Given below are names of some ocean basins in the Indian Ocean. Oman basin ,Arabian basin ,Somali basin ,Mauritius basin

Question

Given below are names of some ocean basins in the Indian Ocean. Write a note on their locations, their separators and the rivers entering into them. Rank these according to their size on the basis of your perception:

(1) Oman basin 

(2) Arabian basin 

(3) Somali basin 

(4) Mauritius basin 

(5) Mascarene basin 

(6) Agulhas-Natal basin 

(7) West Australian basin 

(8) Mid-Indian basin 

(9) Ganga basin

Answer 1

No.	Basin	Location	Separators	Rivers entering into them
1.	Oman Basin	Faces the Gulf of Oman.	-	-
2.	Arabian basin	Southern Part of the Arabian Sea between the Arabian Peninsula and India.	between Lakshadweep chagos ridge and Sumatra - Chagos ridge.	Indus Narmada Tapi, Sabarmati and mahi.
3.	Somali basin	South- West part of the Arabian Sea, arm of the Indian Ocean, south of Somalia.	between Socotra island Chagos ridge and the African horn	River Jubba
4.	Mauritius basin	south- west part of the Indian Ocean, north of the tropic of Capricorn	-	the grand river
5.	Madagascar basin	lying Between , Madagascar and the Seychelles plateau in the northwest Indian ocean.	Amirante are	-
6.	Agulhas- natal basin	south of Africa between the Agulhas bank and Agulhas plateau.	-	-
	west Australian basin	north west of western Australia.	-	-
	mid- Indian basin	north western part of Indian ocean	-	-
	ganga basin	between the Himalayas and the Vindhya and Chota Nagpur plateau.	-	-