The Geological Survey of India(GSI) has identified two geological heritage sites in the Indian Himalayan Region of India.<\/span><\/p>\n The two sites identified by GSI in the Himalayan Region are:<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/b>Himachal Pradesh<\/span><\/p>\n Description of the Site:<\/b> The Siwalik Fossil park displays a rich collection of vertebrate fossils recovered from the Siwalik rocks of the area of the Plio-Pleistocene age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 The deposition of Siwalik sediments took place in the narrow linear depression, called the ‘fore deep<\/strong>‘, which started developing in front of the Himalayas since the inception of its uplift in the middle Miocene.<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/b>Sikkim<\/span><\/p>\n Description of the Site: <\/b>The Geoheritage site at Mamley exposes litho units of Buxa Formation, Daling Group of Proterozoic age. The dolostones are profusely stromatolitic (Precambrian algal structures). This site provides one of the rare examples of early life in Sikkim Himalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n Geo-heritage refers to the geological features which are inherently or culturally significant offering insight to earth\u2019s evolution or history to earth science or that can be utilized for education.<\/span><\/p>\n The Geological Survey of India (GSI)<\/strong> declares geo-heritage sites\/ national geological monuments for protection and maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0National geological monument<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Eparchaean Unconformity<\/span><\/p>\n Natural Geological Arch, Tirumala Hills,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Erra Matti Dibbalu- the dissected and stabilized coastal red sediment mounds located between Vishakhapatnam and Bhimunipatnam.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Varkala Cliff Section<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n National fossil wood park<\/span><\/p>\n Charnockite, St. Thomas Mount<\/span><\/p>\n Badlands of Karai Formation with Cretaceous fossils along Karai \u2013 Kulakkalnattam Section<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Barr Conglomerate<\/span><\/p>\n Stromatolite Fossil Park.<\/span><\/p>\n Gossan in Rajpura-Dariba Mineralised belt, Udaipur Dist.<\/span><\/p>\n Stromatolite Park<\/span><\/p>\n Kishangarh Nepheline Syenite, Ajmer Dist<\/p>\n Akal Fossil Wood Park<\/span><\/p>\n Welded Tuff<\/span><\/p>\n Jodhpur Group \u2013 Malani Igneous Suite Contact<\/span><\/p>\n Great Boundary Fault at Satur<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Pillow lavas near Mardihalli<\/span><\/p>\n Peninsular Gneiss, Lalbagh<\/span><\/p>\n Pyroclastics & Pillow lavas, Kolar Gold fields<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Geological Heritage Sites of Himalayan Region of India<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 30th March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Geological Survey of India(GSI) has identified two geological heritage sites in the Indian Himalayan Region of India. Which are the two sites identified by GSI? The two sites identified by GSI in the Himalayan Region are: Siwalik Fossil Park Location: Himachal Pradesh Description of the Site: The Siwalik Fossil park… Continue reading Geological Heritage Sites of Himalayan Region of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-177294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177294","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Which are the two sites identified by GSI<\/b>? <\/span><\/h5>\n
Siwalik Fossil Park<\/b><\/h6>\n
Stromatolite bearing Dolomite \/ Limestone of Buxa Formation<\/b><\/h6>\n
What are <\/b>Geo-heritage Sites?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Geo-heritage Sites in India<\/b><\/h5>\n
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\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0State<\/b><\/td>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Geological heritage site \/<\/b><\/p>\n \n ANDHRA PRADESH<\/b><\/td>\n Volcanogenic bedded Barytes, Mangampeta<\/span><\/p>\n \n \u00a0<\/span>KERALA<\/b><\/td>\n Laterite near Angadipuram PWD rest house premises<\/span><\/p>\n \n TAMILNADU<\/b><\/td>\n Fossil wood near Tiruvakkarai<\/span><\/p>\n \n GUJARAT<\/b><\/td>\n Sedimentary Structures \u2013 Eddy Markings, Kadan Dam<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n RAJASTHAN<\/b><\/td>\n Sendra Granite<\/span><\/p>\n \n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>MAHARASHTRA<\/b><\/td>\n Lonar Lake<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n CHATTISGARH<\/b><\/td>\n Lower Permian Marine bed at Manendragarh<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n KARNATAKA<\/b><\/td>\n Columnar Lava, St Mary Island\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n HIMACHAL PRADESH<\/b><\/td>\n Siwalik Fossil Park, Saketi<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ODISHA<\/b><\/td>\n Pillow Lava in lron ore belt at Nomira<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n JHARKHAND<\/b><\/td>\n Plant Fossil bearing Intertrappean beds of Rajmahal Formation, upper Gondwana sequence<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n NAGALAND<\/b><\/td>\n Nagahill Ophiolite Site<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n SIKKIM<\/b><\/td>\n Stromatolite bearing Dolomite \/ Limestone of Buxa Formation\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n