Question

In which of the following states is karewa soil found?
(A) Haryana
(B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Jammu and Kashmir
(D) Uttarakhand

Answer 1

HintKarewa soil found in the mountain valley filling, composed of unconsolidated gravel and mud. There are a series of plateaus above the Yarum Plain and its tributaries. These plateau-shaped terraces are called "Karewas" or "Vudu" in the local language.

Complete step by step solution
Karewa soil The word Karewa in Kashmiri means "high ground". This term was first used by the 14 later of Godwin-Austin (1859) and Lyatkker (1878) for unconsolidated to semi-consolidated sand-conglomerate sequences. These sediments appeared in the form of terraces, plateaus, and hills, and stayed on Paleozoic-Mesozoic sediments in the Kashmir "basin". De Terra and Patterson (1939) described these Quaternary sediments in detail for the first time.
The compilation aims to assess the oil and gas potential of the Kareva Basin. Since the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sequences constituted the base of the Kareva sediments, they are also briefly described for a regional overview. The Paleozoic-Mesozoic basin of Kashmir is distributed in an area of ​​about 5,200 square kilometers, located at the bifurcation of the Great Himalayas west of the Ravi River.
It is an elliptical depression between the Pilpanjar Mountains in the southwest and the Sanskal Mountains in the northeast. The Paleozoic-Mesozoic subsequence is located on the crystal rock of Salkhala. The Salkhala crystalline and its overlying Paleozoic-Mesozoic sequence have been transported as a tectonic thrust plate to the back of the Panjal thrust (=main central thrust).

Thus, option (C) is correct.

Note The Kareva Formation can be seen in the Northwest Himalayas (Kashmir Himalayas). The northern and northeastern mountains are composed of the Himalayas and northeastern hills. The Himalayas consist of a series of parallel mountains.