Zemu Glacier

Zemu glacier is treated as the world’s third highest elevation. Its significance stresses upon its key water medium for the river teetsa Zemu glacier. It is a natural basin discharging the water due to the process called melting. This river serves as the target of hydropower project begun by the Sikkim Government. Till date, up to 3500 mw are working. River scheme is working with the water eliciting without the dike, running along the walls of the valley and through the array of turbines, discharged back to the river. This run of water is much cheaper than dam in this distant, prone to earthquake. Zemu glacier was entitled with less deliberation and thereby people will have to wait upon the Digital Globe to examine its diversifications.

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The withdrawal to this glacier has been examined from year 1967-1984 at 27m ashishanthwal. Length of the glacier envelopes bulky remains. Along with diffused tiny lakes on its covering, isolating the removal. The freshly devastated section fairs about 150 feet over the principal glacier envelope in which each of the two resides edgeways moraine ridges. The important part includes its refinement. Now these were assembled in the course of Ice age. The edgeways never influenced the raised glacier exterior that constructed them. Thus to conclude, the reduced glacier has diminished in this end of the last century which extends for about 150 feet.

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