Question

Reference colour of Deccan Plateau on Map of India​

Answer 1

Answer:

The color should be brown.

Explanation:

Plateaus are marked in brown color. Deserts in yellow. Water bodies in blue.

Plains in green.

Answer 2

Answer:

The color should be brown.

Explanation:

• Plateaus are marked in brown color. Deserts in yellow. Water bodies in blue.
• Plains in green.
• Plateau is an area of raised land that is flat on top. Plateaus are often by themselves with no surrounding plateau. National Geographic describes plateaus as flat and elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
• Features of the Peninsular Plateau
• Roughly triangular in shape with its base coinciding with the southern edge of the great plain of North India. The apex of the triangular plateau is at Kanniyakumari.
• It covers a total area of about 16 lakh sq km (India as a whole is 32 lakh sq km).
• The average height of the plateau is 600-900 m above sea level (varies from region to region).
• Most of the peninsular rivers flow west to east indicating it’s the general slope.
• Narmada-Tapti is the exception that flows from east to west in a rift (rift is caused by a divergent boundary (Go back to Interaction of plates).
• The Peninsular Plateau is one of the oldest landforms of earth.
• It is a highly stable block composed mostly of the Archaean gneisses and schists.
• It has been a stable shield that has gone through little structural changes since its formation.
• Since a few hundred million years, the Peninsular block has been a land area and has never been submerged beneath the sea except in a few places.
• Peninsular Plateau is an aggregation of several smaller plateaus, hill ranges interspersed with river basins and valleys. Indian Peninsular Plateau (Deccan Plateau)