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India celebrates 7 new listings on the UNESCO Tentative World Heritage List!
Highlights: Deccan Traps, Mahabaleshwar, St Mary’s Islands, Varkala, and more.
A major step for conservation & growing awareness of our geological wonders.
https://news24media.org/7-indian-sites-to-unescos-tentative-world-heritage/
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#TodayILearned #TIL that India's Deccan Traps, one of the largest volcanic eruption sites/features on the earth, was formed by a hotspot that is still active and has trekked its way down to the western Indian Ocean, where it's created Reunion Island's Piton de la Fournaise volcano.
(Via GeologyHub. Pretty informative, occasionally a little sensationalist, but I'm learning so much from him.) https://www.youtube.com/geologyhub
#volcano #volcanoes #geology #DeccanTraps #PitonDeLaFournaise