Gangean

English Etymology From en Ganges an. Adjective - Of or pertaining to the Ganges river. en 1978 Robert Carver North The Foreign Relations of China Duxbury Press http://books.google.com/books?id=6pKBAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Gangean%22&dq=%22Gangean%22 10 Chinese merchants had traded with India and Roman outposts, and Chinese pilgrims had made overland journeys to the Indus and Gangean valleys, often by way of the Oxus and what is now Afghanistan. en 1993 The University of Leeds Review 36-37 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZPDkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Gangean%22&dq=%22Gangean%22 179 Careful interpretation of these indicated that the great Pennine River (Fig 13) evolved from a comparatively minor affair early in the Carboniferous to truly Gangean proportions at about the time that the great ice sheets of the southern hemisphere were accumulating about 330 million years ago. en 2004 Kim Stanley Robinson Forty Signs of Rain http://books.google.com/books?id=TI18I2jV1BgC&pg=PA119&dq=%22Gangean%22 118–119 Spectra 2005 0553585800 In this case, the problem was the Khembalis' little island (fifty-two square kilometers, their website said), which was clearly in all-too-good a location to contribute to ongoing studies of Gangean flooding and tidal storms in the Indian Ocean Synonyms en Gangetic