They are commonly underlain by oceanic crust or, less commonly, by highly extended continental crust. Within oceanic crust lie abyssal hills, which were formed from the development of normal faults and volcanism at the original ridge crest where the crust was created.
The Tharu a village of Pipariya in Nepal has created an image of the Tharu as primitive and the backward to attract the tourists as a ride in the ox cart to convey the traditional past of the ethnic people and the tharu is represented as a cultural stereotype of the people in the hierarchy.