Geography

Concepts to cover

1. Peninsular block, Himalaya and other extra-peninsular mountains, Indo-Ganga-Brahmaputra plain
2. Archaean gneisses and Dharwar system: gold, iron ore, manganese, mica (Koderma)
3. Cuddapah and Vindhyan systems: limestone, sandstone, diamonds of Panna
4. Gondwana system: coal beds (Damodar, Son, Mahanadi, Godavari valleys); correlation with southern continents
5. Deccan Trap fissure basalts and black soil; Cretaceous-Eocene volcanism
6. Tertiary Himalayan folding and Quaternary alluvium; tertiary coal and petroleum of Assam
7. Peninsular block features: residual ranges, shallow valleys, submerged west coast, stable shield