A History of Agriculture in India v1.c12.s2.2
A History of Agriculture in India v1.c12.s2.2
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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.