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| Article Name : | | | FLUVIAL PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS IN THE INDUS VALLEYAND ASSOCIATED LIVELIHOOD | | Author Name : | | | Jagdish Chand | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4910 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | In the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is one of the highest and driest inhabited places on earth. The enormous mass of the Himalayas creates a rain shadow, denying entry to the moisture-laden clouds of the Indian monsoon. Ladakh is thus, a high altitude desert. The main source of water is the winter snowfall on the mountains. The regions on the north flank of the Himalayas-Dras, the Suru valley and Zanskar-experience heavy snowfall and remain virtually cut off from the rest of the country for several months in the year. Summers are short, although long enough to grow crops. Ladakh displays a cold-desert landscape sculpted by Quaternary glaciations and cryogenic weathering, with superimposed effects of fluvial and mass movement processes. The upper Indus River, along with the Shyok is the backbone of Ladakh. The different landforms produced by Indus River and associated livelihood of people of the valley has been studied. | | Keywords : | | - teaching and learning,Global Education Strategy for Children,
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