(A) The Chambal river badlands are a late Pleistocene-Holocene degradationallandscape. The Chambal is the largest of cratonic (the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent) rivers in Ganga-Yamuna drainage basin. From source to its confluence with the Yamuna, it is about a 1000 km long. It flows over both the Deccan Basalts and Proterozoic Vindhyan strata and contributes a significant amount of sediment to thefore land basin. Chambal forms deep ravines with gully erosion in semi-arid region in flat alluvial plains, having high percentage of clay that has a low dispersion coefficient.