🟫 Plateaus · The Peninsular Plateau
The Meghalaya Plateau
Maps show India’s boundaries as officially depicted by the Government of India. Rivers, ranges and regions are drawn from Natural Earth’s public-domain data and are approximate.
An extension of the Peninsular plateau, cut off from it by a great fault between the Rajmahal hills and the Meghalaya plateau. It has three parts — the Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills, named after the tribal groups living there — and is rich in coal, iron ore, sillimanite, limestone and uranium. It gets the most rain from the south-west monsoon, so its surface is highly eroded: Cherrapunji is bare rock. (The map outlines the Khasi Hills.)
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 2 (Structure and Physiography) ↗
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