Showing posts with label MOUNTAIN RANGES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOUNTAIN RANGES. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

EASTERN GHATS- SNIPPETSHOTS- తూర్పు కనుమలు- స్నిప్పెట్షాట్స్

 EASTERN GHATS

The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.

  • ·         The Eastern Ghats pass through OdishaAndhra 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., MahanadiGodavariKrishna, 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

WESTERN GHATS- SNIPPETSHOTS

 WESTERN GHATS

The Western Ghats or the Western Mountain range is a mountain range that covers an area of 160,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi) in a stretch of 1,600 km (990 mi) parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, traversing the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

  •    The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri Hills till 11 ° N
  •   The Western Ghats are known as Sahyadri in northern Maharashtra, Sahya Parvatam in Kerala and Nilagiri Malai in Tamil Nadu.
  • The subduction of the Arabian basin and the tilting of the peninsula in the east and northeast during the Himalayan uplift generated the Western Ghats.
  • As a result, it seems to block mountains in the west, with escarpments and staircase formations on the slope.
  • The Western Ghats is one of the world's eight biodiversity hotspots, spanning six states: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala.
  • It is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one of the world's eight "hottest hotspots" of biological variety.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

SATHPURA RANGE

 SATHPURA RANGE

The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat running east through the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and ends in Chhattisgarh.

·         The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east-west ranges divide Indian Subcontinent into the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and the Deccan Plateau of the south.

·         The Narmada River originates from north-eastern end of Satpura in Amarkantak, and runs in the depression between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges, draining the northern slope of the Satpura range, running west towards the Arabian Sea.

·         The Tapti River originates in the eastern-central part of Satpura, crossing the range in the center and running west at the range's southern slopes before meeting the Arabian Sea at Surat, draining the central and southern slopes of the range.

·         Multai, the place of Tapi river origin is located about 465 kilometer far, south-westerly to Amarkantak, separated across by the hill range.

·         The Godavari River and its tributaries drain the Deccan plateau, which lies south of the range, and the Mahanadi River drains the easternmost portion of the range. The Godavari and Mahanadi rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal.

Monday, November 28, 2022

VINDHYA RANGE

VINDHYA RANGE

 The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.

·         The Vindhya Mountain Range in central India is a very ancient mountain range. It is one of India's seven major sacred mountain ranges.

·         These hills are less craggy and smaller in size than the others.

·         Technically, the Vindhyas do not form a single mountain range in the geological sense.

·         The exact extent of the Vindhyas is loosely defined, and historically, the term covered a number of distinct hill systems in central India, including the one that is now known as the Satpura Range.

·         They really serve as a dividing line between the Indo-Gangetic plains and the Deccan area of India.

·         Today, the term principally refers to the escarpment and its hilly extensions that runs north of and roughly parallel to the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh.

·         Depending on the definition, the range extends up to Gujarat in the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the north, and Chhattisgarh in the east.

·         These are non-tectonic mountains; they were formed not because of plate collision but because of the downward faulting of the Narmada Rift Valley (NRV) to their south.

Sunday, November 27, 2022

ARAVALLI RANGE- SNIPPETSHOTS

ARAVALLI RANGE

                The Aravalli Range is one of India's oldest ranges of Fold Mountains. The range of the Aravalli Mountains runs approximately 670 km in Northern-Western India running in South-West Direction.

·         Aravalli ranges are an example of residual mountains. The current form of the Aravalli Range has receded to residual hill ranges due to degradation.

·         Aravalli Range starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat

·         An extension of Aravalli divides the drainage of Ganga and Indus from Delhi to Haridwar.

·         The two main ranges of Aravalli include the Sambhar Khetri Range and the Sambhar Sirohi Range, situated in Rajasthan.

·         Though largely forested in the south, it is mostly barren and thinly populated, consisting of large areas of sand and stone and masses of rose-colored quartzite.

·         The highest peak of Aravalli is Guru Shikhar near Mount Abu, which is 1722 meters high.

Monday, November 21, 2022

MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA- 4

MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA

North and Northeastern Mountains

  • The North and Eastern Mountains are made up of the Himalayas and the Northeastern highlands.
  • The Himalayas consist of a series of mountain ranges that run parallel to one another.
  • The Greater Himalayan range, which encompasses the Great Himalayas and the Trans-Himalayan range, the Middle Himalayas, and the Shiwalik are some of the most important ranges.
  • The Greater Himalaya, the Lesser/Middle Himalaya, and the Siwalik Range are all Himalayan Ranges.
  • The typical orientation of these mountains in the north-western section of India is from northwest to southeast.
  • The Himalayas run east-west in the Darjeeling and Sikkim areas, whereas they run southwest-northwest in Arunachal Pradesh. They are in the north-south direction in Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram.

Monday, November 14, 2022

MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA- THE HIMALAYAN RANGES

MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA

THE HIMALAYAN RANGES:

            The Himalayas not only form a Physical Barrier between the Indian Subcontinent               and the Central and East Asian Countries but also a climatic, drainage and cultural divide

                The Himalayas are Young and Fold Mountains. They are spread over a distance of nearly 2400km and form an Arc.

Their width varies from 400km in Kashmir to 150 km in Arunachal Pradesh. The altitudinal variation is greater in the eastern half in comparison to the western half.

                The Himalayan Ranges is made up of Three Parallel Ranges. The Himalayan Mountain range is the division between the Tibetan Plateau and the Indian subcontinent in Asia.

                The Himalayas are divided into three ranges

1.       The Inner Himalayas/ Greater Himalayas/ The Himadri

2.       The Middle Himalayas/ Himachal/ Lesser Himalayas

3.       The Outer Himalayas/ Shiwaliks.

Sunday, November 13, 2022

MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA-2

 MOUNTAIN RANGES OF INDIA

 Mountain Ranges in North India – North to South

S. No

Mountain Ranges

States

Highest Peak

Remarks

1.        

Saltoro Mountains

Ladakh

Saltoro Kangri

Sub-range of the Karakoram

2.        

Karakoram

PoK, Ladakh

Godwin-Austen or K2 8,611 m

Highest peak in India

3.        

Deosai Mountain

J&K

 

 

4.        

Ladakh Range

J&K

 

 

5.        

Zanskar Range

J&K

Kamet Peak 7,756 m

6.        

Pir Panjal Range

J&K, Himachal Pradesh

Indrasan, 6,221 m

 

7.        

Zabarwan Range

J&K

 

Part of Pir Panjal

8.        

Dhauladhar Range

J&K

 

 

9.        

Kishtwar Himalaya

J&K

Bharanzar

 

10.    

Garhwal Himalaya

Uttarakhand

 

 

11.    

Dundwa Range

Northern UP

 

Part of Sivalik Hills