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Recent sediment flux to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta system
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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, University of Southampton, Tyndall Centre, Kyoto University, ...
Published InThe Science of The Total Environment
Year2018
Citations134
Abstract
The physical sustainability of deltaic environments is very much dependent on the volume of water and sediment coming from upstream and the way these fluxes recirculate within the delta system. Based on several past studies, the combined mean annual sediment load of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) systems has previously been estimated to vary from 1.0 to 2.4 BT/year which can be separated into components flowing from the Ganges (260 to 680 MT/year) and Brahmaputra (390 to 1160 MT/year). Due to very limited data and small contribution of the Meghna system (6-12 MT/year) to the total sediment flux of the GBM system, the data of the Meghna is not considered in the analysis assuming the sediment flux from GB system as the…
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