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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