Tiruvakkarai [Fossil Wood Park]
Thursday, January 18, 2007
A blog which I want to write for a long time was about the Fossil Woods of Tiruvakkarai.
The Fossil Woods date back to 20 Million Years. It is a fenced park maintained by the GSI(Geological Survey of India), lil badly would say :(. This place belongs to the State of Tamil Nadu, but closer to Pondicherry. The park is full of fossils which is look-a-like of Tree trunk. These fossils are huge and run more than 10 meters in length and a foot thick trunk. These fossils exactly look a like of tree trunck with greens(algae) grown overit. Most interesting part of the fossil is, you could see even the growth circles of the tree.
It was believed that this place was once a beach area and over a period these tree got buried in water.
And slowly the trees tissues/fibre is replaced with silica deposits which now resembles the hard fossil stones. Even at this point it wasn't interesting. But when thot abt that this fossil is nearly 20 million years old. Well I started counting the zeros after 20 and was like WOW!!!. It is absolutely amazing to see an object as if it looks like yesterday which is 20 Million Years old [I am still counting the Zeros :(]. One can easily find the greatness of the fossil when you touch.My Eyes says that it is Wood, but My mind says "Dude that is a Rock Man!!!"
Thinks which I felt bad when thot abt this place was
- Badly maintained
- The path which leads to this Park was horrible.
- Just an old Name board saying "Fossil Wood Park"
- It is not even lit up with lights for the Tourist.
- No Importance/Awareness given by the Government of Tamil Nadu about this place. It is listed in all Pondicherry Tourism but not in Tamil Nadu. Thedipartha it is listed in Chidambaram Tourism. Felt bad after looking at this. How people is feed with correct information?
Few facts and links about Tiruvakkarai are
1. The first Wood-Fossil Park of the country is situated here.
2. large fossil bearing areas fenced into create the country's first national fossil-wood park here. These petrified trees lying scattered on low mounds and stream sections, date from the cretaceous age (100 million years ago)
3. An Article which came in Deccan Herald
Sentinels from long long ago
Some of the trees live for thousand years and more, some die too early. If left untouched, big trunks and branches of the trees are petrified. Some are transformed into coals, into diamonds and other precious stones after many million years. But the age of petrified trees, kept in enclosures, now under the governance of the Geological Survey of India in Tirukkarai village in Tamil Nadu, is 20 million years. Some of the wood-stones here at the Fossil Park are as big as 30 metres. Compared to those once living trees, mummies of Egypt are of recent origin. It is said to be the first official Fossil Park of India.
Of the nine fenced enclosures, 'B', the main enclosure is kept open for visitors. The trees, it is said, had been transported here before they were petrified. It is an uneven rocky terrain. Besides trees and fossils there are some mounds.
The formations are geologically called the Cuddalore Series. The earliest account of the fossils, in detail, made by a European naturalist, Sonneret has remained here since 1781. Some of the fossils belong to Mesembrioxylon Schmidianum and some belong to Angiosperms and the modern families like Guttiferae. Kirukals by Kuttibalu @ 8:26 PM,
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At 7:07 PM, September 07, 2008,
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Hi Balamurugan,
Thanks for the blog. I have visited here long back and I was planning to visit again soon.
If you don't mind there are a couple of suggestions -
technically, i think these are not fossils, but just petrified wood. as you explained, the Carbon in the tree tissues/fibre were replaced with silica (which shares several chemical properties with carbon, as well as the primary content in sand / rocks etc- that's why the live trees become dead stone trees).
Those points apart, a really well written blog, and you are absolutely right about the way we treat these national treasures. I work in the US and I visit their national parks - it is a treat to visit these parks, not only just visual treat but also the way they protect their national and state parks for future generations. For all progress we made we have a lot to learn from other countries and protect our treasures.
Bharathiyar told.. "enna valam illai indha thirunaattil".. if only we realize it is our treasures... Thanks for the blog, again. -
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