Abstract
The Thakuran Basin is an ideal example of a region with a tropical climate with hot, rainy and humid summers and dry winters. The monsoon is normally characterised by the presence of cyclonic storms which bring large-scale littoral drift and coastal modifications. The Thakuran River belongs to a meso-macrotidal regime with semidiurnal tides for its entire 80 km length. Separation of flood and ebb channels in the river basin is controlled by the principle of Coriolis force. Time-velocity asymmetry of the tidal current is appreciable and marked by bedform configurations related to flood and ebb channels.
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Das, G.K. (2017). Climate and Hydrography. In: Tidal Sedimentation of the Sunderban's Thakuran Basin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44191-7_2
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