Himal Pahad Terai

Physiography of Nepal A profile across the Himalaya illustrates the subdivisions  • Terai • Siwalik Range (or briefly Siwaliks) with dun valleys • Mahabharat Range • Midlands • Fore Himalaya • Great Himalaya • Inner Himalayan valleys • Tibetan marginal ranges.   Terai The Terai Plain is represented by Pleistocene to Holocene sediments and is part of the Ganga foreland basin. In Nepal there are three separate areas where the alluvium is observed south of the Siwalik hills. Its width varies from about 30 km in west Nepal to about 40 km in central Nepal, and from 25 to 50 km in east Nepal . the Terai slopes towards the south and the altitudinal difference between the Siwalik foothills and the Indian border ranges from 100 to 200 m. The Terai is subdivided into the three zones , respectively, from north to south. Upper Terai or Bhabar Zone : The Bhabar (or Bhabhar) zone is observed at the foot of the Siwaliks and it is made up of coalescing alluvia...

The  Himalayas , or  Himalaya  ( / ˌ h ɪ m ə ˈ l eɪ ə ,   h ɪ ˈ m ɑː l ə j ə / ), ( Sanskrit :  himá  ( हिम , "snow") and  ā-laya  ( आलय , "abode, receptacle, dwelling")), is a  mountain range  in  Asia  separating the plains of the  Indian subcontinent  from the  Tibetan Plateau . The range has many of  Earth 's highest peaks, including the highest,  Mount Everest , at the border between  Nepal  and  China . The Himalayas include over  fifty mountains  exceeding 7,200 m (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen  8,000-metre peaks . By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia ( Aconcagua , in the  Andes ) is 6,961 m (22,838 ft) tall. Geographically the Himalayan range lies between its eastern and western syntaxis as represented by the Namche Barwa and Naga Parbat, in the north it is bounded by Yalu Tsangpo and Indus Rivers. The southern...

  Facts about the Himalayas: 1. The word ‘Himalaya” in Sanskrit means abode of snow. 2. The geological age of the Himalaya is approximately 70 million years. It is the youngest Mountain Range in the world. 3. According to Hindu mythology, God Shiva resides in the Himalaya. 4. Nameha Barwa peak is the easternmost and Nanga Parbat is the westernmost peak of the Himalaya. 5. Kumbhakarna is the new name of mount Jannu (7,710 m). 6. Gosainthan (8046 m) is the Nepali name for Shisha Pangma. 7. The ideal height gain per day for mountaineers is 1,000 ft above 10,000 ft. 8. The Himalayas are the source for rivers such as the Indus, the Yangtze and the Ganga-Brahmaputra. All three are the major river systems of the continent of Asia. 9. The Himalayas are the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. There are approximately 15,000 glaciers located throughout the range. 10. The Himalayas are alive geographically! The Indo-Australian plate is still mov...

Nepal contains some of the most rugged and difficult mountain terrain in the world. Roughly 75 percent of the country is covered by mountains. From the south to the north, Nepal can be divided into four main physical belts, each of which extends east to west across the country. These are, first, the  Tarai , a low, flat, fertile land  adjacent  to the border of India; second, the forested Churia foothills and the Inner Tarai zone, rising from the Tarai plain to the rugged Mahābhārat Range; third, the mid-mountain region between the Mahābhārat Range and the Great Himalayas; and, fourth, the  Great Himalaya Range , rising to more than 29,000 feet (some 8,850 metres). The Tarai forms the northern extension of the  Gangetic Plain  and varies in width from less than 16 to more than 20 miles, narrowing considerably in several places. A 10-mile-wide belt of rich agricultural land stretches along the southern part of the Tarai; the northern section, adjoining the f...

   Heim & Gansser 1939 , and   Gansser 1964   divided the rocks of the Himalaya into four   tectonostratigraphic   zones that are characterised by distinctive   stratigraphy   and physiography. From south to north, it can be divided into five latitudinal morpho-tectonic zones and these are : 1. The Gangatic Plain (Terai) 2. The Sub Himalayan (Chure or Siwalik) 3 Lesser Himalayan (Mahabharat Mountain Range), 4. Greater Himalayan, and 5. Tibetan Himalayan zones (Tethys Himalaya).

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