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Morphometric Diversity on Kuya River Basin

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Geography, Sujapur High School, Malda, WB, India

Int. Res. J. Earth Sci., Volume 4, Issue (4), Pages 17-28, April,25 (2016)

Abstract

Kuya river (176.4km. length) basin (1555.2sq.km.) is a tributary basin of Mayurakshi river flows from eastern edge of Chottanagpur plateau to gangetic plain of Murshidabad district. This paper mainly focuses on different Morphometric characters of the river basin and how these factors in together brings diversity in river basin. From the study, some remarkable findings are 1) basin is highly asymmetry in terms of area distribution at two sides of the main river (0.39). Basin shape is higly elongated as indicated by circularity ratio (0.30), sinuosity index of the main river is 1.71. Distinct differences in Morphometric characters are exist between upper and lower catchments. Upper catchment is more diversified than lower catchment. River basin is experiencing old stage of the cycle of erosion as indicated by hypsometric integral (0.36). Total number of variable employed for making spatial Morphometric diversity, relief parameters are more regulatory than others as found from principal component analysis.

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