Dr B M Faruque

1. KONARK CHILKA
KHANDAGIRI AND
THE ROCKING
SEA LEVELS
Dr.B.M.FARUQUE, GSI

3. TRACK FOR BEST VISIBILITY OF TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 16 Feb 1980

6. Subhamoy Jana et al, 2016, Cur. Sc, 111/8
PALAEOCHANNEL OF MYTHICAL CHANDRABHAGA RIVER

7. PALAEOCHANNEL OF MYTHICAL CHANDRABHAGA RIVER

8. Marine shell from
a palaeo-beach ridge,
North of Devi river
dated (P.K.Banerji, GSI )
Late Holocene

13. https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3496e05e1aea0a9c4655800e8a7b9ea28/uploads/bfi_thumb/2
018032272-olw9coegl5i1edjrry5m1xzj0l03itr176ra122jre.jpg
Boating across Chilka lagoon to the open sea.

15. Coastal configuration
during
Late Pleistocene

17. ANCIENT PORT
MANIKPATNA
IN CHILKA LAGOON
COINS FROM
OTHER COUNTRIES
WERE
RETRIEVED DURING
EXLORATION IN
MANIKPATNA
ANCIENT PORT
B.Patra
Sila Tripathi

18. Monolithic stone pillar
lighthouse on the bank
of Chilika Lagoon
Manikpatna

22. Solution cavities upto 7 to 8m above the present msl at Ghantasila Hill
flank, near Rambha.

23. Lime concretions, Ostrea fossil shells, have been observed by Venkatarathnam 1970 and
Faruque. Anandale and Kemp have reported coral

26. Small occurrence of Coral were reported by Anandale and Kemp (1915) from Zoological
Survey of India, referred by Venkatratnam 1970.

29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqQWO1D47g
NIGHT HALT AT RAMBHA PANTH NIVAS
OTDC

30. GOPALPUR
TRACE OF THE LATE HOLOCENE SHORELINE
The coastal tract is characterised by 3
generations of dunes, aeolian flat and
Swamps which are remnants of brackish
Water bodies in the late aholocene.
RUSHIKULYA RIVER
HEAVY MINERAL DEPOSIT
MINED BY
INDIAN RARE EARTH LTD

32. Tampara Lake

33. Lake Tampara

35. Heavy Minerals: Sillimanite,
Garnet, Ilmenite, Rutile, Zircon
and Monazite are mined on the
Aryapalli beach south-west of
Tampara Lake

36. GOLBAI, Khorda district Neolithic-
Chalcolithic site

37. CROP cultivated by the Golbai settlers. Rice was grown for he first time by them.

38. Golbai, Khorda Chalcolithic settlement 2003

39. GONDWANA’S ATHGARH SANDSTONE THAT SHELTERED ASCETICS
AND A CONFLUENCE OF JAINISM WITH HINDUISM

41. These Athgarh Sabdstones have given rise to a laterite which is extensively used in
the construction of houses and boundary walls by the local people.