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Salkhan Fossils Park | Sonbhadra

Did you know that India is home to one of the oldest fossil parks in the world? About 100 kms from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, is a secluded forest called Salkhan, or Sonbhadra Fossils park. Here, you can see traces of a forest that was formed 1.4 BILLION years ago!

1. The Planet Earth In Rotation

By Nino Souza

https://www.pexels.com/video/the-planet-earth-in-rotation-2695085/


2. Physical Map of India

By Mapswire

https://mapswire.com/maps/india/ 


3. Cyanobacteria Mixture

Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanobacteria_(248_08)_Mixture;_native_preparation;_green_filter.jpg


4. A blue-green algae species – Cylindrospermum under magnification at the Adelaide laboratories of CSIRO Land and Water, 1993.

CSIRO, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_4203_A_bluegreen_algae_species_Cylindrospermum_sp_under_magnification.jpg


5. Cyanobacterial Scum

Mary Cousins Mmelugin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanobacterial_Scum.JPG


6. Shark Bay stromatolites

Alicejmichel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shark_Bay_stromatolites.jpg


7. Stromatolites in Shark Bay

Happy Little Nomad, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stromatolites_in_Shark_Bay.jpg


8. Grand Canyon of yellowstone

Grastel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Canyon_of_yellowstone.jpg


9. Yellowstone National Park Sign

C24winagain, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellowstone_Sign.jpg 


10. Fossil redwood tree trunk, ellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fossil_redwood_tree_trunk_(probably_Metasequoia)_(Sepulcher_Formation,_Eocene;_%22Petrified_Tree%22,_Yellowstone_National_Park,_Wyoming,_USA)_43_(13460493353).jpg


11. Overhanging Cliff Flow, Junction Butte Basalt, Yellowstone National Park

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overhanging_Cliff_Flow,_Junction_Butte_Basalt,_Yellowstone_National_Park.jpg

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