They are very tiny, but their vibrance is brilliant. These flowers sprout as wild growth, usually in nooks and crannies of gardens and even roadsides in hilly areas, during March and April. I snapped these wild beauties in my garden in the Doon. I always keep a place for them and refrain from weeding them, as they are nature's beautiful gift. Nothing is insignificant. Try preserving nature in its raw form.
This delights me, and I hope you too like it!
Passing by the gateway to Lahaul, Koksar, nestled at 10,300 feet along the Chandra River, is a quaint village en route to Leh and one of the coldest villages in the Lahaul and Spiti Districts of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. I witnessed amazing landforms, gigantic, mammoth rocky mountain ranges, and typical geological features that cannot be expressed in words. For an adventurist like me, it was a whole new world of natural beauty, and it certainly will be any geologist's delight. The Himachal and Koksar geologies are dominated by Precambrian rocks that are said to have assembled and formed during the India-Asia plate collision and the subsequent Himalayan orogeny. With an age of 50–60 Ma or even more, the rock type is predominantly gneiss and granite with a quartzite mix. Experts can elaborate on it better and in much finer detail. What I found amazing, I thought of sharing with all—a glimpse of the magnificent.
(Zoom in on the pictures to see the typical rock features.)
As part of the Association of Petroleum Geologists India (APG-India) group recently accompanied geology experts from the industry and academia, senior office bearers of APG-India, representatives from the oil & gas and service companies, scientists from the Geological Survey of India, besides geology students and researchers on a geological field trip to the Mohand Section, Doon Valley, Uttarakhand.
APG-India is a forum which brings together Petroleum Geologists on one platform to discuss, deliberate and plan ways and means to support worthwhile educational and scientific programs or projects related to geosciences. It focuses on advancement of the science of Petroleum Geology and promotion of technology for exploration and production in an economically and environmentally sound manner.
Mohand is where an exploratory well drilled by ONGC six decades back. The field trip studied delineating the Quaternary signatures of tectono-climatic evolution of the Himalaya and its foreland; building the syn and post-collision landscape using archives; understanding the sedimentary pattern and basin evolution of pre- Himalayan sedimentary basins. A close study of sedimentary rock classification, type of source material, environment of deposition and process deposition was taken up.
The visit provided a very different experience and an opportunity to watch from close quarters how geologists turn every pebble and minutely study the rocks for hydrocarbons and mineral exploration/search. Salute to the geologists!
A chat with Director (R&D), Indian Oil Corporation Limited on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of IndianOil R&D Centre, March 10,2022.
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