how many plateau are there in india?name them
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1. The Marwar Upland:
2. The Central Highland:
3. The Bundelkhand Upland:
4. The Malwa Plateau
5. The Baghelkhand:
6. The Chotanagpur Plateau:
7. The Meghalaya Plateau:
8. The Deccan Plateau:
9. The Chhattisgarh Plain:
These are 9 major Plateau in india
2. The Central Highland:
3. The Bundelkhand Upland:
4. The Malwa Plateau
5. The Baghelkhand:
6. The Chotanagpur Plateau:
7. The Meghalaya Plateau:
8. The Deccan Plateau:
9. The Chhattisgarh Plain:
These are 9 major Plateau in india
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1. The Marwar Upland:
This is also called the Upland of eastern Rajasthan as it lies in the east of the Aravali Range.
2.hu The Central Highland:
Also called the Madhya Bharat Pathar is in the east of the Marwar Upland. Most of it comprises of the basin of the Chambal River which flows in a rift valley. The Sindh and the Parhati are its main tributaries. It is an open rolling plateau made of old rocks which is interspersed with rounded hills composed of sandstone. Thick forests grow here. To the north are the ravines or badlands of the Chambal river.
3. The Bundelkhand Upland:To the south of the Yamuna river between the Madhya Bharat Pathar and the Vindhyan Scarplands is the old dissected upland of the ‘Bundelkhand gneiss’ comprising of granite and gneiss. This is called Bundelkhand upland. Covering an area of about 54,560 sq km this upland spreads over five districts of Uttar Pradesh (Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Banda) and four districts of Madhya Pradesh (Datia, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, and Panna).
4. The Malwa Plateau:
The Malwa Plateau roughly forms a triangle based on the Vindhyan Hills, bounded by the Aravali Range in the west and sharply defined scarp overlooking Bundelkhand in the east. The plateau inherits a complex geology; scarcely any one of the peninsular groups is unrepresented here.
5. The Baghelkhand:
East of the Maikal Range is the Baghelkhand made of limestones and sandstones on the west and granite in the east? It covers an area of about 1.4 lakh sq km. It is bounded by the Son River on the north, and to its south occurs anticlinal highlands and synclinal valleys of sandstones and limestones.
6. The Chotanagpur Plateau:
East of Baghelkhand, the Chotanagpur plateau represents the north-eastern projection of the Indian Peninsula. It covers an area of over 87 thousand sq km mostly in Jharkhand, northern part of Chhatisgarh and Purulia district of West Bengal.
7. The Meghalaya Plateau:
The rocks of the peninsular plateau of India extend further north-east beyond the Rajmahal hills and form a rectangular block known as the Meghalaya or the Shillong plateau. This plateau has been separated from the main block of the peninsular plateau by a wide gap known as the Garo-Rajmahal Gap.
8. The Deccan Plateau:
This is the largest unit of the Peninsular Plateau of India covering an area of about five lakh sq km. This triangular plateau is bounded by the Satpura and the Vindhya in the north-west, the Mahadev and the Maikal in the north, the Western Ghats in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east.
9. The Chhattisgarh Plain:
The Chhattisgarh plain is the only plain worth the name in the vast stretch of plateaus and hill ranges of the Peninsular plateau. It is a saucer shaped depression drained by the upper basin of the Mahanadi. The whole basin lies between the Maikala Range and the Orissa hills.
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This is also called the Upland of eastern Rajasthan as it lies in the east of the Aravali Range.
2.hu The Central Highland:
Also called the Madhya Bharat Pathar is in the east of the Marwar Upland. Most of it comprises of the basin of the Chambal River which flows in a rift valley. The Sindh and the Parhati are its main tributaries. It is an open rolling plateau made of old rocks which is interspersed with rounded hills composed of sandstone. Thick forests grow here. To the north are the ravines or badlands of the Chambal river.
3. The Bundelkhand Upland:To the south of the Yamuna river between the Madhya Bharat Pathar and the Vindhyan Scarplands is the old dissected upland of the ‘Bundelkhand gneiss’ comprising of granite and gneiss. This is called Bundelkhand upland. Covering an area of about 54,560 sq km this upland spreads over five districts of Uttar Pradesh (Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Banda) and four districts of Madhya Pradesh (Datia, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, and Panna).
4. The Malwa Plateau:
The Malwa Plateau roughly forms a triangle based on the Vindhyan Hills, bounded by the Aravali Range in the west and sharply defined scarp overlooking Bundelkhand in the east. The plateau inherits a complex geology; scarcely any one of the peninsular groups is unrepresented here.
5. The Baghelkhand:
East of the Maikal Range is the Baghelkhand made of limestones and sandstones on the west and granite in the east? It covers an area of about 1.4 lakh sq km. It is bounded by the Son River on the north, and to its south occurs anticlinal highlands and synclinal valleys of sandstones and limestones.
6. The Chotanagpur Plateau:
East of Baghelkhand, the Chotanagpur plateau represents the north-eastern projection of the Indian Peninsula. It covers an area of over 87 thousand sq km mostly in Jharkhand, northern part of Chhatisgarh and Purulia district of West Bengal.
7. The Meghalaya Plateau:
The rocks of the peninsular plateau of India extend further north-east beyond the Rajmahal hills and form a rectangular block known as the Meghalaya or the Shillong plateau. This plateau has been separated from the main block of the peninsular plateau by a wide gap known as the Garo-Rajmahal Gap.
8. The Deccan Plateau:
This is the largest unit of the Peninsular Plateau of India covering an area of about five lakh sq km. This triangular plateau is bounded by the Satpura and the Vindhya in the north-west, the Mahadev and the Maikal in the north, the Western Ghats in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east.
9. The Chhattisgarh Plain:
The Chhattisgarh plain is the only plain worth the name in the vast stretch of plateaus and hill ranges of the Peninsular plateau. It is a saucer shaped depression drained by the upper basin of the Mahanadi. The whole basin lies between the Maikala Range and the Orissa hills.
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