Bangladesh Geosciences and Resources Potential : CRC Press : 9780367531881 : 0367531887 : 08 Oct 2024 : This book focuses on the potential natural resources of Bangladesh from Precambrian to recent times and their detailed geological background. Natural resources and their management are important for the sustainable economic development of a country. Focusing on the geological setting of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh Geosciences and Resources Potential introduces and comprehensively describes the depositional environments, status and prospects of the potential natural resources of Bangladesh. Individual chapters outline the potential resources comprising a wide range of deposit types across the country. A selective overview of these natural resources-metallic minerals, coal, limestone, hydrocarbon, peat, placer deposits, surface, groundwater and so forth-is provided with relevant references. The book gives a synthesis of the issues in the mineral, hydrocarbon and water resource sectors