GEOMORPHIC ASSESSMENT OF SAVITRI BASIN

The basin characteristics such as basin relief, size, shape, drainage density etc. play an important role in the generation of floods. Drainage basins are the fundamental units of the fluvial landscape. The term morphometry is used in several disciplines to mean the measurement and analysis of form characteristics. In geomorphology it is applied to numerical examination of landform, which may be more properly termed geomorphometry. This morphometry is essential because every drainage basin unit differs in shape, size, area, relief and gradient from other basins. If these features can be measured using some form of mathematical analysis, then it is possible to describe accurately the morphology of a region.