Siachen Glacier

SIACHEN GLACIER: The highest battlefield in the world, the Siachen Glacier, has witnessed conflict between India and Pakistan for over twenty years. Due to this conflict it had resulted in hundreds of causalities caused mostly by adverse climatic conditions and harsh terrain rather than military skirmishes. The conflict is also putting a lot of financial burden on the national exchequer of both sides.Due to the Sliding down a valley in the Karakoram Range, the glacier is 76 kilometers long and varies in width between2 to 8 kilometer.It came upto he up to 6 to 7 meters of the annual total of 10 meters of snow in the winter months. Blizzards can reach speeds of up to 150 knots (nearly 300 kilometers per hour). The temperature came down routinely…

1) The Kashmir battle is a close-by conflict generally among India and Pakistan, having started not long after the division of india in 1947. China has on occasion recognized a minor part. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, and the Kargil War. The two countries have additionally been combined into a couple conflicts over control of the Siachen Glacier. As an inevitable answer for this issue was for Kashmir to have the…

“Presently, 10 percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice, including glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.” (nsidc.org). But, that is changing fast in the modern world. As the temperature of Erath has gone up in the last century. “Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures have warmed roughly 1.33°F (0.74ºC) …” (globalclimate.ucr.edu). This has led to many wondering what the possible outcomes for the future of the planet. This is…

In the article, “Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history,” Robert Mulvaney and several scientists discussed the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula and its relationship to the collapsing ice shelves. They observed that the ice shelves were collapsing which allowed the glaciers to drain ice at a faster rate. The ice shelves that collapsed were at the Antarctic Peninsula which has had the most rapid warming over the past 50 years. Mulvaney and…

Did you know that only 10% of the world is covered by glaciers? The Laurentide ice sheet was 13 million square miles. And it shaped Canada and Minnesota. In this paper, I will explain the effects of the Laurentide ice sheet on Minnesota's landscape. Glaciers may seem irrelevant to how we live now because in Minnesota there hasn't been a glacier for a long time but, they formed our state. The last glacial advance start of the Des Moines lobe was about 75,000 years ago. The last glacial…

During ten thousand B.C. at the Northern Hemisphere, an abrupt global climate change that led to glacial like weather occured. This period is known as Younger Dryas Climate Event. Due to the earth warming, the ice age starting melting. This huge amount of freshwater started flowing into the gulf through the Mississippi River and also to north Atlantic from the east coast. This unusual flow of freshwater into the saltwater caused the water currents to change suddenly causing different weather…

valleys beds and a single stream flow from one end to the other. 3. Slide #9 shows a stream channel associated with an ice sheet. What is the name of the deposit left behind by this type of stream? The deposit that is left behind this stream is called alpine glacier. 4. What is the ablation zone of a glacier and why does the ice look “dirty”? The ablation zone of a glacier is an ice sheet that is low in attitude and when the water melt the ice is less mass subduction. The ice look dirty…

Park Ecology: Voyageurs National Park With the landscape being molded nearly a billion years ago, glaciers have proved to be a prominent impact on the topography of Voyageurs National Park. In addition to forming the rigid layers of the terrain, the glaciers have also helped in the formation of the mosaic-like rocks and minerals that exist in the present-day wildlife sanctuary. Years of snow and rain have also contributed to the erosion of the sediments, thus affecting the geological development…

breathed, “The Last Glacier is breaking! We have to do something!” “What can we do?” I asked, utterly dumbfounded. “You stopped all of those streams, there must be some things you learned about glaciers!” I had no idea about glaciers! All of those times that I made dams and stopped run-off streams, it was pure luck! Maybe that's what I could use this time… “Lucy, when you were entering the woods, did you happen to see a tall, old-looking tree-” “With sap that smelled like moldy…

While analyzing the Goldstein House by John Lautner house I noticed the removal of corners of two primary triangular that were connected along a regulating diagonal line. By shifting and reconnecting them by using the regulating line I noticed that they previously been derived from a breakage of a rectangle; this operation of breaking corners continued to be repeated throughout the floorplan. Diagram three is focused on the transgression of the operation of breaking comes and exploring the new…