National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Education:

Professional Career:

Research Interest:

My areas of expertise include Ore Petrology, Structural Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology. The research is focused on tectono-stratigraphic and geochronological evolution of Precambrian Terrain as well as much younger Phanerozoic terrains. Mainly the petrological and structural study followed by geochemical and geochronological characterization of the rocks. My interests on geochemistry, structural geology, and tectonics helps me to understand problems of Precambrian to phanerozoic geology in a holistic manner.

• Terrain constraint trace element thermometry: Applications and Limitations.
• Petrological and provenance modelling of sedimentary basin and mineralization.
• Various microstructural, petrological, geochemical and geochronological studies of lesser Himalayan crystalline belt.
• Analytical techniques involving EPMA

Membership in Professional Bodies:

• Member, Geological Society of India
• Member, American Geophysical Union

Google Scholar Links:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W0W5MRQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Training/Workshop/Conferences/Seminar:

1. Joint convener, organizing committee of the Women in Geoscience at National Centre For Earth Science Studies (NCESS), Thiruvananthapuram, 2-4 September, 2024.
2. 2-day Workshop on Geochronology conducted by Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, November, 2018.
3. Visited Hiroshima University as a part of the bilateral exchange program between Presidency University-Hiroshima University (supported by Hiroshima University Special Grant) in March 2015.
4. 3rd Rock Deformation Structure (RDS-III) & DST sponsored national Workshop on Construction of balanced cross sections and structural profiles in deformed terranes at Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, October 2014.
5. Workshop on Application of Remote-Sensing Techniques towards Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection, 2014, Organized by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (Kolkata Chapter).
6. Member organizing committee of the National Seminar on Making of the Indian Continent, held during 7-8 November, 2014, at Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
7. Member, organizing committee of the 23rd West Bengal State Science Congress, 2016 held during 28th-29th November, 2016 at Presidency University, Kolkata.

SCI Publications:

1. Mukherjee, S*., Ghosh, G., Sorcar, N., Amal Dev, J., Das K, Tomson, JK., Bose, S., Pre-Himalayan tectono-metamorphic impresses in the Baijnath klippe, Kumaun Himalaya, NW India: Implications on a veiled saga of Paleoproterozoic - Neoproterozoic crustal evolution and thermal history of the northern Indian cratonic margin. GSA Bulletin, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37719.1. 1
2. Mukherjee, S*., Das, P., Ghosh, G., Bose, S., Amal Dev, J., Das K, Tomson, JK. Petrography, geochemistry and detrital zircon geochronology of the Srisailam Quartzite Formation, Cuddapah Basin, India: Implications for depositional age, correlation and provenance. Precambrian Research, 2023. PRECAM 106978.
3. Mukherjee, S*., Das, P., Ghosh, G., Bose, S., Amal Dev, J., Das K, Tomson, JK. Reply to Comments on “Petrography, geochemistry and detrital zircon geochronology of the Srisailam Quartzite Formation, Cuddapah Basin, India: Implications for depositional age, correlation and provenance” of Mukherjee et al. (2023). Precambrian Research, 2023. V 399, 107237., 10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107237.
4. Mukherjee S, Ghosh G, Das K*, Bose S, Hayasaka Y. Geochronological and geochemical signatures of the granitic rocks emplaced at the north‐eastern fringe of the Eastern Dharwar Craton, South India: Implications for late Archean crustal growth. Geological Journal. 2018. 53(5): 1781-801.
5. Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S*., Pant, N.C., Dev, Amal J and Nishant, N. Chemical dating of monazite — Testing of analytical protocol for U-Th-total Pb using CAMECA SXFive TACTIS EPMA at the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Journal of Earth System Science. 2021.
6. Das P, Mukherjee S, Das K, Ghosh G*. Integrating AMS data with structural studies from granitoid rocks of the Eastern Dharwar Craton, south India: Implications on successive fabric development and regional tectonics. Journal of Structural Geology. 2019; 118:48- 67.
7. Mondal AK*, Bose S, Amal Dev J, Tomson JK, Sorcar N, Mukherjee S. Petrological, geochemical and geochronological evolution of massif type charnockite from the Eastern Ghats Province, India: Implications on the regional tectonics of the Rayner-Eastern Ghats orogeny. Precambrian Research, 2023. PRECAM 106994.
8. Tiwari, A.K., Sarkar, T*., Karmakar, S., Sorcar, N., and Mukherjee, S., (2023). Long lived high-grade metamorphism in southern India: Constraints from charnockites and sapphirine bearing semipeliticgranulites from the Madurai Block. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2023.
9. Amal Dev, J., Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S., Tomson, JK*. Phase equilibrium modelling and zircon-monazite geochronology of HT-UHT granulites from Kambam ultrahigh- temperature belt, south India. International Geology Review, 2022.
10. Sorcar, N., J. Amal Dev *., Mukherjee, S., Joshi, K.B., Padma Rao. B., Metamorphic evolution of granulites from Grovnes peninsula of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: Constraints from phase equilibrium modelling and geochronology. Polar Science. 2023.
11. Bose, S*., Sorcar, N., Das, K., Ganguly, P. and Mukherjee, S. Pulsed tectonic evolution in long-lived orogenic belts: An example from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Precambrian Research, 2022. 369, p.106522.
12. Padmaja, J., Sarkar, T*., Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S., Das, N. and Dasgupta, S. Petrochronological evolution of Mg-Al granulites and associated metapelites from the contact zone of the Archean Bastar Craton and Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Province, and its implications. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022. p.100041.
13. ShuvankarKarmakar., Sankar Bose*., Gautam Ghosh., Kaushik Das., Nilanjana Sorcar., Sneha Mukherjee (2024). Evidence of High‐Pressure Metamorphism Along the Mahanadi Shear Zone in the Eastern Ghats Province, Eastern India: Implications on Tectonics and Continental Assembly Involving India and East Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2024 (Accepted).
14. Kannan J. Prakash., Libiya M. Varghese., P.B. Hiral., Suresh Evna., V.R. Rani., K.S. Sajinkumar*., V.J. Rajesh., G.K. Indu., Sneha Mukherjee., J.K. Tomson. Formation of halotrichite in the South Kerala Sedimentary Basin, SW India: Implications for Martian paleo-environmental studies. Planetary and Space Science, 2024 (Accepted).

Conferences/Seminars/Symposia:

1. S. Mukherjee*, N. Sorcar, 2023, A comparative study among the Lesser Himalayan Klippes, Kumaun Himalaya: A Tectonometamorphic perspective. In Goldschimdt, 2023.
2. Mukherjee, S*. Ghosh, G. Sorcar, N. and Bose, S. Metamorphic evolution of Baijnath Klippe, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya North West India. In Goldschimdt, 2022.
3. Mukherjee S*, Ghosh G, Sorcar N. Geochronological and geochemical analyses of the rocks from the Baijnath Klippe, Kumaun Himalayas, North West India and its implications. In Fall Meeting 2021. AGU.
4. Mukherjee S*, Das P, Ghosh G, Bose S, Das K. U-Pb Zircon Geochronology and Structural Control of the Hydrothermal Vein-type Uranium Deposit at Chitrial, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India. In Fall Meeting 2020. AGU. V019-0013.
5. Mukherjee S*, Das P, Ghosh G, Mukhopadhyay J, Basu H. Analysis of brittle fractures by conventional field and GIS based techniques and its implication on Uranium concentration in Basement Granitoids around Chitrial, Cuddapah Basin, Telangana. Rock Deformation & Structures. 2014: P-120.
6. Mukherjee, S*., Das, P., Ghosh, G., Mukhopadhyay, J., and Basu, H. (2013) Role of basement fractures behind unconformity – type uranium mineralization: A case study from the Chitrial outlier, Srisailam sub-basin Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, abstract # GEOL21 P-33.
7. V. M. Nair, A. Basu Sarbadhikari1, T. Vijaya Kumar, E. V. S. S. K Babu, N. Sorcar, S Mukherjee, 2024,Insights in to the magma evolution of enriched to intermediate shergottites from melt inclusions. In MetMess-2024.
8. S Karmakar*, S Bose, G Ghosh, N Sorcar, S Mukherjee, 2023, Evidence of high-pressure metamorphism along the Mahanadi Shear Zone in the Eastern Ghats Province, eastern India: implications on tectonics and continental assembly involving India and East Antarctica: In EGU 2023.
9. A Singha*, A. K. Tiwari, T Sarkar, N Sorcar, S Mukherjee, 2023, Petrological characterization of the Cryogenian lower crust of southern India: Evidence from charnockites and metapelites from the northern part of Madurai Block: In EGU 2023.
10. K. Tiwari*, T Sarkar, Nilanjana Sorcar, S Mukherjee, 2023, Petrochronological appraisal on the timing and duration of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in southern India: Insights from charnockite and sapphirine bearing semipeliticgranulites from the Madurai Block: In EGU 2023.
11. A Singha*, A. K. Tiwari, N. Sorcar, S Mukherjee, T Sarkar ,2022, Petrochronological Evolution of Felsic and MetapeliticGranulitesFrom the Northern Part of the Madurai Block: Implications for Ediacaran-Cambrian Orogenesis in the Southern Granulite Terrane, India. In Fall Meeting 2022. AGU.
12. Sorcar, N*. Bose, S. and Mukherjee, S. Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian metamorphic events in the Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica and its implications to the assembly of East Gondwana. In Goldschimdt, 2022.
13. Ghosh G, Das P*, Mukherjee S, Mukhopadhyay J, Basu H. Fracture Analysis and a record of brittle deformation event from basement granitoid rocks at the northwest tip of the Cuddapah basin, Chitrial, southern India. Rock Deformation & Structures. 2014: P-85.
14. De, K., Mukherjee, S*., Chatterjee, A. (2013) Evidence of Neotectonic activity in part of Mizoram, India, from Drainage Analysis Using GIS Technique. Indian Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, abstract # GEOL64, p-85.