employment to geologists and fifteen universities or other institutions were offering tertiary geological education. India also offered a large variety of problems from the point of view of stratigraphy, tectonics, petrology, and mineral deposits such as iron ore, manganese ore, chromite, base metal ores, gold, coal, petroleum, etc. The Congress venue was the Vigyan Bhawan Conference Centre in New Delhi (see Fig. 1). Organization of the Congress Sectional Meetings Sectional Secretaries 1 Geology of Petroleum (16) B.G. Deshpande G. N. Dutt 2 Geological Results of Applied L.N. Kailasam Geophysics (25) 3 Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, A. Roy including volcanic activity (13) 4 Rock Deformation and M. V. A. Sastry Tectonics (41) 5 Genetic Problems of Ores (55) S.N. Sarkar 6 Minerals and Genesis of I.C.

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