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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 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.
Aravalli may refer to: Aravalli Range, a mountain range in north-west India Aravalli district, a district in the state of Gujarat in India; Aravalli, West Godavari, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India; Aravalli, a 1957 Indian Tamil-language fantasy-action film
Nag Pahad (also known as Naga Pahar; English: Snake Mountain) is a mountain in the Aravalli mountain range located between the towns of Pushkar and Ajmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan. This mountain holds cultural and mythological importance, intertwined with legends and beliefs that have been passed down through generations. [1]
Mount Abu (pronunciation ⓘ) is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in the Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. Here, the mountain forms a rocky plateau 22 km long by 9 km wide. It is referred to as 'an oasis in the desert' as its heights are home to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and evergreen forests.
Guru Shikhar, a peak in the Arbuda Mountains of Sirohi district in Rajasthan, is the highest point of the Aravalli Range, Rajasthan, and Western India. It rises to an elevation of 1,722 metres (5,650 ft). [2] It is 75 km from Sirohi city, the district headquarter and 15 km from Mount Abu and a road from there leads almost to the top of the ...
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.
Mangar Bani and other villages such as Gwal Pahari and Bandhwari, lie in the eco-sensitive area of at-risk forested hills of Southern Delhi Ridge in Aravali range. Mangar Bani, adjacent to Mangar village, is a much larger forested area.