The Neev Project

Every landscape has a story to tell. We enable you to unravel it

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At The Neev Project, we are passionate about introducing a perspective that combines the geological relevance of of the land and how it shaped the culture. While we will begin our journey by telling the story of land and culture of Ladakh, we plan to scale to tell the stories of places all cross India. Our story is designed to uncover the language of the earth and read the story it tells from the landscapes around us

When you pick up a pebble, you have just picked up a page in the book of the Earth's history. Every rock tells a story. Click the link in the bio to learn how to read the language of the Earth!

#geology #rocks #blog

Paleolake at Lamayuru, Ladakh
Long before the famed Lamayuru Monastery and the Moonland existed, a drive down Fotu La on NH1 towards Lamayuru on a summer morning, 30,000 years ago, would have led you to the beautiful sight of a high altitude azure lake, like the one you see at pangong.
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A mini earthquake caused a landslide on the mouth of a glacial stream and blocked its path, some 36,000 years ago,to form the beautiful Lamayuru Lake (panel 2). A sight one could have enjoyed for 10,000 years, until the mouth of the stream opened up again and emptied its contents down the Indus River, as far as Skurbuchan.
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The local legend goes that a great sage walked to this lake and planted a stick and barley seed on top of a hill. The next day the seed at sprouted and stick had grown leaves, thus announcing that a monastery be built here. The lake miraculously drained, making way for one of Ladakh’s oldest and revered monastery to be built at Lamayuru.
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What remains of that lake today, makes millions stop in their tracks along NH1 to take photos: the famous moonland landscape of Lamayuru. It’s actually the light coloured fine sediments that were once deposited below the beautiful azure lake of Lamayuru
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Credits:
-Phartiyal, B., et.al, “sedimentation tectonics and climate in Ladakh, NW trans-Himalaya-with a special reference to the late quaternary period”
-Mr. Jigmet Dorjey, a resident of Lamayuru
#lamayuru #lake #monastery #geology #ladakh #nh1

Sangam of river Zanskar and Indus, Ladakh

The coming together of two powerful, influential rivers that have carved the landscape of Ladakh to what you see today. The variation in colour, apart from being visually stunning, tells a story of the how long the rivers have travelled and the treasures they carry. The Zanskar river is bluer since it travel a shorter distance from its glacier and is carrying less sediments from the mountains it has cut cross to get to sangam. Culturally, the river Zanskar carved a path to Zanskar valley which allowed for travel of early settlers, evidenced by ancient petroglyphs along the way to chilling.

#indus #zanskar #ladakh #rocks

The land we stand on has a story to tell. A story of how it was born, who walked it and how it evolved to be here under your feet.

The Neev Project is an attempt to document some of those stories of places where earth process shaped landscapes and culture so significantly that it has a ripple effect across the globe. Neev in Hindi stands for foundation. Apt because the earth is the foundation we build on.

Through the project we hope one could see beyond beautiful landscapes to reveal the story it tells.
#earthscience #geology #culture #ladakh #storytelling

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