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The department was established in 1985 when post graduate teaching was initiated at the Maharaja's College Campus. The Department shifted to its own building in the University Campus in 1989. The Department runs M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programmes with an objective of:

• Creating and effectively disseminating fundamental knowledge about the Earth, its resources and the internal and external processes that bring about changes in the Earth's surface as development of landforms.
• Training students to take up responsibility as professional geologist in various exploration and mining organizations and to pursue a career as research scientist.
• Integrating scientific knowledge from different geosciences and allied fields for application in solving societal issues such as natural resource management, natural hazard evaluation and mitigation.
• Providing basic infrastructural facilities to carry out research in specified fields.

Infrastructural Facilities:

The Department has facilities for teaching and research and boasts of the following technical facilities:

• Geochemical Lab : Double Beam Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (GBS); UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Analytical Balance, Jaw Crusher, TC Ball Mill.
• Petrological Lab : Petrological Microscopes, Automatic thin section preparation unit
• Palaeontology Lab : Binocular microscopes, High resolution Zoom Stereomicroscopes with photographic attachment and Tracing Tube. In addition, it has a large collection of fossils collected from Rajasthan and Kachchh.
• Computer and GIS Lab : Ten computers, GIS and image processing software, Satellite data and topo sheets
• Other Facilities : LCD projector, Field Camera, Survey equipment, Light Table, Mirror Stereoscope, Departmental Library, etc

Ph.D. Programme

Individual faculty members have been associated in international collaborative research programmes. Collaborations with the University of Erlangen (Germany), University of Florida (US) and University of Pavia (Italy) & have offered a platform for the university to work in overseas laboratories and to get a chance to interact with the students from these institutions.

Thrust Areas

• Hard Rock Geology (Geochemistry, Petrology, Constraining Ancient Geodynamic Setting, Rock Magnetism)
• Paleontology and Soft Rock Geology (Paleoecology, Sequence Stratigraphy)
• Environmental Geology
• Hydrogeology

Maser's Programme

MASTER OF SCIENCE (GEOLOGY)

• Seats : 10
• Duration : Four Semesters (Two Years)

Other Highlights

"The department of Geology is unique among the PG departments of the University because the student who gets first rank in first year of M.Sc. receives a scholarship of Rs. 5000/- per month for one year. This scholarship the ONGC Scholarship is provided by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, under the industry- Academia interfaces. The Department, during its very short span of existence, has been identified under the DRS-SAP of UGC and FIST Program of DST. A large number of international collaborative research programmes are being undertaken. The Department has been very active in dissemination of scientific research and has hosted national and international, Seminars/conference. A software” Virtual Petrological Microscopes” developed by the students of our department is being used by number of Geology departments all over the country as a useful teaching aid.

Faculty

Head & Associate Professor

• N. S. Mahla