Remnants of volcano

India / Andhra Pradesh / Addanki / Chimakurthi
 hill, granite
A black rock hill formed by prehistoric volcanic action.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimakurthi
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Coordinates:   15°39'2"N   79°50'41"E

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  • Not any other hills in this area are looking similar to this one. (try zooming on other hills) Only this hill formation is taken at good resolution, There are no important places in this area, not even small villages If it is granite, What the heck Google got to do with it.(its in India)
  • Looks like an extinct volcano. Possibly part of the deccan traps chain.
  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chimakurthi is a town in Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. This place is famous for a special type of black granite which is not found anywhere else in the world. This granite is exported to all corners of the globe. Granite is the hardest building stone, and black granite is often used in decorative applications and luxury floorings
  • hi this is srinivas one supoer village is there in Prakasam district that is cherukuru, parchuru md, thjere is one dynamic person Srinivas (VASU)
  • This place either needs an accurate description or to be deleted. Thanks!
  • This place will be deleted.
  • try to zoom in to closest level. you can see small round holes all over the surface of the hill and that is very unusual. i want to know how they are formed
  • Information by Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA School of Earth Sciences, SRTM University, Nanded-431606, Maharashtra, India Mesoproterozoic tholeiitic and alkalic magmatism is widespread in the southern segment of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India, and is particularly well recorded in three cospatial plutons: Chimakurti, a pluton consisting of clinopyroxenite, anorthosite, and gabbro; Errakonda, a ferrosyenite pluton; and the Uppalapadu nepheline syenite. U–Pb zircon ages of ferrosyenite and nepheline syenite suggest that these cospatial plutons were intruded at approximately 1352 Ma, and Nd and Sr isotope compositions suggest that each pluton experienced varying degrees of crustal assimilation. Petrography, mineral chemistry, geochemistry and isotopic compositions suggest that the clinopyroxenite, anorthosite, and gabbro of the Chimakurti suite were derived from a high-Al tholeiitic parental magma. The ferrosyenite exhibits A-type characteristics and are interpreted as a differentiate or partial melt of a tholeiitic source. The Uppalapadu nepheline syenites were derived from an alkaline (basanitic) parental magma. These three plutons illustrate the spectrum of basaltic magmas that may be involved in producing intraplate intrusive complexes. Tholeiitic magmas emplaced at depth in the crust may differentiate to produce massif anorthosites and related A-type differentiates, represented in the Eastern Ghats Belt by the Chimakurti and Errakonda plutons. More alkalic basalts, such as basanites, will evolve to nepheline syenites like those of the Uppalapadu pluton. The 1352 Ma magmatism in the Eastern Ghats is unusual in that it documents a spatial and temporal association of both tholeiitic and alkaline endmembers of continental rift magmatism
  • hai this is srinivas... my native place is Pamur which is placed in prakasam district... my house is at kandukur Road... i like my village very much... it is also the ending point of prakasm district.. in my town i have lot of friends... names ramesh, srikanth, suresh, murali,veeranji,babu,abdul,puchu..... and so on... in my town there are total three theaters Sheshamahal, Ravikalaamandil and Vijayalakshmi Chitralaya... i started my primary education in Aditya Residential School... in my school days i like one teacher very much his name is Bhanu Shankar Sir... all students likes him... my college studies are placed in Omega Junior College.. and my Degree completed in Viveka Arts & Science college... and now i am studying my MCA in guntur... there is a Police station infront of my house... there are lot of temples in my town... i like the Darga which is beside to our house... there are somany schools in my town... Aditya,Viveka,Geethanjali,Chaitanya...
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