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The document summarizes a 4 day field trip report. Day 1 details visits to Agra Fort and Taj Mahal, noting features like red sandstone and laminations. Day 2 describes Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary and its history. Day 3 covers IOC Panipat and Bhalswa Landfill Site. Day 4 mentions a visit to Badhkal Lake in Faridabad.

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Field Trip Report

The document summarizes a 4 day field trip report. Day 1 details visits to Agra Fort and Taj Mahal, noting features like red sandstone and laminations. Day 2 describes Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary and its history. Day 3 covers IOC Panipat and Bhalswa Landfill Site. Day 4 mentions a visit to Badhkal Lake in Faridabad.

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FIELD TRIP REPORT

/03/2014-/03/2014

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Day 1
Date:
Agra Fort, Agra was visited on day 1 and the following sites were visited for the field work:
1. Agra fort,
2. Taj Mahal

AGRA FORT
Near the gardens of the Taj Mahal stands the important 16th-century Mughal monument known
as the Red Fort of Agra. Construction of the massive red-sandstone fort, on the bank of the
Yamuna River, was begun by Emperor Akbar in 1565. Further additions were made, particularly
by his grandson Shah Jahan, using his favourite building material white marble. This powerful
fortress encompasses, within its 2.5-km-long enclosure walls, the imperial city of the Mughal
rulers. It comprises many fairy-tale palaces, such as the Jahangir Palace and the Khas Mahal,
built by Shah Jahan; audience halls, such as the Diwan-i-Khas; and two very beautiful mosquesmoti masjid and nagina masjid.
Several of the buildings are made from pure marble with beautiful carvings; all of these
monuments mark the apogee of an Indo-Muslim art strongly marked by influences from Persia
which already manifested itself in Timurid art.

The following features were observed here:


1. Red-Sandstone
As aforementioned, the fort is mostly red-sandstone.
Sandstone is sedimentary rocks and the color red is due to the
presence of iron oxide or in geological terms has ferruginous
cementing material.

2. Laminations.

These laminations were seen


on the boundary walls of the fort. Lamination is a small scale
sequence of fine layers that occur in sedimentary rocks. Here
the wall was made of Red Sandstone.
Generally, lamination is defined by a thickness of 1 cm or less.

3. Beds and bedding planes.

Beds
Bedding planesHere the weathering of the sandstone has revealed its
different bedding planes.

Beds different from lamination thickness?


4.

5. Dug wells
6. Granite structures
7. Marble structures
8. Plant species
9.

TAJ MAHAL
The Taj Mahal from Persian and Arabic, "crown of palaces", is a white
marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and
one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".

Day 2
Date:

Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur Fort was visited.

BHARATPUR BIRD SANCTUARY


The Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly
known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India is a famous
avifauna sanctuary that sees (or saw) thousands of rare and highly
endangered birds such as the Siberian Crane come here during the winter
season. Over 230 species of birds are known to have made the National
Park their home. It is also a major tourist centre with scores of
ornithologists arriving here in the hibernal season. It was declared a
protected sanctuary in 1971. It is also a declared World Heritage Site.

The sanctuary was created 250 years ago and is named after a Keoladeo
(Shiva) temple within its boundaries. Initially, it was a natural depression;
and was flooded after the Ajan Bund was constructed by Maharaja Suraj
Mal, the then ruler of the princely state of Bharatpur, between 1726 to
1763. The bund was created at the confluence of two rivers, the Gambhir
and Banganga. The park was a hunting ground for the maharajas of
Bharatpur, a tradition dating back to 1850, and duck shoots were
organised yearly in honor of the British viceroys. In one shoot alone in
1938, over 4,273 birds such as mallards and teals were killed by Lord
Linlithgow, the then Governor-General of India. After India's
independence, the rulers of the princely states were allowed shooting
rights until 1972. In 1982, grazing was banned in the park, leading to
violent clashes between the local farmer and Gujjar communities and the
government.
Months from oct-march most preferred.
366 birds, 379 floral species, 50 fish, 13 snakes, 5 lizards, 7 amphi, 7
turtle, plus inverte

Fauna
Flora
Other features- termite mounds.
Water resource- bore wells,

Day 3
Date:

IOC, Panipat
Bhalswa Landfill Site

IOC, PANIPAT
BHALSWA LANDFILL SITE
Bhalswa Landfill is an uncontrolled open
dump owned and operated by the
Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Bhalswa
Landfill accepts domestic and commercial
waste from the Delhi area
CHARACTERISTICS OFLEACHATE AND GROUNDWATER
SURROUNDING BHALSWA LANDFILL

Day 4
Date:

Badhkal Lake, Faridabad

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