Unesco Global Geopark Network Status

  • Recently Geological Survey of India (GSI) selected Lonar Lake, Maharashtra and St. Mary’s Island and Malpe Beach, Karnataka for UNESCO Global Geopark Network site status.
  • Lonar Lake is the world’s oldest meteoric crater formed around 50,000 years ago and the only one formed in basalt rock. It is a salt water lake and became a national geo-heritage site in 1979.
  • St. Mary’s Island and Malpe Beach, Karnataka is a hexagonal mosaic of basaltic rocks in an island off Udupi. It is estimated to be an 88-million-year-old formation that goes back to the period when Greater India broke away from Madagascar. It was ....
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