{"id":15176,"date":"2020-05-01T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15176"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:08:13","slug":"wihg-reveals-35-thousand-year-history-of-river-erosion-in-ladakh-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wihg-reveals-35-thousand-year-history-of-river-erosion-in-ladakh-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"WIHG reveals 35 thousand-year history of river erosion in Ladakh Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) revealed river erosion history in Ladakh Himalayas and also identified hotspots of erosion in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Ladakh Himalaya forms a high altitude desert between Greater Himalayan ranges and Karakoram Ranges.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Main Rivers:<\/strong> Indus and its tributaries.&nbsp; The Zanskar River is one of the largest tributaries of the upper Indus catchment. Two major tributaries of the Zanskar River are the Doda and TsrapLingti Chu.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> Cold-arid&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/49fuJEiLpKfoyehU4cvf9iiEU9xaD6RdUJsen2xghB1HIJbYKqJfm1RHcKhhkLwanM9fBcZgqThse8UhJfFbTT4zjz7RoK-dpGf-HaUzNo9Ou_Ip8eDSQbQ-DE2w2AZS5l2Fpp4J\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) revealed river erosion history in Ladakh Himalayas and also identified hotspots of erosion in the region. Facts: Location: Ladakh Himalaya forms a high altitude desert between Greater Himalayan ranges and Karakoram Ranges.&nbsp; Main Rivers: Indus and its tributaries.&nbsp; The Zanskar River is one of the largest tributaries of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wihg-reveals-35-thousand-year-history-of-river-erosion-in-ladakh-himalayas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WIHG reveals 35 thousand-year history of river erosion in Ladakh Himalayas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4982],"class_list":["post-15176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ladakh-himalayas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704889084},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}