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Bacteria turned Lonar Lake pink

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Environment
  • Published
    23rd Jul, 2020
  • Recent study revealed that the colour of water in Lonar Lake in Maharashtra is due to a large presence of the salt-loving Haloarchaea microbes.
  • Haloarchaea or halophilic archaea is a bacteria culture, which produces pink pigment, and found in water saturated with salt.
  • Absence of rain, less human interference and high temperature could have resulted in the evaporation of water, increasing salinity and pH levels in the lake.
  • Lonar Lake was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch.
  • It is the only known hyper velocity meteorite crater in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth.
  • It was notified as a National Geo-heritage Monument in 1979 by Geological Survey of India (GSI).

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