Congratulations to the Sri Lankan Earth Science Olympiad Team The international Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) competition was just concluded at Mie, Japan on 27th August 2016. Our team arrived at the Bandaranayake International Airport by 11.00 am on the 28th August. The…
Ananda Coomaraswamy Memorial Oration The Ananda Coomaraswamy Memorial Oration was delivered by Prof. K.V.W. Kehelpannala, who was the recipient of the Medal in 2015. Prof. Wilbert Kehelpannala has contributed tremendously towards the Sri Lankan Geology, and now serves as a Professor…
The participants explored the Kadugannawa Complex in detail and how homogeneous mafic-intermediate rocks have become migmatites. They learned how to distinguish different components of complex migmatites in order to understand their origin. They also saw how mafic rocks respond to high-grade…
The Geological Society of Sri Lanka Newsletter, is published biannually in June and December. Each issue generally contains recent advances in Geology of Sri Lanka, reviews of books, bibliography of recent papers related to Sri Lankan geology, news of members and…
Click here for Members News Congratulations to the Sri Lankan Earth Science Olympiad Team The international Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) competition was just concluded at Mie, Japan on 27th August 2016. Our team will arrive at the Bandaranayake International Airport by…
Pleasure trip to visit Madu Ganga lagoon/estuary on 09th Aprail (Saturday) 2016 – Organized by the Geological Society of Sri Lanka
By Mr. Dulip Jayawardana Willie Herath had his primary and secondary education at St. Anthony’s College, Kandy and graduating from the Banaras Hindu University, joined the Geological Survey Department (Present GSMB), in 1952 as an Assistant Geologist. In 1953 he…
By Prof. Kapila Dahanayake, Senior Professor of Geology, University of Peradeniya Birth of the Geological Society of Sri Lanka (GSSL) in 1983 In contemporary Sri Lanka, serious academic contributions in geology dates back to 1902, more than 100 years ago,…
An article published in the Sunday Observer (Sunday, 15 November 2015) by Dr. Januka Attanayake Conventional wisdom tells us that Sri Lanka is not exposed to seismic hazard because it is located well away from any active plate boundary in…
By Mr. Nimal Ranasinghe– Preliminary investigations of the Seruwila Copper-Iron mineralization commenced in early 1971 by the Geological Survey Department (GSD), the predecessor to the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB). I recall that, the GSD was then scheduling a…
