This book presents a concise account of sediment dynamics and textural characteristics of beach environment. The textural characteristics of the sediments from Karaikal to Nagore beach exhibits medium to fine sand, moderately sorted to well sorted, fine to nearly symmetrical skewed nature with lepto to very platy kurtic nature. The variation in slopes of the two saltation population indicates the differences in sorting characteristics. The CM pattern indicates the main role of bottom suspension and rolling along with the existence of graded suspension of sediments. Thus it can be concluded...

Water source have always been a precious commodity for human life. Groundwater is used for domestic supply, industries and agriculture in most parts of the world as it is a replenishable resource and has inherent advantages over surface water. There has been a tremendous increase in the demand for fresh water due to growth in population the rapid growth of urban areas has affected the ground water quality due to over exploitation resources and improper waste disposal practices. The study area Muthupet, this coming under Thiruvarur district, Tamilnadu. Totally seventy two groundwater samples...