Adam’s Bridge, also known as Rama’s Bridge or Rama Setu, is a chain of limestone shoals, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Geological evidence suggests that this bridge is a former land connection between India and Sri Lanka. The ancient Indian Sanskrit epic Ramayana mentions a bridge constructed by god Rama to reach Lanka and rescue his wife Sita.
About Adam’s Bridge in brief
Adam’s Bridge, also known as Rama’s Bridge or Rama Setu, is a chain of limestone shoals, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Geological evidence suggests that this bridge is a former land connection between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge is 48 km long and separates the Gulf of Mannar from the Palk Strait. The ancient Indian Sanskrit epic Ramayana mentions a bridge constructed by god Rama through his Vanara army to reach Lanka and rescue his wife Sita from the Rakshasa king, Ravana. Some of the regions are dry, and the sea in the area rarely exceeds 1 metre in depth, thus hindering navigation. It was reportedly passable on foot until the 15th century when storms deepened the channel. Rameshwaram temple records say that Adam’s Bridge was entirely above sea level until it broke in a cyclone in 1480. It mostly consists of a series of parallel ledges of sandstone and conglomerates that are hard at the surface and grow coarse and soft as they descend to sandy banks. One account mentions that this landform was formerly the world’s largest tombolo. The tombolo affirms a constant sediment source and a highi-directional or bi- directional bi- Directional. One study, based on satellite data, finds the reef consists of 103 small patch reefs lying in a linear pattern of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellite data. The satellite data is based on remote sensing data without actual field verification, but finds a linear model of the reef lying a linear crest in a wave pattern.
The model is a model of a linear wave pattern that consists of the longshore shoreline, a reef, a spit of sand, a coral spit, a double tombolo, and a coral reef. The chain split into a chain by a slight rise in sea level in a few thousand years ago, by a mean sea level rise in a slight sea level of 1m to 2m. Pamban Island is accessed from the Indian mainland by the 2-km-long Pamban Bridge. Mannar Island is connected to mainland Sri Lanka by a causeway. It is also possible that the causeway is an artificial construction. Considerable diversity of opinion and confusion exists about the nature and origin of this structure. In the 19th century, two significant theories were prominent in explaining the structure. One considered it to be formed by the process of accretion and rising of the land. At the same time the other surmised that it was established by the breaking away of Sri Lanka from theIndian mainland. The lack of comprehensive field studies explains many of the uncertainties regarding the nature of Adam’s bridge. The western world first encountered it in Ibn Khordadbeh’s Book of Roads and Kingdoms, in which he refers it as Set Bandhai or Bridge of the Sea. A British cartographer in 1804 prepared the earliest map that calls this area by the name Adam’sBridge.
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