{"id":8595,"date":"2020-06-15T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T08:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T08:51:36","slug":"lonar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/lonar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonar lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Geography<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The 56,000-year-old Lonar crater sanctuary lake in Buldhana district has turned red\/pink and become a hot topic of discussion among scientists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/sites\/dh\/files\/articleimages\/2020\/06\/11\/Lonar%20lake-1591845742.jpg\" alt=\"Lonar Lake in Maharashtra mysteriously turns pink, leave ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. A meteorite estimated to weigh two-million-tonnes slammed into the Earth, around 50,000 years creating a 1.83-km diameter crater where the lake formed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 It is the only known hyper velocity meteorite crater in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It was notified as a National Geo-heritage Monument in 1979 by Geological Survey of India (GSI).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is famous as world\u2019s largest basaltic impact crater. Two other similar ones are in Dhala and Ramgarh in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan respectively but both are relatively unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The forest-fringed lake boasts a unique ecology that is remarkably different from the rest of the flat landscape that surrounds it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The water sustains micro-organisms that are rarely found elsewhere on earth and the lake is also of mythological significance too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Geography Why in news? \u2022 The 56,000-year-old Lonar crater sanctuary lake in Buldhana district has turned red\/pink and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}