what is the geology of deepor beel?
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Deepor Beel (Assamese: দীপৰ িবল) is a permanent fresh water lake and largest Beel in the
Brahmaputra valley of Lower Assam. Deepor Beel is the only Ramsar site in Assam and among
the third Ramsar site of the north eastern region of India “Deepor Beel is representative of the
wetlands found within the Burma Monsoon Forest biogeographic region” (Saikia, Kumar Saikia
and Bhatta, 2014). Deepor Beel is designed as “Wetlands of International Importance” under the
Ramsar Convention on wetlands, 1971 and was declared as Ramsar site in 2002. It located
between latitude 26°03′26″–26°09′26″N and longitude 90°36′39″–90°41′25″E and situated 10
km southwest of Guwahati city, surrounded by residential, commercial, institutional & industrial
areas. It is situated at an altitude of 53 meters above MSL, maximum depth is 4m and average
depth is 1 m. Deepor Beel covers an area of 41 sq km and categorized as large oxbow lake
(Deka, Tripathi & Mohammad 2011).