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Geologists discover 'impact' crater in Rann of Kutch
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=102452
PTI


New Delhi, Oct 23: Indian geologists claim to have discovered a possible impact
crater in Kutch district of Gujarat dating back to the Vedic period.The crater,
suspected to have been formed by the impact of an extra-terrestrial object, is
seen as a circular feature near Luna village in the northwestern Banni Plains of
the Great Rann in Kutch district.The site -- the third in the country after
Lonar in Maharashtra and Ramgarh in Rajasthan -- is located about a kilometre
away from a human settlement belonging to the Harappan period and may have found
reference in ancient Sanskrit texts, which mention the "impact of a burning
extraterrestrial object" in western India some 4,000-5,000 years ago.

"While most other recognised craters are located within hard rocks, this
possible impact crater has special significance as it is located within an
extremely low-lying flat terrain comprising unconsolidated soft sediments, and
its appearance is unconventional and deceptive," geologists Mr R V Karanth and
Mr M S Gadhavi of the M S University of Baroda said reporting their discovery in
`Current Science', a magazine published by the Current Science Association and
the Indian Academy of Sciences.The geologists, along with Mr P S Thakker of the
Space Applications Centre, surveyed the crater and found a dense growth of a
variety of Acacia plant species in the inner part of the rim. Villagers claim
the growth of the wild thorny plants was a recent phenomenon, about three or
four decades old.

The circular crater measures 1.2 km east-west and 1.2 km north-south and forms a
shallow depression filled with sediments and the lowest point of which is hardly
two metres above the mean sea level, they said.Several lumps of dark and heavy
objects -- irregular in shape and having spherical cavities -- recovered from
the rim crater's rim were strongly attracted to hand magnets, the researchers
said.The objects, after a petrographic study, were classified into three
categories viz -- completely dark and opaque, completely transparent and
isotropic and those obtained from areas comprising both dark-opaque and
transparent-isotropic materials.Under a microscope, polished dark-opaque
(category-I) samples exhibit thin shimmering lines that apparently resemble
"Neumann lines" commonly observed in iron-nickel meteorites, they said and
called for an "appropriate" analysis of the samples.

The transparent and isotropic samples can be compared to "tektites" formed on
account of melting and immediate solidification into glass of the material of
the impact site due to enormous heat generated, Mr Karanth said.After finding
meteorite-like objects and suspected "tektites", the researchers are now
planning to launch a search for high-pressure minerals.They have called for a
detailed study of the site, including references to it in ancient Sanskrit texts
to ascertain whether the crater led to the wiping out of the Harappan
civilisation, which flourished between 3000 BC and 1500 BC.The findings reported
by Mr Karanth, Mr Thakker and Mr Gadhavi are preliminary and detailed study of
the samples recovered from the crater rim is in progress.

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