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Question
Identify the image given below and explain the formation of this geological division in India.
Solution
This image depicts a Plateau.
During the Pre Cambrian era, there was a large depression in which sediment were deposited and a block of crystal rocks came out of this depression. It behaved like rigid inflexible block throughout the geological history to form the Peninsular Plateau of India.
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