This book will be useful to the faculty and students in the field of Geology, Geography, Civil Engineers, and those who are preparing for various competitive examinations, viz., UGC-CSIR, GATE, UPSC Geologists examination, Indian Civil Services, Indian Forest Services, various state level officer and other examinations including UG and PG level university examinations in the field of Earth Sciences (mainly Geologists and Geographers) and Civil Engineers. The book is broadly divided into five major sections.

Section I contains Physical Geology and Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Geotectonics, Stratigraphy, Indian Geology, Palaeontology, and Geoinformatics.

Section II deals with Crystallography, Physical Mineralogy, Chemical Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Descriptive Mineralogy, Igneous Petrology, Sedimentology, Metamorphic Petrology, Geochemistry and Environmental Geology.

Section III deals with Economic Geology & Basic Geophysics, Engineering Geology, Section IV Hydrogeology and Section V contains two case studies on Black Clays and Elevation and Subsidence in Himalayan Region in India.