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One of India's highest waterfalls, where the Sharavati plunges off the edge of the Western Ghats.

At Jog, the Sharavati leaps roughly 250 m in four distinct cascades over the sharp western scarp of the Ghats. The falls mark the knickpoint where rivers of the plateau drop suddenly to the narrow coastal plain — a signature of the uplifted, faulted western edge of peninsular India.

Fed by the southwest monsoon, they thunder in the wet season and thin to ribbons in the dry, their flow now partly regulated by the Linganamakki reservoir upstream.

Sources

• Geological Survey of India

A short reference note: this summary draws on third-party sources such as the Geological Survey of India and Wikipedia. In time I plan to give every geological feature its own learning-oriented write-up — with custom diagrams, graphs, and study pointers — as I’ve already done for the 11 locations that have an Instagram reel.