Geology of Karnataka

Prof. R. Vaidyanathan was born in 1931.  He obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Geology Department, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and was a faculty member from 1953 and retired as Professor in 1991.  He has his training in Geomorphology and Photo-interpretation in the Geology Department and the Institute of Cartography, Geodesy and Photogrammetry respectively at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA and in Photogeology at the United states Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.  He served as a Professor in Geology at the University of Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania for two academic years during 1981-83.  He has conducted training programmes in geomorphological mapping for students and professional geologists sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and the Geological Survey of India respectively.  He has published over 70 papers and supervised 12 students for Ph.D. degree at the Andhra University.  A majority of the papers are in the fields of Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Remote Sensing.  He has carried out projects funded by UGC, CSIR, ONGC, DST, ISRO, Ministry of Defence, Planning Commission etc. during 1965-1991.  he was the Editor of the Journal of the Geological Society of India, Bangalore for a term during 1992-1995 and was a Vice President of the Society during 1995-2001.