{"id":56175,"date":"2025-07-22T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=56175"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:45:39","slug":"guryul-ravine-fossil-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/guryul-ravine-fossil-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Guryul Ravine Fossil Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Guryul Ravine Fossil Site Latest news<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has issued a stark warning to the Jammu and Kashmir administration over a \u201cserious threat\u201d to the important Guryul Ravine fossil site in Khonmoh, on the outskirts of Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Guryul Ravine Fossil Site<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b>Guryul Ravines is located in Kashmir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, geologically known as the Vihi district.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of a repository of fossils that hold <\/span><b>evidence of the Permian\u2013Triassic extinction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> event, dating as far as back 260 million years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These preserve clear evidence of the <\/span><b>catastrophic Permian\u2013Triassic mass extinction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which wiped nearly all life on Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also hosts what geologists believe is the <\/span><b>world\u2019s first-ever recorded tsunami event<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, its imprint still visible in the exposed rock layers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site lies <\/span><b>near Dachigam National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and falls within the sensitive Khonmoh Conservation Reserve area.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What is the Permian\u2013Triassic Extinction Event?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as the <\/span><b>End-Permian Extinction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or, colloquially, the \u2018<\/span><b>Great Dying\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Permian-Triassic extinction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> event marked the boundaries between the Permian and Triassic geological periods, as well as between the <\/span><b>Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras approximately 251.9 million years ago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was one of the major extinction events that the planet ever saw, when biodiversity decreased rapidly and across wide stretches.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/jammu-and-kashmir\/gsi-warns-of-serious-threat-to-international-fossil-site-at-guryul-ravine-in-kashmir-3639247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guryul Ravine Fossil Site consists of a repository of fossils that hold evidence of the Permian\u2013Triassic extinction event, dating as far as 260 million years. 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