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The Aravalli-Delhi Orogen is an orogen event that led to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle, such as Aravalli and Himalayas fold mountains) due to the interaction between tectonic plates when a continental plate is crumpled and is pushed upwards to form mountain ranges, and involve a great ...
The ecoregion encircles the Thar Desert and Indus Valley Desert ecoregions. It stretches along the border lowlands and hills between India and Pakistan and includes: the western half of Gujarat (excluding the mountain of Girnar), and extending through Rajasthan, where it is bounded on the southeast by the Aravalli Range; most of Haryana and Punjab states of India as well as the Jammu region of ...
The Aravalli Mountain Range is a northeast-southwest trending orogenic belt in the northwest part of India and is part of the Indian Shield that was formed from a series of cratonic collisions. [1] The Aravalli Mountains consist of the Aravalli and Delhi fold belts, and are collectively known as the Aravalli-Delhi orogenic belt.
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. [1]
There are about 112 plant families with 449 genera and 820 species. Of these, 663 species are dicots while 157 species are monocots. [4] About 81 species of trees, 89 species of shrubs, 28 species of climbers and 17 species of tuberous plants of medicinal importance have been identified in this sanctuary. [5]
Mangar Bani, a Neolithic archaeological site and sacred grove hill forest on the Delhi-Haryana border, is in the South Delhi Ridge of the Aravalli mountain range in the Faridabad tehsil in the Indian state of Haryana. [23] [24] [25] It lies within the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor stretching from Sariska Tiger Reserve to Delhi.
Delhi Ridge is the northernmost extension of one of the oldest mountain system of the world, Aravalli range, which begin in the state of Gujarat near Great Rann of Kutch. [1] Biogeographically it represents outlier of Aravalli Mountain Range among protected area in India. [ 3 ]
The area of the Phulwari ki Nal Wildlife Sanctuary is 511.41 km 2, [4] of which 365.92 km2 is Reserved Forest and 145.49 km2 is Protected Forests. [5] The sanctuary is spread over Kotra and Jhadol tehsils of Udaipur district. [2]