Aravalli Range

The Aravalli Range is a range of mountains in western India running approximately 300 miles from northeast to southwest across Rajasthan state. The northern end of the range continues as remote hills and rocky ridges into Haryana state, ending near Delhi. The uppermost mountain is Guru Shikhar in Mount Abu. Increasing to 5653 feet (1723 meters), it deception near the southwestern extremity of the range, close to the border with the Gujrat District. The city of Ajmer with its lake lies on the south slope of the range in Rajasthan.

The Aravalli Range is the worn stub of a range of very old folded mountains. The range rose in a Precambrian event called the Aravalli-Delhi orogen. The range joins two of the ancient segments that make up the Indian craton, the Marwar segment to the northwest of the range, and the Bundelkhand section to the southeast. As mentioned Aravali hills are from between the oldest of the old fold mountains and collectively form the Aravali hill range in Rajasthan in West India, they extend till Delhi in the heart of India.

Old Fold Mountains are exemplify by having stopped rising higher owing to the cessation of upward push caused by the stopping of lobby group of the tectonic plates in the Earth's crust below them. In ancient times they were enormously high but as have shabby down almost completely by millions of years of weathering. In bleak contrast Himalayas are continuously rising young fold mountains of today.