The Bengal Basin is a sedimentary basin. The term Bengal basin is used to describe geological structure of Bengal region's sedimentary basin. It is spread...
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Water-related issues of the basin are due to both high and low flows. In India, the states of Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal are affected by floods...
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Kolkata (redirect from Kolkata, West Bengal)
alluvial in origin. Kolkata is located over the "Bengal basin", a pericratonic tertiary basin. Bengal basin comprises three structural units: shelf or platform...
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lava flow covered an area of nearly 4,100 km2 (1,600 sq mi). Below the Bengal basin the flows cover 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi). The Rajmahal volcanics are...
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predominantly alluvial in origin. Kalyani is located over the "Bengal basin", a pericratonic tertiary basin. According to the Bureau of Indian Standards, on a scale...
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oilfield (MBA basin: Ashoknagar 1 well) is a petroleum extracting site located at Ashoknagar in the North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. The oil field...
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Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi river lies...
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Brahmaputra River (category Bay of Bengal)
hundred meters to over 18 km (11 mi) in the Bengal fore-deep to the south. The ongoing subsidence of the Bengal Basin and the high rate of Himalayan uplift...
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Ganges Delta (redirect from Bengal delta)
Approximately 1,020 endangered Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) are believed to inhabit the Sundarbans. The Ganges–Brahmaputra basin has tropical deciduous...
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Damodar River (category Rivers of West Bengal)
/ˈdʌmoˌdaː/) is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The valley is rich in mineral resources and is known for large-scale mining...
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and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD. The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological...
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The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. The world's largest bay, geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent...
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Bangladesh (redirect from Independent Bengal)
Myanmar to the southeast. To the south, it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor...
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Penna River (section Basin)
Andhra Pradesh to empty into bay of bengal in Andhra Pradesh. It is 597 kilometres (371 mi) long, with a drainage basin covering 55,213 km2: 6,937 km2 in...
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alluvial in origin. Kolkata is located over the "Bengal basin", a pericratonic tertiary basin. Bengal basin comprises three structural units: shelf or platform...
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in Bengali) is the largest Pleistocene era physiographic unit in the Bengal Basin. It covers most of Dinajpur, Rangpur, Pabna, Rajshahi, Bogra, and Joypurhat...
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The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive...
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tributaries make up the river system of India. The largest basin system pours its waters into the Bay of Bengal; however, some of the rivers whose courses take them...
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Ganges (category Ganges basin)
drainage basin of 25,820 km2 (9,970 sq mi). The Hooghly River empties into the Bay of Bengal near Sagar Island. Between Malda and the Bay of Bengal, the Hooghly...
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The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj. The reorganization...
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states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, before finally ending in the Bay of Bengal. The word Mahanadi is a compound of the Sanskrit words maha ("great") and...
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Mayurakshi River (category Rivers of West Bengal)
flow down into West Bengal are rain fed and have for ages wrought havoc with their seasonal floods. Annual rainfall over the basin varies between 765 and...
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the basin, issues warning and name the storms. The basin is divided into two sub-basins – the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. The Bay of Bengal, located...
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unit of considerable regional importance. The northeastern part of the Bengal Basin experiences strong seismicity believed to be caused by the Dauki Fault...
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sea level and flows for about 800 km before its outfall into the Bay of Bengal. It reaches the sea in Poompuhar, in Mayiladuthurai district. It is the...
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The Bengal Renaissance (Bengali: বাংলার নবজাগরণ, romanized: Bāṅlār Nôbôjāgôrôṇ), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual...
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Godavari River (category Godavari basin)
Bay of Bengal through an extensive network of distributaries. Measuring up to 312,812 km2 (120,777 sq mi), it forms one of the largest river basins in the...
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India's Rivers: West Bengal" (PDF). Mallick, Sarmistha. "LAND FORM AND CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAMUNA RIVER BASIN, WEST BENGAL". academia.edu. Mitra...
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An endorheic basin (/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows...
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contamination by arsenic in the Bengal Basin has implications for the 70 million people who rely on the Bengal Basin for drinking water. Additionally...
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