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Coastal geomorphic features around Indian Ocean

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Title Coastal geomorphic features around Indian Ocean
 
Creator Nag, P
 
Subject Coastal features
Shepard's classification
Erosion
Marine deposition
 
Description 557-561
Coastal
areas are important globally. These areas have also drawn attention of
geomorphologists for in-depth studies. Several institutions have made
contributions towards analysis, identifications of different geomorphic
features and their mapping. Attempts have been made to map oceans and
associated coastal geomorphic features. In this paper an effort has been made
for the Indian Ocean. There are straits,
channels, continental sub-marine margins and continental shelf which form
different components of the coastal ocean. They are shaped by land erosion, sub aerial deposition, volcanic, diastrophic,
marine erosion and deposition and organisms. The interactions of these
features are so variable that the coastal features are almost infinitely
complex. The coasts of Indian Ocean realm fall
into more than one category. Therefore, a matrix reference can be used with
definite colour band to depict each single or compound feature.
 
Date 2011-01-04T09:00:19Z
2011-01-04T09:00:19Z
2010-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10803
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.39(4) [December 2010]