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The Making of India: Geodynamic Evolution

 
K S Valdiya (Author)
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Encompassing a broad array of information related to structure and tectonics, stratigraphy and palaeontology, sedimentation and palaeogeography, petrology and geochemistry, geomorphology and geophysics, the book The Making of India presents, in a concise format, a simplified and coherent history of geological dynamical history of the Indian continent (including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Southern Tibet and Pakistan). It is an account of the geodynamic developments that took place from the beginning, around 3.4 billion years ago, to the Recent at about 10,000 years before present. Presented in a distilled form, the observations and deductions of workers (including those silent geologists whose contributions have gone and remain ‘unhonoured and unsung'), this book is meant for teachers, researchers and students of geology, geophysics and geomorphology as well as practitioners of earth sciences. A comprehensive list of original works would provide lead to those who seek details and wish to go into the depth of problems. The book is profusely illustrated with maps, cross sections and block diagrams, all simplified and redesigned.

The Making of India is a sequel of sorts of the wonderfully great works of D.N. Wadia, M.S. Krishnan and E.H. Pascoe, which bring out contributions of pioneers and giants of the pre-Independence time. The author has chosen to base his account on the works of mainly those who explored the land of India after 1947.

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K S Valdiya

K.S. Valdiya, INSA Golden Jubilee Research Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research at Bangalore, has been a keen and active student of geodynamics of the Himalaya, environmental geology and neotectonics. With more than 45 years of experience as university teacher and researcher, he has authored nearly a hundred research papers, four scores of popular articles (mostly in Hindi) and several books. A recipient of many national awards, including the Bhatnagar Prize (1977) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the L. Rama Rao Gold Medal (1980) of the Geological Society of India, the Pitambar Pant National Environment Fellowship (1982-84) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, the D.N. Wadia Medal (1995) of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Mineral Award of Excellence (1997) of the Ministry of Mines, K.S. Valdiya is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Third World Academy of Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America and The Nepal Geological Society.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Making of India: Geodynamic Evolution
Author K S Valdiya
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2010
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 230328334, 9780230328334
length xxxii+816p., Maps; Figures; Tables; Plates; References; Index; 24cm.