First Open Rock Museum
- January 7, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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First Open Rock Museum
Subject – Art and Culture
Context – First open rock museum inaugurated in Hyderabad
Concept –
- Union Minister of State for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’s first open rock museum displaying different types of rocks gathered from different States of ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to around 55 million years on the campus of the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad.
- About 46 rocks of different sizes have been displayed in a garden with descriptions giving the economic and scientific importance of some of them located as deep as 175 km from the surface of the earth.
- The rocks are from Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir and others.
- “Big Earth data” occupies the strategic high ground in the era of knowledge economies and India is fully exploiting this new frontier contributing to the advancement of Earth science.