This book focuses on vulnerability issues associated with urban
development over Dehradun paleo-alluvial fan. The city of Dehradun
occupies the central part of the elongated piggy back syncline Doon
Valley and sits on loose unconsolidated coarse clastic Doon gravels
derived from the Lesser Himalayas being deposited by Bindal and
Rispana river systems during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene age.
Rapid and unmatched conversion of land into continuously built up
area over the tectonically active, geomorphologically sensitive,
structurally feeble, and hydrologically incapable area has grossly
obliterated the natural setting. Thus the age old city has become
susceptible to various physical hazards. The city area has been
divided into geomorphological units having varying risk of being
affected by different hazards like flash flood, landslide, and
earthquake. This work examines the nature of urban space juxtaposed
upon the physical space offered by the alluvial fan using satellite
images; analyses of sedimentary facies, hydrological data and shear
wave velocity data. Such information have been fused in GIS
platform to a vulnerability map. This book is likely to help the
urban planners.
General
Imprint: |
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2014 |
First published: |
February 2014 |
Authors: |
Soumendu Chatterjee
• Ansar Khan
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
132 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-659-51843-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Earth sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
3-659-51843-3 |
Barcode: |
9783659518430 |
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