10Sep 2017

MONITORING ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH IN THE MAHANADI BASIN AND CHILIKA LAGOON, INDIA.

  • Civil Engineering Department, Centurion University of Technology & Management Jatni, Bhubaneswar, 752050.
  • Civil Engineering Department, Centurion University of Technology & Management Jatni, Bhubaneswar, 752050.
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The Anthropocene epoch in geological time scale has taken over the Holocene epoch where the human forcing has dominated the nature. The activities and growth in population have changed the geosphere. biosphere and atmosphere. The Mahanadi river basin and Chilika lagoon are of areas 141589 Km2 and 1165 km2 respectively in peninsular central India near tropic of cancer. The basin has changed its geomorphology/biodiversity after the 1st nuclear test in 1945 by way of change in population, climate, drainages, land use, land cover, mining and carbon level. In India, many species have become extinct or critically endangered during the Anthropocene. The present study investigates those exemplary changes in the Mahanadi basin due to changes in its demography, rainfall, temperature, carbon dioxide level, GHG gases, mineral mediation, geohydrology, hydro-chemistry, social, economic and political fronts in the new Epoch. The states Chhattisgarh and Odisha in the basin have undergone exponential changes after missile activities in Odisha, the super cyclone, Tsunami-2004, massive mining exploration, high GDP growth in Chhattisgarh, acute sedimentation in Chilika Lagoon, erosion and accretion along coast and changes in mean sea level, and other natural calamities. The devastating floods in 1982 and 2008, hottest sun on 5th June 2003 (500 C) at Titlagarh, Killer heat waves in 1998, unstable sea, slamming severe storms, abnormal increase in lightning fatalities, human mediated minerals and new health hazards are marked events of the Anthropocene in the basin. The present study is to record the changes, their causes and action to be taken to manage the adverse effects.

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[Siba Prasad Mishra and Saswat Mishra. (2017); MONITORING ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH IN THE MAHANADI BASIN AND CHILIKA LAGOON, INDIA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 284-302] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Saswat Mishra
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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5329      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5329

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