"Living Sands: The Art and Science Microfossils" a talk by Professor P.K. Saraswati at Seminar Hall No. II & III, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 7th November 2014

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 07-11-2014 18:30:00 07-11-2014 20:00:00 68 "Living Sands: The Art and Science Microfossils" a talk by Professor P.K. Saraswati Event Page : http://goo.gl/B8CWSu Seminar Hall No. II & III Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Seminar Hall No. II & III Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : "Living Sands: The Art and Science Microfossils" a talk by Professor P.K. Saraswati as part of The Science and Technology Lecture.

Life is nearly 4 billion years old on this planet but skeletal formation is a much younger phenomenon during the Cambrian period, about 550 million years ago. The skeletal remains of the organisms evolved since the Cambrian times are preserved as fossils in the rock records.To a scientist, the microfossils are the source of interpretation of geological processes in deep time. Three groups of protists, Foraminifera, Coccolithophores and Radiolarian, will be discussed in the talk for their shell-architecture, as exemplars of co-existence in nature and as indicators of palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate

Speaker : Professor P.K. Saraswati, Professor of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Chair : Prof. S.K. Tandon, D.N.Wadia Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur

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