National Symposium : Role of Earth Sciences in Integrated Development and Related Societal Issues: 2-4 November 2001 Lucknow : Special Publication No. 65: Vol. III

Contents: I. Theme: Glacial environment and quaternary studies: Snow, ice and glaciers: impact, techniques, climate and hazards: 1. Recession of Gangotri glacier through 20 century/B.P. Mukherjee and C.V. Sangewar. 2. Glacial, periglacial and fluvial deposits of Sarju valley, Bageshwar district, Uttaranchal/R.P. Rai, Rajesh Kumar and Surendra Prasad. 3. Communication routes in Central Himalays-construction problems and remedial measures/M. Tiwari, Kumud Sharma and S.C. Srivastava. 4. Gangotri glacier characteristics, retreat and processes of sedimentation in the Bhagirathi valley/Dhruv Sen Singh and Ajai Mishra. 5. Glacier resources of Ghaghra basin, Kumaun Himalaya, Uttaranchal/S.P. Shukla, Alok Chitranshi, L.K. Oberoi and M.A. Siddiqui. 6. Snowbound and glacierised areas--perspectives in execution of engineering structures/Deepak Srivastava, C.V. Sangewar and S.P. Shukla. 7. Suspended and dissolved flux in the Baspa river, Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh : evaluation of weathering and erosion/B.P. Singh, R. Kumar and B.L. Kalsotra. 8. Chemical characteristics of Hamtah and Nagpo Tokpo glacier melts, Chandra and spiti basins, Lahaul and Spirit district, Himachal Pradesh/Siddharth Swaroop, S.P. Shukla and L.K. Oberoi. 9. Avalanche impact around Kedarnath township in Mandakini valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttaranchal/Deepak Srivastava, Siddharth Swaroop and S.P. Shukla. 10. Neoproterozoic glaciation in the Uttaranchal Lesser Himalaya and the global palaeoclimate change/Vinod C. Tewari. 11. Recession pattern of Miyar glacier, Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh/L.K. Oberoi, M.A. Siddiqui and Deepak Srivastava. 12. Recession of Chipa, Meola and Jhulang (Kharsa) glaciers in Dhauliganga valley between 1912 and 2000/L.K. Oberoi, M.A. Siddiqui and Deepak Srivastava. 13. Vegetational and climatic changes around Gangotri glacier during Holocene/P.S. Ranhotra, A. Bhattacharyya, Ratan Kar and B. Sekar. 14. Miliolite limestone and associated quaternary deposits of Saurashtra, Gujarat, with special reference to their depositional environments and sea-level fluctuations due to glacio-eustatic oscillations of sea/K.K. Verma. II. Quaternary studies: Sedimentation, landuse and palaeo-environment: 15. Holocene evolution of Kolleru lake/C.V.N.K. Rao. 16. Tectonic geomorphology of the lower reachers of Dikrang vally and the adjacent Alluvial Fan-Piedmont Complex in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam/A.C. Pande and M.N. Mishra. 17. Challenges and strategies in geoscientific studies of the soil in Uttar Pradesh/K.N. Singh. 18. Late quaternary climate events of the Gangetic plain/D.D.. Joshi. 19. Geology and geomorphology of Quaternaries along Kailash-Mansarovar route, Upper Kali Valley, Pithoragarh district, Uttaranchal/Rajesh Kumar and Ghan Shyam Singh. 20. Fluvioglacial deposits of Kangra Doon, Himachal Pradesh and its mineralogical significance/S.K. Kar, Surendra Prasad and Alok Kumar. 21. Indo Gangetic Alluvial  plain-a thrust area for societal geosciences/H.S. Saini, N.C. Pant and S.A.I. Mujtaba. 22. Evaluation of structure of Ganga basin in Lucknow-Kanpur area based on gravity, magnetic and resistivity surveys/Anwar Hakim, Narendra Singh, Mehdi Hasan and M. Baranwal. 23. Results of subsurface seismic imaging and electrical resistivity sounding for quaternary studies/D.S. Bohra, D.P.S. Chauhan, R.A. Tewari and C.N. Verma. 24. Relevance of advanced techniques in Quaternary geological and geoenvironmental studies/N.C. Pant and H.S. Saini. 25. Architecture of geomorphic surfaces associated with migration and confluence of Ganga and Yamuna river channels, Allahabad, U.P./G.S. Tiwari, R.N. Tiwari and K.N. Singh. 26. Quaternary geological studies by geophysical techniques in parts of Ambedkar Nagar, Sultanpur and Faizabad distiricts, U.P./K. Hasan, Baldau Singh, S.K. Singh and R.K. Mishra. 27. Analytic Signal map derived frorm Bouguer gravity of Southeastern part of Uttar Pradesh and its application in quaternary studies/Baldau Singh, Rajendra P. Singh Vishnu C. Srivastava and G.S. Srivastava. 28. The morphological features on the neo placer gold grains and their significance/Anil Saxena, R.N. Srivastava and Vikram Rai. 29. Vertebrate fossil based inferences on palaeoenvironment of southern India during pleistocene period/A.K. Moitra, C.V.N.K. Rao, K. Shankar, Ch. Venugopal Rao and Y. Sitaramaiah. 30. Neogene/quaternary boundary in the Siwalik group and the upper age limit of the Pinjor mammalian fauna/A.C. Nanda. 31. Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoclimate of Central India/M.P. Tiwari, H.Y. Bhai, K.K.K. Nair and A.K. Mohanty. 32. Late quaternary palaeodepth study around Narcondam Island in the Andaman Sea with the help of Pteropod/D. Bhattacharjee. 33. Significance of quaternary vertebrates from Gangetic Alluvium/V.P. Mishra. 34. Proxy records of Holocene vegetation and climate change from Sanai Tal, Central Ganga plain, Uttar Pradesh/C. Sharma, M.S. Chauhan, S. Sharma. M. Sharma and I.B. Singh. III. Neotectonics and palaeo-seismicity: 35. Geomorphic and morphometric evidences of neotectonics in Punjab--Himachal Frontal Himalaya/Swatantra K. Gupta, K.C. Joshi and Jaya Singh. 36. Tectonic fabric and neotectonic manifestations in parts of Western Himalaya a remote sensing based study/A.M. Gautam. 37. Physiographic expression of neotectonic activity in Central India/R.K. Chaturvedi. 38. Neotectonic revelation around Lucknow and adjoining areas, Uttar Pradesh/Shyam Narayan, A.C. Nigam, S.P. Bhartiya and Vikram Rai. 39. Neotectonism in Brahmaputra Valley, Assam/K. Mazumdar, R. Sengupta and M.N. Mishra. 40. Neotectonic activity in Agniar basin, Tamil Nadu/G. Ramalingam and M. Renganathan. 41. Neotectonic activity in Wardha sub-basin, Godavari basin in parts of Amravati and Wardha districts, Maharashtra/P.A. Gaffar, M. Sinha and S. Sekar. 42. Characterisation  of the active faults in Central Indian Tectonic Zone : perspective and challenges/M.K. Devarajan and S.D. Pimprikar. 43. Base level seismic hazard microzonation of Jabalpur urban area, Madhya Pradesh; India/P.S. Mishra, S.D. Pimprikar, N.V. Venkatraman, D.K. Jha, Y.P. Sharda, B.V. Srirama, R.K. Srivastava, Mukul Tiwari and M.P. Tiwari. IV. Coastal geomorphology: 44. Detrital mica grains as an indicator of hydrodynamic condition in the coastal regimes in parts of West Coast of India/L.K. Oberoi and Alok Chitranshi. 45. Geomorphology of the Konkan region along the West Coast of Maharashtra-related lateritic bauxite profiles and their potential/K.G. Bhoskar, S.K. Bhatia, A. Gupta and A.K. Saha. 46. Quaternary sediments, evidences of sea level fluctuation and neotectonics in Swarnamukhi river basin in Nellore and Chittor districts, A.P./Deo Nath and V. Rengamannar. 47. Quaternary sea level changes and their geological implications with special reference to Indian coasts/Asimendu Bandhopadhyay and Sumit Kumar Mitra. 48. Sedimentary environments in the middle Bengal  fan during late quaternary/Onkar S. Chauhan, J. Suneethi and B.S. Sukhija. 49. Quaternary geology of Andhra Pradesh part of East Coast of India and its relevance to management of resources and environmental hazards/N.R. Ramesh. Index.