🌏Today is #InternationalGeodiversityDay declared by UNESCO to recognise the importance of geosciences in solving the major challenges faced by humanity today.
Here are some broad categories that may serve us well:
Geo-monuments, #fossil sites, archaeological sites, and landscapes - we've listed many sites under the first 3 categories, yet we need to do SO much more.
Jun 23, 2020 • 10 tweets • 9 min read
Travelling through #India you can't miss such boulder heaps...
Think of Hampi's ruins (below) or Sravanabelagola (Karnataka), or Mt Abu (Rajasthan)?
#DidYouKnow, such isolated hill/ridge features that jut out from the surrounding plains are called #inselbergs?
#Geo thread/
Derived from German words meaning 'island mountain', #inselbergs are residual features that form across climatic zones.
Yet are most abundant in tropical regions with granite-gneiss outcrops, like those on the cratons across India, as also in the zones marked BCG, CGC, and SGT.