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

Contents:I. Theme : Geoenvironmental studies: Geohazards: cyclone, flood, mass wasting, earthquake, desertification and land degradation: 1. Application of fractals in seismology-A case study in North East India/Pankaj Mala Bhattacharya. 2. Great boundary fault in Agra and Mathura areas-a reinterpretation and its seismic implications/E.A. Khan and S.P. Bhartiya. 3. Geohazards of Lalitpur district in Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh/S.K. Anand. 4. An appraisal of natural resources and geoenvironmental hazards of Ganga-Yamuna interfluve, Uttar Pradesh/Surendra Prasad, Ghanshyam Singh and V.C. Srivastava. 5. Sediment source mapping in the study of geohazards due to Jiadhal river, Dhemaji district, Assam/Yogendra Deva. 6. Molluscs and Ostracodes as pollution indicators in Gomti river/Anil K. Mathur, Sunshil Kumar, V.P. Singh and Vibhuti Rai. 7. Recent geological anomalies in Kerala region and their relevance to seismicity/M.M. Nair and M.P. Muraleedharan. 8. Space based early warning system to understand seismotectonics/Saumitra Mukherjee. 9. Need for researches for hazard zonation of landslide and earthquake/R.B. Sharan. 10. Unravelling recent crustal movements of the western marginal Gangetic Alluvial plains: a computer aided geomorphic approach/M.N. Mishra, Arvind Misra and L.L. Vishwakarma. 11. Rapid assessment of landslide hazard zonation-a fast track approach/M. Raju. 12. Geohazards-a study of the November 1996 cyclone of Godavari delta, Andhra coast/M.V. Subba Rao and D.R. Kameshwar. 13. Stability problem of Mangan town, North Sikkim-an analysis/N. Das, Shyamal Sinha, L.P. Singh and Amareshwar Dutta. 14. Landslide hazard zonation along upper Beas Valley, Kullu district, H.P./Inder Singh and S.K. Kulshrestha. 15. Seismotectonic evaluation of Orissa/Om Prakash, P.K. Panda and M.S. Ummar. 16. Seismotectonic status of Moradabad district, U.P./V.N. Bajpai, I.P. Bajpai, Shyam Narayan and Gyan Chand. 17. Problem of landslide/mass movement in parts of Sikkim Himalaya--a discussion/G.C. Kandpal, A. Dutta and R.K. Roy. 18. Assessment of active faults and lineaments in Kutch and saurashtra regions of Gujarat-a post 26 January earthquake study/Z.G. Ghevariya and B.K. Sahu. 19. Geological hazards in major river-valley projects of Northeast India/R.G. Sinha. 20. Development of landslide at Udhampur end portal of tunnel-1, Udhampur-Katra broad gauge railway line/B.D. Malbarna and G.S. Manhas. 21. Impact of geohazards on the construction of Nathpa Jhakri hydel project, NW Himalaya/S. Kumar and Ashok Kumar. 22. Delhi Strong Motion Accelerograph (DSMA) network--a national facility/Y. Pandey, R. Dharmaraju, P.K.S. Chauhan, S.K. Srivastava and Pradeep Kumar. 23. Role of geomorphology in landuse planning : a study from super cyclone affected areas of Jagatsinghpur district, Orissa/K.C. Das. 24. A reappraisal of geomorphology of Delhi Union Territory and its relevance to the environmental potential of the region/Shishir S. Srivastava. II. Risk assessment : Surface, groundwater and air pollution: 25. Assessment of ground water pollution due to urbanisation and industrialisation in Singrauli area-a case study/S. Mukherjee and D.S. Pandey. 26. Evaluation of pollution around Vanivilas sugar factory and distillery near Hiriyur, Karnataka/N.R. Ramesh and S.G. Udhoji. 27. Soil contamination due to toxic metals in Bolaram industrial area, Andhra Pradesh/P.K. Govil and A.K. Krishna. 28. Sustainability of road communication in fragile environment of North Eastern India: a case study/R.K. Avasthy. 29. An approach to meet the challenge of unpredictable hydrology in small catchments with reference to Kandi watershed area, Punjab/Y.P. Sharda and J. Bagchi. 30. Geochemical investigation of water samples under DOVEMAP project in Dharur and Kaij talukas, Beed district, Maharashtra/V.W. Khangan, N.V. Nitnaware, V.D. Bhole, M. Sinha and V.M. Parate. 31. Chloride in shallow coastal wells in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu/P. Charles D. Mony. 32. Fluoride pollution in groundwater and related ill-effects with geomorphological mapping using IRS data in part of Unnao district, U.P./C.S. Agarwal and N.K. Choudhary. 33. Statistical model of variation in hydrogeochemistry of Sonipat district, Haryana/A.K. Gupta, J. Bagchi and Harbans Singh. 34. Occurrence of fluoride in groundwater of Kodavanar watershed Dindigul district, Tamilnadu/A. Ramesh Kumar and E. Sampath Kumar. 35. Study of environmental pollution in Lucknow through rain water/S. Chandra, S.N. Pandey, P. Purkayastra, K. Singh and B.N. Bhartiya. 36. Hydromorphological studies of Doon valley with reference to ground water management/R.S. Chandel and Shishir S. Srivastava. 37. Deep electrical survey for delineating fresh ground water aquifer at deeper level in Shahjahanpur-Puranpur areas of Pilibhit, bareilly and Shahjahanpur districts, Uttar Pradesh/H.P. Mishra, R.K. Singh, S.K. Mishra, M.K. Rai, Amar Singh, D.P.S. Chauhan, R.N. Prasad and A.K. Lahiri. 38. Medical geology-an emerging field in environmental science/M.S. Rao, R. Gopalakrishnan and B.R. Venkatesh. 39. Water pollution of natural drainage system in Pilibhit district-a case history/R.P. Sharma, S.K. Anand and V.C. Srivasta. 40. Groundwater environment in semi-arid Hisar and Fatehbad districts, Haryana-problems and potential/S.A.I. Mujtaba and H.S. Saini. 41. Hydraulic conductivity estimation from natural gamma radioactivity borehole logs along Digha-Haldia coast line, West Bengal and its use in coastal ground water development/P.C. Chandra, S.C. Singh and P.H.P. Reddy.