{"id":26827,"date":"2024-09-24T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26827"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:32:40","slug":"fjord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fjord\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Fjord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fjord:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A fjord is a <strong>long, deep, narrow body of water<\/strong> that <strong>reaches far inland<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Fjords are often <strong>set in a U-shaped valley<\/strong> with <strong>steep walls of rock on either side<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Fjords are <strong>found mainly in Norway, Chile<\/strong>, <strong>New Zealand, Canada, Greenland<\/strong>, and the U.S. state of <strong>Alaska<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How are Fjords Formed?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Fjords have been <strong>shaped throughout<\/strong> the span of several <strong>ice ages by slow-moving glaciers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As the <strong>glacier<\/strong> moved, it <strong>cut away<\/strong> at the<strong> top layers of ice<\/strong> and into the sediment below.<\/li>\n<li>Melting waters also carved away into the land, meaning that many f<strong>jords are actually deeper than the sea <\/strong>that feeds into it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where the fjord meets the sea<\/strong>, also known as the <strong>mouth<\/strong>, many <strong>glaciers left behind shill or shoal rock deposits.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Because the <strong>mouth is a shallower opening than the body <\/strong>of the fjord, it <strong>results in extremely fast-moving water<\/strong> (this includes strong currents and saltwater rapids).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fjords<\/strong> commonly are <strong>deeper in their middle and upper reaches<\/strong> than at the seaward end.\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>results from<\/strong> the <strong>greater erosive power of<\/strong> the <strong>glaciers closer to their source,<\/strong> where they are moving most actively and vigorously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Because of the comparatively shallow thresholds of fjords, the bottoms of many have stagnant water and are rich in black mud containing hydrogen sulfide.<\/li>\n<li>Some <strong>features<\/strong> of fjords <strong>include coral reefs<\/strong> and <strong>rocky islands called skerries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Epishelf Lakes:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Another feature of some fjords is the presence of epishelf lakes. These lakes occur when <strong>melted fresh water becomes trapped under a floating ice shelf<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This <strong>freshwater does not mix with the saltwater below<\/strong>, but rather <strong>floats on top<\/strong> of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a Glacier?<\/h3>\n<p>Glaciers are massive bodies of slowly moving ice. Glaciers form on land, and they are made up of fallen snow that gets compressed into ice over many centuries. They move slowly downward from the pull of gravity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/fuel-slick-from-sunk-ship-spreads-to-greenland-fjord\/articleshow\/113541702.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fuel slick from sunk ship spreads to Greenland fjord<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fjord is a long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}