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Historical Geology of India

 
S.K. Shah (Author)
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Historical Geology of India’ is a text book for graduate and post-graduate students of geology, geophysics and other earth sciences for Indian Universities. It also caters to the universities of USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as one or two credit courses on regional studies are included in the curriculum. Besides it can be useful to professional geologists and geophysicists working on various projects in India.

The book has been specially designed to cover the course content of major Indian Universities and the approved syllabi of the University Grants Commission. This book has not been written in the classical style of what is where and when was it formed; instead there has been an attempt to base the entire history on the time control as available from latest data on high resolution stratigraphy through fossil content, radiometric dating and palaeomagnetic studies. There is a special focus on the tectonic history of the entire subcontinent through time from Precambrian times to present day.

Contents: 1. Stratigraphic Concepts. 2. Physiography of India. 3. Peninsular Archean and Proterozoic Crystalline Rocks. 4. Proterozoic Peninsular sedimentary basins. 5. Precambrian Rocks of Himalaya. 6. Phanerozoic Sedimentation and Transgressive Events. 7. Ediacaran and Cambrian Sedimentary Cycle. 8. Post Cambrian Paleozoic Stratigraphy. 9. Gondwana Sedimentation. 10. Mesozoic marine sequence. 11. Deccan Volcanics and Related sediments. 12. Cenozoic Sedimentation. 13. The Siwalik and related Sedimentation. 14. Tectonic evolution of Indian sub-continent. Appendices.

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Bibliographic information

Title Historical Geology of India
Author S.K. Shah
Format Hardcover
Date published: 15.01.2018
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789386652126
length 159p, 6.20 X 9.25 X 1.5 Inch.