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Match the following geological heritage sites with their locations - Geological Heritage Sites Locations(a)National Fossil Wood Park(i)Buldhana(b)Shivalik Park(ii)Chittaurgarh(c)Stromatolite Park(iii)Tiruchirappalli(d)Lonar Lake(iv)Sirmaur

A.
(a) - (i) - (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv)
B.
(a) - (iv) - (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)
C.
(a) - (iii) - (b) - (iv), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)
D.
(a) - (iii) - (b) - (ii), (c) - (iv), (d) - (i)

Solution:

The correct answer is Option 3Geological Heritage Sites Locations(a)National Fossil Wood Park(iii) Tiruchirappalli(b)Shivalik Park(iv)Sirmaur(c)Stromatolite Park(ii)Chittaurgarh(d)Lonar Lake(i)Buldhana Important PointsThe National Fossil Wood ParkThe National Fossil Wood Park, Tiruchirappalli is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument located in Tamil Nadu and is maintained by the Geological Survey of India. The park was established in 1940The park contains petrified wood fossils approximately 20 million years old, scattered throughout the park, which covers about 247 acres (100 ha).Shivalik Fossil Park,Shivalik Fossile Park, also known as the Suketi Fossil Park, is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument fossil park in the Sirmaur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.It has a collection of prehistoric vertebrate fossils and skeletons recovered from the upper and middle Siwaliks geological formations of sandstones and clay at Suketi.Stromatolite ParkStromatolite Park, Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan is the largest & richest deposit of phosphorite associated with stromatolite. It is another site preserving evidences of early life on the earth.The stromatolites occurs over a strike length of 15 km in rock phosphate within Precambrian Aravalli Supergroup of rocks.Lonar lake Lonar lake is a lake of lagoon in Buldhana district of Maharashtra state. It was created due to a meteorite.It is the only major hoverback in the basalt rock.Its water is alkaline.Lonar Lake has been declared as Geological Heritage Sites.

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