KLPruseth
IIC_Dr. KLPruseth
Dr. Kamal Lochan Pruseth
Assistant Professor
Institute Instrumentation Centre
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee – 247 667
Tel: 01332-285386 (O)    FAX: 01332-286303
      01332-285399 (R)
Research Interests
Experimental Petrology, Ore Geology, Geochemistry of terrestrial and planetary evolution.
Personal Profile
Date of Birth : 15th January, 1965
Education
Ph.D.: Phase Equilibrium study in the system Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3, 1996, Department of Geology and Geophysics, I.I.T., Kharagpur.
M.Sc.: Applied Geology, 1988, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad.
B.Sc.: Honours in Geology, 1984, Government College, Sundargarh, Sambalpur University.
Experience
June 05 – Oct 07: Reader, Department of Earth Scie-nces, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
Aug 02 – May 05: CSIR Senior Research Associate at the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Feb 02 – Aug 02: PDF at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
Apr 00 – Sep 01: Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Institut für Mineralogie und Geochemie, University of Cologne, Germany.
Feb 99 – Jan 00: Young Scientist (DST), Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Oct 96 – Feb 99: Research Associate (CSIR), Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Honours and Awards
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2000–2001, at the Institut für Mineralogie und Geochemie, University of Cologne, Germany.
Prof. N. N. Chatterjee Medal, 1997, Asiatic Society, Calcutta.
M.Sc. Theses Guided
Quantitative XRD analysis of rocks and sediments
by Aswini V. and Ramesh Kambattan K.
The occurrence of analogues of Martian Blueberries from Rajasthan
by Ramachandran K. and Laxmanan K.
Sponsored Project
Phase relations in the Fe-As-Au-S system and possible role of partial melting of ores in concentrating gold, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
Publications
Papers in refereed journals
  1. Pruseth KL (2009): MATNORM: Calculation of NORM using composition matrices. Computers & Geosciences, 35, 1785–­1788.
  2. Pruseth KL (2009): Calculation of the CIPW norm: New formulas. Journal of Earth System Science, 118, 101–­113.
  3. Pati JK, Raju S, Pruseth KL, Malviya VP, Arima M, Patel SC, Pati P and Prakash K (2007): Geology and geochemistry of giant quartz veins from the Bundelkhand Craton, central India and their implications. Journal of Earth System Science, 116, 495–­510.
  4. Pruseth KL and Singh P (2006): Comments on “Magnetic spherules with metallic shine in the recent alluvium of Rajasthan” by B. S. Paliwal. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 68, 912.
  5. Pruseth KL, Yadav S, Mehta P, Pandey D and Tripathi JK (2005): Problems in microwave digestion of high-Si and high-Al rocks. Current Science, 89, 1668–1671.
  6. Pruseth KL and Palme H (2004): The solubility of Pt in liquid Fe-sulfides. Chemical Geology, 208, 233–245.
  7. Pruseth KL, Mishra B and Bernhardt HJ (2001): The minerals boulangerite, falkmanite and Cu-free meneghinite: synthesis, new powder diffraction data and stability relations. European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 411–419.
  8. Pruseth KL, Mishra B and Bernhardt HJ (1999): An experimental study on cubanite irreversibility: implications for natural chalcopyrite-cubanite intergrowths. European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 471–476.
  9. Pruseth KL, Mishra B and Bernhardt HJ (1998): Solid-solution in synthetic zinkenite, robinsonite and meneghinite in the system Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3. Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 207–213.
  10. Pruseth KL, Mishra B and Bernhardt HJ (1997): Phase relations in the Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3 system: an experimental appraisal and application to natural polymetallic sulfide ores. Economic Geology, 92, 720–732.
  11. Mishra B and Pruseth KL (1994): Phase equilibrium study in the system Cu2S-PbS-Sb2S3: non-stoichiometry in sulfosalts and isothermal variation in sulfur fugacity. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, 118, 92–98.
  12. Pruseth KL and Mishra B (1993): Variation in forbidden energy gap on the Pb-aAgSbS2 quasi-binary join. Indian Journal of Earth Science, 20, 96–103.
  13. Mishra B, Pruseth KL and Sarkar S. (1991): A diffuse reflectance study of synthetic acanthite, stibnite and bournonite. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 37, 7–12.
Papers presented at Conferences/Symposia
  1. Mishra B, Pruseth KL and Bernhardt HJ (2006): Evolution of the Pb-Cu deposit at Sargipali, Eastern India: constraints from Ore Mineralogy and Fluid inclusions, 12th IAGOD Symposium, Moscow, Symposium Volume 94.
  2. Pruseth KL and Palme H (2002): The solubility of Pt in liquid Fe-sulfides. Presented at the 9th International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (EMPG IX), ETH, Zurich, 24-27, March.
  3. Pruseth KL and Palme H (2001): Experimental determination of solubility of Pt in Fe-S melts. Berichte der Dt. Mineral. Gesellschaft, Suppl. European Journal of Mineralogy, vol. 13, 154.
  4. Pruseth KL, Sharma SD and Gupta AK (1987): Viscosity determination of an olivine tholeiite and a tholeiitic andesite at variable temperatures under atmospheric pressure. In: Gaur VK and Gupta AK ed. Proceedings of the first Indo-Soviet Workshop on Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology, New Delhi, 53–60.