Areas of Interest
- Petrology, Geochemistry, Tectonics, Metamorphic Petrology including pseudosection analyses, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Archaean tectonics
Professional Background
| From | Period | Position | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-01 | 1 year | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa |
| 2010-01-01 | 2 years | Lecturer | University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa |
| 2013-01-01 | Ongoing | Assistant Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
Multiple Posts
| From | Period | Position | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | Ongoing | Faculty in charge, SEM Lab | Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee |
| 2015-01-01 | Ongoing | OC New Microscope Lab | Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee |
| 2015-01-01 | Ongoing | OC Petrology Lab | Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee |
| 2015-01-01 | Ongoing | OC Section Cutting Lab | Department of Earth Sciences |
Educational Details
| Degree | Subject | University | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Geology | Indian Institute of Technologh Kharagpur | 2008 |
Sponsored Research Projects
| Topic | Funding Agency | Start Date | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palaeoarchaean evolution of the granitoid-greenstone terrains in South Africa and India | University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa | 2010-01 | 10 years 7 months |
| Archaean Crust forming processes from North-western India | IITR | 2013-01 | 7 years 7 months |
| Collision of Singhbhum Craton with Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt......... | DST | 2014-01 | Ongoing |
| Central Seismic Gap in Garhwal-Kum | DST-FIST | 2016-01 | Ongoing |
| Cenozoic geodynamics of Higher Himalayan Crystalline Rocks | MOES | 2018-01 | Ongoing |
Teaching Engagements
| Title | Course Code | Class Name | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystallography & MIneralogy | ESN-522 | MSc first year | Spring |
| Metamorphic Petrology | ESN-303 | GLT 3rd year | Autumn |
| Metamorphic Petrology | ESN-522 | MSc first year | Spring |
Projects and Thesis Supervised
| Title of Project | Names of Students |
|---|---|
| Origin and alterations of the supracrustal units from the Palaeoarchaean Witrivier area, SE Kaapvaal | Miss Zanele |
| Palaeoarchaean tectono-metamorphic events from the Dwalile granitoid-gneiss- greenstone belt | Miss Nokukhayana Mtalana |
| Shear Zone nucleation in Archaean potassic granite from Bundelkhand craton, central India: constrain | Sudhakar Sahoo |
| Metamorphic evolution of Bhilwara supracrustal rocks from Rajasthan, NW India | Nibedita Rakshit |
| Origin of Archaean Potassic granite from Bundelkhand craton, central India: constraints from geochem | Saheli Sarkar |
| Corundum formation in white schist from Bundelkhand craton | Jayjit Banerjee |
| Tectonic evolution of Bhilwara supracrustal rocks, North-West India: constraints from structural and | Abhishek Prakash (presently pursuing PhD at University of Texas) |
| Geochemical and structural characteristics of Archean granitoids from E-W trending shear zones in ce | Ankit Bhandari (presently pursuing PhD in University of Western Ontario, Canada) |
| Constraining P-T paths from the metamorphic rocks of Higher Himalayan Crystallines along the Dhauli | Suryaprakash Lahoti |
| Titanium substitution in biotite: a thermometer applied to constrain temperatures from proterozoic m | Harshit Verma |
| Titanium substitution in muscovite: application to estimate p-t conditions from archaean white schis | Rishav |
Research Scholar Groups
| Scholar Name | Interest |
|---|---|
| Ambik Kumar | Petrology and Geochronology |
| Anuj Kumar Srivastava | Petrology and Geochronology |
Visits to outside institutions
| Institute Visited | Purpose of Visit | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Perth, Western Australia | Oral and Poster Presentation at Evolving Early Earth, 5th International Archaean Symposium, Perth, Western Australia. | 2010-01-01 |
| Field trip | Oral presentation and field visits in Archaean terrains during the Field Workshop, Early crustal evolution of southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa and Swaziland. | 2010-01-01 |
| Prague | Oral and Poster presentations on Archaean tectonics from Bundelkhand and Kaapvaal Cratons at the Goldschmidt Conference, Prague. | 2011-01-01 |
Books Authored
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).
Refereed Journal Papers
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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sarkar, S., Saha, L., Nasipuri, P., Pati, J.K., 2014: Late-Archaean potassic granite from the Bundelkhand craton, central India, EGU, Vienna.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rakshit, N., Saha, L., 2013: Metamorphic evolution of the Bhilwara supracrustal rocks, Rajasthan, ESICET, IIT Roorkee.
- 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).
- 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).
- Mtalana, N.E., Saha, L., Hofmann, A. & Frei, A Palaeoarchaean metamorphic event from the Dwalile greenstone belt, SE Kaapvaal craton, 2012, IMSG(Oral presentation).
- Pati, J.K. & Saha, L., 2011. Mesoarchaean tectono-metamorphic event from Bundelkhand craton, central India, Goldschmidt Conference (Oral presentation).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
