Deccan

[dek-uhn]

noun

1. the entire peninsula of India S of the Narmada River.

2. a plateau region in S India between the Narmada and Krishna rivers.

Deccan

/ ˈdɛkən /

noun

1. a plateau in S India, between the Eastern Ghats, the Western Ghats, and the Narmada River

2. the whole Indian peninsula south of the Narmada River

Example Sentences

At last, he broke into the rugged Deccan Plateau - the Germany to the Tamil coast's Italy - and seized a portion of it for himself.

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The research team delved into volcanic eruptions of the Deccan Traps -- a vast and rugged plateau in Western India formed by molten lava.

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The work took researchers around the world, from hammering out rocks in the Deccan Traps to analyzing the samples in England and Sweden.

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The scientists behind that paper determined this by studying the Deccan Traps of western India, which were formed by molten lava after a massive volcanic eruptions 66 million years ago.

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He added, "The eruption of lava flows that covered half of the Indian subcontinent at this time — producing the celebrated Deccan Traps, one of the largest volcanic features on Earth — have long been attributed to a powerful mantle plume that is completely absent from the model simulation."

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