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Question
Give a geographical reason:
One finds many sheep rocks, horns, aretes, and hanging valleys in the Himalayas.
Solution
One finds many sheep rocks, horns, Aretes, and hanging valleys in the Himalayas because -
- In the Himalayas work of glacier is more predominant due to snow-covered peaks and slopes. Sheep rock, horns, Aretes, and hanging valleys are formed by glaciers. Like other agents of erosion, glaciers to carry out erosion, transportation, and deposition.
- In the Himalayas, glaciers remove rock particles from the surface on which they flow by abrasion which leads to the formation of sheep rocks.
- Ice movement, accompanied by weathering and mass wasting has steepened the walls at the head of the glacier. This has deepened into an armchair-shaped depression called a cirque.
- In the Himalayas, two of more cirques have developed and the area between them is narrowed and formed arete and further, the headward erosion of the glaciers has eroded the summit leading to the formation of a typical peak called a horn.
- The Himalayan glaciers to have tributaries like rivers. The rate of erosion is different. The main valley gets eroded faster and becomes deeper than the tributary glacial valley. These appear to be hanging when seen from the main valley. Thus, hanging valleys are formed.
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