Write a short note on peninsula plateau
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Answer:The Peninsular plateau is a tableland composed of the old crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks. It was formed due to the breaking and drifting of the Gondwana land and thus, making it a part of the oldest landmass. The plateau has broad and shallow valleys and rounded hills
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This is an elevated plateau separated from the Indo- Gangetic plain by the Vindhyas, the Satpura, Mahadeo, Maikal and Sarguja ranges, the elevation varying from 300 to 900 metres.
It extends into Rajasthan on the west and has a kind of outlier in the Assam plateau in the east, and is bordered by the Sahyadris (Western Ghats) in the west and Eastern Ghats on the east; and has slope from west to east. Covering an area of about 16 lakh sq.km. The peninsular uplands forms the largest physiographic division of India.
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