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Sivaliks are _______.
A. To the north of Himadri
B. Foothills of Himalayan ranges
C. In Meghalaya
D. The plateau between Paris and Myanmar

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Hint: The Shivalik Hills, otherwise called the Shivalik Hills, is a mountain range that extends from the Indus River around 2,400 km eastwards near the Brahmaputra River, crossing over the northern pieces of the Indian subcontinent. It is 10–50 km wide with a normal rise of 1,500–2,000 m. Between the Teesta and Raidāk Rivers in Assam is a hole of around 90 km.

Complete answer:
Geographically, the Shivalik Hills have a place with the Tertiary stores of the external Himalayas. They are primarily made out of sandstone and aggregate stone developments, which are the set rubbish of the Himalayas to their north; they are ineffectively combined. The remaining polarization of siltstones and sandstones demonstrates that they were kept 16– million years prior. In Nepal, the Karnali River uncovered the most established piece of the Shivalik Hills.
They are the southernmost and topographically most youthful east-west mountain chain of the Himalayas. They have numerous subranges and expand west from Arunachal Pradesh through Bhutan to West Bengal, and further toward the west through Nepal (here known as Churia Hills) and Uttarakhand, proceeding into Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir. The slopes are sliced through at wide spans by various enormous waterways streaming south from the Himalayas.
They are limited on the south by a deficiency framework called the Main Frontal Thrust, with more extreme inclines on that side. Underneath this, the coarse alluvial Bhabar zone makes the progress to the almost level fields. Precipitation, particularly throughout the mid-year rainstorm, permeates into the Bhabar, at that point is compelled to the surface by better alluvial layers beneath it in a zone of springs and swamps along the northern edge of the Terai or plains.
North of the Shivalik Hills, the 1,500–to 3,000-meter Lesser Himalayas, otherwise called the Mahabharat Range, rise steeply along with separation points. In numerous spots, the two territories are neighboring, however in different spots, underlying valleys 10–20 km wide separate them.

Thus, Option (B) is correct.

Note: In some Sanskrit messages, the area is called Manak Parbat. Sivalik in a real sense signifies 'braids of Shiva'. Shivalik district is home to Soanian archaeological culture.

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