Journal of the Gujarat Research Society April 1948

The province of Gujarat shows three well-marked natural regions : (a) the flat plains of Gujarat extending along the western border from Daman in the south to as far as Cutch and the Aravallis in the north ; (b) the rocky terrains of (hitch and Kathiawar which are in turn covered by the Sub-Recent deposits of the Gulfs of Cambay and Cutch ; and (c) the highland region of the cast made up of the Ar [...] These are the Banas the Sabarmati the Mahi the Narbada the Kim the Tapti and the Ambika. [...] The two largest rivers of the province the Bhadar and the Shatrunji take their rise in the opposite slopes of the hills and flow inwards towards each other till they turn in opposite directions the Bhadar westward to the Arabian Sea and the Shatrunji eastward to the Gulf of Cambay. [...] This shallow sea-bed was gradually filled no by the detritus brought by the rivers like the Luni the Banas the Saraswati the Rtmen the Sabamati and the old eastern branch of the Indus and the north-east strip of Kathiawar was joined to the mainland. [...] (g) Tertiary era—period of evolution of the land of Gujarat the rise of the Himalayas and the appearance of man: It is the belief of some geologists that the Tertiary era had dawned to the acompaniment of volcanic outbursts.