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The charnockite rocks at St. Thomas Mount (about 60 m (196.9 ft) high above ground) is located in the southern part of Chennai city. Chennai, as the capital of Tamil Nadu, is very well connected by road, rail, sea and air with rest of the country and the world. The Chennai International Airport is 3 km (1.9 mi) away from the Mount.
Teri or Teri dune complex is a coastal landscape peculiar to some parts of Tamil Nadu mainly in southeastern India. The landscape consists of sediments dating to the Quaternary Period and made of marine deposits with aeolianite and characteristic red sand and silt dunes.
The department of geology and mining function under the purview of the department and includes the following bodies: [2] Tamil Nadu Magnesite Limited (TANMAG) Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN)
The geology of Chennai comprises mostly clay, shale and sandstone. [1] The city is classified into three regions based on geology, sandy areas, clayey areas and hard-rock areas. Sandy areas are found along the river banks and the coasts. Clayey regions cover most of the city. Hard rock areas are Guindy, Velachery, Adambakkam and a part of ...
Tamil Nadu is the tenth largest state in India and covers an area of 130,058 square kilometres (50,216 sq mi). It is bordered by Kerala to the west, Karnataka to the northwest, Andhra Pradesh to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south.
Kallakurichi Formation (Tamil Nadu) Show map of Tamil Nadu The Kallakurichi Formation , alternatively spelled as Kallankurichchi or Kallankurichi Formation , [ 1 ] is a geological formation of the Ariyalur Group in Tamil Nadu , southern India whose strata date back to the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous .
The Deccan is a plateau extending over an area of 422,000 km 2 (163,000 sq mi) and occupies the majority of the Indian peninsula.Shaped like an inverted triangle, it stretches from the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges in the north to the northern fringes of Tamil Nadu in the south.
Tamil nadu: Fossil Park [2] 9 St. Thomas Charnockite: St. Thomas Mount, Chennai: Chennai district: Tamil nadu: Rock Monuments [2] 10 Karai Badlands Formation Fossil Park: Badlands of Karai Formation with Cretaceous fossils along Karai – Kulakkalnattam Section Perambalur district: Tamil nadu: Fossil Park [2] 11 Eddy Current Marking ...