Meruda Takkar

Meruda Takkar is located in the Great Rann of Kutch between Khadir Bet in Kutch and Tharparkar in Pakistan. Kori creek is located on its west and the Sui village on the east. It is located in a desolate and militarily sensitive area controlled by the Border Security Force.[2][3]

The site was visited in 1968.[3] Forty-eight years later, a team from the geology department of the Kutch University visited the site in May 2019.[2]

It is located on the Nagarparkar Fault.[1] Based on the presence of the Syenite, a Precambrian basement rock, at the site; it is assumed that the Syenite rocks form the basement for the Kutch Basin sediments. They are considered equivalent to other Precambrian rock Erinpura Granite.[3][4][5] After 180 million years-long erosion, the Meruda Takkar and Nagarparkar hills are the only existing Syenite rocks in the region. The Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks forms the mainland and other uplands of Kutch while the upper layer are formed by 1500–2500 million years-old hard and crystalline rocks of Aravalli hill range.[2]