National Centre for Earth Science Studies

In Peer Reviewed Journals:

1. Nandakumar, V., Simon L. Harley ,2019 : Geochemical signatures of mid-crustal melting processes and heat production in a hot orogen: The Kerala khondalite belt, southern India; Lithos;Vol. 324-325; pp-479-500; DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.11.016
2. Mayank joshi, Rajappan S, Prasobh P Rajan, J. Mathai, G. Sankar and V. Nandakumar,,2018 : Weathering controlled landslide in deccan traps: insight from the Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra. (2018), ; Journal geological society of India.
3. JL Jayanthi, V. Nandakumar and S. S. Anoop [2016]. Feasibility of a 785 nm diode laser in Raman spectroscopy for characterizing hydrocarbon-bearing fluid inclusions in Mumbai Offshore Basin, India. Petroleum Geoscience, first published online [January] [17], [2017], https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2016-071
4. Harley, S.L and Nandakumar, V., (2016). New evidence for Palaeoproterozoic high grade metamorphism in the Trivandrum Block, Southern India. Precambrian Research. 280, 120–138
5. V. Nandakumar and JL Jayanthi (2016). Hydrocarbon Fluid Inclusions, API Gravity of Oil, Signature Fluorescence Emissions and Emission Ratios: An Example from Mumbai Offshore, India. Energy&Fuels, 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b02952
6. George PM, Santosh M, Chen N, Nandakumar V, Itaya T, Sonali MK, Smruti RP and Sajeev K (2015). Cryogenian magmatism and crustal reworking I the Southern Granulite Terrane, India. International Geology Review 57 (2), 112-133.
7. Kroner A, Santosh M, Hegner E, Shaji E, Geng H, Wong J, Xie H, Wan Y, Shang CK, Liu D, Sun M and Nandakumar V (2015). Palaeoproterozoic ancestry of pan-African high-grade granitoids in southernmost India:Implications for Gondwana reconstructions. Gondwana Research 27, 1-37.
8. Harley SL and Nandakumar V (2014). Accessory Mineral Behaviour in Granulite Migmatites: a case Study from Kerala Kondalite belt, India. Journal of Petrology 55(10),1965-2002.
9. V. Nandakumar, G. Mohan Kumar, K. Narendra Babu and V.S. Jeena (2006). Short-term behaviour of meteorological parameters in the low and highlands of Kerala – Journal of Soil and Conservation - Volume 6, No. 4, October 2006, page No. 169-179.
10. Nandakumar, V. and Sidharthan, S (2004)“Economic & Social security for tribals through sustainable agriculture in the Western Ghats”– Paper presented in the workshop on “Poverty reduction strategies for hilly areas of Western Ghats” at the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad.
11. Abdul Hakkim, V.A., Nandakumar.V.and Sajeena. (2004) “Run off variation due to the landuse change in small watersheds of Western Ghats” Journal of Soil and Conservation – Volume 3, No. 3&4, December 2004, page No. 99-105.
12. Nandakumar, V., Rajendran, P., Ajith Kumar, C. E., Abdul Hakkim, V. A. and Raju. K. (2004) “Modelling sediment yield from the microwatersheds of Western Ghats” Journal of Soil and Conservation – Volume 3, No. 3&4, December 2004, page No. 169-179.
13. Nandakumar, V., Rajendran, P. and Narendra Babu, K. (2001) “Characterization of Soils in the sholas of Idukki and Wynad districts” Chapter – 2 in the book Shola Forests of Kerala Environmental and Bio-diversity – pp. 25-70. Published by Kerala Forest Department and Kerala Forest Research Institute.
14. Nandakumar, V., Rajendran, P. and Narendra Babu, K. (2001) Effect of Monoculture Plantations on the Physico-chemical Characteristics and Fertility Status of the Forest Soils of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala India in “Advances in Land Resources Management of 21st Century” pp. 237-252. Published by Soil Conservation Society of India
15. Nandakumar, V and Harley, S. L (2000) A reappraisal of Pressure – Temperature conditions and P-T path of the Kerala Khondalite Belt Journal of Geology, V-108, No.6, pp 687- 705.
16. Suresh Babu, D.S., Nandakumar,V.  and Padmalal,  D. (2000) Analysis of land, soil and water in the Neyyar wildlife sanctuary, South Kerala. Proceedings of the 12th Kerala Science Congress, January 2000. Pp. 57-62.(in press during the period 1-1-99 to 31-12-99)
17. Suresh Babu. D. S., Nandakumar, V., John. B., Jayaprasad, B.K. and Pramod, S.V. (2000) Siltation analysis in the Neyyar reservoir and forest degradation in its catchment: a study from Kerala Sate- India. Environmental Geology – V-39, No. 3-4 , pp 390-397(Jan – 2000)
18. Nandakumar. V (1996) The cordierite and orthopyroxene bearing charnockites of Nellikala, Trivandrum block, southern India. Gondwana Research Group Memoir-3: The Archean and Proterozoic terrains in Southern India within East Gondwana Field Science Publishers, Osaka pp.333-340.
19. Nandakumar. V. (1996) Low density Carbondioxide in deep crustal cordierites: Implications for low pressure granulite formation. Indian Journal of Geochemistry, vol. 11, pp. 27-36
20. Suresh Babu D. S., Nandakumar V., Padmalal D., Ramakrishnan C. Implication of slope failures in Bioreserves: A case study from Neyyar Catchment, Kerala. Abstracts, National Seminar on Landslides in Western Ghats, CESS August, 1995.
21. Nandakumar. V. and Suresh Babu D. S. (1997) Surface features on Garnet from Different Sources: Observations from South Kerala, India. Journal of Geological Survey of India. vol. 50, pp. 95-101 (1997).
22. Santosh, M., Kagami, H., Yoshida, M. and Nandakumar.V. (1992) Pan-African charnockite formation in east Gondwana: Geochronologic (sm-Nb and Rb-Sr) and petrogenetic constraints. Bulletin of Indian Geologists’ Association, vol. 25 pp.1-10.
23. Santosh, M., Jackson. D. H., Yoshida. M. and Nandakumar. V. (1991) Cordierite grranulites of Sri Lanka and southern India: Evidences for decompression and CO2 influence into the deep crust. Abstracts of International Field Workshop and seminar on ‘Composition and Evolution of high-grade geniss terrains’ (Kandy Sri Lanka: 1991) pp.60
24. Santosh, M., Yoshida, M. and Nandakumar, V (1991) Fluid characteristics across a gneiss – charnockite reaction front in Sri. Lanka: Implications for granulite formation in the Gondwanian deep crust. Journal of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, vol.86, pp 27-44
25. Santosh, M., Nandakumar,V., Jackson, D.H. and Yoshida. M (1991) Multiple entrapment of CO2 in deep crustal cordierites. Journal of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, vol.86 (1991), PP. 116-120
26. Nandakumar, V., Santosh, M. and Yoshida. M (1991) Decompression granulites of southern Kerala, south India: Microstructure and Mineral Chemistry. Journal of Geosciences (Osaka), vol.34 (1991) pp.119-145.
27. Nandakumar. V. and Santosh. M (1990) CO2 rich fluid inclusion in cordierites; Constrains on granulite genesis. Proceedings of Indian Science Congress (Culcutta, 1990), pp.22-23.

Popular Articles:

1. Time scales of melting in hot Orogens: “Inside out” Zircons from Kerala Khondalite Belt (2011). CESS News., v.21., No.1-4.
2. CESS- ONGC tie up to give fillip to oil exploration (2012) CESS News., v. 22., No. 3-
3. “Coarse & fine aggregates dead end: a way forward”, by V. Nandakumar & K. P. Thrivikramaji , Feb, 2011., in Kerala Vikasana Seminar.

Books/Chapters In Edited Volumes:

1. Chris Clark, M. Santosh, Rich Taylor, Ian Fitzsimons, V. Nandakumar and E. Shaji. Field Guide- Author of a Field guide to the chranockites, khondalites and leptynites of the Kerala Khondalite Belt, Southern Granulite Terrane, India for the International Conference Granulites and Granulites 2013, P. 64.
2. Nandakumar, V., Rajendran, P. and Narendra Babu, K. (2001) “Characterization of Soils in the sholas of Idukki and Wynad districts” Chapter – 2 in the book Shola Forests of Kerala Environmental and Bio-diversity – pp. 25-70. Published by Kerala Forest Department and Kerala Forest Research Institute.
3. Nandakumar, V., Rajendran, P. and Narendra Babu, K. (2001) Effect of Monoculture Plantations on the Physico-chemical Characteristics and Fertility Status of the Forest Soils of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala India in “Advances in Land Resources Management of 21st Century” pp. 237-252. Published by Soil Conservation Society of India.