Subhrangsu Kanta Acharyya

Subhrangsu Kanta Acharyya (born 1940) is an Indian geologist and a former director general of the Geological Survey of India.[1] He is known for his geological studies of the Himalayas and the Indo-Burmese belt which assisted the later-day hydrocarbon and mineral explorations in the region.[2] Born on 27 November 1940 in Mymensingh of the present-day Bangladesh, he has served as a professor at Jadavpur University.[3]

Subhrangsu Kanta Acharyya
Born	(1940-11-27) 27 November 1940 Mymensingh, Bangladesh
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Geological studies of the Himalayas and Indo-Burmese region
Awards	1984 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Geodynamics Gondwana geology Himalayan geology Tectonics
Institutions	Jadavpur University Geological Survey of India

S. K. Acharyya has authored one book, Coal and Lignite Resources of India: An Overview[4] co-edited another, Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific Events and their Global Correlation[5] and has published several peer-reviewed articles.[6] It was under his supervision, the Geological map of India[7] and the Seismotectonic Atlas of India and its Environs were prepared.[8] He is an elected fellow of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,[9] and the National Academy of Sciences, India.[10] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1984.[11]

See also

• Gondwana

References

1. "Geological map of India on SearchWorks". Stanford University Press. 2016.
2. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
3. "Anatomy of a poison". Down to Earth. 2016.
4. S. K. Acharyya; Geological Society of India (2000). Coal and lignite resources of India: an overview. Geological Society of India. ISBN 978-81-85867-42-7.
5. J. M. Dickins; Yang Zunyi; Yin Hongfu; S. G. Lucas; S. K. Acharyya, eds. (1997). Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific Events and their Global Correlati. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511564413.
6. "Author details". Geological Survey of India. 2016.
7. S K Acharyya (1998). Geological map of India. Geological Survey of India. OCLC 637485551.
8. P.L. Narula; S.K. Acharyya; J. Banerjee, eds. (2000). Seismotectonic Atlas of India and its Environs. Geological Survey of India.
9. "IICB fellows" (PDF). Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. 2016.
10. "NASI fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016.
11. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

External links

• B.K. Chakrabarti (4 March 2016). Geology of the Himalayan Belt: Deformation, Metamorphism, Stratigraphy. Elsevier Science. pp. 221–. ISBN 978-0-12-802060-9.
• M. J. Hambrey; W. B. Harland (14 April 2011). Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record. Cambridge University Press. pp. 324–. ISBN 978-0-521-17230-1.
• Olle Selinus; Robert B. Finkelman; Jose A. Centeno (27 June 2010). Medical Geology: A Regional Synthesis. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-90-481-3430-4.
• Alan H. Welch; Kenneth G. Stollenwerk (8 May 2007). Arsenic in Ground Water. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 420–. ISBN 978-0-306-47956-4.