Experts say the area is believed to have been hit by the world's first tsunami when life came to an end there 250 million years ago.
Paradise is on a high after a 252-million-year-old 'Kashmir Triassic Fossil Park' got international recognition as one of 'World's Geological Treasures' by the world's top fossil park -- the Penn Dixie, Natural History Society, Hamburg, New York.
"The Environmental Policy Group (EPG) is pleased to announce that The Penn Dixie, Natural History Society has released the resolution to collaborate with Environmental Policy Group (EPG) through its constituent, Centre For Himalayan Geology and assist and develop Kashmir Triassic Fossil Park, Guryul Ravines at Khonmoh in Pampore, Kashmir," said Faiz Bakshi, Convenor of the EPG.
Experts say the area is believed to have been hit by the world's first tsunami when life came to an end there 250 million years ago. "From a geological point of view, life came to an end when there was a tsunami. Vertebra and other marine animals were wiped out. Then life took root again," said Bakshi.
According to the convenor of the EPG, nowhere in the world is the evidence of the fossil so pronounced than here. "There is a 10 inch rock in China which shows the extinction and re-growth. We have around a one-metre or three-feet rock. This is the largest in the world. It is the repository," he said.
Hundreds of geo-scientists, experts, geologists and researchers from over 30 universities across the world have been visiting the site to study and research since 1842 in order to help put this fossil treasure on the global canvass. Experts and geologists from the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Japan and Scotland visited the site recently.
Success came when top geo-scientist and the Chairman of Centre For Himalayan Geology Abdul Majid Bhat travelled to United States in August and made a presentation on the Kashmir Triassic Fossil Park to the Penn Dixie, with whom the EPG has been communicating for the past two to three years.
"Bhat, on the basis of his decades-long hard work, study, research and perseverance, succeeded in making an impressive and successful presentation to the Penn Dixie board and helped them assess the status of the fossil park at Guryul Ravines as a geological treasure," said Bakshi.
Fearing encroachment by the mafia, EPG has decided to meet the Jammu and Kashmir Governor and other top officers to seek their attention to preserve and conserve this treasure.
"We have been perusing it and the government last year transferred 32 kanals (eight kanal form one acre) of land to the tourism department for development and fencing of the park. We are planning to meet the governor and chief secretary again. This entire site should be demarcated. It should be enclosed," Bakshi said.
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