Sahyādri: The Great Escarpment of the Indian Subcontinent, Teil 1

Arabian Sea basalt basement basin Bombay Cauvery charnockite coastal continental margin Cretaceous crust crustal Deccan Trap Deccan Volcanic denudation deposits Dharwar Craton divide drainage pattern dykes east elevation Eocene erosion erosional escarpment evidence evolution fault flexural flows formation geological geomorphic geomorphological gneisses gorge Gunnell headward headward erosion hills Karnataka Kerala Konkan landforms landscape laterite lateritisation lava lithology lithosphere load Mahabaleshwar major Memoir miles Miocene morphology mountain Mysore Plateau Nilgiri offshore Oligocene palaeosurface Palghat Gap Panvel passive margin peneplaned Peninsula Peninsular India plain planation surfaces plate plume Precambrian profiles Radhakrishna range rates Ratnagiri region relief ridges rifting rivers rocks Sahyadri sea level Section II-B-3 sedimentary sediments seismic sequence Sharavati shelf slope South India southern steep stratigraphy streams structural subsidence suggest tectonic Tertiary thickness topographic tributaries Upland uplift valleys weathering west coast Western Ghats Western Ghats escarpment Widdowson zone