Indian Geography
Prepared By
LIZA SARMAH
Mission APSC AE/JE
The Indian Desert
• The Indian desert is also known as the Thar Desert or the Great
Indian Desert.
• Location – To the north-west of the Aravali hills .
• • It covers Western Rajasthan and extends to the adjacent parts
of Pakistan .
• • The desert is called the Marusthali (dead land) as this region
has
• • an arid climate with low vegetation spread. The Eastern part
of the desert is rocky, while its western part is covered by
shifting sand dunes.
• The most significant river ‘Luni’ is a seasonal stream. The Luni
begins in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, close to Ajmer
and flows towards the southwest into the Rann of Kutch.
• Desert land features :
• • Sand dunes: It is a land of undulating topography
dotted with longitudinal dunes, transverse dunes and
barchans. (Barchan – A crescent-shaped sand dune, the
horns of which point away from the direction of the
dominant wind; Longitudinal dune – A sand dune with its
crest running parallel to the direction of prevailing wind)
• • Mushroom rocks
• • Oasis - an small patch of vegetation surrounded by
desert.
