The Geological Survey of India(GSI), Kerala will soon host a unit of the National Disaster Management to co-ordinate its geo-scientific studies, according to GSI director-general P.M.Tejale. Tejale was speaking after inaugurating Dharani Bhavan, the new office complex of the Kerala unit of GSI at Nettayam on Wednesday. As part of the expansion of the geo-chemocal lab of the GSI, the unit will be provided with the latest Atomic Absorption Spectrometer(AAS) for chemical analysis.
The Kerala unit of the GSI has been credited with the discovery of a variety economic minerals in the state, some of which are presently under study. The Geo-data bank has high-end computers and the latest software for GIS analysis and digital image processing.
(The New Indian Express, 25th January,2007)
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