The Bengal basin, the largest fluvio-deltaic sedimentary system on Earth, is located in
Bangladesh and three eastern states of India. Sediment accumulates in the basin from the …

In the deltaic plain of the Ganges‐Meghna‐Brahmaputra Rivers, arsenic concentrations in
groundwater commonly exceed regulatory limits (> 50 µg L− 1) because FeOOH is …

Eocene–Oligocene foreland basin was formed in response to the India–Asia collision and
ensuing Himalayan orogenesis. The initial collision during late Paleocene to early Eocene …

Since 1996, 52,202 water samples from hand tubewells were analyzed for arsenic (As) by
flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) from all 64 …

Arsenic toxicity in groundwater in the Ganges delta and some low-lying areas in the Bengal
basin is confined to middle Holocene sediments. Dissected terraces and highlands of …

Arsenic contaminates groundwater across much of southern, central and eastern
Bangladesh. Groundwater from the Holocene alluvium of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and …

For the last few decades, toxic levels of arsenic (As) in groundwater from the aquifers of the
Ganges River delta, India and Bangladesh, have been known to cause serious public health …

Global food security depends on the sustainability of irrigated agriculture. Rising
groundwater withdrawals from seasonally humid, alluvial plains across tropical Asia have …

Abstract Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), Bangladesh first identified their
groundwater arsenic contamination in 1993. But before the international arsenic conference …

We take a fresh look at the topography, structure and seismicity of the Ganges–Brahmaputra
Delta (GBD)–Burma Arc collision zone in order to reevaluate the nature of the accretionary …