Describe the main features of Himalayan Mountains.
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Features of Himalaya Mountains :-
1.Himalayas are geographically young fold mountains covering the Northern border of India. ...
2.The Himalayas is are the world's youngest mountains and also they form the world's highest mountain region. ...
3.The Great Himalayas contains valuable forest of spruce, fir, juniper, birch etc.
Explanation:
Features of Himalaya Mountains :-
1.Himalayas are geographically young fold mountains covering the Northern border of India. ...
2.The Himalayas is are the world's youngest mountains and also they form the world's highest mountain region. ...
3.The Great Himalayas contains valuable forest of spruce, fir, juniper, birch etc.
Explanation:
Soaring heights of the Himalaya's : It includes 50 mountain ranges exceeding 7200 m in height . ...
Alpine glaciers : The glaciers of river Ganga have been a distinct feature of the Himlayas for ages. ...
Vast bio-diversity : The Himalayan ranges are blessed with a variety of wild animals.
The Himalayan Mountains are young fold mountains which run in the west to east direction. They run over about 2,400 km.
The width of the mountains varies from 2,400 km in Kashmir to 150 km in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Himalayas are divided into three parallel ranges. The Himalayas save our country from the cold and dry winds of Central Asia. It also prevents the rain-laden monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean from crossing over to Northern countries and causes heavy rainfall in Northern India. Almost all the great rivers of India have their sources in the Himalayan ranges