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Aravalli Range

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The Aravalli Range is a range of mountains running approximately 692 km (430 mi) in a southwest direction, starting in North India from Delhi and passing through southern Haryana, through to Western India across the states of Rajasthan and ending in Gujarat. [1]

204 relations: Acacia, Accretion (geology), Administrative divisions of India, Ahar River, Ahar–Banas culture, Ahmedabad, Alluvium, Alwar district, Apatite, Arabian Sea, Aravali Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon, Aravalli district, Aravalli Range, Archean, Arenite, Arid Forest Research Institute, Asbestos, Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, Aulacogen, Banas River, Banswara, Base metal, Basement (geology), Behror, Belt Supergroup, Berach River, Beryl, Bharatpur district, Billion years, Biotite, Bundi, Cenozoic, Central Delhi, Chambal River, Chiastolite, Chittorgarh, Continental climate, Convergent boundary, Copper Hoard Culture, Craton, Crust (geology), Cyanobacteria, Dariba, Rajasthan, Dausa district, Delhi, Delhi Ridge, Delhi–Jaipur Expressway, Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project, Dhundhar, Dohan river, ..., Dungarpur, Era (geology), Eurasian Plate, Faridabad, Felsic, Felsite, Fold mountains, Ganeshwar, Ganges, Geologic time scale, Ghaggar-Hakra River, Gneiss, Golden jackal, Gorwar, Granite, Green algae, Gujarat, Gulf of Khambhat, Gurgaon, Guru Shikhar, Hadoti, Haryana, Hill Forts of Rajasthan, Himalayas, Hindustan Times, Humid subtropical climate, Indenter tectonics, Indian crested porcupine, Indian Plate, Indian Shield, Indus Valley Civilisation, Inversion (geology), Island arc, Jaipur, Jaipur district, Jaipur-Kishangarh Expressway, Jodhpur, Kalibangan, Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests, Khetri, Kota district, Krishnavati river, Kunal, Haryana, Kyanite, Lake Pichola, Lead, Leopard, Lithology, Lithosphere, Luni River, Madhya Pradesh, Mafic, Magma, Mahendragarh district, Mantle plume, Mantle wedge, Marwar, Merta City, Mesoproterozoic, Mesozoic, Metamorphism, Metasedimentary rock, Metavolcanic rock, Mewar, Mewat, Modasa, Monoharpur, Monsoon, Mount Abu, Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, Muscovite, Natural history, Neem-Ka-Thana, Nilgai, North India, North Western Railway zone, Northwestern thorn scrub forest, Obduction, Oceanic crust, Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, Orogeny, Palanpur, Paleoproterozoic, Paradoxurus, Passive margin, Patan, Rajasthan, Peafowl, Peninsular Gneiss, Phanerozoic, Phosphorite, Pig, Pinangwan, Plate tectonics, Pluton, Precambrian, Proterozoic, Pushkar, Pyrophyllite, Quartz-porphyry, Quartzite, Rain shadow, Raisina Hill, Rajasthan, Rajsamand district, Rann of Kutch, Ranthambore National Park, Rift, Sabarmati River, Sahibi River, Sanskrit, Saraswati, Schist, Sedimentary exhalative deposits, Sedimentary rock, Semi-arid climate, Sequence (geology), Serpentinite, Shekhawati, Sikar district, Silver, Siswal, Sothi (archaeology), South Delhi, Striped hyena, Stromatolite, Sulfide, Sunari, Supreme Court of India, Talc, Teak, Tectonic evolution of the Aravalli Mountains, Thar Desert, The Economic Times, The Hindu, The Times Group, The Times of India, Tosham Hill range, Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Tropical savanna climate, Tuff, Type site, Udaipur, Udaipur district, Unicellular organism, Uttar Pradesh, Vagad, Weathering, West Banas River, Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, Western India, Wildlife Institute of India, Yamuna, Zawar, Zinc. Expand index (154 more) »

Acacia

Acacia, commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.

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Accretion (geology)

Accretion, in geology, is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate or a landmass.

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Administrative divisions of India

The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they compose a nested hierarchy of country subdivisions.

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Ahar River

The Ahar River is a tributary of the Berach River (itself a tributary of Banas River, which in turn is a tributary of Chambal river, itself a tributary of Yamuna River, which in turn is the most important tributary of Ganges River).

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Ahar–Banas culture

The Ahar culture, also known as the Banas culture is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture on the banks of Ahar River of southeastern Rajasthan state in India, lasting from 3000 to 1500 BCE, contemporary and adjacent to the Indus Valley Civilization.

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Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, also known as Amdavad is the largest city and former capital of the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Alwar district

Alwar District is a district in Rajasthan, a state in northern India, with capital in the city of Alwar.

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Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ions, respectively, in the crystal.

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Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea, also known as Sea of Oman, is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India.

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Aravali Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon

Aravali Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon, (or Aravalli Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon) spreads over 153.7 hectares, near the Guru Dronacharya metro station in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

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Aravalli district

Aravalli district is a district in the state of Gujarat in India that came into being on August 15, 2013, becoming the 29th district of the state.

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Aravalli Range

The Aravalli Range is a range of mountains running approximately 692 km (430 mi) in a southwest direction, starting in North India from Delhi and passing through southern Haryana, through to Western India across the states of Rajasthan and ending in Gujarat.

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Archean

The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan) is one of the four geologic eons of Earth history, occurring (4 to 2.5 billion years ago).

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Arenite

Arenite (Latin Arena, sand) is a sedimentary clastic rock with sand grain size between 0.0625 mm (0.00246 in) and 2 mm (0.08 in) and contain less than 15% matrix.

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Arid Forest Research Institute

Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI) is a research institute situated in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.

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Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary

Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary lies at the far southern edge of the city of Delhi, at Asola near Tughlaqabad in the Delhi National Capital Territory of India.

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Aulacogen

An aulacogen is a failed arm of a triple junction.

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Banas River

The Banas is a river of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Banswara

Banswara is a city in Banswara District in south Rajasthan in India.

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Base metal

A base metal is a common and inexpensive metal, as opposed to a precious metal such as gold or silver.

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Basement (geology)

In geology, basement and crystalline basement are the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin.

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Behror

Behror (Hindi: बहरोड़).

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Belt Supergroup

The Belt Supergroup is an assemblage of primarily fine-grained sedimentary rocks and mafic intrusive rocks of late Precambrian (Mesoproterozoic) age.

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Berach River

The Berach River, a tributary of the Banas River, is a river of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Beryl

Beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6.

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Bharatpur district

Bharatpur District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India also known as Jat Kingdom.

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Billion years

A billion years (109 years) is a unit of time on the petasecond scale, more precisely equal to seconds.

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Biotite

Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.

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Bundi

Bundi is a town in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.

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Central Delhi

Central Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India.

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Chambal River

The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and thus forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system.

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Chiastolite

Chiastolite is a variety of the mineral andalusite with the chemical composition Al2SiO5.

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Chittorgarh

Chittorgarh (also Chittor or Chittaurgarh) is a city and a municipality in Rajasthan state of western India.

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Continental climate

Continental climates are defined in the Köppen climate classification as having the coldest month with the temperature never rising above 0.0° C (32°F) all month long.

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Convergent boundary

In plate tectonics, a convergent boundary, also known as a destructive plate boundary, is a region of active deformation where two or more tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere are near the end of their life cycle.

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Copper Hoard Culture

Selected hoard artefacts from 1-2 South Haryana, 3-4 Uttar Pradesh, 5 Madhya Pradesh, 6-8 South Bihar-North Orissa-Bengalen. Copper Hoards describe find-complexes which occur in the northern part of India.

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Craton

A craton (or; from κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, where the lithosphere consists of the Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle.

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.

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Dariba, Rajasthan

Dariba is a census town in Rajsamand district in the state of Rajasthan in India, where Krishnavati river (also called Kasaunti) originates from Aravalli Range near copper mines, Arun Kumar Biswas, Sulekha Biswas, University of Michigan.

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Dausa district

Dausa District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Delhi Ridge

Delhi Ridge, sometimes simply called The Ridge, is a ridge in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India.

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Delhi–Jaipur Expressway

Delhi–Jaipur Expressway is a proposed,, six-lane, controlled-access expressway, connecting Delhi with Jaipur in India.

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Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project

The Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project (DMICDC) is a planned industrial development project between India's capital, Delhi and its financial hub, Mumbai.

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Dhundhar

Dhundhar, also known as Jaipur region, is a historical region of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Dohan river

The Dohan river (दोहान नदी), is a rain-fed river that originates at Mandholi village near Neem Ka Thana in Sikar district of Rajasthan and then disappears in Mahendragarh district in Haryana where it use to be a tributary of Sahibi River, which in turn is a still flowing tributary of Yamuna.

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Dungarpur

Dungarpur is a city in the southernmost part of Rajasthan state of India.

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Era (geology)

A geologic era is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an eon into smaller units of time.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.

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Faridabad

Faridabad is the largest city in the north Indian state of Haryana.

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Felsic

In geology, felsic refers to igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.

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Felsite

Felsite is a very fine-grained volcanic rock that may or may not contain larger crystals.

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Fold mountains

Fold mountains are mountains that form mainly by the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth's crust.

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Ganeshwar

Ganeshwar is a village in Neem-Ka-Thana Tehsil (Mandal) in the Sikar District of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Ganges

The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to time.

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Ghaggar-Hakra River

The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent, endorheic river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.

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Golden jackal

The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a wolf-like canid that is native to Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and regions of Southeast Asia.

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Gorwar

Gorwar or Godwar, (in different periods also was called Chandravati Kingdom, Sirohi State) is a region of Rajasthan state in India, which lies in the southwest Rajasthan and borders with the state of Gujarat.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Green algae

The green algae (singular: green alga) are a large, informal grouping of algae consisting of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta, which are now placed in separate divisions, as well as the more basal Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae and Spirotaenia.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Gulf of Khambhat

The Gulf of Khambhat, also known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay on the Arabian Sea coast of India, bordering the state of Gujarat.

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Gurgaon

Gurgaon, officially named Gurugram since 2016, is a satellite city of Delhi located in the Indian state of Haryana and is part of the National Capital Region of India.

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Guru Shikhar

Guru Shikhar, a peak in the Arbuda Mountains of Rajasthan, is the highest point of the Aravalli Range.

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Hadoti

Hadoti is a region of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Haryana

Haryana, carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on linguistic basis, is one of the 29 states in India.

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Hill Forts of Rajasthan

The six Hill Forts of Rajasthan, spread across Rajasthan state in northern India, clustered together as a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Indenter tectonics

Indenter tectonics, also known as escape tectonics, is a branch of strike-slip tectonics that involves the collision and deformation of two continental plates.

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Indian crested porcupine

The Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica), or Indian porcupine, is a large species of hystricomorph rodent (order Rodentia) belonging to the Old World porcupine family, Hystricidae.

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Indian Plate

The Indian Plate or India Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator in the eastern hemisphere.

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Indian Shield

The Indian Shield is part of the Indian Craton and occupies two-thirds of the southern Indian peninsula.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), or Harappan Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation (5500–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

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Inversion (geology)

In structural geology inversion or basin inversion relates to the relative uplift of a sedimentary basin or similar structure as a result of crustal shortening.

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Island arc

An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes, with arc-shaped alignment, situated parallel and close to a boundary between two converging tectonic plates.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan in Northern India.

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Jaipur district

Jaipur District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in Northern India.

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Jaipur-Kishangarh Expressway

Jaipur-Kishangarh Expressway is a 90 km long access controlled toll expressway connecting Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan to Kishangarh.

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Jodhpur

Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state.

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Kalibangan

Kalibangān is a town located at on the left or southern banks of the Ghaggar (Ghaggar-Hakra River) in Tehsil Pilibangān, between Suratgarh and Hanumangarh in Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan, India 205 km.

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Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests

The Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests is a mostly arid ecoregion in northwestern India that stretches over across Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

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Khetri

Khetri Nagar is a town in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan in India.

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Kota district

Kota District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.

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Krishnavati river

The Krishnavati river (कृष्णावती नदी), also called Kasaunti (कसौंती नदी), is a rain-fed river originates from Aravalli Range near Dariba copper mines in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan, and flows through Patan in Dausa district and Mothooka in Alwar district and then disappears in Mahendragarh district in Haryana where it use to be a tributary of Sahibi River, which in turn still is a tributary of Yamuna.

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Kunal, Haryana

Kunal is a pre-Harappan settlement located in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India.

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Kyanite

Kyanite is a typically blue silicate mineral, commonly found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and/or sedimentary rock.

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Lake Pichola

Lake Pichola, situated in Udaipur city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, is an artificial fresh water lake, created in the year 1362 AD, named after the nearby Picholi village.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.

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Lithosphere

A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.

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Luni River

Luni is a river in Rajasthan.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Mafic

Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and '''f'''err'''ic'''.

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Magma

Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.

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Mahendragarh district

Mahendragarh district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India.

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Mantle plume

A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, first proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963.

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Mantle wedge

A mantle wedge is a triangular shaped piece of mantle that lies above a subducting tectonic plate and below the overriding plate.

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Marwar

Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in North Western India.

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Merta City

Merta City is a City and a municipality located in Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Mesoproterozoic

The Mesoproterozoic Era is a geologic era that occurred from.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Metamorphism

Metamorphism is the change of minerals or geologic texture (distinct arrangement of minerals) in pre-existing rocks (protoliths), without the protolith melting into liquid magma (a solid-state change).

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Metasedimentary rock

In geology, metasedimentary rock is a type of metamorphic rock.

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Metavolcanic rock

In geology, metavolcanic rock is a type of metamorphic rock.

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Mewar

Mewar or Mewāḍ is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India.

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Mewat

Mewat is a historical region of Haryana and Rajasthan states in northwestern India.

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Modasa

Modasa is a town and a municipality in Aravalli district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Monoharpur

Monoharpur is a village and gram panchayat in Chanditala II CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Mount Abu

Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India, near the border with Gujarat.

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Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor

The Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor is an under-construction high-speed rail line connecting the cities of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and India's economic hub Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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Muscovite

Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula KAl2(AlSi3O10)(FOH)2, or (KF)2(Al2O3)3(SiO2)6(H2O).

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Neem-Ka-Thana

Neem Ka Thana is a tehsil in Sikar district in the Rajasthan state of India.

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Nilgai

The nilgai or blue bull (literally meaning "blue cow"; Boselaphus tragocamelus) is the largest Asian antelope and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent.

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North India

North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.

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North Western Railway zone

The North Western Railway (abbreviated NWR and उपरे) is one of the seventeen railway zones in India.

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Northwestern thorn scrub forest

The Northwestern thorn scrub forests are a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Pakistan and northwestern India, stretching along the border lowlands and hills between the two countries.

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Obduction

Obduction was originally defined by Coleman Coleman, R.G., 1971.

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Oceanic crust

Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate.

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Ochre Coloured Pottery culture

The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a 2nd millennium BC Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh.

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Orogeny

An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.

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Palanpur

Palanpur is a city and a municipality of Banaskantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Paleoproterozoic

Paleoproterozoic Era, spanning the time period from (2.5–1.6 Ga), is the first of the three sub-divisions (eras) of the Proterozoic Eon.

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Paradoxurus

Paradoxurus is a genus within the viverrid family that was denominated and first described by Frédéric Cuvier in 1822.

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Passive margin

A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.

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Patan, Rajasthan

Patan is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Peafowl

The peafowl include three species of birds in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies.

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Peninsular Gneiss

Peninsular Gneiss is a term coined to highlight the older gneissic complex of the metamorphics found all over the Indian Peninsula.

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Phanerozoic

The Phanerozoic Eon is the current geologic eon in the geologic time scale, and the one during which abundant animal and plant life has existed.

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Phosphorite

Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock which contains high amounts of phosphate minerals.

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Pinangwan

Pinangwan is a town located in the Nuh District of Haryana.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.

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Pluton

In geology, a pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Proterozoic

The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth.

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Pushkar

Pushkar is a town in the Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Pyrophyllite

Pyrophyllite is a phyllosilicate mineral composed of aluminium silicate hydroxide: Al2Si4O10(OH)2.

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Quartz-porphyry

Quartz-porphyry, in layman's terms, is a type of volcanic (igneous) rock containing large porphyritic crystals of quartz.

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Quartzite

Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).

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Raisina Hill

Raisina Hill (Rāyasīnā Pahāṛī), often used as a metonym for the seat of the Government of India, is an area of Lutyens' Delhi, New Delhi, housing India's most important government buildings, including Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India and the Secretariat building housing the Prime Minister's Office and several other important ministries.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Rajsamand district

Rajsamand District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.

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Rann of Kutch

The Rann of Kutch is a large area of salt marshes located mostly in Gujarat (primarily the Kutch district), India and the southern tip of Sindh, Pakistan.

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Ranthambore National Park

Ranthambhore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान) or Ranthambhore is the fortieth largest national park in northern India, covering 392 km².

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Rift

In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.

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Sabarmati River

The Sabarmati river is one of the major west-flowing rivers in India.

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Sahibi River

The Sahibi river, also called the Sabi River, is an ephemeral, rain-fed river flowing through Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi states in India.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Saraswati

Saraswati (सरस्वती) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and learning worshipped throughout Nepal and India.

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Schist

Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).

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Sedimentary exhalative deposits

Sedimentary exhalative deposits (SedEx deposits) are ore deposits which are interpreted to have been formed by release of ore-bearing hydrothermal fluids into a water reservoir (usually the ocean), resulting in the precipitation of stratiform ore.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Sequence (geology)

In geology, a sequence is a stratigraphic unit which is bounded by an unconformity at the top and at the bottom.

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Serpentinite

Serpentinite is a rock composed of one or more serpentine group minerals, the name originating from the similarity of the texture of the rock to that of the skin of a snake.

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Shekhawati

Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India.

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Sikar district

Sikar district (सीकर जिला) is a district of the Indian state Rajasthan in northern India.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Siswal

Siswal is a village in Hisar district, Haryana, India.

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Sothi (archaeology)

Sothi is an early archaeological site of the Indus Valley Civilization, located in the Ganganagar District of Rajasthan, India, at a distance of about 10 km southwest of Nohar railway station.

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South Delhi

South Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India.

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Striped hyena

The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

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Stromatolite

Stromatolites or stromatoliths (from Greek στρῶμα strōma "layer, stratum" (GEN στρώματος strōmatos), and λίθος lithos "rock") are layered mounds, columns, and sheet-like sedimentary rocks that were originally formed by the growth of layer upon layer of cyanobacteria, a single-celled photosynthesizing microbe.

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Sulfide

Sulfide (systematically named sulfanediide, and sulfide(2−)) (British English sulphide) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions.

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Sunari

Sunari (गॉव सुनारी) is a village in Ladnun tehsil (I sector), Nagaur district, Rajasthan, north west India.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.

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Talc

Talc or talcum is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2.

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Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.

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Tectonic evolution of the Aravalli Mountains

The Aravalli Mountain Range is a northeast-southwest trending orogenic belt that is located in the northwestern part of India and is part of the Indian Shield that was formed from a series of cratonic collisions.

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Thar Desert

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an English-language, Indian daily newspaper published by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd..

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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The Times Group

The Times Group is India’s largest media conglomerate, according to Financial Times as of March 2015.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Tosham Hill range

Tosham hill (Tusham hill old spelling), located at Tosham, with an average elevation of 207 meters (679 feet), and the rocks exposed in and around Tosham hills are part of subsurface north western spur of Alwar group of Delhi supergroup of Aravalli Mountain Range, belong to the Precambrian Malani igneous suite of rocks and have been dated at 732 Ma BP (million years before present).

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Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest biome, also known as tropical dry forest, monsoon forest, vine thicket, vine scrub and dry rainforest is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Tuff

Tuff (from the Italian tufo) is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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Type site

In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture.

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Udaipur

Udaipur /ʊdəjpur/, also known as the "City of Lakes" is a major city, municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Udaipur district

Udaipur District is one of the 33 districts of Rajasthan state in western India.

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Unicellular organism

A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of only one cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of more than one cell.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Vagad

Vagad (also known as Vagar, Hindi: वागड) is a region in southeastern Rajasthan state of western India.

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Weathering

Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms.

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West Banas River

The West Banas is a river of western India.

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Western Dedicated Freight Corridor

| The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor or Western DFC is a broad gauge freight corridor under construction in India by Indian Railways.

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Western India

Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of its western part.

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Wildlife Institute of India

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India.

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Yamuna

The Yamuna (Hindustani: /jəmʊnaː/), also known as the Jumna, (not to be mistaken with the Jamuna of Bangladesh) is the longest and the second largest tributary river of the Ganges (Ganga) in northern India.

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Zawar

Zawar is a settlement located in Udaipur District, Rajasthan, India, approximately 40 km from the lake city Udaipur.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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References

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