Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Vol. 88, January-December, 1979

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Contents

March 1, 1979
Pages
A qualitative appraisal of geomagnetic manifestations of the geological structures in the Indian equatorial region — A. V. S. Murty and D. R. K. Rao
 1-17
Vanadium, manganese and iron in the carbonate rocks of the Rohtas Donation —
Rajendra P. Sharma
19-28
Annual fallout of 32Si, .210Pb, 22Na, 36S and 7Be in rains in India — D. Lal,
V. N. Nijampurkar, G. Rajagopalan and E. L. K. Somayajulu     
  29-40
On the interpretation of velocities derived from spaced fading records — H. Chandra   
   41-49
Solar zenith angle and frequency dependence of ionospheric X-region absorption —
S. L. Jain and R. K. Rai  
 51-56
Remote probing of D-region irregularities — H. Chandra and R. A. Vincent  57-68
Variation   of  F-region   night-time   neutral   temperatures   with  equatorial spread-f activity — T. N. Rajaraman, J. N. Desai and S. S. Degaonkar    
   69-75
July 2, 1979

Effect of porosity on the watering efficiency of underground peaceful nuclear
explosions in a shale medium —  Satish C. Gupta, S. K. Sikka and R. Chidambaram 
    77-85
Equatorial electrojet control on the low latitude ionospheric total electron content —
G. Sethia, K. Chandra and R. G. Rastogi     
 87-91
Solar control of low latitude quiet-day magnetic field — B. N. Bhargava and
G. K. Rangarajan    
  93-100
Characteristics of very high frequency and ultra high frequency waves after their passage through the equatorial ionosphere — M. R. Deshpande, Hari Om Vats and
R. G. Rastogi     
 101-109
Wind-driven ocean circulation.   A finite element analysis — R. Natarajan, O. P. Sharma and H. C. Upadhyaya   
 111-120
Sediment movement and siltation in the navigational channel of the old Mangalore Port — M. P. M. Reddy, V. Hariharan and N. P. Kurian  
  121-130
Geochemistry and geochronology of sediments from the Bay of Bengal and the equatorial Indian Ocean — M. M. Sarin, D. V. Borole and S. Krishnaswami  
  131
Search for superheavy elements in monazite from beach sands of South India using K x-ray fluorescence analysis — N. N. Ajitanand, Rekha Govil, S. S. Kapoor and
D. M. Nadkami   
 155
Preliminary investigations on dissolved uranium and silicon and major elements in the Mahanadi estuary — D. V. Borole, M. Mohanti, S. B. Ray and B. L. K. Somayajulu 
   161
On the reality of the effects of geomagnetic disturbances on vorticity area index at 500mb — B. N. Bhargava and B. R. Arora   
 171
Some features of the south-west monsoon rainfall along the West Coast of India —
R. Ananthakrishnan, S. S. Aralikatti and J. M. Pathan   
 177
Magnetic storm, effects in mesospheric winds and F2 region electron density at mid-latitudes — H. Chandra   
 201
Reflection and transmission coefficient of electromagnetic waves incident on a linear ramp model of earth surface layer — Ramesh P. Singh and Rishi N. Singh  
  209
On the origin of ionospheric sublayers in the lower thermosphere — S. Shirke and
R. Sridharan  
  219
Interaction of gravity waves with the ionospheric plasma and the production of electric fields and currents — S. Prakash and R. Pandey   
 229
A study of meteorite falls — Frans E. Wickman and Carl D. Palmer   
 247
Radiometric studies of box cores from the Ontong-Java plateau — R. V. Krishnamurihy,
D. Lai, B. L. K. Somayajulu and W. H .Berger
 273



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