Daily Dose - Geography

  • The Godavari river path and cities surrounding  - Godavari is also known as Ganges of South. Total length is 1465 KM. Originates from Brahmagiri mountain and falls in Bay of Bengal. Penganga, the Indravati, the Pranhita, and the Manjra are its principal tributaries.
    • Godavari River map





  • Ganges River Map :   Length  2,525 km. Uttar Pradesh has the highest share of  1450km , West Bengal has only 520km.

  • The smallest division of geological time is stage.
    Units in geochronology and stratigraphy
    Segments of rock (strata) in chronostratigraphy
    Time spans in geochronology
    Notes to
    geochronological units
    4 total, half a billion years or more
    10 defined, several hundred million years
    22 defined, tens to ~one hundred million years
    34 defined, tens of millions of years
    99 defined, millions of years
    subdivision of an age, not used by the ICS timescale














                  (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale)

  • The time period of Precambrian era is around 542 million years
  • Paleozoic era contains six time periods.
  •  Laterite soil - high temperature and heavy rainfall.
  • A lunar year—is a little less than 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34 seconds (354.367056 days), purely lunar calendars lose around 11 days per year relative to the Gregorian calendar.
  • 'AA' on map represents Equator.
  • Contour is the places with same height above sea level.
  • Rising of the evening star indicates west.




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