Planes and lines in structural geology, dip, strike, pitch, plunge; principles and applications of stereo-net; folds, faults, joints, foliations, lineations. Introduction to stress and strain, ductile and brittle deformations; modeling rocks as a laminar fluid, Couette- and Poiseuille flow along and across gravity-geoscientific applications. Structure and major tectonic features of the Indian subcontinent. Principles of stratigraphy; stratigraphic classification and correlation. Facies concepts and facies analysis. Stratigraphy, tectonics and geochronology of the Precambrians of India; Palaeozoic and Mesozoic formations of Himalaya and Peninsular India, Gondwana sequence; subsurface geology of Bengal, Assam, Cauvery, Krishna-Godavari, Cambay, Kutch, Rajasthan basins.