Drainage Characterization of Pariyat Watershed, Jabalpur, India

Use of statistical morphometric analysis for the purpose and requirement of other disciplines may be far from the ground reality as it may be superfluous without corroboration by proper understanding of geology and geomorphology in the study. Such shortcomings are often noticeable in the work of those who are not quite well acquainted with the variety of geological and geomorphological factors involved in basin organization. The present study attempts at the realization of such interpretations by considering drainage characteristics of twenty sub-basins of Pariyat watershed located in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh in Central India. Interpretations based on statistical-morphometric analysis of small third order sub-basins may help decide several wa ter shed development considerations prior to reconna issa nce sur vey. Using the Pearson paired product moment correlation coe ficients, various linear and areal aspects are also analyzed for assessing the degree of interdependence among morphometric parameters. The parameters which themselves are sensitive to change with the other morphometric characteristics of watershed but their derivative parameters are passive to changes may be utilized for studying hydro-geomorphologic correlations.