A History of Agriculture in India v1.c7.12

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The formation of the Deccan trap, to which reference has been made earlier, continued in the Tertiary Period. By far the greater part of western India is made up of the Deccan trap covering an area of 322,900 square kilometres. Originally it had a much greater area, probably covering 800,000 square kilometres; outlying patches of the trap occur in Sind, Kutch, Bihar, and the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh. The formation of the Deccan trap began in the uppermost part of the middle Cretaceous and continued into the Eocene or even later.