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UPSC Indian Geography 07 - Indian Coast, Soil & Forests

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UPSC Indian Geography 07 - Indian Coast, Soil & Forests


Indian Coasts

  • Western coast- Submerged
  1. Gulf of Kutchh & Cambay
  2. Konkan
  3. Malabar 
  • Eastern Coast- emerged
  1. Coromandal
  2. Utkal plains

Soils
  • Black soil- NP/ HK, (Poor / Rich)- Maharashtra
  • Alluvial soil- NPH/ K-usar- UP 
  • Red soil- NPHl/K-Tamil Nadu- most widely
  • Laterite soil- NPHK/0 - infertile, 
  • Desert soil- NH/PK, 
  • Forest soil-0/H, 
  • Saline and Alkaline soil - N/CM
Forests
  • Tropical: 
  1. Evergreen-Western Ghats- ebony mahogany, 
  2. semi evergreen (both)- Orissa, 
  3. Dry evergreen ( North East monsoon Tamilnadu-Jamun),
  4. Moist deciduous-Teak sal-, 
  5. Dry deciduous-Andhra Pradesh, 
  6. Thorn
  • Temperate Forest: 
  1. Broadleaf hill ( Nilgiri)- oak- deodhar, shola forest, 
  2. Dry evergreen -shrub,
  • Montane wet- pine, 
  • Alpine Forest
  • Tidal forest





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