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Figure 3.28: Satellite image of the South-Asia Ganges-Brahmaputra delta consisting of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. It is one of the world's largest deltas and covers the coastal region shown in the image. Note the brown water where rivers drain out of the tectonically uplifted Himalayan mountains of this collisional zone. The lack of distinct barrier island systems, as well as the coast perpendicular alignment of channels and islands surrounded by channels, suggests that tidal energy is a dominant process driving the evolution of this system.
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