Black cotton soil is also called as ____ soil.

-Black cotton soil is a soil type which contains a high content of expansive clay minerals.
-It is found in the Deccan Plateau of India.
-It is a feature of the Deccan Trap.
🔑Key Points: 
-Volcanic outburst over a vast area of Peninsular India from the end of the Cretaceous till the beginning of the Eocene era gave rise to Deccan Traps.
-These volcanic deposits have flat high and steep sides and so known as ‘trap’ which means a ‘stair’ or ‘step’ in Swedish.
-It is found in parts of Kuchchh, Saurashtra, Maharashtra, the Malwa plateau and northern Karnataka.
-Thickness of the Deccan Traps is 3000 metres on the west that is reduced to 600-800 metres towards the south, 800 metres in Kutch and 150 metres at the eastern limit