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Lonar Lake

June 17 , 2020 1496 days 828 0
  • The Team of Scientists To Examine Why Maharashtra’s Lonar Lake has turned Pink.
  • Some experts have attributed it to the salinity and presence of algae in the water body.
  • Lonar crater lake was identified as a unique geographical site by a British officer named CJE Alexander in 1823.
  • It is an ancient circular lake created by a meteorite strike in Maharashtra.
  • Lonar crater became a geo-heritage site in 1979.
  • It is relatively young geologically, at just 50,000 years old.
  • Lonar Lake lies within the extraterrestrial impact crater found within the great Deccan Traps, a huge basaltic formation in India.

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