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1 day ago · In the former seabed immediately south of the emerging Himalayas, plate movement created a vast trough, which, having gradually been filled with sediment borne by the Indus and its tributaries and the Ganges and its tributaries, now forms the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Indo-Gangetic Plain is geologically known as a foredeep or foreland basin.
- 1,999,000 km² (772,000 sq mi)
- Bay of Bengal
- 2,525 km (1,569 mi)
4 days ago · A new study conducted by researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Bose Institute, Kolkata has revealed how huge amounts of pollutants, mainly enriched with black carbon or soot particles, arrive from not only Kolkata metropolis but the entire Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) region, are significantly deteriorating Sundarbans.
1 day ago · India’s present-day relief features have been superimposed on three basic structural units: the Himalayas in the north, the Deccan (peninsular plateau region) in the south, and the Indo-Gangetic Plain (lying over the subsidence zone) between the two.
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1 day ago · Pakistan is situated at the western end of the great Indo-Gangetic Plain. Of the total area of the country, about three-fifths consists of rough mountainous terrain and plateaus, and the remaining two-fifths constitutes a wide expanse of level plain.
6 days ago · the Indo-Gangetic plain, which spans the states and union territories of Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand. the Himalayas and sub-Himalayan belt, which lie in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal; the Thar desert, which lies mainly in the state of Rajasthan.
- 2,389,300 km² (922,500 sq mi)
2 days ago · Population density is high in valleys but notably less above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) and very low above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), where snow occasionally falls in winter. The southern lowland plains or Terai bordering India are part of the northern rim of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Terai is the lowland region containing some hill ranges.
3 days ago · Basu S, Agrawal S, Sanyal P, et al. (2015) Carbon isotopic ratios of modern C3–C4 plants from the Gangetic Plain, India and its implications to paleovegetational reconstruction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 440: 22–32.
