Karewas

Vudris the local name for Karewas in Kashmiri language.

In the Kashmiri dialect,the term Karewa means elevated table land.

Firstly, this term wasused by Godwin Austin in 1859 and later on by Lydekker in 1878forunconsolidated to semi-consolidated sand clay conglomerate sequence.

Karewas are thethick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines.These are unconsolidatedlacustrine deposits.Lacustrine means associated with lakes