Explain the main characteristics of indian desert
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✔The Great Indian desert, also called Thar Desert, is an arid region of rolling sand hills. The word Thar means sand ridges.
✔There are high and low sand dunes separated by sandy plains and low barren hills which rise abruptly from the surrounding plains.
✔The dunes are in continual motion and take on varying shapes and sizes.
✔Older dunes are in a semistabilized or stabilized condition, and many rise to a height of almost 500 feet.
✔Several saline lake beds are scattered through out the region.
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Here is your answer,
✔The Great Indian desert, also called Thar Desert, is an arid region of rolling sand hills. The word Thar means sand ridges.
✔There are high and low sand dunes separated by sandy plains and low barren hills which rise abruptly from the surrounding plains.
✔The dunes are in continual motion and take on varying shapes and sizes.
✔Older dunes are in a semistabilized or stabilized condition, and many rise to a height of almost 500 feet.
✔Several saline lake beds are scattered through out the region.
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THE INDIAN DESERT
- The Indian desert lies towards the Western margins of the Aravali Hills.
- This region receives very low rainfall below 150 mm per year.
- It has arid climate with low vegetation cover.
- Streams appear during the rainy season soon after the disappeared into the sand as they do not have enough water to reach the sea.
- Luni is the only large river in this region.
- Barchans (Crescent shaped dunes) cover larger areas but longitudinal dunes become more prominent near the Indo - Pakistan boundary.
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