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The old alluvial remains of the Narmada are
remarkable

as

lying

of

considerable

elevations over 150 m. above their present
bed.

Among

mammalian
sediment

other

fossils,
have

undoubted

vertebrate

and

ancient

river

the

preserved

traces

of

the

man’s

earliest
existence

scattered in their alluvia are the stone
knives,

hatchets,

implements

which

arrows

and

other

prehistoric

man

manufactured out of any hard stone that he
came across.

There is some proof that the Narmada in
those days was confluent with the Tapti and
that its separation into a distinct channel was
effected at a comparatively late date by earth
movements. That the cause of the Narmada
has undergone a serious disturbance during
late geological time is correlated by another
piece of evidence viz. the precipitous path of
this river at Jabalpur.

Editor- Sujit Choudhury, Published by
IRBMS

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Integrated

River

Basin

Management Society)

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