A History of Agriculture in India v1.c12.s2: Conditions in Other Parts of the Indian Subcontinent
A History of Agriculture in India v1.c12.s2
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Conditions in Other Parts of the Indian Subcontinent
v1.c12.s2.1
Peninsular India was never under glaciation, but in several of its river valleys, such as of the Narmada, the Godavari, the Krishna, and the Kortalayer, gravel beds or conglomerates are found intercalated with silts and clays. Constituting the river terraces, these alluvial deposits are believed to show events in the peninsular region corresponding to those in the glacial regions. Some of these deposits have been correlated with the glacial and interglacial phases on the testimony of animal fossils.
v1.c12.s2.2
Sands, silts and clays, many hundred metres thick, with occasional gravel beds and lenses of peaty matter, occur in the great alluvial tracts of the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Indus in the depression between the peninsular and extra-peninsular regions. The deposits show a succession from the upper Eocene to the Holocene.