India: location, structure and physiography
Coastal plains and islands
Practise 4 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Western coastal plain: Kachchh and Kathiawar, Konkan, Kannad (Karnataka), Malabar with kayals; coast of submergence
- Eastern coastal plain: Utkal, Northern Circar, Coromandel; emergent coast with deltas and lagoons
- Rann of Kachchh: salt marsh from repeated fall in sea level and silting; Great and Little Rann
- Andaman and Nicobar: Ten Degree Channel, Duncan Passage, Coco Channel, Saddle Peak, Indira Point, Great Nicobar closest to Sumatra
- Barren Island, India's only active volcano, and Narcondam dormant volcano
- Lakshadweep: coral atolls, Minicoy, Eight and Nine Degree Channels
- Other islands: Majuli riverine island, New Moore, Pamban, Sriharikota, Diu, Salsette