Question

Geological landscape of rainforest in western ghats

Answer 1

The Western Ghats are the mountainous faulted and eroded edge of the Deccan Plateau. Geologic evidence indicates that they were formed during the break-up  of the supercontinent of Gondwana some 150 million years ago.

Due to high rainfall in the Western slopes of western ghats, this area poses Tropical Evergreen forest which needs more than 200cm of rainfall and moist Deciduous Forests are also found on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats as eastern side of western ghats are leeward side and recives less rainfall than the western side.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Western ghats also known as the Sahyadri

Explanation:

• They cover an area of 140,000 kilometers square and stretches for about 1600 km parallel to the western coasts of India. They pass through the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra. Geologically the western ghats are faulted and eroded edges of the Deccan plateau.  

• And are believed to be a part of the Gondwanaland supercontinent some 150 million years ago. But an older known estimate shows that they are a broken chain off the lands of Madagascar. These western ghats have an elevation of 1000 meters and based on basaltic rocks.

• Steep hills and other metamorphic rocks like the genesis with detached occurrences of crystalline limestone, iron ore. Soil rich in lateral deposits and the bauxite ores is found in southern hills.

• They were an extension of the Satpura ranges in the north and peaks radiated from the beautiful rainforest in which Anamudi is the highest 2,695 meters.  The Nilgiris blue mountain is the most famous hotpot in this region.