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A wilderness of gullies and badlands carved by the Chambal into soft alluvium.
Where the Chambal crosses deep, soft alluvial soils, runoff has sculpted a dense maze of ravines and badlands — steep gullies branching for kilometres from the river. It is one of the most extensive gullied landscapes in India, a textbook example of accelerated soil erosion.
The rugged, thinly settled terrain long sheltered outlaws, and today the protected Chambal itself — unusually clean for a north Indian river — harbours gharial, the Ganges river dolphin and turtles.
Sources
- Geological Survey of India