EARTH SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • DEVELOPMENT OF EM DATA INVERSION ALGORITHM USING IIM & CRUSTAL DEFORMATION STUDIES IN ANTARCTICA USING GPS DATA 
    Dwivedi, Aarti Kumari (Department of Earth Sciences IITR., 2015)
    This dissertation deals with the development of an inversion algorithm for 2D EM data using Immersed Interface Method. The implementation of forward modelling shows appropriate results and the inverse problem gives results ...
  • SHALLOW SUBSURFACE MAPPING IN RISHIKESH REGION 
    Ali, Saquid (Department of Earth Sciences IITR., 2016)
    Garhwal region near Rishikesh lie in the seismic zone V and thus is prone to seismic risks. Stress gets accumulated as the constant thrust between Eurasian Plate and Indo-Australian Plate in always in action. The region I ...
  • ESTIMATION OF SEISMIC VELOCITY USING SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION 
    Kumar, Naresh (Department of Earth Sciences IITR., 2016)
    In this research work an attempt has been made to observe the variation in dispersion curves characteristic of the surface waves using broadband data in all the direction around Bhopal station. The seismic events chosen ...
  • IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION OF 2D VELOCITY MODELS IN SEISMIC IMAGING 
    Singh, Sagar (Department of Earth Sciences IITR., 2016)
    In this thesis, images of 2 D velocity models are reconstructed using Full Waveform Inversion which is based on the acoustic wave equation in both time and frequency domain. I have written MATLAB codes for Full Waveform ...
  • Full Waveform Inversion for Di raction Energy 
    Sethi, Harpreet singh (Department of Earth Sciences IITR., 2015)
    The identi cation of the small scale geological heterogeneities like pinchouts,faults ,fractures etc is a primary problem in seismics.They hold a signi cant importance in understanding the geology of a particular area ...
  • IDENTIFICATION OF ALBITITE ZONE USING MULTISENSOR DATA IN EASTERN RAJASTHAN 
    Tiwari, Poonam S. (Dept. of Earth Sciences iit Roorkee, 2013-03)
    Albitite is a coarse grained, deep pink to brick red colour porphyritic rock which has randomly oriented subhedral laths of feldspar as the principal mineral. Albitite occurrences are very rare even on global scale and ...
  • ATTENUATION STUDIES FROM INVERSION OF STRONG MOTION DATA 
    Kumar, Parveen (Dept. of Earth Sciences iit Roorkee, 2014-01)
    The amplitude of seismic energy recorded at recording sites is influenced by the source characteristics, medium characteristic and local site conditions. The effects of travel path on earthquake ground motion are directly ...
  • SIMULATION OF STRONG GROUND MOTION USING SEMI EMPIRICAL MODELLING TECHNIQUE 
    Kumari, Pushpa (Dept. of Earth Sciences iit Roorkee, 2013-09)
    Strong ground motion prediction is one of the indispensable prerequisites for earthquake resistant design of structures. Safe design of any structure in a seismically active environment require various engineering ...
  • ASSESSMENT OF MINING ACTIVITIES IN JHARIA COALFIELD USING REMOTE SEING 
    Pande, Hina (Dept. of Earth Sciences iit Roorkee, 2013-05)
    Mining in India is a major industrial activity which contributes significantly to the national economy. The overall contribution of mining/mineral sector in terms of GDP is about 2.2 to 2.5% (Annual Report, 2010-11), ...
  • LOCAL EARTHQUAKE TOMOGRAPHY AND ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS OF NORTHEAST INDIAN REGION 
    Pandey, Deepika (Dept. of Earth Sciences iit Roorkee, 2013-06)
    Various conflicting views have been proposed regarding the seismotectonics of northeast India. Uyeda and Kanamori29 postulated that the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt and the Andaman-Indonesian Islands are linked by a ...
  • REMOTE SENSING BASED GEO-ECOLOGICAL STUDIES IN JHARIA COALFIELD, INDIA 
    Saini, Varinder (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-04)
    Coal is one of the most abundantly available fossil fuels for the Homo sapiens and provides a substantial part of their energy needs. Globally, India is regarded as the third largest coal producer after China and USA. Also, ...
  • CHARACTERIZATION OF SEDIMENTS OF THE ALAKNANDA RIVER, GARHWAL HIMALAYA, INDIA 
    Panwar, sugandha (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-02)
    The transportation and transformation of sediments by the fluvial system is an important process which influences the continental landscape, global climate, river water quality and flow dynamics. The Himalayan Rivers viz. ...
  • SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY METHODS AND SUBSURFACE STUDIES OF THE KUMAON HIMALAYA 
    Kumbhakar, chinmoy (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2015-12)
    Seismic tomography evolved as one of the most important tools for both quantitative and qualitative determination and investigation of the internal structure of Earth including subducted slabs, sources of hotspots, convection ...
  • PALEOGENE LARGER FORAMINIFERAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF PARTS OF WESTERN INDIAN SHELF 
    Shukla, Sudhir (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2014-07)
    The Paleogene of western Indian continental shelf is geographically so extensive that it could be subdivided into several distinct sedimentary basins, each having its own geological history and evolution through time. ...
  • REMOTE SENSING BASED COAL FIRE STUDIES IN JHARIA COALFIELD, INDIA 
    Raju, Ashwani (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-05)
    Jharia Coalfield (JCF) is known for one of the densest congregations of surface-subsurface coal fires in the world. It has witnessed numerous severe accidents and continuous loss of valuable coal reserves due to uncontrolled ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR 3D MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA INVERSION 
    Khatri, Vishal (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-06)
    Magnetotelluric (MT) method is a passive source method used to delineate the subsurface conductivity structure of earth. Natural electromagnetic waves in the frequency range 10􀀀5 Hz - 104 Hz are used as source elds. ...
  • GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF VISHNUGAD-PIPALKOTI HYDEL PROJECT, GARHWAL, INDIA 
    Lakshmanan, K. (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-05)
    The demand for energy has increased many folds in the recent times in India due to tremendous industrial growth and rapid urbanization. India is endowed with enormous water potential, which is confined within the high ...
  • URANIUM AND ASSOCIATED MINERALIZATION IN SONRAI BASIN, BUNDELKHAND CRATON, INDIA 
    Mishra, Kiran Jyoti (EARTH SCIENCE IIT ROORKEE, 2016-03)
    To meet the ever increasing demand for energy by the developed and developing countries and also to keep the environment clean, the use of nuclear energy is going to be a necessity for the society in near future. The ...
  • SEDIMENT FLOW PATTERNS AND WATER QUALITY IN RAMGANGA RIVER, GANGA BASIN, INDIA 
    Khan, mohd yawar ali (EARTH SCIENCE, 2016)
    Rivers are the most important geological agents on the surface of the continents and are the major pathways for transfer of continental materials to the ocean, in the form of water, dissolved and suspended loads. A river ...
  • CARBONATIES OF NIWANI DISTRICT UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA 
    Dave, V. K. S. (1976)
    long back in 1884, before the cerbo natite were recognized as petrolo gtcclly end economically! si nifica type of roc cs P, N.Bose,whiie investigating the geology of the armado valley between N mtmar and Kawant near ...