GS 554: Tectonics and Crustal Evolution

Syllabus​

Composition of crust, mantle and core; plate tectonics; tectonic setting; deformation pattern and magma association, Precambrian tectonics. Phanerozoic plate tectonics. Evolution of the Himalayas and Indian Ocean. Evolution of Indian subcontinent, Ur to Rodinia to Gondwanaland.

Texts/References

  • Leverson, A.L. Geology of Petroleum. Freeman and co., 1970
  • Selley, R. C. Elements of Petroleum Geology, II Edition. Academic Press, 1998
  • Stach, E. et al. Stach’s textbook of coal petrology. Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1975
  • Taylor, G.H., Teichmüller, M.., Davis, C. Organic Petrology: A new handbook incorporating some revised parts of Stach’s Textbook of Coal Petrology, 1998
  • Chandra, D., Singh, R.M., Singh, M.P. Text Book of Coal (Indian Context). Tara Printing Works, Varanasi, 2000