Question

Explain the main characteristics of indian desert

Answer 1

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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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Answer 2

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.