Shillong Plateau
Plateau in Meghalaya, India
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The Shillong Plateau is a plateau in the eastern Meghalaya state of India. The plateau's western, northern, and southern ridges form the Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills, respectively.[1] This elevation is located to the immediate central-west of the Indo-Burman Ranges. Geographically, it separates the Brahmaputra valley from the eastern-Bengal plains, that is, present-day Assam and Bangladesh.
The plateau shows numerous fracture lineaments in satellite images and has been subjected to extensive and compressive forces in the N-S and E-W direction respectively. Several deep earthquakes point to tectonic activity in the mantle, such as from the 1897 Assam earthquake along the blind Oldham Fault.
The Dauki fault is a major fault along the southern boundary of the Shillong Plateau that may be a source of destructive seismic hazards for the adjoining areas, including northeastern Bangladesh.[2] The fault, inferred to go through the southern margin of the Shillong Plateau, is an east–west-trending reverse fault inclined towards the north.[3]
Linguistically, it is the homeland to Khasic languages.