A spatio-temporal analysis of Bank line Shifting of Sankosh River in India

Rivers are the dynamic feature of the environment and these are responsible for the surficial changes on the earth. The Sankosh River during monsoon regime are highly charged with water discharged and sediment load which are causing changes in channel pattern, bank line migration and other morphology of the channel in the study area. As a result, the bank lines of Sankosh River in the study area are extremely unstable characterised by highly variable pattern of channel shifting. The Sankosh River in the study area has a general tendency to shift its channel westward since time immemorial. The westward shifting is attributed partly to seismic instability of Himalaya also.