Geological Survey of India
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is the state geological service of India . The headquarters are in Kolkata and there are regional subgroups for the North ( Lucknow ), South ( Hyderabad , Chennai , Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram), West ( Jaipur ), East (Bhu-bijnan Bhavan), Central India ( Nagpur ) and the Northeast ( Shillong ). The GSI is assigned to the Ministry of Mining.
It was founded under British rule in 1851. The aim was initially the exploration of mineral resources (especially coal for the steamships) and the geological mapping, on which the first director Thomas Oldham insisted, with the argument that this would be the prerequisite for the effective search for mineral resources.
Well-known employees were Richard Dixon Oldham , Thomas Henry Holland , Richard Lydekker , Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen , Karl Ludolf Griesbach , Ferdinand Stoliczka , Fritz Noetling , Arun Sonakia , William Theobald , Lewis Leigh Fermor , Valentine Ball , William Thomas Blanford , Henry Benedict Medlicott , Thomas Leonard Walker , Cyril S. Fox (1886–1951, temporarily director of GSI), Alexander Heron , Guy Ellcock Pilgrim , Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia and MS Krishnan (first Indian director).
They publish the Indian Journal of Geoscience and various series of publications. The GSI memoirs appeared from 1856, the Records from 1868 and Palaeontographica Indica from 1861.
You participated in the organization of the 22nd International Geology Congress in Delhi in 1964 (the first in Asia) and the 4th International Gondwana Symposium in Calcutta in 1977 and the 9th Symposium in Hyderabad in 1994, the International Himalayan Geology Conference in Delhi in 1976 and the 4th South Asia Geological Congress (GEOSAS-IV) in New Delhi 2002.
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- ↑ Forerunners were various coal committees of the British East India Company from 1836 and the first geologist was David Hiram Williams from the British Geological Survey, who arrived in 1845 but died of a fever in 1848.