Which part of India has the Kalakot tertiary coal field ?

[amp_mcq option1=”Brahmaputra river basin of Assam” option2=”Damodar river basin of Jharkhand and West Bengal” option3=”Himalayan mountain region” option4=”Cardamom hills in Kerala” correct=”option3″]

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The correct answer is C) Himalayan mountain region.

The Kalakot tertiary coal field is located in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, which is part of the Himalayan mountain region.

India has two main types of coal deposits: Gondwana coal (older, mainly in Damodar, Mahanadi, Godavari basins) and Tertiary coal (younger, mainly in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Jammu & Kashmir). The Kalakot field is one of the significant tertiary coal fields in India, found within the geologically young Himalayan belt.

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