GEOGRAPHY IMP 3 PAGES BY LOKSANCHAR GK

GEOGRAPHY IMP 3 PAGES BY LOKSANCHAR

India is situated entirely on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formed when it split off from the ancient continent Gondwanaland  The Indo-Australian plate is subdivided into the Indian and Australian plates. About 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, the Indian Plate began moving   in the Eocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era, the plate collided with Asia after covering a distance of 2,000 to 3,000 KM having moved faster than any other known plate. In 2007,
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