Ajit Singh
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Ajit Singh, PhD (IIT Kanpur) is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow. His research interests includes Fluvial Sedimentology and stratigraphy for drainage reorganisation, and channel avulsion processes and fluvial fan evolution; Sediment geochemistry for sediment provenance (U-Pb dating detrital zircons), and palaeoclimatic and palaeovegetation reconstruction.
Research Interest
Fluvial sedimentology and stratigraphy, Sediment provenance: Late Quaternary Fluvial and Aeolian processes, Sediment geochemistry for palaeoclimate and palaeovegetation studies Channel avulsion processes and fluvial fan evolution
Publications
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Van Dijk, W. M., Densmore, A. L., Singh, A., Gupta, S., Sinha, R., Mason, P. J., Joshi, S. K., Nayak, N., Kumar, M., Shekhar, S., Kumar, D., Rai., S. P. (2016). Linking the morphology of fluvial fan systems to aquifer stratigraphy in the Sutlej−Yamuna plain of northwest India. Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface. 121, 201−222.
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Singh, A., Paul, D., Sinha, R., Gupta, S., and Thomsen, K. J. (2016). Geochemistry of buried−river sediments from Ghaggar plains, NW India: multi−proxy records of variations in provenance, paleoclimate, and paleovegetation patterns in the Late Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449, 85–100.
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Singh, A., Thomsen, K. J., Sinha, R., Buylaert, J–P., Carter, A., Mark, D. F., Mason, P. J., Densmore, A. L., Murray, A. S., Jain, M., Paul, D., and Gupta, S. Counter−intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements. Under revision in Nature Communications.
