Shortcast opinions and ideas » wikipedia http://www.gumza.com -zunGumza .. converse Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Did you know trichy rockfort is 3.8billion years old? http://www.gumza.com/2009/04/26/did-you-know-trichy-rockfort-is-38billion-years-old/ http://www.gumza.com/2009/04/26/did-you-know-trichy-rockfort-is-38billion-years-old/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:43:17 +0000 TTB http://www.gumza.com/2009/04/26/did-you-know-trichy-rockfort-is-38billion-years-old/ Found link to this photo in a friends facebook profile and googled to find the source. The photo was a submission for national geographic 2008 international photo contest .. what impressed me was the fact about rockfort that found on wikipedia. The ‘rock’ is about 3.8 billion yeas old .. older than Himalayas.

Rockfort or Ucchi Pillayar koil, is a combination of two famous 7th century Hindu temples, one dedicated to Lord Ganesh and the other dedicated to Lord Shiva, located a top of a small rock in Trichy, India. Geologically the 83m high[1] rock is said to be one of the oldest in the world, dating over 3 billion years ago, and mythologically this rock is the place where Lord Ganesh ran from King Vibishana, after establishing the Ranganathaswamy deity in Srirangam. source

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This photo is taken at the top of the 83-meter-high Rock Fort—the only outcrop in the otherwise flat land of the city of Trichy in Tamil Nadu, India. I awoke for the climb at sunrise, in order to capture the colours from the sun radiating over the hazy city. Looking back down, we see one of many decorative Hindu temples in the area of the Rock Fort.

—Caption by David Lazar

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