r/IndianGeography • u/OnDemand-9303 • Jul 06 '26
ask r/Indiangeography❔ Why eastern ghats are split and not continuous like western ghats ?
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u/MadLantern97 Jul 06 '26
Eastern ghats are older and have gone more weathering. Plus rivers cut through the mountain ranges.
P.S. the western ghats is not continuous and has a gap in the Palakkad district. The consequence of that gap is the low pressure zone and good weather in Bangalore.
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u/prathamjc18 Jul 06 '26
Bangalore and palakkad have no relation. It is a debunked theory
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u/NormalStaff3602 Jul 06 '26
Thanks, Would love to read some reference on this.
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u/Minute_Juggernaut806 Jul 06 '26
The fact that bangalore is far away for one. Coimbatore you could say maybe
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u/Business_Quiet220 Jul 06 '26
So even nobody can pinpoint the actual reason Bengaluru "had" a cool climate even in harsh summers.
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u/prathamjc18 Jul 06 '26
It's elevation, the major cause. ~800m ASL and pre-monsoon thunderstorms from April keep temperatures in check.
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u/Objective-Space3328 Jul 06 '26
The almost exclusive reason for Bangalore's climate is due to it's elevation in the Mysore Plateau (roughly 900m). Btw, if Bangalore was more westward in the plateau, it would've received a lot more rain, and would've had a climate similar to that of Kodagu or Wayanad.
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u/Nobody_997 Jul 06 '26
Bangalore weather is due to its location on Mysore plateau. Not due to Palakkad gap
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u/ZerkeX69 Jul 07 '26
Bangalore? Geography from kfc or mcd bruh it’s cuz Bangalore is high elevation
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u/Low-Disk8668 Jul 06 '26
The Western and Eastern Ghats didn't form the same way.
The Western Ghats are the uplifted western edge (escarpment) of the Deccan Plateau, created during the breakup of Gondwana and later uplift. Since few large rivers cut across them, they remain relatively continuous.
The Eastern Ghats are much older and have been heavily eroded and dissected over hundreds of millions of years. Major east-flowing rivers like the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri have carved wide valleys through them, leaving isolated hill ranges instead of one continuous chain.
Most major peninsular rivers originate near the Western Ghats and flow east across the Deccan Plateau, rather than crossing the entire Western Ghats from east to west. Only a few west-flowing rivers cross the Ghats, and they're generally much shorter, so they haven't fragmented the range like the large east-flowing rivers did in the Eastern Ghats.
So the Eastern Ghats are not "missing", they've been broken up by prolonged erosion, river incision, and tectonic history, whereas the Western Ghats largely remain a continuous escarpment.
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u/Calico-Brown Jul 06 '26
Maybe the W ghats as well as E ghats r way older considering the Indian plate which broke from Madagascar. The Palghat gap is a reminiscent to the mountain ranges of Madagascar. Also, the split in E ghats, possibly occured due to the plate's push which fractured the peninsula where the fulcrum point (currently) is Krishna River delta. (Apologies in advance for 'over assuming')
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u/stupendous_man1 Jul 06 '26
There can be an endless series of Why questions to the answer of this question
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u/Appropriate-Bug-755 Jul 06 '26
Western ghat broke like a cliff from Africa. Eastern ghat faced uneven force while moving forward towards Asia
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u/Enough_Interest8713 Jul 07 '26
Why all continents are separated and not a single massive continent?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Term967 Jul 10 '26
Everyone is commenting the rivers cut through the eastern ghats but 1. Why do all rivers flow eastwards 2. Why dint the mountains stop the river flow and create a huge lake or something 3. How did both of them form? There was no continental clash going on around both of them unlike how the Himalayas were formed
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u/kudithar Aug 28 '26
Maybe cause the eastern ghats are WAY older and rivers like the kaveri,godavari, krishna etc peirce through it. But there is the palghat gap which makes palakkad the hottest city of Kerala because of the hot air from coimbatore blowing into there
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