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alluvium ammonites Andhra Pradesh animals Archaean areas Assam basin beds Bihar brachiopod Cainozoic Cambrian Carboniferous clay coal coast colour conglomerates containing corals Cretaceous Cuddapah Damuda Deccan trap Delhi deposits developed earth movements earth's crust Eocene epoch eroded erosion extinct fauna folded formation formed fossils GEOGRAPHY geological geosyncline glacial glaciers Glossopteris gneisses Gondwana Gondwanaland granite ground water Gujarat hills Himalaya Himalayan region igneous India Jurassic Kashmir known Kumaon Kutch lakes land laterite lava flows Library Edn limestones Lower Madhya Pradesh Madras mammals marine materials Mesozoic metres Middle million years ago minerals Miocene mountain Mysore occur ocean Orissa Palaeozoic peninsular period Permian plants Plate Pleistocene Pliocene pre-Cambrian quartzites Rajasthan Rajmahal range reptiles rise rivers rocks salt sand sandstones sedimentary sediments shales shell Siwalik soils species Spiti Stegodon surface teeth Tertiary Tethys Triassic unconformity uplift Upper Carboniferous Upper Gondwana valley Vindhyan volcanic West Pakistan