We are staying at a hotel in Aurangabad until we head back to Delhi on Sunday, it is a nice hotel, but the stops planned are all over 300 km from the city - at least 4 hours - so if it wasn’t India, today and tomorrow would fall into the definition of a bad field trip. Getting to see the small villages, the cities, and just how non-existing the boundaries are, is incredible. The human impact on the landscape is hard to miss - this makes geomorphology in India especially challenging.
The Lonar Crater, and a smaller crater Ambar Lake are thought to have formed either 50 thousand or 500 thousand years (two sets of dates, both with some uncertainty). It was another warm day (~30 degrees), I am not complaining, I heard about the snow in Alberta!
Lonar Crater.
Me and the Lonar Crater.
Ambar Lake (don’t worry I did find some shocked basalts and other evidence of the impact event). One of the benefits is of this trip is that there are experts from all over the world that are with us. There are two researchers from France that study planetary geomorphology- they have been very helpful.
Me and the Lonar Crater.
Ambar Lake (don’t worry I did find some shocked basalts and other evidence of the impact event). One of the benefits is of this trip is that there are experts from all over the world that are with us. There are two researchers from France that study planetary geomorphology- they have been very helpful.
One of the experts (this one from Australia) told me what flower this was... I didn’t write it down, so I can’t remember).
Buffalo - something different from the cows.
Your posts are sending me to Wikipedia regularly. I am learning a lot.
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