Malwa Plateau
- The Malwa Plateau roughly forms a triangle based on the Vindhyan Hills, bounded by the Aravalli Range in the west and Madhya Bharat Pathar to the north and Bundelkhand to the east.
- This plateau has two systems of drainage; one towards the Arabian sea (The Narmada, the Tapti and the Mahi), and the other towards the Bay of Bengal (Chambal and Betwa, joining the Yamuna).
- In the north, it is drained by the Chambal and many of its right bank tributaries like the Kali, the Sindh and the Parbati. It also includes the upper courses of the Sindh, the Ken and the Betwa.
- It is composed of extensive lava flow and is covered with black soils.
Bundelkhand Upland
- Yamuna river to the north, Madhya Bharat Pathar to the west, Vindhyan Scarplands to the east and south-east and Malwa Plateau to the south.
- It is the old dissected (divided by a number of deep valleys) upland of the ‘Bundelkhand gneiss’ comprising of granite and gneiss.
- Spreads over five districts of Uttar Pradesh and four districts of Madhya Pradesh.
- The erosional work of the rivers flowing here have converted it into an undulating (wave-like surface) area and rendered it unfit for cultivation.
- Streams like Betwa, Dhasan and Ken flow through the plateau.
