Brahmaputra River

Goodbred, S. L., Jr and Kuehl, S. A. (1998). Floodplain process in the Bengal Basin and the storage of Ganges-Brahmaputra River sediment an accretion study using Cs and Pb geochronology. Sediment. Geol. 121,239-258. 

Sanchez F, Rodriguez-Alavarez MJ (1999) Effect of pH, conductivity and sediment size on thorium and radium activities along Jucar River (Spain). J Radioanal Nucl Chem 242 671-681 Sarin MM, Krishnaswami S, Somayajulu BLK, Moore WS (1990) Chemistry of U, Th, and Ra isotopes in the Ganga-Brahmaputra river system Weathering processes and fluxes to the bay of Bengal. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 54 1387-1396... 

Coleman, J.M. (1969) Brahmaputra River channel processes and sedimentation. Sediment. Geol. 3, 131-239. 

Moore W. S. (1990) Chemistry of U, Th, and Ra isotopes in the Ganga-Brahmaputra river system weathering processes and fluxes to the Bay of Bengal. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54, 1387-1396. 

Moore W. S. (1997) High fluxes of radium and barium from the mouth of the Ganges-Brahmaputra rivers during low river discharge suggest a large groundwater source. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 150, 141-150. 

Krishnaswami S., Trivedi J. R., Sarin M. M., Ramesh R., and Sharma K. K. (1992) Strontium isotopes and rubidium in the Ganga-Brahmaputra River system weathering in the Himalaya, fluxes to the Bay of Bengal and contributions to the evolution of oceanic Sr/ Sr. Earth Planet. Set Lett. 109(1-2), 243 -253. 

At the point where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest deltas in the United States is still growing. Other large deltas include those formed in the Mediterranean Sea by the Nile, Rhone, Po, and Ebro Rivers, as well as those created where the Ganges-Brahmaputra River joins the Bay of Bengal, and where rivers empty into the South China Sea. 

Chough, S.K., and Hesse, R. 1976. Submarine meandering thalweg and turbidity currents flowing for 4,000 km in the northwest Atlantic mid-Ocean channel, Labrador Sea. Geology, 4 529-533. Coleman, J.M. 1969. Brahmaputra River Channel processes and sedimentation. Sedimentary Geology, 3 129-239. 

Mikhailov, V. N., Dotsenko, M. A. (2006). Peculiarities of the hydrological regime of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river mouth area. Water Resources, 33. 353-373. 

Chabaux F, Riotte J, Clauer N, France-Lanord Ch (2001) Isotopic tracing of the dissolved U fluxes of Himalayan rivers implications for present and past U budgets of Ganges-Brahmaputra system. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 65 3201-3217... 

Reductive dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxides holding sorbed As appears to explain the very large concentrations of As in water from wells drilled into alluvial sediments of the Brahmaputra and Ganges Rivers in Bangladesh and West Begal (Nickson et al 1998, 2000). Dissolved As has accumulated from the reduction of As-rich Fe oxyhydroxides formed upstream of the contaminated areas by weathering of As-rich base metal sulfides. The reduction is driven by sedimentary organic matter in the deposits. Release of As from oxidation of pyrite in shallow wells contributes little to the water contamination because any As(IV) released would be re-sorbed on Fe oxides formed in pyrite oxidation. 

Chowdhury, M.I., Safiullah, S., Iqbal Ali, S.M., Mofizuddin, M. and Enamul, S., 1982. Carbon transport in the Ganges and the Brahmaputra preliminary results. In E.T. Degens (ed.), Transport of Carbon and Minerals in Major World Rivers. Pt. 1, Mitt. Geol.-Palaont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, SCOPE/UNEP Sonderbd., pp. 457-468. 

The affected aquifers are Quaternary alluvial and deltaic sediments associated with the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system which cover a major part of Bangladesh. Groundwater from these aquifers contains As at concentrations up to around 2300 pg T (Smedley et al., 2001b). Several... 

The Bengal Basin in Bangladesh contains a sequence of Cretaceous to Recent sediments which is up to 15 km thick and which occupies some 100,000 km of lowland floodplain and delta. The combined deltas of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) river systems lie within Bangladesh. The GBM system carries the greatest total sediment load of any... 

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