Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lists of landforms of Sri Lanka (6 P) B. Beaches of Sri Lanka (3 P) Bodies of water of Sri Lanka (9 C, 4 P) C. Caves of Sri Lanka (1 C, 5 P) Coasts of Sri Lanka (1 C) H.
Diagram showing a spit A spit contrasted with other coastal landforms. Curonian Spit, divided between Russia and Lithuania. A spit (cognate with the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.
Pages in category "Lists of landforms of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vijayan Series occur in the eastern and ...
Adam's Bridge, [a] also known as Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu, [c] is a chain of natural limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Geological evidence suggests that the bridge was formerly a land connection ...
Spits — coastal sandbank landforms; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Spits by continent (4 C) Spits by country (6 C) ...
Sri Lanka has a total area of 65,610 km 2, with 64,740 km 2 of land and 870 km 2 of water, and a coastline that is 1,340 km long. The main island of Sri Lanka has an area of 65,268 km 2 and is the 25th largest island in the world by area. [2] Dozens of offshore islands account for the remaining 342 km 2 of area.
Bodies of water of Sri Lanka by district (23 C) A. Landforms of Ampara District ... Landforms of Nuwara Eliya District (17 P) P. Landforms of Polonnaruwa District (1 ...