CONTENT

01. Antarctic Earth Sciences: Indian Perspective
RASIK RAVINDRA, MELOTH THAMBAN, RAHUL MOHAN AND M.J. D'SOUZA

02. Glaciers
DEEPAK SRIVASTAVA

03. National Programme on Isotope Fingerprinting of Waters of India (IWIN)
R.D. DESHPANDE and S.K. GUPTA

04. Hydrological Studies
S.N. RAI

05. Holocene Indian Monsoon Variability
ANIL K. GUPTA

06. Erosion in River Basins of India
S. KRISHNASWAMI and SUNIL K. SINGH

07. Research on Floods in India
VISHWAS S. KALE

08. Research on Palaeofloods in India
VISHWAS S. KALE

09. Indian Contributions on Late Quaternary Fluvial Records
PRADEEP SRIVASTAVA

10. Late Quaternary Climatic Studies in Himalaya
NAVIN JUYAL and Y.P. SUNDRIYAL

11. CO2 Sequestration: Recent Indian Research
MALTI GOEL, S.N. CHARAN and A.K. BHANDARI

12. Studies on Indian Soils
D.K. PAL

13. Knowledge Systems, Socio-ecological System Resilience
and Coping with Environmental Uncertainties in the Context of
Global Change

P.S. RAMAKRISHNAN

14. Geo-environmental Studies in India
S.K. WADHAWAN

15. Medical Geology in India
D.K. MUKHOPADHYAY

16. Marine Geology
V.P. RAO

17. Micropalaeontology
PRATUL KUMAR SARASWATI

18. Sedimentary Basins and Fossil Records
G.V.R. PRASAD

19. Early Evolution of Life in India and its Astrobiological Implications
V.C. TEWARI

20. Landslide Studies in India
Y.P. SHARDA

21. New Research Initiatives in Earth Sciences:
Shallow Subsurface Studies

V. RAJAMANI

22. Geodetic and Geophysical Studies in India
R.S. TANWAR and B. NAGARAJAN

23. Seismic Microzonation: the Indian Scene
PRABHAS PANDE and IMTIYAZ AHMED PARVEZ

24.Active Tectonics, Tsunami and Palaeoseismic Studies in Indian Context
ANSHUMAN ACHARYYA

25. Earthquake Precursors
R.K. CHADDHA

26. Heat-Flow Studies in India
SUKANTA ROY and R. SRINIVASAN

27. Deep Crustal Seismic Studies Over the Indian Shield
V. VIJAYA RAO and H.C. TEWARI

28. Recent Subsurface Mapping of the Himalayan Region
B.R. ARORA, V.M. TIWARI and A.K. PANDEY

29. Geophysical Modelling Studies
S.N. RAI. V. CHAKRAVARTHI and R.N. SINGH

30. Glimpses of Experimental Structural Geology in India
NIBIR MANDAL

31. Deformation and Metamorphism of the Himalayan Orogen
SOMNATH DASGUPTA

32. Plutonism and Precambrian Magmatism in India
T. AHMAD and M. JAYANANDA

33. Geodynamic Model on the Evolution of the Eastern
Indian Shield: a New Perspective

ABHINABA ROY

34. A-Type Malani Magmatism, NW Peninsular India
NARESH KOCHHAR

35. Imprints of the Pan-African Event from India and Antarctica-
A Contribution to the IGCP-470

N.C. PANT, A. JOSHI, AMITAVA KUNDU and SONALIKA JOSHI

36. Geochronology and Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
Y.J. BHASKAR RAO

37. Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Studies in India
A.K. SINGHVI

38. Mineral Prospecting
S.K. BISWA

39. Ore Geology and Mineral Resources
BISWAJIT MISHRA and MIHIR DEB

40. Mineral Physics, Experimental Mineralogy and Nano-geoscience
G. PARTHASARATHY

41. Indian Oil and Gas Potential
P.K. BHOWMICK and RAVI MISRA

42. Status of Coal Bed Methane Investigations in India
M.P. SINGH and RAKESH SAXENA

43. India Enters a New Energy Arena - Coalbed Methane
N.K. PUNJRATH

44. Gas-Hydrates - Future Potential Source of Energy in India
KALACHAND SAIN and HARSH K. GUPTA

45. Hydrocarbon Potential of India
V.K. BHARDWAJ and S.S. SAINI

46. Phanerozoic Petroliferous Basins of India
P.K. BHOWMICK