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New Find of Divine GeoArts in India and Neighbouring Countries

The approachable sites of some of these amazing GeoArts may find its place in future geotourism as these, like other landforms and landscapes, have potentiality to communicate scientific perception for their development through natural agencies or divine forces of Mother Nature.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover

Former Dy. D.G., Geological Survey of India, Jaipur-302018: akgroverg@yahoo.com

Volume 7, Number 1, 2023 I Full-Text PDF

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/cjad.71.v7n101

Abstract

GeoArt deals with spectacular creations on the earth (Geo) by Mother Nature in the form of artistic (Art) developments of landforms and landscapes, which are appreciated when viewed from the air or sky-space. Initially Geoart was considered for any artistic natural or geological feature, and irrespective of scale. The stunning beauty of satellite views was brought out by NASA in a book ‘Earth as Art’ in 2012. Many considered these as ‘Geoarts’ relating it with geosciences and art. Large numbers of spectacular GeoArts are identified by the author through surfing of Google Earth images of India and neighbouring countries. Most of these are found related to human and animal-bird lives. Some, however, have attained manifestations of divine forms relating to God/ Goddess or their association; hence, are regarded as Divine GeoArts. Brief details of 20 such spectacular Divine GeoArts are presented in the paper. The approachable sites of some of these amazing GeoArts may find its place in future geotourism as these, like other landforms and landscapes, have potentiality to communicate scientific perception for their development through natural agencies or divine forces of Mother Nature.

Keywords: Divine GeoArt, Google Earth, India-Neighbouring countries, Geotourism

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