Contents: Foreword. I. Key note address : 1. Contribution of GSI to the geology of coal and lignite basins of India – yesterday, today and tomorrow/S.K. Acharyya. II. Invited papers : 2. Was there a ‘mass extinction’ of plant life at the PTB of peninsular India?/R.S. Tiwari. 3. Process of coalification in Indian Gondwana basins/N.D. Mitra. III. Exploration techniques, etc : 4. Integrated geoscientific studies for mine planning in complex geological structure – a case history of Hemachandrapuram block/Y.S. Babu Rao and D.N. Sharma. 5. Exploration strategy for changing trends in coal mining methods/D.N. Sharma. 6. Lignite exploration in India : present status and future prospects/R. Hariharan and R. Prabhakar. IV. Stratigraphy, palaeontology and sedimentology : 7. Palynological resolution of upper Permian sequence in Talcher coalfield, Orissa, India/Archana Tripathi and D. Bhattacharya. 8. Recent advances in knowledge of nearshore signatures within fluvial Lr. Gondwana (early Permian ) sequences in parts of Satpura basin, Central India/A.B. Dutt and S.K. Mukhopadhyay. 9. Petrofacies of Lr. Gondwana coal measure of Sattupalli area, Chintalapudi sub-basin, Godavari valley coalfield/D.R. Datta and Asitabha Datta. 10. Palynological dating of some Permian outcrops from Iria valley, Tatapani-Ramkola coalfield, M. P., India/S.C. Srivastava and Ratan Kar. 11. Triassic floral assemblage from Baronakunda, Raigarh Gondwana basin, Madhya Pradesh/Bhaskar Chakraborti and Shampa Chakraborty. 12. New palaeobotanical evidence for early Triassic to middle Triassic age for the lowermost red bed of Kamthi formation, Raigarh Gondwana basin, Madhya Pradesh/Bhaskar Chakraborti. 13. Triassic mega and micro-plant fossils from the Kamthi formation of Talcher coalfield, Orissa with chronological significance/A. Bhattacharya, A. Nandi and A. Dutta. 14. Lower Gondwana plant fossils from Barren measures of Jharia coalfield, Bihar, India/A.K. Srivastava and Rajni Tewari. 15. Angiospermous fossil woods from lignite beds of Warkalli formation, Kerala coast, India/Rashmi Srivastava. 16. Megaspore genus Ancorisporites from Barakar formation, (lower Permian) of Godavari valley coalfield, Andhra Pradesh, India/R.S. Patil and K. Premchand. V. Tectonism and magmatism : 17. Changing configuration of India at the boundary of the Permian and the Triassic/ Sanjay Chandra. 18. Reactivation of faults – Dulhara fault of Sohagpur coalfield, an example/Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, S.P. Roy and S. Adhikari. VI. Coalification process including petrology and coal chemistry : 19. Petrographic appraisal of lower Permian coal seams in Son valley basin belt, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh/N.C. Chakrabarti, A. Dutta, S.N. Choudhuri, and Shibananda Sen Gupta. 20. Probability of a new liptinitic maceral from Indian lignites/Alpana Singh. 21. Biopetrological study of coals from Belampalli coalfield, Khairagura area, Godavari basin Andhra Pradesh, India/Omprakash S. Sarate. 22. Petrographic characteristics and depositional environment of Gurha and Barsingsar lignite occurrences, Palana basin, Rajasthan, India/S.G. Chaudhuri, A.K. Mukherjee, C.N. Chatterjee, N. Choudhury, M.M. Alam, and S. Gowrisankaran. VII. Stratigraphy : 23. Tectonic imprint on the facies mosaic of the Talchir formation, West Bokaro Gondwana basin, Bihar India/R.P. Maity and S.K. Mukhopadhyay. 24. A new find of estheriid from Singrauli coalfield of South Rewa Gondwana basin and its bearing on Gondwana stratigraphy/D.R. Datta and S.C. Ghosh. 25. Occurrence of oolites in the intertrappean beds of Rajmahal formation – its environmental implication/Atanu Ray and B.S. Jodha. VIII. Emerging trends and prospects : 26. Prognostication of coal resource in covered basin – a case study from Singrauli Gondwana basin, India/S.K. Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Saha, D.R. Dutta and T.K. Chakraborti. 27. Lithology and structure as indicators for coal-bearing areas in Tatapani-Ramkola coalfield, Madhya Pradesh/D.K. Das, S.K. Barua, D.N. Bandyopadhyay and A. Mukhopadhyay. 28. Coalbed methane prospect in Raniganj coalfield – a prognosis/R.K. Datta, K.K. Sen, R.N. Das, K. Mondal and G. Mukherjee. 29. Codified strata sheet for logging of cored Gondwana rocks/Abhijit Mukhopadhyay. 30. Eustacy, climate, tectonics, sedimentary environment and the formation of Permian coal measures in the Sohagpur coalfield, Madhya Pradesh, India/Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, S. Adhikari, S.P. Roy and S. Bhattacharyya, Robert C. Milici and Peter D. Warwick and Edwin R. Landis. 31. Rank enhancement of Permian Barakar and Raniganj coal measures in the western part of the Sohagpur coalfield, Madhya Pradesh, India/Abhijit Mukhopadyay, S. Adhikari, and S.P. Roy, Peter D. Warwick, and Robert C. Milici, and Edwin R. Landis. 32. Development pattern of Raniganj coal seams in Raniganj coalfield/R.K. Datta and G. Mukherjee. 33. Indian coal scenario in the golden jubilee year of independence/U.K. Basu, G. Mukherjee, S.K. Lahiri and R.K. Datta. 34. Lineament patterns in the upper Mahanadi master Gondwana basin and their structural and tectonic significane/Arindam Gupta, Dulal Chandra Ghosh and Debashish Chakraborty.
