{"id":87280,"date":"2020-06-13T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T12:41:05","slug":"lonar-lake-turned-pink-overnight-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lonar-lake-turned-pink-overnight-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonar Lake Turned Pink Overnight In Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Maharashtra&#8217;s Lonar lake has changed its colour to pink prompting scientists to investigate the possible cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Lonar Lake: <\/strong>It is a notified National Geo Heritage Monument located at Lonar, Maharashtra.<\/li><li><strong>Formation: <\/strong>The lake is believed to have been formed when a meteorite crashed into Earth around 50,000 years ago.<\/li><li>The lake sits inside the Deccan Plateau\u2014a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock created by eruptions some 65 million years ago.<\/li><li><strong>Uniqueness: <\/strong>The water of the lake is both saline and alkaline in nature, which makes it one-of-its-kind not only in India but also in the world.<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The lake is mentioned in ancient scripts like the Skanda Purana, the Padma Purana and the Ain-i-Akbari.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Maharashtra&#8217;s Lonar lake has changed its colour to pink prompting scientists to investigate the possible cause. Facts: Lonar Lake: It is a notified National Geo Heritage Monument located at Lonar, Maharashtra. Formation: The lake is believed to have been formed when a meteorite crashed into Earth around 50,000 years ago. The lake sits inside&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lonar-lake-turned-pink-overnight-in-maharashtra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lonar Lake Turned Pink Overnight In Maharashtra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5027],"class_list":["post-87280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-lonar-lake","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87280","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}