write any three common features of himalayan rivers
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Main features of the Himalayan Rivers :
i. Himalayan rivers have large basins.
ii. Many of them make spectacular gorges.
iii. They are perennial in nature.
iv. They perform intensive erosional activities upstream and carry large amount of load of sand and silt.
v. In plains they iluw forming large meanders due to gentle scope.
vi. They form numerous depositional features like flood plain, river bluffs and levees.
i. Himalayan rivers have large basins.
ii. Many of them make spectacular gorges.
iii. They are perennial in nature.
iv. They perform intensive erosional activities upstream and carry large amount of load of sand and silt.
v. In plains they iluw forming large meanders due to gentle scope.
vi. They form numerous depositional features like flood plain, river bluffs and levees.
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Mention three features of the Himalayan mountains-------
(i) The Himalayas, geologically young and structurally fold mountains, stretch over the northern borders of India.
(ii) These mountain ranges run in a west-east direction from the Indus to the Brahmaputra.
(iii) The Himalayas represent the loftiest and one of the most rugged mountain barriers of the world.
(iv) They form an arc which covers a distance of about 2,400 km. Their width varies from 400 km in Kashmir to 150 km in Arunachal Pradesh.
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