EASTERN GHATS
The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.
- · The Eastern Ghats pass through Odisha, Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu in the south passing some parts of Karnataka as well as Telangana.
- · They are eroded and cut through by four major rivers of peninsular India, viz., Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri.
- · The Eastern Ghats are a collection of irregularly shaped low ranges that typically run parallel to the Bay of Bengal’s shoreline from northeast to southwest.
- · With the isolated hill ranges lining the eastern edge of the Deccan plateau and coastal plain, they are “tors” of geological antiquity.
- · A tor which is also known by geomorphologists as either a castle koppie or kopje, is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest.