financial support under project DST-WOS-A (SR/WOS-A/ES-15/2010);NRF,South Africa (Grant No.91089 and 150817),for providing necessary funds for this collaborative research work。
Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility(AMS)data from a~27.8 m thick soft sedimentary mud sequence(~10.5-3.25 k yrs)from the Spituk Palaeolake Sequence(SPSS)of Holocene age,located in the northern bank of the Indus Rive...
Ladakh’s cropped and non-cropped areas suffer greatly from weedy invasion under subsistence agricultural system where weeding is not a priority but total crop + weed biomass together contribute to livestock feeding s...
financial support received from Science Education and Research Board(SERB)and Department of Science and Technology(DST)by way of its Young Scientist Scheme(Ref.No.SR/FTP/ES-2/2014)Women’s scientist scheme(Ref No.SR/WOS-A/EA-14/2017);S.Mounic and A.Marquet respectively from Toulouse TIMS and ICPMS facilities.RT acknowledges a"Juan de la Cierva-formación"Fellowship(FJC2018-036729)granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and co-funded by the European Development Fund and the European Social Fund。
The Spontang Ophiolite complex represents the most complete ophiolite sequence amongst the South Ladakh ophiolites and comprises mantle rocks(depleted harzburgites,dunites and minor lherzolites)as well as crustal rock...
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR),New Delhi for providing financial assistance in the form of Senior Research Fellowship(CSIR-SRF);DST-SERB,New Delhi,for funding the EPMA National facility at Banaras Hindu University.
Present study reports the PGE-geochemistry of mantle peridotites and Nd-isotope geochemistry of arc related mafic rocks from the Indus Suture Zone(ISZ),western Ladakh.The total PGE concentration of the Shergol and Sur...
A well known Buddhist monastery of Lamayuru is located in a village about 128 Km West of Leh. It is situated on more than 100 m thick Late Quaternary palaeolake deposits which are surrounded by rocks of Lamayuru Forma...
financial support received from CSIR, New Delhi by means of SRF (9/137/(0499)/2011-EMR-I);BCUD, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune for financial support received through BCUD research project grants
Whole rock major and trace element compositions of seven eclogites from the Tso Morari ultra-high pressure(UHP) complex, Ladakh were determined with the aim of constraining the protolith origins of the subducted crust...
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) (Sr. No1121020574 and Ref. No: 19-12/2010(i)EU-IV) funded a fellowship to RL; Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has supported the project(MoES/PAMC/H&C/51/2013-PC-II)
The Indus River flows through Ladakh, one of the driest and coldest places on earth, in a tectonically active domain. Fluvial, glaciofluvial, lacustrine and debris dominated sequences represent the Late Quaternary sed...
Two taxa of Agaricaceae viz.,Cyathus colensoi and Cyathus renweii collected from Leh district of Ladakh were described and illustrated.Of these,C.renweii is a new report to India and C.colensoi is being reported for t...
Glaciers are dynamic reservoirs of constantly exchanging mass with parts of global hydrological system, process by which glaciers gain or lose snow and ice and establish a link between climate, glacier mass and glacie...
supported by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO),Ministry of Defence, Government of India
Ten quantitative morphological characters were studied in 56 Morus alba L. trees representing three natural populations from the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region. The altitude of collection sites ranged from 2815 to 3177...