Question

describe how was the peninsula plateau was formed

Answer 1

by the breaking of Gondwana land....

Answer 2

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The Deccan Plateau (Marathi: डेक्कन), also known as "The Great Country", is a vast elevated tableland area with widely varying terrain features making up the majority of the southern India located between three ranges and extending over eight states. It's uplands make up an interior triangle nested within the familiar downward pointing triangle of the Indian sub-continents coastline.[1]It is technically a vast plateau with a wide range of habitats, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. It is bounded in the west by the Western Ghats and in the east by the Eastern Ghats which each rise from their respective nearby coastal plains and nearly meet at the southern tip of India. These two formations form the southward pointing vertex of a triangle which encompasses the plateau with the roughly West-south-west to East-north-east running Vindhya Range forming the third side of the canine-tooth shaped triangular region.The Vindhya's separate the tableland from the heavily populated riverine plains of Northern India.This region is one of the most stable land masses of the world.For thousands of years the Deccan forests have harvested the rainfall to form the catchment areas of mighty rivers. The name Deccan is an anglicised form of the Prakrit word dakkhin, itself derived from the Sanskrit word dakṣiṇa- (Sanskrit: दक्शिण), meaning 'South'.