M-52. Milestones in Petrology and Future Perspectives

Abstract

Petrology or the study of rocks in minutest detail constitutes a basic sub-discipline of geology and is indispensable in understanding various geological, geophysical and geochemical processes in Earth's history and its continuing evolution. The compilation includes contributions from well known workers in the field of petrology from India and abroad. It will be of special value to teachers, researchers and post-graduate students of geology in updating their knowledge from the reviews on current advances in petrology globally, metamorphic evolution of granulites in particular to many specific petrological studies in igneous, volcanic and metamorphic provinces/belts of the Indian shield.