HOT-WATER
SPRINGS OF INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT –PART-I.
Indian subcontinent started its northward journey from
an island called JAMBHOODWEEPAM. Dweepam in Sanskrit means island. This island was a part of a land mass that
stretches up to Australia known as GONDWANA.
BEGINING OF EARTH
The young EARTH as a HOT FAST SPINNING BALL , cooled, cooled and cooled over years and then rained, rained and rained over many years creating OCEANS. Then the EARTH’s CRUST appeared as BUTTER floating on M ILK, Indians called it as NAVANEETHA KRISHNAN ((Navaneetha(butter) KRISNAN (dark earth))
What is more in the INDIAN
Vedas and PURANAS(EPICS); they talk about the slow raising of solid crust ,
churning and floating in sea water as if being pulled by a giant serpent. They also
inductively promoted the origin of plants and Animals. According to the Indian
ancients the COW, KAMADHENU (Giver of all that you desire) ushered the
beginning of ANIMAL KINGDOM; and the tree KALPAKA VRUKSHAM (Producer of all
that you desire) ushered the plant kingdom. According to these great
philosophers , scientists , astrologers, the DEVAS represented good on earth
and the ASURAS represented the bad on earth. Their wisdom is still helping us
to discover NEW HORIZANS in all fields of KNOWLEDGE. THUS A BIG MASS OF EARTHS
CRUST CALLED PANGEA CAME INTO EXISTENCE FLOATING ON LIQUID.
The island started its
movement about 150 million years ago and collided with Asiatic continent about
75 million years ago. The collision gave raise to Vindhyas and Himalayas.
Initially the Vindhya range had very tall mountains and cliffs. When HIMALAYAS
rose again due to continental drift and due to the movement of tectonic plates,
the vindhyas spread horizontally. ( The TAMILS say that Vindhyas bowed to sage
Agastya, when he came down south) From then onwards the seismic activity has
not ceased. Volcanic activity and Tremors are being frequently felt in the
middle and northern part of Indian subcontinent.
Due to this seismic activity,
the northern and central part of Indian subcontinent have several HOT WATER
SPRINGS either flowing on stagnant , rising from the hot core of earth.
SURPRISINGLY
MANY ARE VERY CLOSE TO RIVERS OR STREAMS THAT CARRY COLD WATER.
Based on observations over a
period and scientific data, the world regions , GEOLOGISTS AND SEISMOLOGISTS , the scientists who
STUDY OUR EARTH’S CRUST, have discovered a very VITAL but DISTURBING DISCOVERY
in recent times.
The geologists who
study the large scale movements of the EARTH’S CRUST have made this startling
discovery.
They have found
that there are two great lines of DISTURBANCES or MOVEMENT of EARTH’S CRUST ,
that meets to form a large shape like the LETTER
‘T’ around the
world.(See the diagram)
Nearly all the
Earth quake prone regions, Volcanoes and mountain ranges are located within
this area demarked as GREAT ‘T’.
NATURAL VENTS in
FOLDED MOUNTAIN RANGE IN INDIA
The folded mountain ranges of
the Indian Sub-continent such as HIMALAYAS and VINDHYAS , have vents through
which hot water spews giving rise either streams of hot water or ponds of hot
water. Our ancients have constructed walls to house some of these as
tanks/ponds.
Let us see some of them,
Indian state wise:
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
