| Session Details | |
| Section | BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Manifestation of Geological Events of Asia Oceania in the Biotic World of the Past and Present |
| Main Convener | Dr. B N Tiwari (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Ansuya Bhandari (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India) |
| Session Description | Asia Oceania and remaining part of the world hosting biosphere with distinct elements as their characteristic has a bearing with their deep past; this depth of time is beyond the reach of human visualization without empirical fossil evidences recovered in a systematic way and made available. Since beginning of knowledge driven humanity difference in the regional biotic features have been subject of curiosity and description and with passage of time degree of difference in this regard in terms of common elements and distinctly endemic elements came into focus. Resolution and scope on this line of enquiry that was encompassing philosophers, natural scientists, etc to begin with has now started invigorating students of modern sciences explicitly depending on high-tech instruments; these ventures are ably supported by the workers of classical paleontology and biology who provide them objects of specialized studies. While fossil studies take you in the deep past and put you on the track to look for technological innovations for finding a road map for approaching the truth in reconstructing the past in a robust way; ongoing fossil studies and discoveries keep these endeavors on the right path with a subtle support data ready to ensure this symbiotic relationship amongst them. |