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Wind-Blown, Flash Flood-deposited Sands of Hagari River, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India


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1 Formerly at the Department of Geography, SP Pune University, Pune 411 007, India
2 Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
3 Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata 741 246, India
 

Sand sheets and mounds occur along the eastern bank of Hagari River in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. These wind-blown sands are considered to be deposited by a flood about 1–2 centuries ago. Based on the description in the British era District Gazetteer, we infer that the sands were most likely deposited by a flash flood in May 1851.

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Aeolian Sands, Buried Temples, Desertification, Flash Floods, Flood Deposits.
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Vishwas S. Kale
Formerly at the Department of Geography, SP Pune University, Pune 411 007, India
A. C. Narayana
Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
Manoj K. Jaiswal
Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata 741 246, India

Abstract


Sand sheets and mounds occur along the eastern bank of Hagari River in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. These wind-blown sands are considered to be deposited by a flood about 1–2 centuries ago. Based on the description in the British era District Gazetteer, we infer that the sands were most likely deposited by a flash flood in May 1851.

Keywords


Aeolian Sands, Buried Temples, Desertification, Flash Floods, Flood Deposits.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv119%2Fi3%2F556-558