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Impact of the December 24, 2004 Tsunami on coral reefs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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Title Impact of the December 24, 2004 Tsunami on coral reefs of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
 
Creator Jeyabaskaran, R
Rao, D V
 
Subject Tsunami
Coral Reefs
 
Description The Andaman & Nicobar Islands
are a low mountainous chain of islands,
which rise from a submerged
north-south trending ridge separating
the Andaman Sea from the Bay
of Bengal between 6°45ʹ13ʹʹ.41 N and
92°12ʹ93ʹʹ.57 E. This island group includes
306 islands and 226 rocks, with
a coastline of about 1962 kilometers.
The islands located north of 10° N Latitude
are known as Andamans (Figure
1) while those located south of 10° N
Latitude are called Nicobars with a total
area of 8249 square kilometers. These
islands are supposed to have arisen
from the ocean bed in the Mesozoic
period about 110 million years ago and
have since then undergone several
periods of partial submergence and
elevation. Fringing, Patch and Barrier
reefs are present here, covering about
948.8 square kilometers. The total
mangrove area is approximately 762
km2. There are 106 Protected Areas,
96 designated as wildlife sanctuaries,
9 National Parks and one Biosphere
reserve. Among the 9 National Parks,
2 are Marine National Parks (Mahatma
Gandhi Marine National Park and Rani
Jhansi Marine National Park).
 
Date 2007
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6856/1/JB-Reef_Encounter_34_%28May_2007%29.pdf
Jeyabaskaran, R and Rao, D V (2007) Impact of the December 24, 2004 Tsunami on coral reefs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Reef Encounter, 34. pp. 25-30.