Arun D Ahluwalia
Chairman/Head,
Geology Departmen
Shoolini University
India
Biography
PhD
Research Interest
Professor Arun D Ahluwalia is an active environmentalist, earth scientist and former Chairman/Head, Geology Department at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has been a guest speaker in many National and International Universities abroad like Charles University Prague, ANU Canberra; Lund University, Sweden; Aberystwyth, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford Universities in UK; Universities at Cincinnati, Penn State, Dayton, Nevada, USA and Guest geologist in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Italy, Nepal, Norway, Tunisia, Pakistan and BGS, Nottingham etc. He also spoke in IGC at Moscow, Florence, Oslo; IPC, Sydney; IASTS Meet, Baltimore, USA during all his visits across the world. Dr Ahluwalia is an established leader in both science and science outreach. At national and International level he had participated in several IGCP Project Meetings on phosphorite & in Himalayan Stratigraphy Boundary Problems in Krol Belt and Spiti Basin. He was principal Investigator with Prof Asish Basu (Rochester University) in INDO-US Expedition, Spiti Valley in June 2009.
Publications
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A.M.Patwardhan & A.D.Ahluwalia: Geophysical illusions of continental drift, Discussion: Americal Association Pretroleum Geologists (Colorado) (Colorado), v. 58, p. 1847-1851(1974)
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A.M.Patwardhan and A.D.Ahluwalia: A note on the origin of Mussoorie Phosphorite in Lower Himalaya, India and its palaeogeographic implications: Mineralium Deposita (Berlin), v. 3, p. 379-387 (1973)
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A.M.Patwardhan and A.D.Ahluwalia: Discovery of Pre-Tertiary fossils indigenous to the Lesser Himalayan Basin. Nature (London), v. 230, p. 451-452 (1971).