Introduction
Cambodia (also known as Kampuchea) has an embayed and island-fringed coastline about 400 km long. The western part is dominated by Mesozoic sandstone, which culminates in the Cardamom Mountains, rising more than 1,500 m above sea level. The broad Bay of Kompong Som is a low-lying synclinal region, bordered by the uplifted Ream peninsula to the southeast. The Palaeozoic rocks of the Elephant Ranges lie to the east, and beyond these the coast is low-lying towards the Vietnam border and the Mekong Delta (Fig. 19.5.1 ).
Coast of Cambodia. (Courtesy Geostudies.)
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Carbonnel JP (1972) Le Quaternaire Cambodgien. Memoirs ORSTOM No. 60, Paris
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Bird, E. (2010). Cambodia. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8639-7_212
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