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Chemical Sciences Paper II Continued

iii. Geohydrology  :  Ground water as part of the hydrological cycle; precipitation and evaportranspiration and infiltration processes; rainfall-run off analysis; stream flow, stage-discharge relationship; hydrograph and flood frequency analysis.  Hydrological classification of water-bearing formations, fresh and salt water relationship in coastal and inland areas; ground water regimes in India.  Principles of management of water resources; concept of safe yield; water balance studies and conjunctive use of surface and ground water.

iv. Biogeography  :  Elements of biogeography with special reference to India, environment, habitat and plant-animal association; zoogeography of India; distribution of major animal groupings; elements of plant geography, distribution of forests and major plant communities.  National forest policy, conservation of forests; a forestation, social forestry; ecology and man in India.  Ecological balance, environmental pollution and deterioration.

v. Oceanography  :  Submarine relief, continental shelf, continental slope, ocean deeps; temperature of ocean water, salinity in the coastal open and enclosed seas; movement of ocean waters; waves, tides, currents, island arcs and coral reefs, and a foils; oceanic deposits.

3. GEOPHYSICS 

     
i.Geophysical fields:  Concept of fields; scalar, vector and tensor; conservation laws; mass, momentum, energy and charge; constitutive relations; and dynamical equations; elastic. Viscous, electro-magnetic, and thermal; Laws of thermodynamics and entropy; Partial differential equations of physics; wave, diffusion, potential and Schrodinger; analytical (Green’s functions and integral transforms) and numerical (Spectral, finite difference and finite element) methods for solving initial value and boundary value problems of geophysics.  Linear instability theory and onset of convection; Benard Cells; Elements of nonlinear instability in fluids; Theory of Attractions; phase space, critical points, limit cycles and bifurcation of nonlinear systems.

ii. Signal Processing  :  Continuous and discrete signals, Fourier analysis; linear time-invariant systems with deterministic and random inputs; band limited signals and sampling theorem; Z-transform, discrete and Fast Fourier transforms; filters; discrete and continuous, recursive and non-recursive, optimal, inverse filters, deconvolution.  Estimation of signal parameters, system identification, Hypothesis testing.

i ii. Solid Earth  :  Gravity and figure of the Earth;  mass inhomogenetics undulations and deflection of the vertical; isostasy; local and regional compensation mechanisms, Seismology ; causes and space distribution of earthquakes; theory of seismic waves; (body and surface waves), free oscillations, application for estimating earth structure and earthquake source parameters; earthquake hazard assessment.  Geomagnetism; main field, its secular variation and reversals; remanent magnetization, paleomagnetism and fithospheric movements, geodynamo theory and hydromangnetic waves; magnetosphere and geomagnetic storms.  Electrical structure of the earth; geomagnetic and magnetolelluric depth sounding.  Plate lectonics theory; kinematics, dynamics and evolution of plates; types of boundaries, processes and corresponding geophysical and gelological signatures.  Heat flow; thermal and mechanical structure of continental and oceanic lithosphere; role of fluids in crustal processes; mantle convection.  Mineral physics, constraints on earth structure from seismological and petrological investigators.