Charnockite, St. Thomas Mount
in Chennai, IndiaCategory: Attraction
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Pedestrian Overpass, Collectors Nagar, Adambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600016, India Print route »
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Charnockite, St. Thomas Mount, located to the south of the Chennai city, in Pallavaram suburb, Tamil Nadu, is a characteristically profuse exposure of quartz–feldspar–hypersthene rock, illustrated by occurrence of two pyroxene facies metamorphism.
The name "Charnockite, St. Thomas Mount" originated from the use of the rocks quarried from a central band in the St.Thomas Mount for the tombstone of Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata in 1679. Several incidents in Charnock’s life are linked to Charnockite rock, Chennai city (formerly Madras) and the St. Thomas Mount.
