_____ range forms the main water area for Rajasthan?
The correct answer is Aravali.
- Aravali range forms the main water area for Rajasthan.
Key Points
- Aravali range
- The Aravallis of Northwestern India, one of the oldest fold mountains of the world, now form residual mountains with an elevation of 300m. to 900m.
- They stretch for a distance of 800 km from Himmatnagar in Gujarat to Delhi, spanning Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Delhi, the 692 kilometres (km).
- The Aravallis act as a barrier between the fertile plains in the east and the sandy desert in the west.
- Historically, it is said that the Aravalli range checked the spread of the Thar desert towards the Indo-Gangetic plains, serving as a catchment of rivers and plains.
- Thus Aravali range forms the main water area for Rajasthan.
Additional Information
- Aravali range formation
- These are fold mountains of which rocks are formed primarily of the folded crust when two convergent plates move towards each other by the process called orogenic movement.
- The Aravallis date back to millions of years when a pre-Indian sub-continent collided with the mainland Eurasian Plate.
- Carbon dating has shown that copper and other metals mined in the ranges date back to at least the 5th century BC.