Attempt this previous-year question. The correct option stays hidden until you choose.
At one of the places in India if you stand on the seashore and watch the sea, you will find that the sea water recedes from the shoreline a few kilometres and comes back to the shore, twice a day, and you can actually walk on the sea floor when the water recedes. This unique phenomenon is seen at -
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• Correct Answer: C
• Chandipur Beach in Odisha exhibits a 'vanishing sea' where water recedes up to 5 km during low tide due to a very flat continental shelf.
• Strong tidal variations combined with low seabed gradient expose the ocean floor twice daily.
• Bhavnagar, Bheemunipatnam and Nagapattinam do not show this extreme tidal recession.
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