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TERRA TALKThe airs of the department of Earth Sciences are today brimming with all the positive energy that the inmates here have tried to infuse into it, through their thorough hard work and perseverance. Heartiest congratulations to all the students, the alumni and most importantly the faculty members, for our department having completed its 50 years of glory and unprecedented growth, since its foundation in the year 1960. Having just concluded the ESICET, the mood eerywhere is literally exuberant with a tinge of nostalgia, and so are the sentiments inside us, as we try to summarise the department's evolution from a small classroom course to a Giant, as what they call it today, as a part of the cover story in the form of a timeline. Talking of sections we have kept some of the traditional ones, and as always to keep our readers intrigued and guessing, we have introduced many new sections too, that we'll brief up here with the help of some Geological quotes

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With this quote, we'd like to sign out, hoping that the events like the Golden Jubilee Celebrations and its likes to come, foster the rich student-faculty-alumni relationship that we've almost got used to.

Keep ROCKingPravesh Jain, Srishti DixitTeam TerraCheers!!!

MESSAGE FROM OUR PATRONIndeed, it is an immense pleasure to see the Hamrock Society launch its annual magazine. �is magazine is a medium to showcase the literary talent of the students, and include the latest happenings in the department. I hope that it achieves more heights in future. It is a great joy to read the contributions of the Hamrockians about their reminiscences of the stay here. I congratulate the editorial board for bringing out such an enjoyable magazine. �ey have put in a great deal of hard work in maintaining the high standards.

As Patron, Hamrock Society and Head, Department of Earth Sciences, I wish all Hamrockians a great success and happiness in future.

Prof Arun K. SarafPatron, Hamrock Society

Head, Department of Earth Sciences

Ever since its inception in 1966, Hamrock Society has provided a creative and invigorative forum to facilitate students to develop an overall personality through participation, innovation and organization of various constructive activities.

�e students have worked really hard and raised the bar to a new level this time around.I congratulate the magazine team on the success of their e�orts and wish continued excellence in this direction in the future as well.

Prof R KrishnamurthyFaculty Advisor, Hamrock Society

MESSAGE FROM OUR FACULTY ADVISOR

�e Hamrock society has always excelled at providing a platform for student activities, student-alumni interactions and industrial-academic sessions, at our department. Such endeavours are paramount in the current scenario of industrial growth and academic excellence. During this academic year the society has successfully organised several activities which saw the involvement of students, academia and industrial delegates. �ese meticulously planned and brilliantly culminated events are a result of the arduous e�orts of

the Hamrock team and the benign patronage of our faculty. With several events planned, others in the making and the coming golden jubilee celebrations we look forward to an eventful academic year ahead.

Nawaz KhanPresident, Hamrock Society

MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT

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2nd yearite: In place of mechanics we had EE, there wasn't any Ethics course as such and no basic-advanced communication skills. Other courses were same except the departmental course.

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SUPERROTATıOn : AnSWER TO 300 YEAR OLD mYSTERY

Water in Moon may be Proto-Earth

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We found it! We found it! We found water on ancient Moon Rocks. Bravo! But wait! �e water we found there might actually be originated from the proto-Earth and even might have survived the moon forming event. Whoa! Let's get deeper into it........

thAt the European Planetary Science Congress on 9 Sep 2013, Jessica Barnes presented her latest research report on '�e amount of water within the lunar rocks'. �e interior of Moon is supposed to be way much wetter than what Apollo era had investigated.

A Calcium Phosphate mineral rock was found in ancient lunar crust, which is even older than the oldest of rocks found on the

earth and which was the real key for unravelling the water content on Moon as it was formed 4.5 billion years back locking the water which had an isotopic signature to that of Earth and some carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

��e water-reservoirs on earth and the hydrogen composition of lunar samples has remarkable consistency between them which strongly suggest that there ought to be a common origin for water in earth-moon system� says Barnes.

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Q. We have always seen you topping the charts. What is your Success Mantra?A. I really don't have any success mantra! I believe if you pay attention in the class, half the work is almost done. Sometimes it gets di�cult to decide whether or not to pursue the subject, hence it�s important to identify your interests and then go for them accordingly. I always knew that I want to pursue geology, and not MBA or anything else. So to sum it up, stay focused.

Q. Many of us are doubtful about the kind of internship to opt for particulartly after the 2nd and 3rd year- a foreign intern, an academic intern in India itself, or an industrial intern. Should it be speci�cally related to the oil and gas sector?A. �e internship need not be related to oil and gas sector always, choose the one that enhances your knowledge in the �eld you want to pursue as your career. In the 2nd and 3rd year you have a very limited technical knowledge, so it�s better to go for an academic intern, they can actually help you in identifying your interests. Nowadays, every one of us has this craze to go for a foreign internship, which is not bad as long as you get a project that would actually be useful in future. An academic intern in India with a good project work is better than going for a totally non-relevant project abroad. By your pre-�nal year, you are sure what you want to do and then you can try for an industrial intern.Q. How di�erent is life in Schlumberger from college, are there any hardships that an aspirant should be aware of?A. Life here is indeed quite di�erent. It feels good to face real life challenges in a professional environment. �e people

around here are really helpful and supportive, which is the best part. For those who deal with �eldwork, it is an experience of a lifetime. As such there are no hardships that you need to be scared of, the key is to have a good grasp of your very basic geology/geophysics. Life in Schlum is pretty comfortable.

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�e department, in its present junta, is brimming with potential thinkers, but how many of us do actually pen down those thoughts, well the answer is Bloggers. Here is one such blog we felt was the most apt to share with everyone, considering that, it actually turns out as an honest �rst person account of a rejected but still expressive student who is just back from a nerve wrenching and exciting procedure of an oil company's internship process. We hope it connects well with all those who went through this phase and also at the same time, guides the juniors well, who would be vying for the same, in the years to come.Being in an Integrated M.Tech. course and finally being eligible for campus internships after getting into my fourth year (when some of my friends from other colleges were being placed right and left), the first company that was open for us was invariably Schlumberger (I still can't pronounce it the way the HR did, though). A Pre Placement Talk (PPT) was going to take place with the HR blabbering about how awesome their company is, followed by the internship process.A company like Schlumberger, you expect them to be perfect. Alas, the Roorkee air takes that out of you. The PPT was scheduled to start at 5.30, with students battling the heavy rains in spite of being in semi-formals (I was wearing my usual hunter shoes, which I took to the coal mine back in Saoner) and there was a delay of about half an hour. Tch tch.The presentation seemed to be the usual corporate stuff. The important point, was of course, the package. They grew smarter than last year and mentioned the CTC that might have looked a bit lucrative, but the basic pay for the Petrophysicists still remained at just over 78k. I could make that writing python in a typical funded startup without having to toil hard in an oil rig at some uninhabitable place on the Earth. They mentioned something about frequent promotions, but a little birdie told me the increase in basic pay is just about 5k per promotion!The shortlist was announced after the PPT and there were quite a few shocks. Although I made it through, it left me (and others alike) wonder what possibly could they have considered in the shortlisting process.

Once in the Training and Placement office, I was assigned #49. That was to be the primary key through which the corporate honchos would identify me for the rest of the evening (kind of reminded me of the inmates in a jail who are identified by a number). It was past 7.30 by then.The group discussion topics in Schlumberger are known for their utter randomness (I don't really know why they want to test that in a GD). Last year, there were topics such as Blue, Bubble and Shoelace. Aditya, a friend of mine, told me that I was good in talking random crap and that is exactly I needed to do. Bite me.The first group that came out let us know that their GD topic was 'Pyramids were built as toilets.' It seemed that this year, they had decided to take it to the next level indeed. Thankfully, the topic for my GD turned out to be 'Do it right the first time.'Having a Google Summer of Code under my belt and reading the book 'The Google Guys', I wanted to bring in the philosophy of Larry Page and Sergey Brin into it somehow (don't blame me, they are indeed awesome!) After letting the utterly eager ones put forward their points, I bluntly said, disagreeing with the general notion that usually, the second wave of companies make a bigger impact as they learn from their predecessors' mistakes (with the example of AltaVista, Yahoo and how Google toppled them.) No one had the mind to disagree with me totally, but no one agreed completely too- everyone had to win over the panel. I concluded with 'To err is human', skipping 'to forgive divine.' I was happy about the GD. I had done what I am usually good in- giving the occasional punchline.I made it through to the interviews when many others didn't. That left me feeling quite unpleasant. If they shortlisted on the basis of our GD, people like Aditya Chakravarty and Amit Patra would surely have made it through. Had we been considered on the basis of our resumes, I would never have made it through (considering my resume had everything other than Geology in it).My turn was towards the last. Just as I was about to go into the interview, my cell beeped. I looked at it and it read 'Shit calling'. Yes, I had saved someone's name as that- but it's a different story meant for some other

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Here's something i'm sharing, something simple enough to get unnoticed and yet nothing less than an eye-opener. It's a true incident - It isn't a smooth day in college when everything falls in place for you. In fact, it wasn't even a mediocre one. Some work was not getting done as I had planned, one of the results weren't morale boosting and a little annoying act by one of my class-mate resulted in retaliation. To get my mind o� those things I took my bicycle and went to the market with innumerable things running inside simultaneously. While on my way, all of a sudden my eyes fell on something. To a regular eye, it was just a group of friends, 5 or maybe 6, sitting in a circle outside a tea-stall and having fun. I slowed down because I saw something much more than that group. Out of those, there was a guy, who was moving his hand animatedly as if carving words out of his hand and his face as cheerful as it can get. His friends could understand exactly what he was trying to convey and even responded back in the same hand-carving-words way. I waited for a while, watching them with utmost interest and then left. To me, what was more amusing than their conversation and the way they did it was the smile on his face in spite of the apparent disability he had. �ere was a sudden realization-it wasn't him having any disability, it was me. In spite of what he wasn't capable of doing, he still managed a smile. On the other hand, we people have everything, and yet small troubles �nd a way to hamper our happiness. How easily we get depressed, cursing our lives and comparing it with ones who seem happier than going the other way round. I can't say it changed my life forever, but it did make a mark. And I could get my head clear of all that garbage and manage a smile.

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Shikhar ShuklaPresident

Ekansh gupta (5th yr GPT)Vice - President

Saurabh Wagh (4th yr GPT)Treasurer

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MOMENTSMoving Time stops for noneTicking incessantly at a frenzied paceFlowing smoothy over all the funErroneously giving us a sense of spaceYesterday and today-Slowly move far awayWhat was not mine is not nowIt is time to look for a new way.The future which seemed a distant one-Now seems a very close call.My hopes and dreams and wishesAre casting a shadow on all.Futile it is to clutch at it-The past with its golden memories.Time forces me to seek new beginnings.Many dreams have come to an end-Friendship,bond,ties with old friendsLeaving is a painful thought- soon to come true.Thinking of it is not easy-and it is even harder to do.Helpless I can only clutch to faint sentiments.Moving on with the time, into newer moments.

- Rohini Das (M.Sc. Applied Geology)

SOCHTA HOON MAINsochta hun mai ye

zindagi hai ya khaali rastechalte hi ja rhe hain

pal guzarte saste sasteaaj koi mila hai

na jaane kal kaun milegadost hai aaj

kal bhi rahegakis pahaad par chadenge kal

kin nadiyon me tairengeaasman ko chulenge

aur kab khud me jee lengeyehi zindagi hai mere dostkahin chali na jaye aise hi

kuch bhi karo aur khush rahonahi milegi phir aisi hipatjhad toh aate hain

shaam bhi hoti haina bhoolna ki shaam ke baad

subah bhi hoti haizindagi toh pahiyya hai

ghumta rahegakahin tu upar toh

kahin tu neeche rahegasoch mat itna

bas chal de raah paraage ka raasta

khuda khud tay kar dega sochta hun main ye

zindagi hai ya anjaan rastechalte rahe hum

yuhin haste haste -Ankit bhandari ( 3rd year GT)

MEMORY I lurk in the dark, musty cornersI am omnipresent in a man's mind,I am responsible for these sad losses of his,Or the disasters that occurred to mankind.I am the fear that resides in every man's brain:

I am the nameless thing-I am the one forgotten, due to winds of change,And yet memories, bitter or sweet I bring.I am the unspoken evil,

The one responsible for governing a man's soul,And for rendering hin, his career along with his life,Useless- on the whole.I am the disciple of SatanResponsible for disillusionment and anarchy,For I am the Past, long forgotten,The murky Past, shrouded in deep mystery.

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