The Arkavathi River, one of the major tributaries Cauvery River in southern India, is a source drinking water and agricultural irrigation to villages townships region. Surface quality distribution characteristics Reservoir catchment command area were evaluated using multivariate statistical analysis on 29 parameters collected across 30 monitoring stations over two-year, three-season period. Fac...

The rock strata of Cretaceous sedimentary system represented by Aptian to Maastrichtian age occurs as isolated patches outcropping in the western margin of the Cauvery Basin bordering the Archaean granite and gneiss basement. The Cretaceous system is well known as “Cretaceous of Trichinopoly” containing diverse fauna and flora including dinosaur remains, commercially exploitable limestone, lign...