SAURASHTRA BASIN FORMED WHEN INDIA SEPARATED FROM MADAGASCAR

The Saurashtra Basin, which is spread across the coastline of western Gujarat and north of Mumbai, was formed by the separation of India from Madagascar about 100 million years ago, say the findings of an ongoing study.

This study of the sediments of the Saurashtra Basin is being conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay jointly with Thiruvananthapuram-based National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS) to get insights into the region's paleogeography. Paleogeography is a historical study that tells us what the parts of the earth looked like in the past.

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