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00:00I am Dr. Ritesh Kurohit, Head of Department of Geosciences, Mohanlal Sukhdesh University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
00:08Two geoheritage parks are located in Udaipur city.
00:15The first one is Jhamarkotra Fossil Park.
00:19The second one is Jivashma Park, which is about 200 crore years old.
00:23Jivashma was developed on the shores of the sea in the surrounding areas of Udaipur.
00:32The Jivashma told us how life was created on the earth.
00:38At the time of the creation of life, cyanobacteria, or archaebacteria, formed large colonies of life.
00:49With these colonies, rock phosphate was trapped in it.
00:53Because of this, stromatolites were formed there.
00:56These stromatolites are 200 crore years old.
00:59They are very important.
01:03The second geoheritage site is Zawarki.
01:07In Zawarki, we find lead, zinc, silver and cadmium.
01:13Lead and zinc are about 200 crore years old.
01:20They were also mined in Rajasthan around 3000 years ago.
01:25That is, it was mined around 800 years ago.
01:28Our ancestors developed this technique very well.
01:32Ancient mining was done there.
01:34With the help of that mining, we have developed the mining that is going on today.
01:39There was a very advanced technique of processing lead and cadmium.
01:44It is worth seeing.
01:45There are retorts in it, which we can see.
01:48To understand this whole technique, the mining that is being done today also gets a lot of help.
01:55And production is made day by day.
01:58According to tourism, there are many special geoheritage sites around Udaipur.
02:02There are many other sites as well.
02:04But the important thing is that these stromatolites, which are 200 crore years old,
02:08along with the origin of life, we are getting a chance to study the origin of metal.
02:15A lot of research has already been done by our department.
02:18Our department people have seen the work of mapping and mining here.
02:21They have also done research work.
02:23There has been a lot of research done by our department people.
02:26We want to see the progress of research.
02:28We want to move forward in research.
02:30And we want to find the extension of this research.
02:32We are trying to find the new areas of this research.
02:35With the help of our department, a collaborative research plan was also being made.
02:40So that these things can be developed well in the field of research.
02:43And for the common man, in the field of geoheritage, people should develop their shop.
02:52To see how in the olden days, people used to do mining with advanced technology.
02:57And they used to use Jasta and Shisha to work in their daily life.
03:00Okay sir. Thanks.