India’s first Open Rock Museum inaugurated in Hyderabad

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Category : National Published on: January 08 2022

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Union Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh, inaugurated India’s first Open Rock Museum in Hyderabad.
About 35 different types of rocks are displayed in this museum from different parts of India, ranging in age from 3.3 billion years to about 55 million years.
These rocks also represent the deepest part of the Earth, up to 175 km of distance from the surface of the earth.
The rocks displayed in the museum have been sourced from Odisha, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, and others.

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India’s first Open Rock Museum inaugurated in Hyderabad