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2015-16 Annual Report 2015-16 STATEMENT of ACCOUNTS of STATEMENT STATEMENT of ACCOUNTS of STATEMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 A Premaxilla Nasal Lacrimal tubercle Maxilla Lacrimal canal Jugal Lacrimal Supraorbital Palatine Bosses Frontal Frontoparietal Sagittal crest suture Parietal B Premaxilla Nasal Infraorbital foramen Maxilla Lacrimal Sagittal crest Jugal Incisive foramen Fronto- parietal suture Parietal Maxilla Nasopharyngeal meatus Sphenopalatine foramen C Palatine Olfactory bulbs Sagittal sinus Cerebral neocortex WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY DEHRA DUN (An Autonomous Institute of Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India) Cover photo: Skull ofIndohyaenodon raoi . Photographs (left) and interpretive drawings (right) of the partial skull with complete right P2-M3, C and P1 alveoli, and left P1 in A, dorsal, B, lateral, and C, ventral views. Scale bar equals 10 mm. (Courtesy: Kishor Kumar) ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY (An Autonomous Institute of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India) 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehradun - 248 001 EPABX : 0135-2525100 Fax : 0135-2625212 Email : [email protected] Web : http://www.wihg.res.in Contact : The Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology 33, Gen. Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehradun - 248 001 Phone : 0135-2525103, Fax : 0135-2625212 / 2525200 Email : [email protected] Web: http://www.wihg.res.in CONTENTS 1. Institute's Research Activities i 2. ThrustArea Themes TAT-1 : Geodynamic Evolution of the Himalaya and Adjoining Mountains 1 TAT-2 : Indian Monsoon-Tectonic Interaction and Exhumation of the Himalaya 14 TAT-3 : Earthquake Precursors Studies and Geo-Hazard Evaluation 19 TAT-4 : Biodiversity - Environment Linkage 30 TAT-5 : Himalayan Glaciers: their role in Indian Monsoon variability and Hydrological changes in the Ganga Basin 39 3. Sponsored Projects 43 4. Research Publications 73 5. Seminar/Symposia/Workshop organized 81 6. Awards and Honours 83 7. Visits Abroad 83 8. Ph.D. Theses 84 9. Participations in Seminars/Symposia/Workshops/Meetings/Training Courses 85 10. Lectures by Institute Scientists 87 11. Membership 89 11. Publication & Documentation 90 12. Library 90 13. S.P. Nautiyal Museum 91 14. Technical Services 92 15. Celebrations 93 16. Distinguished Visitors to the Institute 96 17. Status of Implementation of Hindi 97 18. Miscellaneous Items 98 19. Staff of the Institute 99 21. Governing Body / Research Advisory Committee / Finance Committee / Building Committee 101 Members 22. Statement of Accounts 105 WIHG ORGANISATIONAL SET-UP GOVERNING BODY Prof. S.K. Tandon Representative of the Secretary, DST Prof. M.P. Singh Dr. U.C. Mohanty Prof. D.C. Srivastava Dr. Rajesh K. Srivastava Dr. D.S. Ramesh Dr. Rajiv Nigam Shri J.B. Mohapatra Prof. Anil K. Gupta Shri Pankaj Kumar RESEARCH ADVISORY FINANCE BUILDING COMMITTEE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Prof. D.C. Srivastava Prof. M.P.Singh Prof. Anil K. Gupta Dr. S. Sinha Roy Prof. Anil K. Gupta Shri J.B. Mohapatra Prof. Kusala Rajendran Shri J.B. Mohapatra Dr. Rajesh Sharma Prof. M. Jayananda Shri Pankaj Kumar Representative of ONGC Dr. R.S. Dattatrayam Shri Harish Chandra Representative of SOI Dr. V.M. Tiwari Shri Pankaj Kumar Dr. J.R. Kayal Shri C.B. Sharma Prof. M.K. Panigrahi Prof. S. Tripathy Prof. R.P. Tiwari Prof. Sunil K. Singh Dr. Snehmani Prof. Anil K. Gupta Dr. S.K. Parcha DIRECTOR UNITS ANCILLARY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ADMINISTRATION TO RESEARCH RESEARCH GROUPS THRUST AREA THEMES Research Planning & Registrar’s Office Co-ordination Cell Structure & Tectonics Geodynamic Evolution of the Publication & Documentation Finance & Accounts Himalaya and Adjoining Mountains Igneous Petrology & Indian Monsoon-Tectonic Interaction Library Establishment Geochemistry and Exhumation of the Himalaya Museum Stores & Purchase Sedimentology Earthquake Precursors Studies and Geo Hazard Evaluation Drawing Section Biostratigraphy Works, Building & Biodiversity - Environment Linkage Maintenance Photography Section Geophysics Himalayan Glaciers: their role in Indian Monsoon variability and Instrument Maintenance Transport Geomorphology& Hydrological changes in the Ganga Environmental Geology Basin Sample Preparation Section Guest House Annual Report 2015-16 INSTITUTE'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has a mandate to study scientific issues related to the Himalaya including its evolution, geodynamics and climate. The Institute plays a lead role in geological and geophysical investigations of the Himalayan region to under- stand earthquake activity, the glacial-monsoon linkages, the climate-tectonic interactions and in-depth study of the crust-mantle boundary across the India-Eurasia plate. Shri Y.S. Chowdary inaugurating the LA-MC-ICP-MS Lab. An important step initiated during the year was to prepare a systematic glacier lake inventory based on the thrust areas have progressed well towards the satellite images for the Uttarakhand Himalaya, which projected goals. Significant achievements in each of included 1,266 lakes. The idea is to understand the state the thrust areas for the year 2015-16 are highlighted and fate of glaciers, including the disaster potential below. (GLOF) in the region. Further, for the first time in the country, the tapping and using of the geothermal energy TAT - 1: Geodynamic Evolution of the Himalaya and for room heating was demonstrated in the Chumathang Adjoining Mountains region of Ladakh by the Institute scientists. A survey was also carried out by Institute Scientists after the ! The receiver function analysis study reveals a Jammu & Kashmir flood, on the request of district prominent intra crustal low velocity layer (IC-LVL) administration, to demarcate the safer areas for beneath the Tethyan Himalaya, and inferred 4-8 % rehabilitating people in the Udhampur districts. The partial melt and/or aqueous fluid at mid-crustal Institute Scientists organized five days training depth. programme for the officers of the Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd ! The magneto-telluric response at few stations along (RVNL) that has the responsibility of making 110 km the Satluj River valley section, Himachal Pradesh rail route (mostly through tunnels) in the Himalayan indicates the presence of a smooth northward dipping terrain between Rishikesh and Karanprayag (Garhwal conducting layer along the profile with a possibility INSTITUTE'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Himalaya). The Institute had also brought out the book of break or jump below the zone of Himalayan entitled 'Siwalik Mammalian faunas of the foothills with Seismic Belt. references to biochronology, linkages and migration'. ! Monitoring the Frontal Thrust systems and other With an objective to provide the necessary allied major Thrusts in the Dehradun and Kangra re- infrastructural facilities to produce internationally entrants in the Northwest Himalaya through GPS competitive data base research, instrumental facility measurements and Gravitational Potential energy like 'LA-MC-ICP-MS' has been added to the existing (GPE) suggest that, in comparison with the Dehradun high end instrumental facilities of the Institute. Shri Y.S. re-entrant, the horizontal stress component is two Chowdary, Hon'ble Minister of State for S&T and orders of magnitude higher in the Kangra re-entrant, Ministry of Earth Sciences inaugurated the unit on especially between the HFT and the Jwalamukhi October 9, 2015. The continuous growth in the Thrust. analytical laboratory facilities, field equipments and inter-linkages with other academic institutions has ! A P-T pseudo section modeling approach of the Main ensured significant progress in all the on-going projects. Central Thrust Zone (MCTZ) and Higher Himalayan An overview of the on-going activities in 5 Thrust Area Crystalline Sequence (HHCS) in the Alaknanda Themes (TAT) showed that major research activities in valley, NW Himalaya yields peak metamorphic i Annual Report 2015-16 conditions of 6.3-7.5 kbar and 550-580°C in the during the warm and wet climatic phases, and that the MCTZ, and 8-10 kbar and 610-650°C in the basal Indian Summer Monsoon front may have penetrated part of the HHCS. The results indicate continuity in into the Ladakh during the post glacial climatic the P–T field gradient across the contact between the optimum. MCTZ and HHCS, and show an inverted ! The sustained treeline rise in Mandakini Valley is metamorphic sequence from biotite to garnet zones to represented by some cold/snow regime resistant the basal part of the HHCS. plant species such asBetula utilis , Sorbus acuparia ! The inferred P-T evolution of the Sapi-Shergol andRhododendron companulatum, and is indicative blueschists in Ladakh, ca. 470°C and 19 kbar, is of climate change implication, especially the characterized by a clockwise hairpin loop along low continuous decrease in snow regime/snow thermal gradients (8-9°C/km), and is consistent with precipitation in alpine ecosystem. a cold subduction zone system in an intra-oceanic ! Major ions, stable isotopes (δ13 C ) and silica subduction setting. VPDB measured in the samples in Indus River waters ! The geochemical data of Nagaland-Manipur covering Ladakh region, show that the alkalinity in Ophiolites of Indo-Myanmar Orogenic Belt, NE these rivers is linked with silicate weathering. India show that they were initially generated in the seafloor spreading regime at the eastern margin of the TAT-3: Earthquake Precursors Studies and Geo Indian plate which was then thrusted over the Hazard Evaluation continental margin of the Indian plate during its collisional and subduction process with the Myanmar ! The paleoseismological investigations carried out at plate.
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