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Lopamudra Saha
Associate Professor
saha.lopamudra[at]es.iitr.ac.in
01332285343
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Research Interests
Petrology, Geochemistry, Tectonics, Metamorphic Petrology including pseudosection analyses, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Archaean tectonics
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Educational Details
Indian Institute of Technologh Kharagpur
2008
PhD, Geology
Professional Background
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
01 Jan 2009 - 01 Jan 2010
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Associate Professor
01 Aug 2023 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Palaeoarchaean evolution of the granitoid-greenstone terrains in South Africa and India 01 Jan 2010 Palaeoarchaean evolution of the granitoid-greenstone terrains in South Africa and India 10 lakhs University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa none
Archaean Crust forming processes from North-western India 01 Jan 2013 Archaean Crust forming processes from North-western India 9.5 lakhs IITR none
Collision of Singhbhum Craton with Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt......... 01 Jan 2014 Collision of Singhbhum Craton with Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt......... 20 lakhs DST none
Central Seismic Gap in Garhwal-Kum 01 Jan 2016 Central Seismic Gap in Garhwal-Kum 12000000 DST-FIST
Cenozoic geodynamics of Higher Himalayan Crystalline Rocks 01 Jan 2018 Cenozoic geodynamics of Higher Himalayan Crystalline Rocks 27.5 lakhs MOES None




Books

1. Nasipuri, P., Saha, L., Xie, H., Pati, J.K., Satyanaryanan, M., Sarkar, S., Bhandari, A., Gaur, Y.: Palaeoarchean crustal evolution from the Bundelkhand craton, north-central India (in press; submitted for a chapter in Earth’s Oldest Rocks, 2nd edition, Elsevier).

Publications
  1. Prakash, A., Piazolo, S., Saha, L., Bhattacharya, A., Pal, D.K., Sarkar, S., 2018. Deformation behavior of migmatites: insights from microstructural analysis of a garnet–sillimanite–mullite–quartz–feldspar-bearing anatectic migmatite at Rampura–Agucha, Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt, NW,India. International Journal of Earth Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-018-1598-6).
  2. Prakash, A., Saha, L., Petrik, I, Janak, M., Bhattacharya, A., 2017.  Metamorphic evolution of Palaeoproterozoic anatectic migmatites in the eastern part of the Aravalli-Delhi Fold Belt: constraints from thermodynamic modeling and monazite dating, Geological Magazine (doi:10.1017/S0016756816001242).
  3. Bhattacharya, A., Das, H.H., Bell, E., Bhattacharya, Atreyee, Chatterjee, N., Saha, L., Dutt, A., 2016. Restoration of Late Neoarchean–Early Cambrian tectonics in the Rengali orogen and its environs (eastern India): The Antarctic connection, Lithos, 263, 190-212
  4. Saha, L., Frei, D., Gerdes, A., Pati, J.K., Sarkar, S., Patole, V., Bhandari, A., Nasipuri, P., 2016. Crustal geodynamics from Archaean Bundelkhand Craton, India: constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope studies, Geological Magazine 153, 179-192.
  5. Saha, L., Hoffmann, A., Jele, N., Harris, C., 2012. Paleoarchaean sea floor alterations and metamorphism of pillow basalts from the Nondweni Greenstone Belts, SE Kaapvaal Craton, South African Journal of Geology, 115, 259-282.
  6. Saha, L., Pant, N.C., Pati, J.K., Upadhyay, D., Berndt, J., Bhattachrya, A., Satynaryan, M., 2011. Neoarchaean margarite-phengitic muscovite-chlorite corona mantled corundum in quartz-free high-Mg-Al phlogopite-chlorite Schists from the Bundelkhand Craton, north-central India, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 161, 511-530.
  7. Saha, L., Hoffmann, A., Xie, H., Hegner, E., Wilson, A., Wan, Y., Liu, D., Kroner, A., 2010. Zircon ages and metamorphic evolution of Archaean Assegaai-De Kraalen granitoid greenstone terrain, South East Kaapvaal Craton, American Journal of Science, 310, 1384-1320.
  8. Bhowmik, S.K., Saha, L., Dasgupta, S., Fukuoka, M., 2009. Metamorphic phase relations in orthopyroxene-bearing granitoids: implications for high pressure metamorphism and prograde melting of continental crust, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 295-315.
  9. Saha, L., Bhowmik, S.K., Fukuoka, M., Dasgupta, S., 2008. Contrasting episodes of regional granulite facies metamorphism in enclaves and host gneisses from the Aravalli-Delhi mobile belt, NW India, Journal of Petrology, 49, 107-128.
  10. Sikdar, P.K., Mondal, S., Saha, L., Sarkar, S.S., Banerjee, S., 2002. Environmental Impact Assessment of a proposed info-tech complex in East Calcutta Wastelands, The Environmentalist, 22, 241-260.
  11. Sensarma S., Banerjee, M., Saha, L., Udayganeshan, P., 2006. Art of Petrography: Eyes of a petrographer and mind of a petrologist, Current Science, 91, 154-155.

Conference Abstracts

  1. Prakash, A., Saha, L., Sarkar, S. (2016): Origin of peak and retrograde assemblages during Grenvillian orogeny from garnet-staurolite bearing mica schist of Bhilwara Supergroup, NW India: constraints from pseudosection modeling, EGU, Vienna (poster presented).
  2. Bhandari, A., Nasipuri, P., Saha, L., Pati, J.K., Sarkar, S., Purohit, R. (2016): Interplay between grain size reduction, chemical reaction, and shear localization in lower crustal rocks: a case study from Archaean Bundelkhand Craton, North-Central India, EGU, Vienna.
  3. Sarkar, S., Saha, L., Satyanaryanan, M., Pati, J.K. (2015): Fractional Crystallisation of Archaean Trondhjemite Magma at 12-7 Kbar: Constraints on Rheology of Archaean Continental Crust, EGU, Vienna.
  4. Sarkar, S., Patole, V., Saha, L., Pati, J.K., Nasipuri, P. (2015): Mechanisms for strain localization within Archaean craton: A structural study from the Bundelkhand Tectonic Zone, north-central India, EGU, Vienna.
  5. Saha, L., Sarkar, S., Rakshit, N., Nasipuri, P. (2014): Evidence of pre-Gondwana tectono-thermal event from the Bhilwara Supracrustal units of Rajasthan, north-west India, EGU, Vienna.
  6. Sarkar, S., Saha, L., Nasipuri, P., Pati, J.K., 2014: Late-Archaean potassic granite from the Bundelkhand craton, central India, EGU, Vienna.
  7. Sarkar, S., Sahu, S., Saha, L., Pati, J.K., Nasipuri, P., 2013: Rheology of the Archean crust: a structural-deformation based study from the Bundelkhand craton, north-central India, ESICET, IIT Roorkee.
  8. Saha, L., Pati, J.K., Nasipuri, P., 2013: Origin of corundum in the high magnesium-aluminium phlogopite-chlorite schist from the Bundelkhand craton, north-central India, ESICET, IIT Roorkee.
  9. Rakshit, N., Saha, L., 2013: Metamorphic evolution of the Bhilwara supracrustal rocks, Rajasthan, ESICET, IIT Roorkee.
  10. Saha, L., Hofmann & A. Xie, H., 2012. Archaean evolution of the Singhbhum Craton: constraints from new metamorphic-geochemical data and SHRIMP zircon ages, Craton 2012 (Oral presentation).
  11. Saha, L. & Hofmann, A., 2012. Formation of Archaean TTGs during lower crustal melting of mafic rocks: constraints from P-T pseudosection analyses, European Mineralogical Conference (Oral presentation).
  12. Mtalana, N.E., Saha, L., Hofmann, A. & Frei, A Palaeoarchaean metamorphic event from the Dwalile greenstone belt, SE Kaapvaal craton, 2012, IMSG(Oral presentation).
  13. Pati, J.K. & Saha, L., 2011. Mesoarchaean tectono-metamorphic event from Bundelkhand craton, central India, Goldschmidt Conference (Oral presentation).
  14. Saha, L., Hofmann, A. & Xie, H., 2011.  Prograde P-T path of a ~3.2 Ga tectonometamorphic event from Assegaai greenstone belt, SE Kaapvaal craton, Goldschmidt Conference (Oral presentation).
  15. Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H. & Hegner, E., 2011. A Palaeoarchean high pressure metamorphic event from SE Kaapvaal craton, The Colloquium of African Geology, South Africa, 23rd (Oral presentation).
  16. Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H. & Hegner, E., 2010. Tectono-metamorphic history of some greenstone belts of SE Kaapvaal craton, Evolving Early Earth, 5th International Archaean Symposium, Perth, Western Australia (Poster and Oral presentations).
  17. Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H. & Hegner, E., 2010. A 3.2 Ga high-grade tectono-metamorphic event recorded from the Assegaai, De Kraalen and Witrivier greenstone belts, southeastern Kaapvaal craton, Field Workshop, Early crustal evolution of southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa and Swaziland (Oral presentation).
  18. Raith, M.M., Saha, L., & Bhattacharya, A., 2009. The origin of sapphirine-cordierite intergrowths in an iron/alkali-free Mg-Al granulite from the Eastern Ghats Belt (India), Poster presented in DMG Meeting at Halle (Oral presentation).

 

Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Crystallography & MIneralogy ( ESN-522 )
Spring
Metamorphic Petrology ( ESN-303 )
Autumn
Metamorphic Petrology ( ESN-522 )
Spring
Students
Associate Scholars
Ambik Kumar
Petrology and Geochronology
Anuj Kumar Srivastava
Petrology and Geochronology
Miscellaneous
Visits
Perth, Western Australia
2010-01-01
Oral and Poster Presentation at Evolving Early Earth, 5th International Archaean Symposium, Perth, Western Australia.
Field trip
2010-01-01
Oral presentation and field visits in Archaean terrains during the Field Workshop, Early crustal evolution of southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa and Swaziland.
Prague
2011-01-01
Oral and Poster presentations on Archaean tectonics from Bundelkhand and Kaapvaal Cratons at the Goldschmidt Conference, Prague.
Administrative Positions
Faculty in charge, SEM Lab
01 Jan 2017 - Present
Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee