Memoirs
M-42. Vedic Sarasvati – Evolutionary History of a Lost River of Northwestern India
SKU:
56001
River Saraswati has exercised great fascination and unfailing interest in the minds of Earth Scientists as well as Archaeologists. The 'lost' character of this mighty river extolled in superlative terms in the Rigveda, the oldest text available to mankind, attaches great importance to this problem. A number of specialists have evaluated the evidence and traced the history of events during the last 10,000 years. This study is a fascinating exercise taking a peep into the past and discovering India's rich civilization which took shape on the banks of the Vedic Saraswati. The great number of our youth in our schools and colleges are being brought up without adequate knowledge of the very springs of our civilization and culture. The book Vedic Saraswati helps to fill in this gap.
M-43. Deccan Volcanic Province. Vol. 1
SKU:
56002
To ensure the priceless heritage of the Deccan, and its invaluable contribution to the development of Earth models, an attempt has been made to provide in these volumes a historical review of the development of our knowledge, and incidentally distinguish a few critical turning points in current research, and some important findings in ongoing comprehensive global research activities. At the same time contributions by modern workers focussing on the later developments have also been included to put the whole subject in the correct perspective. The text is amply supported by charts, sketches, plates and maps wherever necessary with adequate material appended as reference.
M-44. The Indian Subcontinent and Gondwana: A Palaeomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Perspective
SKU:
56010
There remain great opportunities to develop the more applied aspects of palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism as an aid to the study of mineralisation and hydrocarbon exploration, and to regional geological mapping. These include the potential of AMS studies to determine sediment transport directions in basin studies, or the flow directions in volcanics with the aim of homing in on eruptive centers of large-scale basaltic provinces such as the Deccan Traps, the Rajmahal Traps, and felsic eruption centers with mineralisation potential; magnetic dating of mineralisations through polepath comparison; magnetostratigraphic dating and correlation; and palaeomagnetic ground truth as an aid to aeromagnetic interpretations. There can be little doubt about the very wide potential for the application of palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic methods.
This memoir contains state-of-art contribution providing deep perspectives and several questions of interest would be a very useful addition to all libraries serving earth sciences, specially those interested in Gondwana and Continental Geology.
It forms a major contribution towards better understanding of the dynamics of the Gondwanaland.
M-46. Cretaceous Stratigraphy – An update
SKU:
56021
This volume contains papers presented at an international seminar on Cretaceous geology held in Chennai, India in January 1998 .The volume presents a valuable update on the knowledge of Cretaceous palaeontology of India and includes a synthesis of vast information collected by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Dehra Dun, India. A new look to the Cretaceous sections in India has been provided.
M-48. Palynology in Hydrocarbon Exploration (The Indian Scenario) Part I
SKU:
56026
The important role played by palynology in the exploration for hydrocarbons is clearly brought out in this latest Memoir of the Geological Society of India. The Memoir brings out high resolution biostratigraphy based on palynology of the Cambay, Bombay Offshore, Cauvery, Krishna-Godavari and Assam-Arakan sedimentary basins of the country.
This Memoir is of great utility to researchers and professionals engaged in petroleum exploration and sequence biostratigraphy.
M-49. Late Quaternary Geology of India and Sea Level Changes
SKU:
56027
Quaternary is the most recent geological period extending from 1.8 million years ago to the present and is marked by large-scale changes in climate with rapid oscillations in sea level. The volume contains selected papers dealing broadly with two categories - (1) Sea level Changes (2) Evolution of coastal land and brings out fascinating aspects of present and past sea level changes along the Indian coast, climatic variations, formation of placer mineral deposits, neotectonics and geomorphic evolution of much of the present coastal landscape of India.
M-51. Random Harvest: An Anthology of Editorials
SKU:
56042
This book is an Anthology of Editorials published in the Journal of the Geological Society of India during the first 45 years of its existence.
The 86 editorials compiled in this volume bring to life BPR's thoughts on the management of our water resources, prospects for gold mining industry in the country, priorities in earth science research, his vision for the future and myriad other topics that touched him to respond.
M-52. Milestones in Petrology and Future Perspectives
SKU:
56043
Petrology or the study of rocks in minutest detail constitutes a basic sub-discipline of geology and is indispensable in understanding various geological, geophysical and geochemical processes in Earth's history and its continuing evolution. The compilation includes contributions from well known workers in the field of petrology from India and abroad. It will be of special value to teachers, researchers and post-graduate students of geology in updating their knowledge from the reviews on current advances in petrology globally, metamorphic evolution of granulites in particular to many specific petrological studies in igneous, volcanic and metamorphic provinces/belts of the Indian shield.
M-53. The Indian Continental Lithosphere: Emerging Research Trends
SKU:
56047
A reconstruction of the three-dimensional picture of the Indian lithosphere is attempted from the researches along selected transect corridors of the subcontinent ensuring multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary approaches. Data on the gravity field of the Indian lithosphere and deep seismic soundings and more recently generated teleseismic data, palaeomagnetic and magnetostratigraphic studies, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, potential fields and magneto-tellurics coupled with geological, petrological and geochemical inputs have produced a veritable storehouse of new information to model the evolution of the Indian continental crust, crust-mantle interaction, seismic prognostics and metallogenesis in this segment of the earth's crust.
M-54. Earthquake Studies in Peninsular India Since 1993
SKU:
56049
A critical assessment of the seismic monitoring and analysis capabilities in the country including the efforts at upgradation of seismological instrumentation, computing and database also forms a part of this memoir. Thus, it is an essential reading for all interested geophysicists, geologists and policy-makers alike to obtain a sharper and better picture on the status of earthquake studies in Peninsular India.
The Memoir incorporates seismological and related work carried out by various organizations in the post-1993 period.
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M-55. Rampura-Agucha Zinc-Lead Deposit
SKU:
56052
Rampura-Agucha Zinc-Lead deposit in Rajasthan has proved to be the richest and the largest sediment-hosted strata-bound zinc-lead deposit in the country. This memoir gives an account of the discovery, exploration, development, geology, mineralisation, genetic controls, beneficiation and also status of the deposit in the context of the global zinc-lead scenario. This Memoir will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of Economic Geology, Mineral Exploration, Mineral Economics, Environmental Geology and to the policy makers and planners in the public as well as private sectors associated with the base-metal industry in the country.
M-57. Progress of Coal Petrology in India
SKU:
56055
The present volume aims at providing a history of development of petrological studies of coal in India. It provides petrological information of Gondwana coal from the principal coal fields in India, as also Creta????ceous coal and Tertiary lignites. Reference is also made to fluorescence studies as an important tool in maceral identification. A detailed biblio????graphic list on coal petrology is furnished for the use of those interested in pursuing studies on coal. It thus forms a handy compendium of the petrologic characteristics of coal deposits of India, authored by one of the pioneer in the field of coal petrology in the country.
M-58. Geoscientific Writing: A Guide to Language and Composition Styles
SKU:
56065
The art of communication is a difficult art and has to be cultivated with deliberate effort by enlarging, defining and diversifying one's own personality. These guidelines to geoscientific writing are intended to help a large number of our young geoscientist's in developing the essential skills of effective and cogent communication. Elements of language and composition are dealt in detail from the point of requirements of earth scientists The appendices provide a quick cross-check possibility when in doubt about a particular expression, idiom or commonly misspelt word.
M-59. Geophysical Exploration for Coal: The Indian Scenario
SKU:
56068
Coal as a prime source of energy and by-product raw material, will continue to vital play a role in the economy of the country. Exploration Geophysics has been g an increasingly important role in the last three decades, in extending our resource base of coal and lignite, in locating new prospective areas and also in environmental and mining problems.
This Memoir is authored by the duo of an experienced geophysicist and academician, is intended to serve as a text at the post-graduate level in our Geoscience Departments and as a reference manual to professionals active in the field.
M-61. Palynology in Hydrocarbon Exploration (The Indian Scenario) Part II
SKU:
56075
This is a sequel to the first part of the volume devoted to the Palynostratigraphy of the Sedimentary Basins of India with proven hydrocarbon resources brought out earlier by the Society. This second part furnishes more important details on the spatial and temporal distribution of Spores, Pollen and Dinoflagellate cysts in the Mesozoic-Cenozoic sediments of the petroliferous basins of the country. The most valuable part of this effort is the 45 Range Charts in colour summarizing a large volume of high resolution biostratigraphic data on palynology including an appended bibliography of great utility. A concluding chapter deals with the evolution of angiosperms, plate tectonics and implications in hydrocarbon exploration.
These volumes are indispensable reference material to post-graduate students, researchers and professionals in Palaeontology, Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Exploration.
M-62. Geophysical Practice in Mineral Exploration and Mapping
SKU:
56081
Mineral exploration in ancient civilizations like ours, has to necessarily concentrate in an increasing measure, on discovering buried/concealed ore deposits. The success of any such exploration programme will to a large extent depend upon the degree of integration of the geological, geophysical and geochemical data, generated in a coordinated and purposeful effort. Despite much effort, our failure to discover world class mineral deposits may in fact sadly reflect the lack of such an integrated and holistic approach to exploration.
This book fills the void since the author has wide field-based experience in exploration geophysics for over three decades in the Geological Survey of India. All the case histories are from the Indian setting and hence of great relevance and value to students, researchers and professionals alike.
The first part of the book deals with the basic principles of all the geolphysical methods currently in vogue, including airborne geophysics, marine and satellite geophysics. The second part is devoted to actual applications of the various geophysical methods in refining geological maps and in the exploration for precious metals, base-metals, coal and lignite, non-metallics, radioactive minerals and groundwater. He also touches upon the application of geophysics in environmental and civil engineering problems.
The publication will be of immense value not only to students of geophysics but also to students of geology at the University level and to all professionals engaged in mineral exploration in the country and elsewhere.
M-63. Quaternary Geology: Indian Perspective
SKU:
56085
The Quaternary Period consisting of the two unequal epochs of Pleistocene and Holocene has not received the importance it deserves, until very recently. ????The lack of a suitable book on subject matter specially tailored to the Indian student and researcher has often been felt and this lacuna is intended to be rectified to a great extent by this present publication. Authored by an experienced professional geologist of the Geological Survey of India with wide experience in mapping the Quaternary Geology of Western India, particularly of Gujarat, this memoir would be most useful to post-graduate level students in Geology and allied branches, to researchers who would like delve deeper into problems of contemporary Quaternary studies and to professionals as an introductory text with examples drawn from the Indian context.
