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PHYSICAL
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SIKKIM GLACIERS |
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Glaciers are
moving mountains of ice. There are many of these
in Sikkim among which the most important ones
are Zemu Glacier, Rathong Glacier and the Lonak
Glacier in North Sikkim. |
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Zemu Glacier
The Zemu glacier is the largest and the most famous
glacier of the eastern Himalayas. It is 26 km
in length and is situated in a large U-shaped
valley at the base of the Khangchendzonga massif
in northwestern Sikkim. The Teesta River rises
from the snout of this glacier. |
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Many tributary glaciers feed
the trunk glacier. The side valleys in which these
glaciers lie open into the main Zemu Valley from
different directions. Icefalls and waterfalls
have formed at the junction of the tributary glaciers
with the Zemu glacier. |
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