We had been to Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar, on the occasion of Prof.A.K.Mense's "Mahatma Gandhi Sadbhavana Award" function. Attended rally, Gandhiji's Punyathithi function and later we visited Mahabaleshwar.

Presented three joint papers (two papers were presented by my students) at National Seminar held at Mangalore University on 22-23 January 2013. (1) Geochemical Assessment of Estuarine Sediments along Malvan Coast, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India. (2) Depositional Environment of Colva Beach, West Coast, Goa, India. (3) Evolution of Kolamb Beach, Sindhudurg, West Coast of India. I acted as Co-chaired also for one session.

Presented paper “Research Opportunities in Rural Colleges”, and also acted as Rapporteur at 2 day UGC Sponsored National Seminar “Re-accreditation and Rural Colleges” held at Rajarshi Shahu Arts and Commerce College, Rukadi, on 6th October 2012.

I had been to Gogte-Joglekar College as Resource person for DST's INSPIRE programme on 29 Nov 2012

Geological Study tour to Sogal and Savdatti, Belgaum

Bottle neck injection of quartz veins.

At Sogal hill top.

Ripple marks on way to Savdatti

Igneous intrusion at Sogal showing contact metamorphism.

Fold structure in the quartzite.

Metaconglomerate bed.

Geological Study tour to Sogal and Savdatti, Belgaum District for B.Sc.III Sem students was conducted on 1 October 2012.

Geological Study tour to Kanbargi, Belgaum.

Conducted Geological study tour for B.Sc.V Sem students on 8 September 2012, to Kanbargi. A very clear angular unconformity is seen near Ramteerth. Where Kaladgi formation overlies the Archaean formaton. There is a very good exposure of fault breccia too.

Geological study tour to Ulavi-Syntheri Rock

25th Feb 2012, we took B.Sc. students to Ulavi caves and Syntheri rock. At Ulavi, we saw crystalline limestone with folded structure. Inside the caves stalactite and stalagmites are beautifully preserved especially at "Akalgavi". At Syntheri Rock, the bottom of the rock cliff exhibits folded structure (marked in the photograph) above which the folds are not seen, except at one place the faintly preserved remnants of the fold is visible. The folded rocks and the basement seems to be schist, where as, on the rock cliff granitisation (whitish colored) is observed. To confirm, we need to collect sample (which is quite tough and risky) and detailed analysis. This is just a preliminary observation.