{"id":702,"date":"2023-03-09T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:22:44","slug":"akal-wood-fossil-park-jaisalmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/akal-wood-fossil-park-jaisalmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Akal Wood Fossil Park Jaisalmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Akal Fossil Wood Park<\/a> is situated 18 km southeast of Jaisalmer on the NH-15, close to the hamlet of Akal. For travellers who are aware that <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/rajasthan-tour-packages.php\">Jaisalmer<\/a> is a part of the vast Thar desert, the place is a wonderland. The petrified wood has the imprint of the opulent trees that once covered the area near the sea in a warm, humid climate 180 million years ago. There are roughly a dozen fossil wood logs laying horizontally in random position throughout the 21-hectare Fossil Park. The Lower Jurassic period fossils include petrophyllum, ptyllophyllum, equisetitis species, dicotyledonous wood, and gastropod shells.<\/p>\n<p>The geological history of the desert is preserved in this park by enormous fossilised tree trunks and seashells. Today, the entire region is protected as a natural treasure. On the surface, there are 25 wood logs, 10 of which are clearly visible. The largest exposed log is 1.5 metres in breadth by 7 metres in length. More wood fossils are buried far below the surface. There are numerous more locations in the Jaisalmer region where there is evidence of related fossils.<\/p>\n<p>An example of where petrification overtook the decomposition of organic substances and petrified the wood is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/rajasthan-destination.php\">Akal Fossil Wood Park<\/a>. Massive trees made up the entire petrified forest. The location was designated a National Geological Monument in 1972 by the Geological Survey of India (GSI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akal Fossil Wood Park is situated 18 km southeast of Jaisalmer on the NH-15, close to the hamlet of Akal. For travellers who are aware that Jaisalmer is a part of the vast Thar desert, the place is a wonderland. The petrified wood has the imprint of the opulent trees that once covered the area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32,34,33],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rajasthan-tourism","tag-akal-wood-fossil-park","tag-akal-wood-fossil-park-jaisalmer-entry-fee","tag-akal-wood-fossil-park-jaisalmer-timings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}