shivalik hills is situated in mountain range geological formation in haryana.
shivalik hills is situated in mountain range geological formation in haryana.
which type of of geological formation in haryana is shivalik hills situated?
mountain range
the katberg formation is a geological formation that is found in the beaufort group, a major geological group that forms part of the greater karoo supergroup in south africa. the katberg formation is the lowermost geological formation of the tarkastad subgroup which contains the lower to middle triassic-aged rocks of the beaufort group. outcrops and exposures of the katberg formation are found east of 24 degrees on wards and north of graaff-reniet, nieu bethesda, cradock, fort beaufort, queensdown, and east london in the south, and ranges as far north as harrismith in deposits that form a ring around the drakensberg mountain ranges.
katberg formation
a decade after the sukhna lake, conceptualised by le corbusier was built, it was detected that sedimentation through the kansal choe, a seasonal stream, was causing reduction in the depth and size of the lake. in order to find a solution to the problem, cswcrti deputed a team in 1975, with mishra as the project director to sukhomajri, an arid village at the foothills of shivalik hills, in panchkula district of the indian state of haryana. he worked for three years with the local villagers, educating them about the seriousness of the situation and urging them to abandon goat farming which was causing denuding of the forests and shift to cattle farming. he built two check dams across the seasonal stream for rain water harvesting, made water available to villagers for agriculture and was successful in implementing "social fencing programme", where the villagers erected fences protecting the forests from cattle grazing. with assistance from the forest department of haryana and the ford foundation, he is reported to have transformed the village into a prosperous one. it is reported that the bare slopes of shivalik hills were covered with vegetation, the milk production increased nine-fold, the rate of sedimentation was reduced to 1/15th of earlier levels, crop yield increased manifold, and a corpus fund was put in place, under the care of a society, for development activities in the village. a 1992 study by s. k. dhar, the then chief conservator of forests, confirmed that the tree density also increased from 13 per hectare to 1272 per hectare.
parasu ram mishra