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Prehistoric River Saraswati, Western India - Geological Appraisal and Social Aspects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Prehistoric River Saraswati, Western India - Geological Appraisal and Social Aspects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Society of Earth Scientists Series
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This book portrays the Himalayan-born River Saraswati, a legendary
river that was the lifeline of a progressive and vibrant society
for more than three thousand years. Written in simple language and
richly illustrated, it highlights the events that resulted in the
robbing of the Saraswati of its water and the end of a wonderful
culture. The author weaves a geological narrative out of a mass of
data generated by explorers, archaeologists, sedimentologists,
geohydrologist, seismologists and remote-sensing specialists. The
story explains how a great Himalayan river disappeared and how the
Harappan Civilization vanished from the banks of the river
Saraswati more than three and half thousand years ago in the wake
of tectonic upheavals in the foothills of the Himalaya at a time
when the rainfall had drastically declined. And it reveals that
nowadays the Saraswati is an extraordinary wide water-less channel
coursing through the vast but dry floodplain in western India.
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