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The National Fossil Wood Park, Tiruvakkarai is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument located in the Villupuram District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is maintained by the Geological Survey of India. [1] The park was established in 1940 [2] and is located 1 km east of Thiruvakkarai [3] [4] village on the road between Tindivanam and ...
Akal Wood Fossil Park is a National Geological Monument of India located in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. [2] It is also a Biodiversity Heritage Site.. It is 21 hectares in extent and is located in Akal village, 17–18 km southeast of Jaisalmer city, and 1 km off the NH-68 Jaisalmer-Barmer road, on a stretch of about 10 km 2 of bare hillside. [3]
In 2017 - 18 the park came into existence and was called Amkhoi Wood Fossil Park. The aim of the park was to create awareness about fossils among students and common people, and also try to help scholars in their research. [2] It is the only fossil park of West Bengal state and has an area of 10 hectares. [4]
Petrified wood has also been discovered in Dholavira in Kutch, Gujarat, dating back to 187–176 million years. [24] Japan – there is a fossilized forest preserved at Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum; Indonesia – petrified wood covers several areas in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.
National Fossil Wood Park, Sathanur [1] is a National Geo-heritage Monument of India [2] [3] [4] located at Sathanur in Perambalur district, Tamil Nadu.This park is located within Sathanur panchayat and has a fossilized tree trunk, which was discovered in 1940 by the geologist M. S. Krishnan of the Geological Survey of India, who hailed from Tanjore.
Fossil wood may or may not be petrified, in which case it is known as petrified wood or petrified tree. The study of fossil wood is sometimes called palaeoxylology, with a "palaeoxylologist" somebody who studies fossil wood. The fossil wood may be the only part of the plant that has been preserved, with the rest of the plant completely unknown ...
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits.. Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh is notable for its life-size models of the vertebrates that might have roamed the Sivalik Hills 1.5—2.5 million years ago.
This is a list of State Protected Monuments as officially reported by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state Punjab. [1] The monument identifier is a combination of the abbreviation of the subdivision of the list (state, ASI circle) and the numbering as published on the website of the ASI. 61 ...