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  Deccan Plateau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The southernmost portion of the plateau is drained by the Kaveri River, which rises in the Western Ghats of Karnataka and bends south to break through the Nilgiri hills into Tamil Nadu, emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the main language of the north-western portion of the Deccan plateau.
Tamil is the main language of the country to the south of the plateau, and Malayalam that of the hills and coast to the south-west.
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 Deccan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Deccan Plateau, region in India, extending south of the Narmada River to the Nīlgiri and Palni hills, and bordered by the Western and Eastern Ghats...
Deccan States, former group of states, in the south central portion of Bombay Province, in India.
In the southern part of peninsular India lies the vast Deccan Plateau, a tableland lying within a triangle formed by the Sātpura Range, the steep...
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 South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests is an ecoregion of southern India.
The South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests receive most of their rainfall with the June-September southwest monsoon, and are characterized by tall trees that drop their leaves during the dry winter and spring months.
To the north and east, the dry deciduous forests transition to the Deccan thorn scrub forests.
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 Deccan Plateau, Deccan Plateau India, Tourism in Deccan Plateau, Deccan Plateau Tours, Deccan Pleatu Tourism India, ...
The Deccan plateau is a topographically variegated region located south of the Gangetic plains-the portion lying between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal-and includes a substantial area to the north of the Vindhya Range, which has popularly been regarded as the divide between northern India and the Deccan.
The Deccan's average elevation is about 2,000 feet (600 m), sloping generally eastward; its principal rivers, the Godavari, Krishna, and Cauvery, flow from the Western Ghats eastward to the Bay of Bengal.
On the western edge of the plateau lie the Sahyadri, the Nilgiri, the Annamalai and the Cardamon Hills, commonly known as Western Ghats.
www.tourism-of-india.com /deccan-plateau.html   (1904 words)

  
 Indian Plateaus,Deccan Plateau In India,Plateaus of India,Tibetan Plateau,Himalayan Plateau
Plateaus are a major part of Indian sub-continent,with a handful of mountains and plains thrown in at varied places.Plateau is an elevated, comparatively level expanse of land, a highland of India.
Plateaus are a major part of Madhya Pradesh, with a handful of mountains and plains thrown in at places.
The Bundelkhand Plateau, Malwa Plateau, Baghelkhand Plateau, Dandakaranya Plateau and the Central India Plateau are all in MP.
www.indiasite.com /land/plateau.html   (423 words)

  
 Deccan Traps Lava Flows - John Seach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Deccan Traps is located in central west India and dates from 66 million years ago.
Deccan volcanism coincided with the decline of the dinosaurs raising the possibility
Deccan lava meets the Arabian Sea at Goa.
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 Search Results for "Deccan"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Deccan and Western India Western India, thanks to the many impregnable fortresses in Rajputana, was usually divided among local dynasties from the time of the...
The Deccan The DECCAN was dominated (from c.
...usually applied to the Ganges Plain of N India, between the Himalayas in the north and the Deccan plateau in the south.
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 Deccan Plateau
Deccan Plateau, region in India, extending south of the Narmada River to the Nîlgiri and Palni hills, and bordered by the Western and Eastern Ghats mountain ranges.
At the plateau's margins in the Western Ghats, a steep escarpment drops sharply to the narrow Malabar Coast on the Arabian Sea.
The cities of Bangalore, Hyderâbâd, Sholâpur, and Hubli (Hubli-Dharwar) are important manufacturing, industrial, and agricultural processing centers on the Deccan Plateau.
india.punjabilit.com /land/deccan_plateau.htm   (216 words)

  
 Deccan Traps
The Deccan CFB was associated with the breakup of the Seychelles microcontinent from India (e.g., Mahoney, 1988).
The Deccan flood basalt sequence is best developed in the Western Ghats region with ~3 km of stratigraphic thickness (Figures 1-3), and picritic basalts are found there, but these are enriched in cumulus olivine and clinopyroxene and do not represent liquid compositions.
Deccan volcanism was associated with the separation of the Seychelles microcontinent from India (Figure 2, inset), and this breakup itself is often ascribed to the Réunion plume head impact.
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 Deccan Plateau - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Deccan Plateau - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Deccan Plateau, upland region of India, extending south of the Narmada River to the Nilgiri and Palni hills, and bordered by the mountainous Western...
South of the plains lies the Deccan Plateau, a vast, triangular tableland occupying most of peninsular India.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Deccan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hindustan HINDUSTAN [Hindustan] [Persian,=Hindu land], historical term, usually applied to the Ganges Plain of N India, between the Himalayas in the north and the Deccan plateau in the south.
He served (1636-44, 1653-58) as viceroy of the Deccan but was constantly at odds with his father and his eldest brother, Dara Shikoh, the heir apparent.
In the Deccan, Ahmadnagar was taken in 1616 and half of its kingdom annexed.
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 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (IM0201)
The Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests [IM0201] make up a large ecoregion that is neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in numbers of endemic species.
This ecoregion represents the Hardwickia-dominated woodlands in the central Deccan Plateau, a vegetation type that is distinct from the teak (Tectona grandis) or sal (Shorea robusta) dominated dry forests that cover most of the Deccan Plateau.
The Hardwickia-dominated woodlands represented by this ecoregion extend across the Deccan Plateau South (6A) and Central Plateau (6B) biotic provinces identified by Rodgers and Panwar (1988).
worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0201_full.html   (1048 words)

  
 Physiography of Karnataka
Northern Karnataka Plateau comprises of the districts of Belgaum, Bidar, Bijapur and Gulbarga and is largely composed of the Deccan Trap.
It represents a monotonous, treeless extensive plateau landscape with a general elevation of 300 to 600 metres from the mean sea level.
The region represents the transitional surface between the Northern Karnataka Plateau of Deccan Trap and southern Karnataka Plateau with relatively higher surface.
www.karnataka.com /profile/physiography.shtml   (450 words)

  
 Search Results for "Deccan"
...Ganges Plain of N India, between the Himalayas in the north and the Deccan plateau in the south.
He served (1636-44, 1653-58) as viceroy of the Deccan but was constantly at odds with his father...
...Western Ghats in Maharashtra state, W central India, and flowing SE across the Deccan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal.
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 The Deccan Plateau is a plateau encompassing most of Central and...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Deccan Plateau is a plateau encompassing most of Central and...
The Deccan Plateau is a plateau encompassing most of Central and Southern India India.
The name "Deccan" is anglicized form of of the Prakrit Prakrit "dakkhin", itself derived from the Sanskrit Sanskrit "dakshina", meaning south.
www.biodatabase.de /Deccan   (178 words)

  
 GRAIN | Seedling | 2002 | DIVERSITY ON THE DECCAN PLATEA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India require the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies in order for farmers to produce enough food to sustain their families throughout the year.
In the Deccan Plateau, genetic diversity is manifest in food crops like sorghum, millets, pigeonpea, chickpea, groundnut, but also in sugarcane and mango.
Even though this complex cropping pattern is losing ground in the Deccan Plateau (to the benefit of cash crops like sugarcane, cotton, soyabean and sunflower), it still forms the basis of a balanced sorghum-based diet.
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 The Deccan Plateau: The Deccan Plateau
The Deccan Plateau encompasses the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The term Deccan Plateau is sometimes used to indicate the region south of the Narmada river, and to include parts of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh states.
The agricultural geography of the Deccan plateau of India, (The geographical teacher.
www.kamat.com /kalranga/deccan   (300 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (IM0209)
Although not exceptionally outstanding for biological richness or endemism by itself, the South Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests [IM0209] ecoregion is contiguous with the moist deciduous forests that lie along the foothills of the southern extent of the Western Ghats Mountains.
The ecoregion represents a large area of tall, tropical dry forests in the southern Deccan Plateau, on the leeward side of the Western Ghats Mountain Range.
The dry deciduous forests of this ecoregion are flanked by the moist deciduous forests along the lower elevations and foothills of the Western Ghats to the west and by thorn scrub to the east.
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 Travel Attraction,India Travel Attraction,India Travel Guide, Travel India,Tourist Places in India, India Tourist ...
The Deccan plateau is a topographically variegated region located south of the Gangetic plains—the
The plateau's mineral wealth led many lowland rulers, including those of the Mauryan (4th–2nd century bc) and Gupta (4th–6th century ad) dynasties, to fight over it.
The Satvahanas (28 bc–ad 250) emerged as an independent power in the Deccan in the first century bc.
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 GEO_PLATE_V-23HTML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Deccan Plateau ranks as the world's fourth largest (volumetrically) subcontinental outpouring of plateau basalt lavas extruded at unstable margins during active plate tectonic movements.
The Deccan extrusions commenced in the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanean) and proceeded for 10 to 20 Ma into the Eocene.
The regional physiography is one of flat-topped hills and ridges and broad valleys (Figure V-23.1) whose surfaces conform to lava layer boundaries.
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 2005 Meeting | Prevalence of major diseases of sorghum in Deccan plateau of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Prevalence of major diseases of sorghum in Deccan plateau of India
Extensive on-farm disease surveys were conducted from August 1999 to March 2001 in four sorghum growing states of Indian Deccan plateau.
This paper elucidates the distribution of diseases observed between 1999 and 2001, but does not imply that the diseases are restricted necessarily to a particular zone or location.
www.apsnet.org /meetings/2005/abstracts/a05ma451.htm   (263 words)

  
 From the Tibetan Plateau to the Deccan Plateau
From the Tibetan Plateau to the Deccan Plateau
Doeguling is the largest of three similar universities in Karnataka, and its international reputation is growing, even as it strives to keep up with the standards set by its destroyed 15th-century predecessor.
Nearly 50 years after the Chinese occupied their homeland, Tibetans are still streaming out of the high plateau, and one of the problems in places like Doeguling is the increasing refugee population.
www.himalmag.com /99Apr/tibetan.htm   (948 words)

  
 Plateau – pictures of plateaus - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Plateau – pictures of plateaus - List of Items - MSN Encarta
The Deccan Plateau is a vast triangular region in peninsular India.
The land is rocky but contains areas of fertile soils.
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 Fishing fantasy, Southern Deccan Plateau, fishing beats, Sarda rivers, Kaveri river,Turismo en la India,Tourismus in ...
Immortalized in the stories of Jim Corbett and Rudyard Kipling, huge dark shadows of a great fighter have lurked in the deep waters of the mighty rivers of the Indian subcontinents.
Guided by local gilly boys and experienced anglers cum naturalists, you are taken to ideal beats along the river banks be it the undulated terrain of the lower Himalayan foothills or the Southern Deccan Plateau.
Huge boulders and narrow gorges cause the rivers to form rapids and the pools in between are excellent habitat of the masher.
www.indiaprofile.com /adventure/fishing.htm   (649 words)

  
 The Deccan Plateau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I should be less happy to show you these photos of the Deccan plateau than I am..or at least, I think so.
The deccan plateau, loveable by a geologist like me, is a high dry plain with quite a variety of weird features, such as these rock/boulder formations; and quite a few wonderful camping places as I show below.
Rice paddies or similar fields made inviting campsites from far off; but they were often rock hard and bumpy close up.
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 Water Harvesting Techniques Common In The Deccan Plateau
Water Harvesting Techniques Common In The Deccan Plateau
The plateau occupies large parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka and a portion of Andhra Pradesh.
The rivers of the region have for the greater part, reached their base level of erosion and carved out wide valleys in various places.
www.rainwaterharvesting.org /eco/dp.htm   (90 words)

  
 The Eastern Deccan plateau is a land of lakes
The Eastern Deccan plateau is a land of lakes
The eastern Deccan plateau in South India of the region called Telangana is made of vast sheets of massive granitic rock, which effectively traps rainwater.
Under the thin surface layer of soil is the impervious grey granite bedrock.
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 Kamat House of Pictures: Pictorial Navigation
Map of South India Showing the States of the Deccan
Deccan Miniature Painting by Artist Mir Mohammad, 17th Century
Sculpture from Ellora shows the fierce form of Shiva with multiple arms.
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 The Hindu Business Line : It could be a rush for gold in Deccan Plateau
THE base metals mining sector may acquire a fresh coat of glitter in the coming years, as Indian and foreign mining companies are increasingly eyeing the vast untapped wealth of gold lying beneath the Deccan Plateau.
Despite being the largest global consumer of gold, the country's gold production has stagnated at a measly two tonnes per annum, while Australia, with similar geological characteristics, produces over 280 tonnes of the yellow metal.
The gold rush is expected to register a spurt when Deccan Gold Mines Ltd (DGML), India's first and largest listed gold exploration company, brings out the feasibility of mining in the Huti region in Karnataka, about 480 km north of Bangalore.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/05/18/stories/2003051801610100.htm   (662 words)

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