Dome gneiss hill near Ranchi city of India.

It is formed mainly by weathering and erosion. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Geologist Email: nitish.priyadarshi@gmail.com

Abo e pict!res are of Dome gneiss hill. "his typical dome#gneiss $locally %nown as dongris& '( %m from )anchi on )anchi#B!nd! highway $*+, '-. longit!de and '/, 01. latit!de& has slopes on all sides $the a erage inclination being abo!t 1, degree to +,

degree&. "here is little soil b!t oo2ing moist!re from roc% foliae s!pports t!ft grass e3cept the entirely bare roc%y s!rfaces. A dome is a c!r ed formation or str!ct!re. It is shaped li%e half of a sphere. Imagine c!tting an orange in half4 and placing it c!t#side#down on a table. "his is the shape of a dome4 altho!gh most domes in nat!re are not perfectly ro!nded. 5ome nat!ral domes de elop when magma from deep within the Earth p!shes !p s!rface roc% layers. "his type of geologic dome can form as magma intr!des between two layers of sedimentary roc%. "he magma creates a dome or triangle shape as it p!shes the other layers apart. "he hardened magma that forms this type of dome is called laccolith. Another %ind of dome is shaped primarily by weathering and erosion4 which ca!se c!r ed sheets of roc% to separate from a large roc% mass. "he dome shaped hill near )anchi is formed mainly by weathering and erosion. "he 6hotanagp!r platea! region is made !p mainly of Precambrian roc%s b!t has witnessed !plifts synchrono!sly with the 7imalayan !plift in the 6eno2oic. 6hotanagp!r platea! of 8har%hand is 9!oted as a typical e3ample of domal platea! beca!se it is st!dded with n!mero!s batholithic domes which were intr!ded in the Dharwarian sedimentaries d!ring Archaean period. Prolonged den!dation has remo ed the s!perinc!mbent Dharwarian co ers and these batholithic domes ha e been e3posed on the s!rface. "he E!ropean geographers who attended the :symposi!m on erosion s!rface; in 0<(* at )anchi felt that 6hotanagp!r was a fossil or dead erosion s!rface. "here were pediments in the region d!ring the past more arid climate. Now the climate had changed to more h!mid one. "his has ca!sed so m!ch prod!ction of weathered waste in con=!nction with hot climate4 that the sediments were more than what co!ld be cleared by the transporting process $mainly r!nning water&. "h!s the earlier pediments and bedroc% were concealed !nder the debris and sediment.