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The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a scientific agency of India.It was founded in 1851, as a Government of India organization under the Ministry of Mines, one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after the Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic ...
Records of the Geological Survey of India. 22:153-. King, W. (1888) Provisional index of the local distribution of important minerals, miscellaneous minerals, gem-stones and quarry-stones in the Indian Empire. Records of the Geological Survey of India. 22:237-, 23-130-. King, W. (1882) Geological sketch of Vizagapatam district. Records of the ...
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lambton FRS (c. 1753 – 20 or 26 [1] January 1823 [2]) was a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer who began a triangulation survey in 1800-1802 that was later called the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. His initial survey was to measure the length of a degree of an arc of the meridian so as to establish ...
The Officers of Central Geological Service (CGS) are recruited by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and posted to the Geological Survey of India (GSI). It is an esteemed geological organization officially formed in 1851 by British East India Company. It is a central government organisation in India working as an Attached Office to the ...
The history of the Survey of India dates back to the 18th century. [5] "First modern scientific survey of India" was undertaken by John Mather in 1793–96 on instructions of Superintendent of Salem and Baramahal, Col. Alexander Read. The present Dharmapuri district, Krishnagiri district and North Arcot in western Tamil Nadu were then called ...
William H. Johnson (died 3 March 1883 [1]) was a British surveyor in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. He is noted for the first definition of the eastern boundary of Ladakh along Aksai Chin in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has come to be called the 'Johnson Line'.
National Geological Monuments are geographical areas of national importance and heritage, as notified by the Government of India's Geological Survey of India (GSI), for their maintenance, protection, promotion and enhancement of geotourism. [1] [2] [3]
Map 2: Boundary of Kashmir in the 1888 Survey of India map of India. W. H. Johnson was the lead surveyor of Ladakh in the Kashmir Survey team instituted 1847–1865 by the Survey of India. [a] He surveyed the region now called Aksai Chin in 1865. [4] [5] The results of the survey were published in a "Kashmir Atlas" in 1868. [6]