I am going to present paper on Ancient Lakhs in Tamilnadu on 29.11.2007 at Bharathidasan University .
can any one help me with references for preparation of My paper.
Going to visit Tamilnadu again for my deepwater studies followed by the seminor on submerged land on continental shelf in Tamilnadu during end of the November at Kaniyakumari.
s.balasubramani B+ve Bhubaneswar Orissa
Information on seminor as follows
Dear Sir
Sub: Two Day Brain Storming Session on ¡§REVIVAL OF INDIAN LAKES¡¨ (RELAKES)- During 29-30 November 2007- Reg.
Greetings
The lakes and water bodies have always remained as important resources for MAN and to his lively hood. These vital resources have started facing degradation and disappearance either due to the natural processes of the planet Earth or due to triggering/modification of these natural processes by the anthropogenic activities or due to the exclusive anthropogenic phenomena.
To cite a few, while some of the coastal lakes have degraded and became even totally defunct due to the morpho tectonic /morpho dynamic processes of the Earth, most of the mountainous lakes stand prone for siltation due to deforestation and the induced soil erosion.
Whereas the urban lakes are mostly used as sinks for pollution and, the rural ponds and village ponds are invariably orphans and stand exposed as obvious dump yards, all resulting into the decline in their potentials.
The temple tanks too which enjoyed protection from the humans because of attracted religious sanctity have disappeared in course of time.
Hence, following the clarion call of Dr.A.B.J.Abdul Kalam, the Former President of India, the programme of evaluating the status of these lakes has been envisioned by Department of Science and Technology under the programme of ¡§Revival of Indian Lakes¡¨ for their possible revival.
In this connection, a two day Brain Storming Session is planned at Centre for Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli during 29-30th November 2007 to invite/gather eminent scholars working on the lakes of divergent geological / geomorphological / physiographic provinces of India, to deliberate, discuss and brainstorm various issues related to their status and to carve out strategies for their revival.
The topics of deliberations would revolve around,
S Lacustrine geomorphology and dynamics, sedimentology, bio- geochemistry and ecosystems of mountain/glacial, plain & riverine, coastal, desertic, urban & rural lakes, village ponds, temple tanks etc.,
S History of lakes, time series modifications of lakes, lakes as indicators of palaeo hydrology, palaeo climatology and pollution.
S Emerging technologies on lake system studies.
In this connection, I deem it as a great pleasure in requesting you to kindly contribute an article on the following topic or related to it or in any one of the topics and participate in the above Brain Storming Session. As it is also proposed to bring out the articles to be presented as a special volume in a text book standard by a leading publisher prior to the event, it is requested to kindly send your article in a soft copy (10 - 20 pages including line drawings and photographs).