Date:29/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/29/stories/2007062959550900.htm

Tamil Nadu

“Work on Adam’s Bridge won’t affect ecology”

R. Vimal Kumar

Tuticorin: Adam’s Bridge is only a formation of discontinued sand islands/formations running about 27 km between Dhanushkodi and Talaimannar and creating a passage for the Sethusamudram project by destroying a part of it will not create geological imbalance, according to a paper titled ‘Scientific understanding of Adam’s Bridge,’ published by N. Ramanujam, professor and Head, Post Graduate Department of Geology and Research Centre, V.O.Chidambaram College, Tuticorin.

The paper throws light on the origin and the evolution of Adam’s Bridge, right from the tectonic and ‘paleogeographic’ events recorded in sequences in the Cauvery basin, which led to its creation. Dr. Ramanujam says Adam’s Bridge is nothing but deposits formed by the extension of foreland spits of long shore currents from the both sides of Dhanushkodi and Talaimannar.

According to him, three studies by the Geological Survey of India, two on the Dhanushkodi land mass and one on the nearest of the 18 sand formations from Dhanushkodi, which constitutes Adam’s Bridge, substantiated the continuum of the sedimentation pattern.