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  media type="custom" key="679681" Himalyan Mountain System By Bob Name

The Himalayas are a Sanskrit name which mans "abode of snow", since Hima=snow and Alaya=abode, add that togethere to get HImalaya.

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The Himalayas were formed about 70 milion years ago, but even that is considered young when compared to other mountain ranges. Scientists today are certain that the formation of the Himalayas was made by the Indo-Australion plate and the Eurasian plate colliding. This started in the Upper-Cretaceous era, when the Indo-Australion plate started moving about 15 cm. a year. Then 50 million years ago, the plate was moved into a place where it completely covered an ocean! The sediments, being light, rose instead of sinking and started forming into a mountain range. Even now, the Himalayas are still rising about 5 mm. a year; do to this, the Himalayas experience earthquakes frequently. Water System

The Himalayas contain a lot of the world's fresh water, and some salt water too! To start out with, this mountain system has about 15,000 glaciers, holding about 12,000 km. cubed of fresh water. Along with that, most of the region is covered in snow, all you have to do is melt it. Lakes are also very common in this region. If you went in the air, and looked down, you would see that the whole region has been marked with hundreds and hundreds of lakes. Lakes that are caused by glacial activity are called "tarns". Rivers are also frequent. Though the Himalayas have numerous minor rivers, they have 3 major river systems: The Yangtze, the Indus, and the Ganga-Brahmaputra. Click here for more information. Eight-Thousanders



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The Abominable Snowman A myth that has been here for more than a decade, what is the myth, this legend? It's the Abominable Snowman. The Abonimable Snowman, also known as the Yeti, is often said to be the Himalayan parallel to the Sasquatch. It is supposedly supposed to be a "wild man", completely covered in hair, and with caveman manners. The Yeti wasn't always a world-wide myth. The myth was only know to the homeland people, but when an expedition lead by Lieutenant-Colonal Charles Howard-Bury came to the Himalayans, the word was spread. This Lieutenant-Colonal wrote a book explaining his travels and how he saw a footprint in the snow. Thinking it was wolf's print, they asked their guides but only then did they find out the legend of the Yeti, so the Lieutenant-Colonal wrote it in his book. So is this animal real? Who knows, but there has been many theories to this legend. How many are there? Click this link right here [|Link Text] Bibliography

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