Contents: Invited Papers: 1. Importance of offshore exploration for societal benefits/Ravi Shanker. 2. Renewable energy from the ocean and its relevance to India/M. Ravindran. 3. Energy requirements in India by 2020 and future strategies/Kuldeep Chandra. 4. Role of hydrographic survey, law of the sea and its implications in the Indian context and delineation of legal continental shelf/K.R. Srinivasan and G.S. Inda. I. Seabed morphology, structure and tectonics: 5. Physiography of the deep seafloor of the western part of the Bay of Bengal/B.R. Rao and B.M. Faruque. 6. Morphology and surface sediments off southern part of eastern continental margin of India/G.P. Mohapatra, G. Gaitan Vaz and R.B.S. Rao. 7. Tectonic evolution of the western continental margin of India/R.K. Sukhtankar. II. Sediment processes and stratigraphy: 8. Temporal and spatial variation of clay mineral assemblage in the Bay of Bengal sediments/B.M. Faruque, Kalpana Choudhuri and Swapna Mukherjee. 9. Sedimentary processes and structural framework of Konkan basin, western offshore, India/S.V. Rao, D.K. Dasgupta, K.S. Bhusan, M.S. Srinivas and D.R. Ghosh. 10. Organic matter preservation in immature sediments: a study on recent sediments along a part of western coast of India/I.V.S.V. Prasad, U. Samanth, V.N. Sharma, A.K. Mittal, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 11. Side scan sonar – a tool for seafloor sediment classification/Y. Sathyanarayana, G.R.K. Murthy and Sanjeev Naithani. 12. Textural characteristics of inner shelf sediments off southern Saurashtra coast, Gujarat/R. Jayakumar, A.V. Gangadharan and A.C. Dinesh. III. Palaeo-oceanography, palaeo-climate and quaternary sea level changes: 13. Emerging visions in Indian geosciences – the southern oceans/S. Rajan and N. Khare. 14. Importance of studies on the recent sea level changes in the southern part of east coast of India/P.M. Mohan and G. Victor Rajamanickam. 15. Foraminiferal biofacies in the northern parts of Bay of Bengal and their environmental implication/D. Bhattacharjee, S.K. Ghosh, A. Bandopadhyay and R.R. Bandyopadhyay. 16. Imprints of early Holocene transgression in a core from inner continental shelf off Chilka Lake, east coast of India/Sanjeev Raghav. 17. Occurrence of pteropod assemblages in seabed sediments and nature of ACD in the Andaman sea/D. Bhattacharjee and R.R. Bandyopadhyay. 18. Holocene ostracode assemblages and sealevel fluctuations in Nizampatnam bay off Andhra coast/Anil K. Mathur and P.C. Shrivastava. 19. Sediment facies and biofacies variation in the quaternary sediments, north of Tillanchang, Andaman sea/Samir Kumar Ghosh and D. Bhattacharjee. 20. Recent sealevel changes and shoreline movement from the study of river mouth processes of Vasistha Godavari, east coast of India/G.P. Mohapatra, M. Hari Prasad and P. Prabhakara Rao. 21. Fluvio-marine and fluvial deposits related to higher strand line in the Maharashtra coast, south of Ratnagiri/M.P. Tiwari. 22. Some micropalaeontological aspects of sediments in the southeastern part of Carlsberg ridge, Indian ocean/M. Keshav Rao, D. Bhattacharjee and P. Venkataramana. 23. Quaternary bryozoa of shelf areas of Andaman Islands/B.P. Chattarjee and A. Lahiri. 24. Historical sealevel changes in relation to archaeological structures on the east coast of India/G.P. Mohapatra and M. Hariprasad. 25. Evaluation of surface water palaeo productivity and its effects on bottom water oxygenation in the eastern Arabian sea by microfaunal and geochemical indices/K.K. Bhat and A.V. Gangadharan.

IV. Marine mineral resources: 26. Prospecting for offshore placer deposits in the area between Inayam (Tamilnadu) and Vizhinjam (Kerala) in southwest coast of India/A.R. Nambiar, N.M. Abdulla, A.C. Dinesh, A.V. Gangadharan, R. Jayakumar, C. Jayaprakash, S. Kannan, M.K. Rao, T.K. Charlu, E. Kumaran, K.V. Ramachandran, P.R. Pai, V.K. Rahothaman, K.S. Adiga, E. Unnikrishnan, E.V. Nair, P. Venkataramana and B. Zaheer. 27. Signals of phosphogenesis along parts of the eastern continental margin – an evaluation/B.L. Narasayya. 28. Preliminary appraisal of calcium carbonate potential of northern Lakshadweep banks/V.K.K. Kalluraya. 29. Textural and mineralogical variation across a heavy mineral rich beach at Midalam, southwest coast of India/E. Unnikrishnan, A.R. Nambiar and K.T. Vidyadharan. 30. Placer mineral – a retrospect/P.M. Mohan and G. Victor Rajamanickam. 31. The variable nature of placer occurrences from Gopalpur to Chilka Lake – significant observations/R. Sengupta, Samit Bhattacharya, S. Rakshit, F.S. Das and S. Roychaudhuri. 32. Chemistry of late quaternary oolitic sediments in Indian continental shelf/Amitava Bandyopadhyay and S.C. Kar. 33. Offshore placer minerals off Iduvanipalem of North Andhra coast/V. Ravikumar, M.I.A. Khan, G.G. Vaz, P. Vijay Kumar, J. Sankar, V. Devdas and V. Subba Rao. 34. Role of fluorescence studies in hydrocarbon exploration/Dolly Pal Rana, P.K. Misra, R.P. Singh, Jyothi, Rajiv Soni, R.R. Tewari, N.J. Thomas and K.N. Misra. 35. Provenance of heavy minerals in Kalbadevi Bay and beach sediments of Ratnagiri coast, Maharashtra/P.V. Sukumaran. V. Coastal dynamics and management for development: 36. Swash processes, slope stability and sedimentation in the coastal tract and the inner shelf off Ganjam, Orissa, India/P.K. Mitra, A.K. Samadder, A. Banerjee, J.P. Kumar and J.K. Sinha. 37. Concepts, approaches and applications of integrated coastal zone management in planning and management of Indian coast/M.C. Pathak, Ranjay Sinha, R. Nigam, A.R. Gujar and K.L. Kornala. VI. Coastal geotechnics: 38. Geotechnical evaluation of the nearshore seabed along Kerala coast/Thomas Mathai, M.R. Asoka Kumar, Satish Kumar, P.J. Ittykunju, S.B. Nair and M. Suresh Chandran. 39. Gulf of Kachchh – an appraisal for port development and coastal engineering projects/Thomas Mathai, M.R. Asoka Kumar, Satish Kumar, S.B. Nair, P.J. Ittykunju and B.R. Rao. 40. Consolidation characteristics of sub-seabed sediment off Machilipatnam, central east coast of India/P.S.N. Murthy and J.V. Krishna Rao. 41. Need for geotechnical appraisal of the nearshore zone along the west coast with special emphasis on minor ports development in Kerala – Karnataka sector/B.K. Das. VII. Marine geophysics: 42. Seabed classification from the echoes of single-beam echosounder/T. Pradeep Kumar, Y. Satyanarayana, Chanchal De, Sanjeev Naithani and G.R.K. Murty. 43. Geological structural pattern identification/analysis in the eastern offshore, India, using satellite altimeter data/S. Rajesh, T.J. Majumdar and D.S. Mitra. 44. LGM related unconformity off Coondapur, Karnataka coast; indications from shallow seismic survey/B.J. Sengupta, S.R. Samaddar and A. Bagchi. 45. Deep sea structures as inferred by shipborne magnetics in the western parts of Bay of Bengal/P.D. Venkateswarlu, S. Raman, C. Vuba, B. Satyanarayana, J.A. Nagabhushana Rao, C.V. Brahmam, G.V. Satyanarayana and D. Chakravarthi. 46. Marine magnetic study on the cretaceous magnetic quiet zone, south of peninsular India/S. Rajendran. VIII. Marine geochemistry: 47. Sulfur isotope systematics in defining oceanic environment/B.R. Venkatesh, S.P. Venkata Dasu and M.S. Rao. 48. Grain morphology and REE chemistry of monazites from three heavy mineral rich beaches of Southwestern India/E. Unnikrishnan, A.C. Dinesh, A.R. Nambiar and K.T. Vidyadharan. 49. Heavy metal distribution in the inner shelf sediments off Mangalore – Mulki, Karnataka coast, India/P.V. Sukumaran, K.T. Vidyadharan, A.R. Nambiar, K.K. Bhat, N.S. Nair and P. Prema Kumar. 50. Petrochemistry of central Carlsberg ridge basalt/T.K. Charlu, K.S. Adiga, P. Venkataramana, K.V. Ramachandran and M.K. Rao. 51. Distribution of heavy metals in the surface sediments of the continental margin and Abyssal plain off Mangalore/C. Jayaprakash, A.C. Dinesh, V.K.K. Kalluraya, K.S. Adiga and K.V. Ramachandran. 52. Geochemistry of offshore sediments from the eastern continental margin, Krishna-Godavari inter delta and pennar sectors/B.L. Narasayya. 53. Study of chemical composition of recent sediments/Dewakar, V.K. Vashishta and K.N. Mishra. 54. A statistical appraisal of geochemical data of sediments from Gulf of Mannar, Indian ocean/P.S.N. Murthy and M. Rama Murthy. 55. Geochemistry of sediments along the central east coast of India: authigenic and diagenetic controls on trace metal (Cu, Zn, Co & Ni) enrichment by Fe and Mn./M. Umamaheswara Rao and Nittala S. Sarma.