tt a1 ler huts, ~ncreaslng use of the laptop (in the f~eld) GPS, satellite ~magei les
Qu~ch publ~cation of scientific results of ~nvest~gat~ons of the GSI
Encouiagement for publlshlng or~glnal screntif~c contr~bution In I n d ~ a n Journals, specially of the Geolog~cdt Society of India
Dynamic webs~tes should be developed
Increasing utllrzdtron of computers in the geologlcal data analysls
Development of ind~genous software for appllcat~on in solving geologlcal problems
Greater synergy In various disclplrnes of geology and related sclence
There was a broad consensus that geology can st111 have relevance in the developmental actlvltres of the country but it requlres a reor~entdt~on In qulckly adoptlng to the rapldl y changlng technological development and soclal needs of the people However, the basic fact remains that there IS no shortcut to field work and for geologists f~eld 1s the maln laboratory for collecting primary data Geolog~cal mapplng should contlnue as an Important actxvity and there
is dn lncreaslng need for geologlcal maps on 1 25000 and larger scales with l n t e g r a t ~ o n of geochemical and geophysxcal data and quick publication of these maps for gleater and wlder utrllty among usels Organlzatlons llke the GSI have a great role in energrzrng the rnapplng activ~ty for wh~ch ~t has the best expel tlse and trad~tlon Publlcat~on of geological maps and reports of all publ~c organlzatlons should be made mandatory and given a top prrorrty In the final andlysls the responsibrllty ~ e s t s on the geolog~cal communl ty to make geology i elevant and vlbran t
CONCLUSION
After the conclusron of the group discussion and the Annual Convent~on, S V S r ~ k a n t ~ a conveyed the gl ateful thanks of the Society to Prof K L V Ramana Rao, h ~ s associates and students f o ~ the excellent arrangements made for holdlng the Annual conventlon at V~sakhapatnam and with t h ~ s expression of thanks, the cuitaln was drawn on the 4Sh Annual conventlon of the Geolog~cal Society of Indld
Bangalore S V SRIKANTIA
Presentation
of Awards
The presentat~on of Annual awards rn recogn~t~on of slgn~ficant contribution to Earth Science IS an ~mportant part
of the Annual General Meettng of the Geological Soc~ety of Indla For the year 2004, the followtng awards were presented - Bellur Rama Rao B ~ r t h Centenary Award, K Naha Award, S S Me1 h Award, JGSI Radhakrlshna Prlze and
H S Pdreek Award
Bellur Rarna Rao Birth Centenary Award
Referrrng to the awardee Dr Sub~mal Slnha-Roy, who could not be present to receive the award personally, Vice- President sald
For the award t h ~ s year the Councll of the Soclety selected Dr Subrmal Slnha-Roy for h ~ s contribution to Precambrran Geology of Rajasthan and S~kk~m-Darjeel~ng
Himalaya Dr S~nha-Roy was born In 1939 and had his early educat~on rn Calcutta He had an exceIlent academlc record He obtalned his Master's Degree from Calcutta Un~vers~ty and was awarded Ph D In 1978 for hls thesls on structural Geology, tectonics, geochemistry and metamorph~sm of the Proterozo~c Dalxng and assoc~ated rocks of east and south Sikkirn HlmaIaya He carried h ~ s research work In Norway,
CESS, Trivandrum and the GSI He ret~red from the GSI as Deputy D~rector General and IS at present Emer~tus Sclentlst,
Blrla Institute of Sc~entlfic Research, Jaipu~
His main work was rn the sect01 of Dallng rocks and
L~ngtse Gnelss of Slkk~m-Darjeellng H~malaya where he worked out stra~n estimates of Himalayan thrust~ng, mylonite gnelss and polymetamorph~c characteristics of Inverted metamorphism assoc~ated with the Marn Central Thrust He leported bluesch~st facles metamorphism In the Daling rocks from Kal~rnpong-Sikkim Hrlls
In Rajasthan, h ~ s contrlbut~on was m a ~ n l y on the structural evolutxon of polyphasedly deformed Jahazpur rocks and on tectonlc aspects of basement-cover relat~ons He reported a folded unconforrnlty
In his reply, cummunicated, Dr. Sinha-Roy expressed:
The intimation of choosing me by the Geological Society of India for the Bellur Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award - 2003 came as a pleasant surprise. Surprise because I always thought that I do not possess the pre-requisites for any such awards, and pleasant because it is always a matter of satisfaction to get recognized for one's work. Indeed, I am immensely honoured to have been chosen for this award, and I humbly and thankfully accept it.
Awards and recognitions are landmarks in one's professional career. These landmarks are indeed culminations of the long journeys one takes on career path that fosters a feeling that the hard work over the years has not gone unnoticed ultimately. More than anything else, it is also gratifying to realize that the recognition of the work is not as much of the contribution one has made in the chosen field as of the passion behind the work that has been the motivator for whatever one achieves. This realization at this juncture has made me retrospect.
After nearly four decades of my career as a geologist when I ask myself as to what has been the drive that kept me going all these years with my professional work, the answer is not straightforward. I think i t was to a great measure the passion, the love of the subject and the large and fascinating canvas geology deals with that motivated me the most. Otherwise, I do not see any reason why as a student I should leave an engineering degree course in a prestigious institute and join honours graduate and post-graduate courses in geology. I feel happy that this pr~ssion has not yet deserted me. The award has in a way vindicated my belief that pursuit of a passion and drawing pleasure from working in fields of one's interest are essential for a fulfilling and satisfying career.
My profession and interest have taken me to various parts of the country and abroad. I have tried to understand
the intricacies of the Himalayan geology, Precambrian geology, tecotnics and metallogeny of Kerrtla and Rajasthan. and the Norwegian CaIedonldes. These exposures have broadened my geological vluon, sparked my ~magination and ingrained in me a sense of enqutry, all of whtch I treasure very much. In this pursuit, I have been guided and helped by many people. I have been benefited over the years from interactions with many others. The Iist is too long, and I d o not venture to record the namex selectively. To all of them
I am deeply grateful. Lastly. I must say that whatever I have been able to do or pursue in my professional career would
not have been possible without the relentless support of my wife, Gayatrl.
K. Naha Award
Presenting the award to Dr. M;~l;iy Mukul, Vice-PI-esident said:
Dr. Malily Mukul, born in 1965, obtained his M.Sc. (Tech) from I.S.M., and M.S. and Ph.D, from Un~versity of Rochester, USA. He has been working as Sc~entist In the
CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and computer Simulation, Bangalore.
His work marnly relates t o geostatistical approach to
strain variation in tlirust sheets and its impl~cat~ona for- retrodeformable balanced cr-oss-sections; mathemnt~cr~l model ling approach t o the study of d e f o r m ; ~ t ~ o n characteristics of natural fiiult zones - ripplication to M a ~ n Boundary Fault, Dnrjeeling Himalaya; est;ibl~shrnt.nt of
continuous recording o f GPS system at four sites In northern India; geometry, Kinematics rind deformation mechanism in the Gish Transverse zone in the Dasjeeling - Sikkim Himalaya; dynamics of continental colIislon and rheology of lower crust based an GPS studies in Indian subcontinent; active tectonics In the Kutch, Carnbay and Narrnadri Rift system using GPS geodesy; active tectonics in the Shillong plateau, in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Him;ilnya.
Earlier in the USA, he worked in the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt in the foreland-hinterland transition of the Sheeprock mountains.
In recognition of the contribution made by this young scientist, the Council selected him for receiving the
K. Naha Award.
In acknowledging the Award Dr. Mukul said:
First of all I thank the Geological Society of India for this honour. It is a special honour to receive an award named after Prof. K. Naha because I had the privilege of listening to many of his lectures during my student days. I especially thank my teachers Prof. Abdul Matin and Prof. Dhrwba Mukhopadhyay for all their guidance and teaching me the basics of structural geology. I thank Prof. Gautam Mitra, my Ph.D. advisor, for teaching me that working out the
,
ieometry of structures in the field is only the beginning; the real challenge lies in figuring out the kinematics of development af these geometries and reaching out to other disciplines in the process. He taught me that modern structural geology goes way beyond figuring out, often meaningless, simply working out phases of deformation and involves the integration of field data, quantitative data analysis, laboratory work and numerical modelling to address very focused problems. I thank Dr. K. R. Gupta, Department of Science and Technology and Dr. Gangan Prathap, Scientist-in-Charge C-MMACS for his support of all my research activities. I have also benefited a lot from discussions with Prof. Vinod Gaerr, Dr. Sridevi Jade, Prof.S. K. Tandon, Prof. Roger Bilham, Prof. Ashok Singhvi, Dr. Kusala Rajendran, Dr. C. P. Rajendran, Dr. J. Kayal and all my students and collaborators. Finally, I thank my parents Lalita and Manohar Jaiswal, and all my family and friends for their support and also for enduring me and my research over the years.
M.
R.
Srinivasa Rao AwardWhile presenting this award to Dr. C. Sri kantappa, the Vice-President said:
Dr. Srikantappa was born in 1950 and had his early education in Mysore. He is a M.Sc. and Ph.D, from University of Mysore. Presently he is a Professor i n the same University. Dr. Sri kantappa has carried out extensive petrographic work in the granulite facies sock of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. He for the first time reported incipient charnockite formation of Pan-African age (around
555 m.y.) in the KeraEa Khondalite Belt. He had suggested a new hypothesis of internal generation of (2%-rich fluids in the lower crust which is being currently used as one of
the models in understanding the origin of granulites. He has also reported syn-metamorphic origin of C02-rich fluids in granulites from the Dharwar craton and from the various granulite blocks in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He has also reported the presence of different types of fluids like CO,, C02-H,O. H,O-NaCI, C02-H,O, CO,-CH,-N and hlgh saline (30 to 40 wt.% NaCI) fluids in many Deep crustal rocks from southern Ind~a.
The modern Petrograph~c investigation and stable isotopic data gathered by Dr. Srikantappa has lead to the new concept and identification of the Nilgiri granulites in southern India representing an Allocthonoi~s-meta sedimentary unit which has been thrusted onto the Dhnrwar
craton during Paleoproterozoic co1lision;ll tectonic regime. He has proposed that the Nilgiri granulites represent the deepest levels of exposure (9- 10 kbar, c.35 km paleo-depth)
of granuiite grade lower crust in southern Peninsular Indla. Based on the combined U-Pb, Sm-Nd and Rh-Sr isotopic data he has suggested an early Proterozoic age for the Nilgiri granulites. Another significant contribution worth mentioning is the extensive Petrographic work on the Archnean Sargur Group of rocks in the Dharwar craton. Dr. Srikantappa was the first to establish a full tledged fluid inclusion study laboratory in India.
On receiving the Award Dr. C. Srikantappa replied:
Today, I feel greatly honoured t o receive the most
coveted Prof. M.R. Srinivasa Rao Award of the Geological Society of India. I am indeed very happy and proud to receive this award for two reasons. Number one, as a teacher in the University of Mysore, I am hapy to receive this award which is instituted in the name of Prof M.R. Srinivasa Rao, who was a highly respected teacher and researcher of high repute in the field of petrology. Secondly. by giving this award to me, the society has reposed more responsibility on me to carry out high quality research work in the field
of petrology.
I am very much delighted to be here at the Department of Geology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam to express my sincere thanks to the Geological Society of India and to all those who have guided and encouraged me in my goal to achieve excellence in the fieEd of petrology. It was late Prof
M.N.
Viswanathaiah, who helped me to start my academic career in the field of petrology. I was the first student of Prof A.S.Janar-dhan, a well known petrcllogist in the country, who guided me tu work on the petrology and geochemistry of chromite bearing ultramafic and mafic rocks from the Archaean Sargur Group of rocks from the Dhnrwnr craton. My sincere thanks to both of them.I had the ambition in my I ~ f e to carry out research work on tluld ~ n c l u s ~ o n s in rocks. I was very fortunate 10 get the D A A D and Alexander vom Humboldt Post-doctoral rese~lrch fellowship to visit University of Kiel and Bonn, Germany, where I could work with Prof. Michael lir~ith, a well known mineralogist and petrologist in Gel-many. I learnt various modern pet~+ographic techniques, use of thermo- dynamic data to evaluate P-T conditions of metamorphism, d ~ f f e r e n t techniques of ident~ficat ion and analyses o f fluid inclusions in minerals and their significiince in understanding petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic r o c k s . I take this opportunity t o thank immensely Prof. M ~ c h a e l Raith f o r his unstinted s u p p o r t and encouragement for my research activities.
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thank a11 m y research scholr~rs ifrho have ivorked with me for their valuable help in both field as well ns in the laboratory ~nvestigations. My s p e c ~ a l thanks to three of my Ph.D. students Ds.(Mrs.) K.G. Asha Man-jar-i,D.H.T. Basavarajappa and Dr.K.N. Prakash Nnras~mha, who are now working as the staff members in the Department of Studies in Geology, University of Mysore, for their hard and dedicated reser~rch work and who helped me in understanding the origin and evolution of Southern Granulite Terrane in the Peninsular India.
I would I t ke to thank immensely Dr. B.P. Rildhakrishna,
President, Geological Socrety of I n d ~ a , hrho was the guiding spirit behind the success of my research activities. I thank my parents and my wife Smt. Snrvarnangrlla and our two daughters S. Adarsh~ni and S. Pravigna for their moral support.
S.S. klerh Award
Referrin: to Dr. Javed Noornhr~med Mlilik, who could not be present to receive the uwurd due to unavoidable circumst;lnce. Vice-President said:
Dr. J . N . Malik was born In late 1968 and had Iiis education in Gujarrit. He obtained his M.Sc, and Ph.D. in
Geology from M.S.University of Bnrodr\ nnd is at present Assistant Professor at Department of' Civil Engineering (Engineering Geoscience), Indian Institnte of''I'cchnology, Kcinpur. IIe h a s s p e c i a l i z e d in prtlacoscismology. geornurpholugy and sedimentology. H e has carried out investigations for identification of active faults and rclatcd active geomorphic features with help of satellite imageries for precise demarc:ition of there faults o n map ilncl in l'iclcl, trenching along active faults; ~.cconstructing chi-onology of old ertrthquilkes and detcrrniriing thc rccurl.cnce i~~tcl.v;~l, and slip ratc rllong the faults.
In recogni tlon of 111s ci~ntrl butlon nlaclc I))* 111.. Mall h. the C u u n c ~ ! selected h ~ m t'or ~ - e c c ~ v ~ n g thc S.S. Merh Award.
In his ~.eply. cornrrrunicntcd. Dl.. hlallk exl~~.cssccl:
I t 1s a great honor for. me to b c \slcclcd f'or tlic prestigious S . S . Merh ~ ~ ~ v n r d . I ;lm tlz,~nht~il 1 0 the
Coiincrl o f the Cienlogtial
so clot!^
of Indla, ~~artlcirl:~rly Dr. B.P. Radhnkrlslina for conslclel-lng mc \volthy o f 1111s award. I shill1 str-l\lc hard to l ~ \ ' e 1113 to thc c~llcctatlon\ of the society.I am deeply indebtctl t o 1'1-ot'.S.S. Pu.1cl.h i'or developing
m y interest in the f'ield of' Q U ; ~ I C I . [ I ; I I . ~ C i e o l o u ;inti
Neotectoic P:lleoseisrnology and fill imparting guidance and bestowing his blessings over the yc~11.s. 1 \ \ , i l l ;~lis,n!~s cl~cl-ish this award berlring the n:irtie ot' Prof. S.S. Mcl-11.
I am thankful to my teachcl- Prof I,.S. C'hamyal I'or introducing me to the field of'Quatcrnar)' Geology ili'tcr my Masters degrce and providing valuable guiclrttzcc for my successful completion of P1i.D. ;it M.S. IJniver:;ity ot'I3irrod;l. LJuring my Ph.D. research ilt various stagch Prof S.K. ?'r\ndon took great pains and spent his valu;~blc timc t c l tc;ich mc sedimentary geology in the field. I ;iZscl I-crnemhcr- thc v a l u a b l e d i s c u s s i o n s with I'rot' S . N . K a j a g ~ ~ r - 1 1 . Prof.A.K.Singhvi provided me 'l'I, d ~ ~ t e s , urhich hclpcd mc tow;irds better interpretation of' l ' i n d i n ~ s rel~lted to rny research work. I will never forget the s~1ppot.t :~ncl
encouragement provided to me by Prof K.S.Valdiya during
my post-doctoral research.
Later my interest was developed to work in Kachchh area by Prof. Merh to whom I will always remain obliged. I am grateful to Dr. V. C. Thakur, Dr. N.S. Virdi and Dr. G.B. Gupta who always encouraged me to work in the field of active tectonics.
It was great time working with Prof R.V. Karanth, in DST research project. He was very positive, helpful and encouraging. I would also like to thank Dr. M.K. Gupta for his constant encouragement and support. I am grateful to him for suggesting me to take JSPS fellowship and to work with Prof. Nakata. I had a unique opportunity to learn satellite photo-interpretation from Prof T. Nakata of Hiroshima University, Japan during my Post-Doctoral research. He enriched my knowledge on Active Tectonics and Paleoseismology and made me interested to work in Himalaya.
Last but not the least I would like to thank my parents who always encouraged and provided me support in various ways at some very difficult moments of my life during my Ph.D. and Post-doctoral research.
I would also like to thank
wholeheartedly to my wife who provided me her fullest support during struggling period of my career, without whose support I would not have reached to the position I have achieved. It will not be correct on my part if I forget friends as well as my co-workers who provided me their support and for spending finest and unforgettable moments during my stay at M.S. University of Baroda and at Hiroshima University, Japan.J.G.S.I.
Radhakrishna PrizeThis award is to be given to the best paper published in the Journal of the Geological Society of India in a calendar year. The Council adjudged the paper "From the Roots to the Roof of a Granite: the Closepet Granite of South India7'ppubEished in the JCSI, v.62, pp.753-768, December 2003 by Jean Francois Moyen. Mudlappa Jayananda, Anne Nedelec, Herve Martin, B.Mahabaleswar and Bernard Auvray (since deceased), as the best paper.
In the absence of any authors of the paper to receive the award, the Vice President referred to a gist of the paper:
The Closepet Granite, which intrudes a cross-section of continental crust of the Dharwar Craton, outcrops at different structural levels from deep (7-8 kbr) to shallow (2-3 Kbr) crust. This allows the study of all components of this granite, the root zone, displaying strong crust-mantle interaction, resulting in highly heterogeneous, enclave-rich monzonitic to granitic magma, the transfer zone, with inferred upward
movement of these magmas and a rheological interface in the shallow crust at which the ascent of magmas was arrested. At this level only the less viscous (differentiated and enclave- free) magmas were able ro rise through a network of dykes and fill small pockets, forming typical, elliptic granitic intrusions (the "intrusion zone").
Vice President referred to the principal authors of the paper.
Dr. Jean-rancois Moyen was born in 1974, obtained his Ph.D. from Clermont-Ferand, France. He has worked variously as Junior Geologist in French Geological Survey, Jnior Lecturer, Universites of Nancy and Lyon (France). He
is at present working on post-doctoral research, at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Dr. Herve Martin is 3 Professo14 i n Laboratoil-e Magmas
et volcans CNRS-UMR 6524, Universite Blaise Pascal,
France.
Dr. M. Jayananda is a Reader in the Dept. of Geology in Bangalore University. He has carried out extensive petrographic and geochemical investigations of Archaean rocks of Karnataka craton.
Prof B. Mahabaleswar is an emeritus scientist of Bangalore University. He has wide experience in the study of Archaean rocks of Karnataka and has contributed in elucidating their evolutionary history.
Dr. Anne Nedelec works in Laboratoire Magmas et
Late Dr. Bernard Auvray was working in Geosciences Rennes Av. Du General Leclea, France.
In his reply communicated Dr. Moyen expressed:
Let me first express my great pleasure at this news; I'm greatly honoured to have been selected for such a highly significant prize. Please express on my account my warmest thanks to the members of the council; I'm greatly grateful h r this choice.
Regarding the award ceremony, however, I'm terribly sorry to inform you that, due to other commitments at the same period, I won't be able to attend the convention. I'm,
of course, greatly disappointed to miss that event.
Dr. Jayananda in his reply communicated expressed "we really feel that we are greatly honoured by the
Geological Society for selecting our paper for the coveted JGSI Radhakrishna Prize and we thank the President and the Council of the Geological Society of India for bestowing this prize.
Dr. Harve Martin expressed his happiness at receiving this award.
Prof. B. Mahabaleswar conveys his thanks for this honour.
H.S. Pareek Award
This award for the best paper on coal science published in the Journal of the Geological Society of India in a calendar year goes to Dr-Shibananda Sengupta and Sri Shankar Narh Chaudhuri of the Geological Survey of India
(GSI) for their paper "Characterisaticln of Morpho- Petrological Aspects of Lignite horizons from East
this part of the basin along with a note on its industrial utilization.
Introducing the authors. Vicc-Presidcnt said:
Dr. Shibananda Sengi~pta was born i n I945 and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Jadavpi~r Uni vessity. He joined
GSI in 1971 and is at present Senior Cieologist in the International wing of the CiSI. His field oi'spccialization is structural geology and coal petrography.
Shankar Nath Chrtudhuri was born in 1956. 1 Ie received his M.Sc. degree from Cl~~lcutta University. lie joined GSI in 1982 and is at present Senior Ccologist in the Petrology and Palaeontology Division, Coal Wing of'the GSI.
Accepting the award Dr. Sen Gupaa expressed:
I t is a great plcrisure to be a recipient o f the award and I
feel honoured with the recognition for 0111 small contribution. In fact, during my prirticipation rtt the convention held at Varanasi in 1996, observations rnircle by honourriblc Padmasree Dr. Radhrikrishnan on the need o f information dissemination in coal geology, inspired me to submit the present paper.
In India pioneering work of Dr. I I.S.P;tl-eck is a 1;lndrn;irk in modern c o a l petrography. M y association with Dr. N.C.Chakrabarti had helped Ine to initiate coal petrography. This could be developed ivith the inspisation of Dr. H.S.Pareek. During my early service c;~reer I was blessed with the guidrince o f many eminent geoscientists. I remember how Dr. M.V.N. Murthy. Dr. S.V.P. Iyengar and Dr. B.N. Sinha used to guide us as tcaclacrs. Whatever-
I have achieved, i t is because of the proper guidance of my superiors. It is worth mentioning that I could complete m y
Ph.D dissertation with the guidance ol'llr. Aravindrl Ghosh of Jrzdnvpur University. Although niy association with thc Geolog~cal Socicty is not long, I have I'eIt t h ~ s organlsatlon as a lead~ng forum ti)r di\scrnination of scrcnt~f~c reseasch.
I am sure young scientists w~ll feel enthuslastlc t o contribute
i n this jr3urnal.
1 believe plethora of scient~f~c data rn coal geology is avail;lble with difkrent scientific ~rg~lnisations and ac:tdcmic rnstitutions. There should be interacllon amongst such c~rganisutions and exchange of Ideas to build up r1 strong database for the posterity. S h r ~ S . N . C'h,~ilclhur~ has been associated with CO;EI geology for cltl~te some tlme and I am confident he \ v I I I be able to dcvelol-, the sublccr Coast Area, Cauvery Basin, Tamil Nadu" JCSI, v.63, further.
