Geography Topics

Alluvial soil covers over 90% of the entire landscape profile of Bihar, deposited continuously across the plains by the Ganga river system and its extensive tributaries.

Jet streams are high-altitude, exceptionally fast-flowing, narrow bands of wind currents that run from west to east near the tropopause zone boundary.

Kakolat Waterfall is a popular regional scenic landmark located in the Nawada district of Bihar, coming down a height of roughly 150 feet.

Mushroom rocks (or pedestal rocks) are landform structures carved by aeolian wind abrasion, which wears down the lower base sections of standalone rocks faster than their tops.

Kushwar Asthan Bird Sanctuary is located in the Darbhanga district of Bihar and represents a highly vital wetland grid attracting diverse migratory winter avifauna species.

The Ecological Footprint explicitly scales the absolute amount of biologically productive land and water area a target unit demands to support its resource consumption and process its waste.

The Gutenberg Discontinuity is located at a depth of about 2,900 kilometres and marks the core-mantle boundary separating the lower mantle and outer core.

Barauni in the Begusarai district of Bihar houses a major public sector oil refinery under the Indian Oil Corporation, setup with Soviet assistance.

Alfred Weber formulated the Least Cost Theory of Industrial Location in 1909, introducing 'Isodapanes' to represent lines of equal additional total transportation costs.

The Puerto Rico Trench contains the Milwaukee Deep, which registers as the absolute deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean with a depth exceeding 8,300 metres.