Narmada River: Difference between revisions

The source of the Narmada is a small reservoir, known as the [[Narmada Kund]], located at [[Amarkantak]] on the Amarkantak Plateau<ref>{{cite book |title=India: Physical Environment |publisher=NCERT |date=March 2006 |pages=27 |chapter=Chapter 3: Drainage System |isbn=81-7450-538-5}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1" /> in the [[Anuppur District]], Shahdol zone of eastern [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>Chadhar, Mohanlal (2017), Amarakantak kshetra ka puravaibhava, SSDN, Publisher and Distributor, New Delhi, {{ISBN|978-93-8357-509-1}}</ref> The river descends from Sonmuda, then falls over a cliff as Kapildhara waterfall and meanders in the hills, flowing through a tortuous course crossing the rocks and islands up to the ruined palace of Ramnagar. Between [[Ramnagar, Madhya Pradesh|Ramnagar]] and [[Mandla]], ({{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=on|1}}), further southeast, the course is comparatively straight with deep water devoid of rocky obstacles. The Banger joins from the left. The river then runs north–west in a narrow loop towards [[Jabalpur]]. Close to this city, after a fall of some ({{convert|9|m|ft|abbr=on|1}}), called the [[Dhuandhar Falls|Dhuandhara]], the fall of [[mist]], it flows for ({{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on|1}}), in a deep narrow channel through the magnesium [[limestone]] and [[basalt]] rocks called the [[Marble Rocks]]; from a width of about {{convert|90|m|ft|abbr=on|1}}, above, it is compressed in this channel of ({{convert|18|m|ft|abbr=on|1}}), only. Beyond this point up to its meeting the Arabian Sea, the Narmada enters three narrow valleys between the Vindhya scarps in the north and the Satpura range in the South. The southern extension of the valley is wider at most places. These three valley sections are separated by the closely approaching line of the [[Fault scarp|scarps]] and the Satpura hills.