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Which Are Older? Lakshadweep Islands Or Andaman Nicobar Islands?

A friend asked me this question: Which formed first, Andamans or Lakshadweep? My answer was- Lakshadweep islands as a system of living coral atolls etc is a Holocene system (past 12 thousand  years). These coral communities rest on earlier Pleistocene reefs. So the history of reefs and atolls is probably a Quaternary phenomenon going back several hundred thousand years when ice age driven sea

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