Question

5) Effect of mass movement will be greater
along the western slope of the Sahyadris
than the eastern slope. Give reasons​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Mass movement, also called Mass Wasting, bulk movements of soil and rock debris down slopes in response to the pull of gravity, or the rapid or gradual sinking of the Earth’s ground surface in a predominantly vertical direction. Formerly, the term mass wasting referred to a variety of processes by which large masses of crustal materials are moved by gravity from one place to another. More recently, the term mass movement has been substituted to include mass wasting processes and the sinking of confined areas of the Earth’s ground surface. Mass movements on slopes and sinking mass movements are often aided by water and the significance of both types is the part each plays in the alteration of landforms.

Answer 2

Effect of mass movement on the slope of the Sahyadris

Explanation:

• The western ghats are also called as the Sahyadris and are a continuous mountain ranges that cover an area of the 14,000 km square. And flow through the states of Kerala to Gujarat and is some es also called as the great escapements of India.

• The hills cover an area of 160,000 km and as they have originated from the folded and the fault system of the range and they appear in an as abrupt cliff, along with the dense forest contribute to the rainfall of this area.

• Eastern ghats are discontinuous ranges and have low valleys and plain region geologic feature includes the thrust fault and thus the stratigraphy of this region represents the extensive periods of erosion and nondeposition thus accounts for the greater effects of the mass movement.

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