GS1 · 10 marks · 150 words

With the help of suitable examples, describe various Aeolian landforms.

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Syllabus: Geographical features and their location-changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.

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Kumud MishraAIR 69 · CSE 2024 · 133 wordsTheir whole copy

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The landforms are shaped by various geomorphic processes, including the endogenic (internal forces) and exogenic (external forces) processes.

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The Aeolian landforms

(1) They are shaped by the impact of climatic factors like water, arid climatic conditions. (2) The running water often results in various features like valleys, trough, river terraces. (3) Even the alluvial deposits, braided channels and deltas are created. (4) while the groundwater results in structures like caves, limestone pavements, sinks and lapies. (5) It also creates stalactites, stalagmites and pillars. (6) on the other hand the glaciers result in horns, cirques, trough, glacial valleys. (7) often drumlins, eskers, morains are also formed. (8) The wind and currents also result in bars, beaches, sandunes, the playas and pediplains.

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thus, the landforms are impacted by various forces outside and inside of Earth.

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