Eshaan Srivastava

PhD Student IIT Kanpur 

INQUA Fellow 2023 University of Palermo 

I have concentrated my doctoral studies on comprehending the tectonic behavior of the Kachchh basin, which has produced one of India's most damaging earthquakes (the 2001 Bhuj earthquake). In my investigation, I discovered the Kachchh basin's fascinating side, which has a geological tale of incredibly quick coastal landscape evolution that led it to change from an early gulf landform to the current setting. Currently, most of the environment is made up of a salty desert called Rann, which has a height of 1-4 meters, and hills that represent the outcropping portion of fault propagation folds. The seasonal floods of nearly the whole region and multiple previous earthquakes are evidence that tectonic and climate processes interact to produce such massive landscape modification (1668 Indus Delta, 1819 Allah Bund, 1845 Lakhpat, 1956 Anjar, and 2001 Bhuj). Currently striving to unravel these forgings while also trying to better understand how they are entangled.

I'm currently completing the last of my doctoral coursework at the Department of Earth and

Marine Sciences (DiSTeM), University of Palermo, thanks to support from the

International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).

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