Jaflong, a popular tourist destination, is rightly revered as the Daughter of Nature for its natural splendour.
In the midst of that breath-taking beauty, there lies a live museum of rock record from a very ancient age on geological time scale.
Those are not the regular rocks rolling down the streams from hills of Meghalaya. Formed at least 27 million years before the first human ancestor appeared on earth, they are pieces of geological history.
The bed of rocks, right at the eastern bank of the river Dauki, is commonly referred as the Eocene Sylhet Limestone, which has been an important subject of geological research and study for decades.
As the rocks are exposed to the surface, and Jaflong as a whole has become vulnerable due to uncontrolled extraction of stones, geologists and environments have been calling for protection of these precious resources.
