Bangladesh Geosciences and Resources Potential (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chowdhury, Khalil R.; Khan, Md. Sharif Hossain; Hossain, Md. Sakawat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book comprehensively describes the depositional environments, current status and future prospect of the potential natural resources of Bangladesh. Individual chapters outline potential resources, including metallic minerals, coal, limestone, hydrocarbon, peat, placer deposits, surface and groundwater, and provide relevant references.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000510041
• Artikelnr.: 68434657

Autorenporträt

Professor Dr. Khalil R. Chowdhury did his graduation at the Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dilom-Geologe and Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Cologne, Germany, and Post Doctorate from the University of Liege, Belgium. Dr. Chowdhury has experience in teaching and research in Geological Sciences at Jahangirnagar University and research at the University of Cologne and the University of Liege for more than 40 years. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences of Jahangirnagar University, and supervised and examined scores of Masters and Ph.D. theses. He served as the editor of the Bangladesh Geoscience Journal and Bangladesh Journal of Geology for about three decades. Dr. Chowdhury is specialised in palaeontology, stratigraphy, oceanography, petroleum geology and environmental geology. Professor Dr. Md. Sakawat Hossain, faculty member in the Department of Geological Sciences of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, is specialised in structural geology and active tectonics, and has a keen interest in the field of geology. He did B.Sc. and M.S. in Geological Sciences from Jahangirnagar University, M.Sc. in Earth Physics from the Australian National University, and Dr. rer. nat. in Structural Geology from the Technical University Munich. Dr. Hossain was selected as a visiting scientist in 2019 and as a visiting professor in 2021 in the IGG-CAS (Beijing) with CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative. He is also serving as an editorial member of the Bangladesh Geoscience Journal since 2016. Professor Dr. Md. Sharif Hossain Khan graduated from the Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Ph.D. from the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), India. Dr. Khan has been working as a faculty member at the Department of Geological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University for more than 28 years. Dr. Khan supervised and examined several Masters and Ph.D. theses, and has research interest in geomorphology, active tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy. Dr. Khan is serving as the editor of the Bangladesh Geoscience Journal since 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Bangladesh Geosciences and Resources Potential 2.
Precambrian Basement Rock of Bangladesh and Its Metallic Minerals 3.
Gondwana Deposits of the Bengal Basin (Bangladesh) and Coal Potential 4.
Limestone Deposits of Bangladesh and Their Potential 5. Petroleum System of
Bangladesh and Its Hydrocarbon Reserves and Resources 6. Hydrocarbon
Resource Potentials of Bangladesh 7. Peat Resources in Bangladesh and
Challenges for Their Development 8. Placer Deposits of Bangladesh and Their
Potential Commercialisation 9. Resource Potentials of the Marine Areas of
Bangladesh 10. Geomorphology of Bangladesh and Potential Land Use 11.
Groundwater Resources, Challenges and Governance in the Bengal Basin,
Bangladesh 12. River-Borne Sediments of Bangladesh and Their Economic
Importance 13. The Surface Water System, Flood and Water Resources
Management of Bangladesh 14. Global Climate Change and Its Effects on the
Water Resources of Bangladesh 15. Renewable Energy and Its Prospects in
Bangladesh