{"id":22168,"date":"2024-04-05T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22168"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:23:37","slug":"gulf-of-khambhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-khambhat\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Gulf of Khambhat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gulf of Khambhat:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Gulf of Khambhat\u00a0(also known as the\u00a0Gulf of Cambay) is an inlet of the\u00a0<strong>Arabian Sea\u00a0<\/strong>along the west coast of\u00a0India, in the state of\u00a0Gujarat.\u00a0It\u00a0<strong>divides the Kathiawar Peninsula from<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>south-eastern<\/strong>\u00a0part of\u00a0<strong>Gujarat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geography:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The periphery of the Gulf of Khambhat is an extensive area of\u00a0<strong>estuarine habitats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Narmada, Tapti,\u00a0Mahi\u00a0and\u00a0Sabarmati\u00a0<\/strong>rivers drain into it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These\u00a0rivers\u00a0have\u00a0<strong>deposited alluvium<\/strong>\u00a0over large areas as the marine recession has united\u00a0Saurashtra\u00a0with the mainland of Gujarat.<\/li>\n<li>The Gulf is not very deep and has abundant<strong>\u00a0shoals and sandbanks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are extensive areas of<strong>\u00a0intertidal mud<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>sand flats<\/strong>\u00a0in the deltas of the Mahi and Sabarmati rivers.<\/li>\n<li>There are some\u00a0<strong>coral reefs<\/strong>\u00a0around small inlets in the western part of the Gulf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its shape and its orientation in relation to the southwest\u00a0monsoon\u00a0winds account for its high tidal range (12 metres) and the high velocity of the entering tides.<\/li>\n<li>On the eastern side of the gulf are\u00a0<strong>Bharuch,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>one of the oldest Indian ports<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>and\u00a0Surat,<\/strong>\u00a0identified with early European commercial contacts with India.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>town of\u00a0Khambhat<\/strong>\u00a0is at the head of the gulf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a shoal?<\/h3>\n<p>The term shoal is commonly used in earth sciences, oceanography and geomorphology to refer to a natural submerged bar, bank, or ridge which is made up of consolidated material such as sand. The material arises from the bed of an adjacent waterbody. The term is mostly used to denote a submerged bar, bank, or ridge, which rises close enough to a waterbody&#8217;s surface to pose a danger to navigation. Two or more shoals that are linked via present or past hydrographic and sedimentary processes or separated by shared troughs are called a shoal complex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/indian-coast-guard-rescues-injured-fisherman-in-gulf-of-khambhat\/2027897\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Coast Guard rescues injured fisherman in Gulf of Khambhat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf of Khambhat (also known as the Gulf of Cambay) is an inlet of the Arabian Sea along the west coast of India, in the state of Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}