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Shear heating by translational brittle reverse faulting along a single, sharp and straight fault planeSoumyajit Mukherjee ..................................................................................................... 2

Optimisation of Hidden Markov Model using Baum–Welch algorithm for prediction of maximum and minimum temperature over Indian HimalayaJ C Joshi, Tankeshwar Kumar, Sunita Srivastava and Divya Sachdeva ....................... 3

3-D GRACE gravity model for the 2011 Japan earthquakeRambhatla G Sastry and Mahendra K Sonker ............................................................... 4

Landforms along transverse faults parallel to axial zone of folded mountain front, north-eastern Kumaun Sub-Himalaya, IndiaKhayingshing Luirei, S S Bhakuni and Sanjay S Negi ................................................. 5

Geochemical characteristics and organic carbon sources within the upper reaches of the Xi River, southwest China during high fl owJunyu Zou ...................................................................................................................... 6

A great volcanic eruption around AD 1300 recorded in lacustrine sediment from Dongdao Island, South China SeaZhongkang Yang, Nanye Long, Yuhong Wang, Xin Zhou, Yi Liu and Liguang Sun ..... 7

Predictive modelling of the spatial pattern of past and future forest cover changes in IndiaC Sudhakar Reddy, Sonali Singh,V K Dadhwal, C S Jha, N Rama Rao and P G Diwakar ........................................................................................................... 8

Geology of the Elephanta Island fault zone, western Indian rifted margin, and its signifi cance for understanding the Panvel fl exureHrishikesh Samant, Ashwin Pundalik, Joseph D’souza, Hetu Sheth, Keegan Carmo Lobo, Kyle D’souza and Vanit Patel ............................................................................ 9

Angle-domain common-image gathers from anisotropic Gaussian beam migration and its application to anisotropy-induced imaging errors analysisJianguang Han, Yun Wang, Changqing Yu and Peng Chen .......................................... 10

Monitoring of fi re incidences in vegetation types and Protected Areas of India: Implications on carbon emissionsC Sudhakar Reddy, V V L Padma Alekhya, K R L Saranya, K Athira, C S Jha, P G Diwakarand V K Dadhwal ........................................................................................................... 11

Region-specifi c deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Kanpur cityAnbazhagan P, Ketan Bajaj, Nairwita Dutta, Sayed S R Moustafa and Nassir S N Al-Arifi ........................................................................................................................... 12

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Distribution and sources of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and biogenic silica in the sediments of Chilika lagoonSadaf Nazneen and N Janardhana Raju ........................................................................ 13

Geochemistry evidence for depositional settings and provenance of Jurassic argillaceous rocks of Jiyuan Basin, North ChinaYao Meng, Deshun Zheng and Minglong Li................................................................... 14

Lithostratigraphic contact – a signifi cant site for hydrogeological investigation in crystalline fractured-rock terrainsTapas Acharya and Rajesh Prasad................................................................................. 15

Eff ects of climate change on spring wheat phenophase and water requirement in Heihe River basin, ChinaDongmei Han, Denghua Yan, Xinyi Xu and Yu Gao .................................................... 16

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Nature and composition of interbedded marine basaltic pumice in the ~52–50 Ma Vastan lignite sequence, western India: Implication for Early Eocene MORB volcanism off shore Arabian SeaSarajit Sensarma, Hukam Singh, R S Rana, Debajyoti Paul and Ashok Sahni ............. 17

Monthly reservoir infl ow forecasting using a new hybrid SARIMA genetic programming approachHamid Moeeni, Hossein Bonakdari and Isa Ebtehaj ...................................................... 18

Variable infl uence on the equatorial troposphere associated with SSW using ERA-InterimSourabh Bal, Semjon Schimanke, Thomas Spangehl and Ulrich Cubasch ...................... 19

Mathematical expression of discharge capacity of compound open channels using MARS techniqueAbbas Parsaie and Amir Hamzeh Haghiabi ................................................................... 20

Identifi cation of drought in Dhalai river watershed using MCDM and ANN modelsSainath Aher, Sambhaji Shinde, Shantamoy Guha and Mrinmoy Majumder ............... 21

Diff erential behaviour of a Lesser Himalayan watershed in extreme rainfall regimesPankaj Chauhan, Nilendu Singh, Devi Datt Chauniyal, Rajeev S Ahluwalia and Mohit Singhal .. 22

The Numba ductile deformation zone (northwest Cameroon): A geometric analysis of folds based on the Fold Profi ler methodT Njanko, C Njiki Chatué, M Kwékam, B E Bella Nké, A F Yakeu Sandjo and E M Fozing .................................................................................................................... 23

All-sky radiance simulation of Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR microwave sensor using multiple scattering radiative transfer model for data assimilation applicationsA Madhulatha, John P George and E N Rajagopal ...................................................... 24

Permian macro- and miofl oral diversity, palynodating and palaeoclimate implications deduced from the coal-bearing sequences of Singrauli coalfi eld, Son–Mahanadi Basin, central IndiaKamal Jeet Singh, Srikanta Murthy, Anju Saxena and Husain Shabbar ...................... 25

Groundwater circulation and hydrogeochemical evolution in Nomhon of Qaidam Basin, northwest ChinaYong Xiao, Jingli Shao, Yali Cui, Ge Zhang and Qiulan Zhang ................................... 26

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Provenance, tectonic setting and source-area weathering of the lower Cambrian sediments of the Parahio valley in the Spiti basin, IndiaShivani Pandey and Suraj K Parcha ...................................................................... 27

Enhancement and identifi cation of dust events in the south-west region of Iran using satellite observationsF Taghavi, E Owlad and S A Ackerman ....................................................................... 28

Numerical modelling of groundwater fl ow to understand the impacts of pumping on arsenic migration in the aquifer of North Bengal PlainP K Sikdar and Surajit Chakraborty .............................................................................. 29

Study of the global and regional climatic impacts of ENSO magnitude using SPEEDY AGCMMuhammad Mubashar Dogar, Fred Kucharski and Syed Azharuddin ............................ 30

Measurement of radon exhalation rate in various building materials and soil samplesPankaj Bala, Vinod Kumar and Rohit Mehra ............................................................... 31

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Novel transformation-based response prediction of shear building using interval neural networkS Chakraverty and Deepti Moyi Sahoo .......................................................................... 32

Hidden Markov Model for quantitative prediction of snowfall and analysis of hazardous snowfall events over Indian HimalayaJ C Joshi, K Tankeshwar and Sunita Srivastava........................................................... 33

Seasonal prediction of summer monsoon rainfall over cluster regions of IndiaS B Kakade and Ashwini Kulkarni ................................................................................ 34

Rhizopalmoxylon nypoides – a new palm root from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaP K Kathal, Rashmi Srivastava, R C Mehrotra and P O Alexander ........................... 35

Decomposition of wind speed fl uctuations at diff erent time scalesQinmin Zheng, S Rehman, Md Mahbub Alam, L M Alhems and A Lashin ................. 36

Fault zone architecture within Miocene–Pliocene syn-rift sediments, Northwestern Red Sea, EgyptKhairy S Zaky ................................................................................................................ 37

Spatio-temporal analysis of sub-hourly rainfall over Mumbai, India: Is statistical forecasting futile?Jitendra Singh, Sheeba Sekharan, Subhankar Karmakar, Subimal Ghosh, P E Zope and T I Eldho ................................................................................................................ 38

Forecasting fl ood-prone areas using Shannon’s entropy modelAli Haghizadeh, Safoura Siahkamari, Amir Hamzeh Haghiabi and Omid Rahmati ...... 39

A general polynomial solution to convection–dispersion equation using boundary layer theoryJiao Wang, Ming’an Shao, Laiming Huang and Xiaoxu Jia ......................................... 40

Tectonic stress pattern in the Chinese Mainland from the inversion of focal mechanism dataJu Wei, Sun Weifeng and Ma Xiaojing ......................................................................... 41

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Bayesian inversion of synthetic AVO data to assess fluid and shale content in sand-shale mediaHafi z Mubbasher Anwer, Aamir Ali and Tiago M Alves ................................................ 42

Simulating climate change impact on soil erosion using RUSLE model – A case study in a watershed of mid-Himalayan landscapeSurya Gupta and Suresh Kumar .................................................................................... 43

Petrography and geochemistry of Jurassic sandstones from the Jhuran Formation of Jara dome, Kachchh basin, India: Implications for provenance and tectonic settingV Periasamy and M Venkateshwarlu ............................................................................. 44

Geochemical characteristics of sandstones from Cretaceous Garudamangalam area of Ariyalur, Tamilnadu, India: Implications of provenance and tectonic settingBabu K........................................................................................................................... 45

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Size distribution and roundness of clasts within pseudotachylytes of the Gangavalli Shear Zone, Salem, Tamil Nadu: An insight into its origin and tectonic signifi canceBhuban Mohan Behera, V Thirukumaran, Aishwaraya Soni, Prasanta Kumar Mishra and Tapas Kumar Biswal .............................................................................................. 46

A comparison of outer electron radiation belt dropouts during solar wind stream interface and magnetic cloud driven stormsO Ogunjobi, V Sivakumar and Z Mtumela .................................................................... 47

Joint pattern of seasonal hydrological droughts and fl oods alternation in China’s Huai River Basin using the multivariate L-momentsShaoFei Wu, Xiang Zhang and DunXian She ............................................................... 48

Metal contamination of agricultural soils in the copper mining areas of Singhbhum shear zone in IndiaSoma Giri, Abhay Kumar Singh and Mukesh Kumar Mahato ...................................... 49

Provenance of coastal dune sands along Red Sea, EgyptSamir M Zaid ................................................................................................................ 50

Eff ect of solar fl are on the equatorial electrojet in eastern Brazil regionR G Rastogi, P Janardhan, H Chandra, N B Trivedi and Vidal Erick ......................... 51

Occurrence of wagnerite in Mg–Al granulites of Sonapahar, MeghalayaS B Dwivedi and K Theunuo ......................................................................................... 52

Downward continuation and tilt derivative of magnetic data for delineation of concealed coal fi re in East Basuria Colliery, Jharia coal fi eld, IndiaS K Pal, Jitendra Vaish, Sahadev Kumar, Piyush Priyam, Abhay Kumar Bharti and Rajwardhan Kumar ................................................................................................ 53

Deep learning for predicting the monsoon over the homogeneous regions of IndiaMoumita Saha, Pabitra Mitra and Ravi S Nanjundiah .................................................. 54

Reconstruction of specific mass balance for glaciers in Western Himalaya using seasonal sensitivity characteristic(s)Vinay Kumar Gaddam, Anil V Kulkarni and Anil Kumar Gupta ................................ 55

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Implication of surface modifi ed NZVI particle retention in the porous media: Assessment with the help of 1-D transport modelTrishikhi Raychoudhury and Vikranth Kumar Surasani ................................................ 56

The sensitivity to the microphysical schemes on the skill of forecasting the track and intensity of tropical cyclones using WRF-ARW modelDevanil Choudhury and Someshwar Das ....................................................................... 57

Remote sensing monitoring the spatio-temporal changes of aridification in the Mongolian Plateau based on the general Ts-NDVI space, 1981–2012Xiaoming Cao, Yiming Feng and Juanle Wang ............................................................ 58

Flash-fl ood potential assessment and mapping by integrating the weights-of-evidence and frequency ratio statistical methods in GIS environment – case study: Bâsca Chiojdului River catchment (Romania)Romulus Costache and Liliana Zaharia ......................................................................... 59

Key pluvial parameters in assessing rainfall erosivity in the south-west development region, Romania Monica Dumitrascu, Carmen-Sofi a Dragota, Ines Grigorescu, Costin Dumitrascu and Alina Vladut .................................................................................................................. 60

Phenomena and characteristics of barrier river reaches in the middle and lower Yangtze River, ChinaXingying You and Jinwu Tang ...................................................................................... 61

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Meteorological features associated with unprecedented precipitation over India during 1st week of March 2015Naresh Kumar, M Mohapatra and A K Jaswal ............................................................. 62

First discovery of fossil winged seeds of Pinus L. (family Pinaceae) from the Indian Cenozoic and its palaeobiogeographic signifi canceMahasin Ali Khan and Subir Bera ................................................................................ 63

Geochemistry and geochronology of the mafi c dikes in the Taipusi area, northern margin of North China Craton: Implications for Silurian tectonic evolution of the Central Asian OrogenJing-Hua Wu, Huan Li, Xiao-Shuang Xi, Hua Kong, Qian-Hong Wu, Neng-Li Peng, Xi-Ming Wu, Jing-Ya Cao and Jillian Aira S Gabo-Ratio ........................................................... 64

Pre-processing data using wavelet transform and PCA based on support vector regression and gene expression programming for river fl ow simulationAbazar Solgi, Amir Pourhaghi, Ramin Bahmani and Heidar Zarei ............................... 65

Percolation pond as a method of managed aquifer recharge in a coastal saline aquifer: A case study on the criteria for site selection and its impactsRaicy Mani Christy and Elango Lakshmanan ................................................................ 66

Environmental isotope investigation for the identifi cation of source of springs observed in the hillock on the left fl ank of Gollaleru Earthen Dam, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaJ Noble and M D Arzoo Ansari ..................................................................................... 67

Magnetotelluric impedance tensor analysis for identifi cation of transverse tectonic feature in the Wagad uplift, Kachchh, northwest IndiaG Pavan Kumar, Virender Kumar, Mehul Nagar, Dilip Singh, E Mahendar, Pruthul Patel and P Mahesh ...................................................................................................... 68

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Assessment of large aperture scintillometry for large-area surface energy fl uxes over an irrigated cropland in north IndiaAbhishek Danodia, V K Sehgal, N R Patel, R Dhakar, J Mukherjee, S K Saha and A Senthil Kumar .............................................................................................................. 69

Ocean sea-ice modelling in the Southern Ocean around Indian Antarctic stationsAnurag Kumar, Suneet Dwivedi and D Ram Rajak ....................................................... 70

E–W strike slip shearing of Kinwat granitoid at South East Deccan Volcanic Province, Kinwat, Maharashtra, IndiaR D Kaplay, T Vijay Kumar, Soumyajit Mukherjee, P R Wesanekar, M Babar and Sumeet Chavan ............................................................................................................................ 71

Stable carbon and oxygen isotope study on benthic foraminifera: Implication for microhabitat preferences and interspecies correlationAjoy K Bhaumik, Shiv Kumar, Shilpi Ray, G K Vishwakarma, Anil K Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar and Kalachand Sain ........................................................................................... 72

Occurrence of submarine canyons, sediment waves and mass movements along the northern continental slope of the South China SeaHongjun Chen, Wenhuan Zhan, Liqing Li and Ming-ming Wen ................................... 73

Estimation of earthquake source parameters in the Kachchh seismic zone, Gujarat, India, using three component S-wave spectraDurgada Nagamani and Prantik Mandal ....................................................................... 74

Comparison of two intelligent models to estimate the instantaneous global solar radiation in semi-arid climate conditions: Application in IranMostafa Zamani Mohiabadi and Mohsen Mirzaei .......................................................... 75

Variability of the date of monsoon onset over Kerala (India) of the period 1870–2014 and its relation to sea surface temperatureP N Preenu, P V Joseph and P K Dineshkumar ........................................................... 76

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The role of boundary layer momentum advection in the mean location of the ITCZVishal Dixit and J Srinivasan ........................................................................................ 78

Satellite-based technique for nowcasting of thunderstorms over Indian regionSuman Goyal, Ashish Kumar, M Mohapatra, L S Rathore, S K Dube, Rahul Saxena and R K Giri ......................................................................................................................... 79

Spatial hydrological drought characteristics in Karkheh River basin, southwest Iran using copulasEsmaeel Dodangeh, Kaka Shahedi, Jenq-Tzong Shiau and Maryam Mir Akbari ........... 80

Probable existence of a Gondwana transcontinental rift system in western India: Implications in hydrocarbon exploration in Kutch and Saurashtra off shore: A GIS-based approachS Mazumder, Blecy Tep, K K S Pangtey, K K Das and D S Mitra .............................. 81

Hydrodynamic control of microphytoplankton bloom in a coastal seaK Narasimha Murty, Nittala S Sarma, Sudarsana Rao Pandi, Gundala Chiranjeevulu, Rayaprolu Kiran and R Muralikrishna .......................................................................... 82

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Seismic profi le analysis of the Kangra and Dehradun re-entrant of NW Himalayan Foreland thrust belt, India: A new approach to delineate subsurface geometryJoyjit Dey, R Jayangonda Perumal, Subham Sarkar and Anamitra Bhowmik .............. 83

Structural mapping based on potential fi eld and remote sensing data, South Rewa Gondwana Basin, IndiaSwarnapriya Chowdari, Bijendra Singh, B Nageswara Rao, Niraj Kumar, A P Singh and D V Chandrasekhar ................................................................................................ 84

Geomorphic and lithologic characteristics of Wadi Feiran basin, southern Sinai, Egypt, using remote sensing and fi eld investigationsAyman A Ahmed, Mohamed Abdelkareem, Asran M Asran and Tawfi g M Mahran ...... 85

Run-off analyses using isotopes and hydrochemistry in Yushugou River basin, eastern Tianshan MountainsXiaoyan Wang, Zhongqin Li and Chanwen Jiang ......................................................... 86

Indian summer monsoon forcing on the deglacial polar cold reversalsVirupaxa K Banakar, Sweta Baidya, Alexander M Piotrowski and D Shankar ............. 87

Near InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (NIRIS) for ground-based mesospheric OH(6-2) and O2(0-1) intensity and temperature measurementsRavindra P Singh and Duggirala Pallamraju ................................................................. 88

Determining shallow aquifer vulnerability by the DRASTIC model and hydrochemistry in granitic terrain, southern IndiaN C Mondal, S Adike, V S Singh, S Ahmed and K V Jayakumar ................................ 89

Continental rift-setting and evolution of Neoproterozoic Sindreth Basin in NW-IndiaStefan Schöbel, Kamal K Sharma, Thorsten Hörbrand, Theresa Böhm, Ines Donhauser and Helga de Wall ......................................................................................................... 90

Vertical electrical sounding to delineate the potential aquifer zones for drinking water in Niamey city, Niger, AfricaJoy Choudhury, K Lohith Kumar, E Nagaiah, S Sonkamble, Shakeel Ahmed and V Kumar ................................................................................................................. 91

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Interaction of coeval felsic and mafi c magmas from the Kanker granite, Pithora region, Bastar Craton, Central IndiaR Elangovan, Kumar Krishna, Neeraj Vishwakarma, K R Hari and M Ram Mohan ... 92

Overexploitation and cumulative drought trend eff ect on Ras El Ain karstic spring discharge (Khabour Sub-basin, Syria)Boulos Abou Zakhem and Bassam Kattaa ..................................................................... 93

The role of mid-level vortex in the intensifi cation and weakening of tropical cyclonesGovindan Kutty and Kanishk Gohil............................................................................... 94

Short-temporal variation of soil organic carbon in diff erent land use systems in the Ramsar site 2027 ‘Presa Manuel Ávila Camacho’ PueblaL C López-Teloxa, A Cruz-Montalvo, J V Tamaríz-Flores, R Pérez-Avilés, E Torres and R Castelán-Vega ..................................................................................................... 95

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Mechanism of post-seismic fl oods after the Wenchuan earthquake in the upper Minjiang River, ChinaDing Hairong, Li Yong, Shao Chongjian, Lauvence Svirchev, Xu Qiang, Yan Zhaokun, Yan Liang, Ni Shijun and Shi Zeming ................................................. 96

Static elastic deformation in an orthotropic half-space with rigid boundary model due to non-uniform long strike slip faultYogita Godara, Ravinder Kumar Sahrawat and Mahabir Singh .................................... 97

Analyses of fold profi les by changing weight parameters of NURB curvesManash Pratim Gogoi, Soumyajit Mukherjee and Tapos K Goswami ........................... 98

Estimating gross primary productivity of a tropical forest ecosystem over north-east India using LAI and meteorological variablesPramit Kumar Deb Burman, Dipankar Sarma, Mathew Williams, Anandakumar Karipot and Supriyo Chakraborty ............................................................................................... 99

Characteristics of global strong earthquakes and their implications for the present-day stress patternJu Wei, Sun Weifeng and Luo Jinhui ........................................................................... 100

Frequency characteristics of geomagnetic induction anomalies in Saurashtra regionP V Vijaya Kumar, P B V Subba Rao, C K Rao, A K Singh and P Rama Rao .......... 101

Study on the groundwater sustainable problem by numerical simulation in a multi-layered coastal aquifer system of Zhanjiang, ChinaPengpeng Zhou, Ming Li and Yaodong Lu ..................................................................... 102

Petrography and geochemistry of the Middle Miocene Gebel El Rusas sandstones, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Implications for provenance and tectonic settingSamir M Zaid ................................................................................................................ 103

The role of E–W basement faults in the Mesozoic geodynamic evolution of the Gafsa and Chotts basins, south-central TunisiaDorra Tanfous Amri, Ferid Dhahri, Mohamed Soussi, Hakim Gabtni and Mourad Bédir ........ 104

A Monte Carlo adapted fi nite element method for dislocation simulation of faults with uncertain geometryP Zakian, N Khaji and M Soltani ................................................................................. 105

Evidence of topographic disequilibrium in the Subarnarekha River Basin, India: A digital elevation model based analysisShantamoy Guha and Priyank Pravin Patel .................................................................. 106

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Formation of atoll garnets in the UHP eclogites of the Tso Morari Complex, Ladakh, HimalayaMallika K Jonnalagadda, Nitin R Karmalkar, Raymond A Duraiswami, Shivani Harshe, Sarah Gain and William L Griffi n ..................................................... 107

Isotope fi ngerprinting of precipitation associated with western disturbances and Indian summer monsoons across the HimalayasGhulam Jeelani and R D Deshpande ............................................................................. 108

GIS-based bivariate statistical techniques for groundwater potential analysis (an example of Iran)Ali Haghizadeh, Davoud Davoudi Moghaddam and Hamid Reza Pourghasemi .............. 109

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Mineral shock signatures in rocks from Dhala (Mohar) impact structure, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaMadhuparna Roy, Pradeep Pandey, Shailendra Kumar and P S Parihar ..................... 110

Orographic control of the Bay of Bengal cold pool rainfallP V Arushi, Arindam Chakraborty and Ravi S Nanjundiah .......................................... 111

Qualitative stability assessment of cut slopes along the National Highway-05 around Jhakri area, Himachal Pradesh, IndiaJagadish Kundu, Kripamoy Sarkar, Ashutosh Tripathy and T N Singh ........................ 112

Trend analysis of evapotranspiration over India: Observed from long-term satellite measurementsSheshakumar Goroshi, Rohit Pradhan, Raghavendra P Singh, K K Singh and Jai Singh Parihar ........................................................................................................................... 113

Vertical structure of orographic precipitating clouds observed over south Asia during summer monsoon seasonShailendra Kumar and G S Bhat ................................................................................... 114

Chronology of desert margin in western India using improved luminescence dating protocolsNaveen Chauhan and P Morthekai ................................................................................ 115

Mapping debris fl ow susceptibility using analytical network process in Kodaikkanal Hills, Tamil Nadu (India)Evangelin Ramani Sujatha and Venkataramana Sridhar ............................................... 116

Timing and implications for the late Mesozoic geodynamic settings of eastern North China Craton: Evidences from K–Ar dating age and sedimentary–structural characteristics records of Lingshan Island, Shandong ProvinceJie Li, Aiwen Jin and Guiting Hou ............................................................................... 117

Application of environmental isotopes and hydrochemistry in the identifi cation of source of seepage and likely connection with lake water in Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand, IndiaShive Prakash Rai, Dharmaveer Singh, Ashwani Kumar Rai and Bhishm Kumar........ 118

Spatial and decadal variations in satellite-based terrestrial evapotranspiration and drought over Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China during 1982–2009Zhaolu Zhang, Hui Kang, Yunjun Yao, Ayad M Fadhil, Yuhu Zhang and Kun Jia ...... 119

Trends and variability of meteorological drought over the districts of India using standardized precipitation indexP Guhathakurta, Preetha Menon, P M Inkane, Usha Krishnan and S T Sable ............ 120

N–S crustal shear system in the Bundelkhand massif: A unique crustal evolution signature in the northern Indian peninsulaS P Singh and A R Bhattacharya .................................................................................. 121

Appraisal of long term groundwater quality of peninsular India using water quality index and fractal dimensionKishan Singh Rawat, Sudhir Kumar Singh, T German Amali Jacintha, Jasna Nemcic-Jurec and Vinod Kumar Tripathi ..................................................................... 122

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