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Bathymetric study of the Neotectonic Naini Lake in outer Kumaun Himalaya

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Title Bathymetric study of the Neotectonic Naini Lake in outer Kumaun Himalaya
 
Creator Hashimi, N.H.
Pathak, M.C.
Jauhari, P.
Nair, R.R.
Sharma, A.K.
Bhakuni, D.S.
Bisht, M.K.S.
Valdiya, K.S.
 
Subject lakes
bathymetry
bottom topography
tectonics
 
Description The Naini Lake is a product of rotational movement on a NW-SE trending Nainital Fault, quite after the establishment of the drainage of a mature stream named Balia Nala. Detailed bathymetric study, permits division of this crescent-shaped lake into two subbasins separatEd. by an approximately 100 m wide transverse underwater ridge, 7 m to 20 m below the lake surface. The southeastern and northwestern parts, 11 to 25 m and 4 to 27 m deep, respectively, are filled with unconsolidated sediments, 15 m thick on an average. The semiconsolidated sedimentary layers locally exhibit slumping on slopes and deformation in channel beds. These features together with the transverse Central Ridge, the deep channel cutting through it, the small scarps and terraces or step-like features on the narrow V-shaped underwater valley in the southeastern part and its thick filling in parts due to blockade resulting presumably from fault movements, and the existence of deformed and displaced acoustic reflectors are interpreted as indicating quite recent movements along the National Fault. Hitherto unidentified pinnacle-like objects penetrating through or perched atop sediments, are suggestive of either tectonic displacement and squeezing or of the hazard of mass movements which have occurred. A number of small but rapidly growing deltas along shores indicate accelerated pace of sediment input, resulting from quickened erosion in the catchment area
 
Date 2009-05-06T10:47:13Z
2009-05-06T10:47:13Z
1993
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of the Geological Society of India, Vol.41; 91-104p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2861
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1993]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Geological Society of India