21 Aug Thrivikramji’s camera pans

Banded gneiss

Beach rock

Piping led subsidence of Teri land in Muttom

Thekkady reservoir

Naturally Dewatered ancient lakebed now a rice paddy field

Dewatered swale – paddy field now anyway

Red teri

A lagoon in Belize-Central America

Malampuzha reservoir in summer

Very wide Backshore

Yet another view of teris

Yet another view of teris

Yet another view of teris- Younger the teri less redder is the motif

Yet another view of teris

Bauxitic Laterite

Ferruginised colonial coral

The red sand bluff at Edava beach hides several heads of colonial corals below the dune sand

Red teris still displaying their dune backbone

Bornhardt west of Nanguneri

Eastern slopes of Western Ghats

The Karichal cliff exposing the Sedimentary rock of Tertiary age. Contact of Tertiary sediments with lateritised ancient crystallines impressively visible toward the left of the cliff,

Karichal kayal turning to a swamp- due to accelerated deposition of terrestrial sediment

Look at the fallen coconut palm, Neyyar river

Scheme indicating the loss/gain of sand along the beaches of Kerala during a monsoone

Crystalline rock transforms to weathering products.
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