Three rivers on peninsular india flowing in eastern direction
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Rivers flowing from east to west: Mahi, Narmada and Tapti
They (Narmada and Tapi rivers) flow in the geological faults (rifts) created between two ancient mountain ranges, ‘Vindhya’ & ‘Satpura’, when the Indian plate moved into the Eurasian plate. They arise in the Chota Nagpur plateau in the east of Deccan peninsula and from there, the gradient is down towards the Arabian Sea in the West; that is why they travel from the east to the west. These rivers didn’t form valleys and instead they flow through faults (linear rift, rift valley, trough) created due to the bending of the northern peninsula during the formation process of Himalayas. These faults run parallel to the Vindhyas and the Satpuras.
These rivers which fall into the Arabian Sea do not form deltas, but only estuaries.
The Narmada and the Tapi flow through hard rocks and hence do not carry any good amount of silt.
Rivers flowing from west to east: Mahanadi, Godavari, Tungabhadra, Kaveri. (In the Deccan the gradient is from West (at the height of Western Ghats) to the East into the Bay of Bengal and here the rivers flow East.
