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Tectonics of Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is located on southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, and is made up many offshore islands, with Mannar Island as the largest island.

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  1. CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    A. K. Jain

  2. Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    D. M. Banerjee

  3. Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Vivek S. Kale

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Jain, A.K., Banerjee, D.M., Kale, V.S. (2020). Tectonics of Sri Lanka. In: Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42845-7_3

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