan, Per Sandgren

To study the chemical weathering and clay mineralogy of the sediments in Brahmaputra river and two of its tributaries to understand the carbon sequestration by weathering
Sumi Hanique, Jyotilima Saikia, Seema Talukdar