HYDERABAD: While the Hyderabad city may not be as green and nature friendly like most of other cities in the country, it sure has quite a few number of rocks and boulders, that are for now safe from getting destroyed.
With an aim to spread more awareness and stop them from destruction, a talk by Dr Madhusudhan, from Society to Save Rocks was conducted at Our Sacred Space on Saturday.
The society’s motto is to protect ancient granite formations along the Deccan Plateau and preserve their heritage. A group of artists, photographers and environmentalists from Hyderabad has been working for the protection of this rocky landscape since 1992. The talk by the society was conducted to spread awareness among children who were enrolled at the centre’s summer workshop, which was preceded by a variety of other activities.
A powerpoint presentation showing the rock formations were much to the delight of the children with some of them being able to name a few formations.
The following session was a talk by Dr. Senthil Kumar, who heads the planetary geological sciences laboratory at National Geographical Research Institute (NGRI). This was a journey into the space where the children were introduced to planets, satellites that belong to the solar system,while examining their geological nature of these planetary bodies.
The children who sat through the previous session were partly able to correlate the nature of rocks on earth and the kind planetary bodies are made up of. The major aspects covered in this session were the kind of rocks, gases and icy materials that constitute the planetary bodies, the planetary surfaces covering impact craters, volcanoes, deformation structures, wind, water flow and glacial features. The children were also taken through major differences between planets and their evolutionary paths along with getting acquainted to asteroids and comets and their roles in shaping our Solar System.
