A brief account of the representative and workable industrial minerals namely magnesite, talc and barite in Lesser Himalaya, is presented here emphasizing their genesis. Deposits of magnesite and talc are found associated with Neoproterozoic, plateform type, shelf-slope limestone-dolomite host rocks from inner Lesser Himalayan sequences. Field, textural, geochemical signatures and fluid inclusi...

The proposed facies classification approach uses three features of the GLCM with multitemporal X-band SAR data TerraSAR-X combined k-means clustering. This was tested on 15 transboundary Himalayan glaciers. They were classified into six namely debris, dry snow, wet bare ice, percolation zone 1 and 2 covered areas for these classes are 20.56%, 12.50%, 20.26%, 13.16%, 25.49% 8.03% total area resp...

The Infra Krol Formation and overlying Krol Group constitute a thick (< 2 km), carbonate-rich succession of terminal Proterozoic age that crops out in a series of doubly plunging synclines in the Lesser Himalaya of northern India. The rocks include 18 carbonate and siliciclastic facies, which are grouped into eight facies associations: (1) deep subtidal; (2) shallow subtidal; (3) sand shoal; (4...

Rhododendron arboreum belong to the family Ericaceae is a medicinally and economically important wild edible tree species from Himalayan region. The fresh flowers of R. after harvesting were treated at different temperatures separately. study revealed that quick- drying process was found for maximum harnessing phenolics, flavonoids, flavanols, antioxidant activity (FRAP assay DPPH assay) protei...

[1] The optically thick aerosol layer along the southern edge of the Himalaya has been subject of several recent investigations relating to its radiative impacts on the South Asian summer monsoon and regional climate forcing. Prior to the onset of summer monsoon, mineral dust from southwest Asian deserts is transported over the Himalayan foothills on an annual basis. Episodic dust plumes are al...

In recent years the frequency of cloud burst has increased tremendously and global temperature rise is considered to be among the major causes for the devastating flood. The mean temperature of the earth has increased 0.75° C since nineteenth century, which resulted in faster evaporation rate from high altitude glacial lakes, an important causes of frequent cloud burst in the high altitude regi...