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Loc-The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as

adjacent parts of Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the
plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi River lies to the south. The total area of the Chota Plateau is approximately
65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi).[1]

Form-The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a continental plateau - an extensive area of land thrust above the general land. The
plateau has been formed by continental uplift from forces acting deep inside the earth.[3] The Gondwana substrates
attest to the plateau's ancient origin. It is part of the Deccan Plate, which broke free from the southern continent during
the Cretaceous to embark on a 50-million-year journey that was violently interrupted by the northern Eurasian continent.
The northeastern part of the Deccan Plateau, where this ecoregion sits, was the first area of contact with Eurasia.[4]-The

Clim-Chota Nagpur Plateau has an attractive climate. For five or six months of the year, from October onwards the days
are sunny and bracing. The mean temperature in December is 73 °F(23 °C). The nights are cool and temperatures in
winter may drop below freezing point in many places. In April and May the day temperature may cross 100
°F (38 °C) but it is very dry and not sultry as in the adjacent plains. The rainy season (June to September) is pleasant.
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 The Chota Nagpur Plateau receives an annual average rainfall of around 1400 mm, which is less than the
rainforested areas of much of India and almost all of it in the monsoon months between June and August.[19]

Alt-The Chota Nagpur Plateau consists of three steps. The highest step is in the western part of the plateau,
where pats, as a plateau is locally called, are 3,000 feet (910 m) - 3,500 feet (1,100 m) above sea level. The highest
point is 3,819 feet (1,164 m). The next part contains larger portions of the old Ranchi and Hazaribagh districts and some
parts of old Palamu district, before these were broken up into smaller administrative units. The general height is 2,000
feet (610 m). The topography in undulating with prominent gneissic hills, often dome-like in outline.

Chota Nagpur, plateau in eastern India, in Bihar state. The plateau is composed of Precambrian rocks (i.e., rocks
more than about 540 million years old)

Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests are wide spread in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India
covering Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. The region comprises of dry to wet deciduous forests. The area is
fully surrounded by the plateaus, rocky hills and verdant valleys. The forests of the Chota Nagpur cover some of the
rare and endemic species. The plateau receives the less rainfall that makes the vegetation drier in this region. 

The Tibetan also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan (Qingzang) Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia[1][2][3]


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 or East Asia[5][6][7][8] covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China, as well as
part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. It stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north to south and 2,500
kilometres (1,600 mi) east to west. With an average elevation exceeding 4,500 metres (14,800 ft), the Tibetan Plateau is
sometimes called "the Roof of the World" and is the world's highest and largest plateau, with an area of 2.5 million
km2 (0.97 million sq. mi., or about four times the size ofFrance).[9]

The average elevation is over 4500 metres (14800 ft)

 the plateau dates back 13.5 million years and has reached a maximum average height of five kilometers. 

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