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Late Quaternary Halimeda bioherms and aragonitic faecal pellet-dominated sediments on the carbonate platform of the western continental shelf of India
(Elsevier, 1994)
The Fifty Fathom Flat is a drowned carbonate platform located on the outer continental shelf of western India. It unique because the carbonate depositional environment prevailed until Early Holocene in spite of its proximity ...
Our threatened archaeological heritage: A case study from the Tamil Nadu Coast
(Current Science Association, Bangalore, 1997)
From the beginning of the Christian era, a number of sites having contact with the Roman world were in existence on the coastal belt of India. There are several indirect references in the literature which suggest that the ...
Prospects of offshore mining in India
(Books & Journals Private Ltd., 1977)
Favourable environments for mineral exploration on the western continental shelf of India
(Indian Association for Limnology and Oceanography, 1971)
Phosphatized oolites on the western continental shelf of India
(National Academy of Sciences, India, 1969)
Clay mineralogy of the mud banks of Cochin
(Current Science Association, 1968)
The mineralogy of the sediments constituting the mud banks formed off Cochin, Kerala, India was studied. The clay mineral composition was used as a means of understanding the nature and source of origin of the muds. Fine ...
Swath bathymetric investigation of the seamounts located in the Laxmi Basin, eastern Arabian Sea
(Elsevier, 1994)
Multibeam (hydrosweep) swath bathymetric investigations revealed the presence of a NNW trending linear seamount chain along the axial part of the Laxmi Basin in the eastern Arabian Sea, between 15~'N, 70~'15'E and 17~'20'N, ...
A re-evaluation of palaeoclimatic conditions during the Pleistocene and Holocene from the western continental shelf of India - Evidences from the petrology of the limestones
(Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 1992)
The western shelf of India is characterisEd. by the presence of Recent clayey sediments on the inner shelf and relict carbonate sediments and a variety of limestones on the outer shelf. The limestones of the outer continental ...
Study of multibeam techniques for bathymetry and seabottom backscatter applications
(Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, 1997)
In this paper, a brief discussion is carried out on the application of the different techniques of echosounding. A deteiled appraisal of the presently used multibeam technique is mentioned. Some of the important discoveries ...
Neogene oceanographic variations recorded in manganese nodules from the Somali Basin
(Elsevier, 1993)
A detailed study of a nodule from the Somali Basin datEd. by sup(230)Th sub(excess) was correlated with the paleoceanographic events recorded in Site 236 (Leg 24) Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) cores. Tentative indications ...