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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Western Ghats"”.
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Land surface and orographic controls on precipitation patterns in the Sierra Madre Occidental and Western Ghats
… the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of western Mexico, and the Western Ghats of India, and investigate the processes behind these connections in detail. While these regions possess their own unique meteorological challenges, including sparse observational networks of land surface and …
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Influence of spatially variable precipitation on passive margin escarpment evolution
… climate and landscape evolution motivated by the Western Ghats of India. The Western Ghats experience a wet, tropical climate with topographically-controlled spatially varying precipitation. Precipitation reaches a maximum in the escarpment foothills and decreases sharply with elevation. Using a …
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Unruly landscapes: politics of biodiversity, energy and livelihoods in India
… conservation. The case sites are located in the Western Ghats and near the Great Himalayan National Park in India. I argue that these green geographies are inherently dynamic and democracy provides the context within which these landscapes are contested and re-defined. Further, I argue that the …
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Geochemistry and geohydrology of the Deccan volcanic rocks of Akole Taluka, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra State, India.
… tribal villages in the Deccan Trap region of the Western Ghats, Maharashtra State, India. The bedrock is massive tholeiitic basalt of the Thakurvadi Formation. The petrography and geochemistry of the 47 samples collected mainly from hand-dug wells and blastholes were examined in order to determine …
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Volcanic architecture of the Deccan Traps, western Maharashtra, India: an integrated chemostratigraphic and paleomagnetic study
… of seven traverses up the lava sequence in the Western Ghats, Deccan Traps, India, are presented. The main study area, the Mahabaleshwar Plateau, was chosen because the lavas were emplaced around the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and because there is access to exposed lavas on three …
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Tropical orographic rainfall regimes according to the tropical rainfall measuring mission
… Eastern Himalayas, Sierra Madre Occidental, and Western Ghats are used to evaluate thirteen variables and parameters including convective available potential energy, convective inhibition, lifting condensation level, level of free convection, 700 hPa specific humidity, total precipitable water, …
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Status and Ecology of the Nilgiri Tahr in the Mukurthi National Park, South India
… an endangered mountain ungulate endemic to the Western Ghats in South India. I studied the status and ecology of the Nilgiri tahr in the Mukurthi National Park, from January 1993 to December 1995. To determine the status of this tahr population, I conducted foot surveys, total counts, and a …
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Global Analysis of Predicted and Observed Dynamic Topography
… extends onshore from the high-elevation Western Ghats in the west to the Krishna-Godavari floodplains in the east. Calibrated inverse modelling of drainage networks suggest that the tilt of the peninsula grew principally in Neogene times with vertical motions linked to asthenospheric …
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The post-breakup evolution of the western Indian high-elevation passive margin
The tectonic development of the Western Indian high-elevation passive margin is complex. At least two major rifting events (India/Madagascar and India/Seychelles) and a major hotspot (The Reunion plume) are believed to have been instrumental in the formation and development of the margin. However, …
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Integrated or monofunctional landscapes? Agent-based modelling for evaluating the socioeconomic implications of land use interventions
… The research was based in the Nilgiris of Western Ghats India, a tropical agricultural system at the forest frontier. The main findings show that through engaging local stakeholders in a participatory process, plausible land use strategies that align with their objectives could be …