The Western Region of Geological Survey of India is presenting through this publication surface and subsurface geological set-up of the area to the west of aravalli range. Ana area covering more than 50,000 km2 was investigated through drilling involving 58,945 m of drilling in 69 boreholes for exploration of potash, a fertilizer mineral, besides developing the geological set-up. This project started in the year 1974 and continued till 1991. During the course of ...
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of Coastal Plains of Kerala
This doucument dealing with two different but inter-related has been presented in two parts. Whereas, the first one describes various neotectonic evidences found and / or mapped in the field, the second part is devotedto the isoseismal maps of the earthquakes, which have affected North India. Here, the term North India, in general has been used to include areas north of Tropic of Cancer.This Atlas incorporates mainly those neotectonic manifestations, which have ...
Continental Shelves During the Last Glacial Cycle: Knowledge and Applications, 2001-2006, Visakhapatnam 30-31 March 2005
Last Glacial Cycle has left various types of impressions on the continental shelf and along the onshore rocky promontories of east coast of India. Bathymetric and shallow seismic surveys carried out, along two shore orthogonal transects T1 and T2, 9 km apart, across almost the entire width of the continental shelf off Rattikonda in the east coast of India, on board GSI's coastal research vessel Samudra Kaustubh (cruise ST-135) have picked up four calcareous ...
An Inventory of Major Landslides in Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya (Geological Survey of India, Special Publication No. 94)
The landslide inventory of Sikkim - Darjeeling Himalaya has been prepared as a dynamic database for future landslide susceptibility/hazard assessment of this area. The graphical part of the database has been prepared on GIS platform using ILWIS 3.3 GIS software and the textural database has been kept in MS Word file. As landslide is a dynamic process this database has been designed in such a way so that the same can be updated/appended in future. The inventory ...
Contents: 1. Petrochemistry and Rb-Sr Geochronology of Vanjinagaram Granite, Madurai Block, South India/N.P. Nathan, S. Ghosh and C. Shrikantappa. 2. Field character and geochronology of Punjaipuliyampatti, Sirumugai and Karamadai stocks of Central Tamil Nadu/S. Raju, K. Basak, R. Vijaykumar and J. Prabhakar. 3. UHT Granulites from Madurai Block, Southern India : distribution, petrology and quantitative P-T Paths/D. Prakash and S.N. Lal. 4. Metamorphic evolution ...
