Geology of the Cauvery Basin in South India

Sreepat Jain is a Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. With over two decades of teaching and research experience, Prof. Jain holds two doctorates, one from India and the other from the United States. Prof. Jain has been awarded the “TA Excellence in Teaching” for meritorious teaching in the United States and has also received the prestigious “Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal” for best research paper from the Palaeontological Society of India (India). He has authored three books, published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and serves as a reviewer for several international geoscience journals.

Nivedita Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Geology at West Bengal Educational Service, India. She received her Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests include classical sedimentology, applied sedimentology, and basin analysis. She is interested in Cretaceous marine and non-marine sedimentation patterns, and their interaction with biota. Currently, she is studying palaeodepositional changes across the Permo-Triassic boundary in Eastern India. She has worked in various Phanerozoic and Proterozoic Indian Basins and published papers in peer-reviewed journals and books. She received the Best Presentation Award in the Young Scientist Category at the 3rd IPC-2017, China. She acted as a reviewer of multiple journals and volumes published by prominent academic publishers.