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Prof.Upama Dutta

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Applied Geology

Email: upama[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 9471192212

Office Number: +91-326-223-5070

Personal Page: Under Construction

About Me: I am interested to study the Precambrian metamorphic rocks, in particular, the processes associated with P-T-t evolution of rock interpreted from microstructures. My research focuses on identifying the length, agent, process effecting stability of minerals in rocks and their large scale implication. Broadly understanding relationships between deformation and metamorphic processes, from the grain scale to the regional scale.

Research Interest: Metamorphic Petrology

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

I teach the following courses:

Mineralogy

Metamorphic Petrology

Academics

2010: Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India.

2005: M.Sc., Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India.

2003: B.Sc., Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India.

Position

2023-Present: Associate Professor, Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

2013-2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

Awards and Honors

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  • Chatterjee, S.M., Manna, A., Roy, A., Sarkar, A.K., Das, S. and Dutta, U. (2025). Significance of∼ 1Ga granites from the South Delhi Fold Belt, NW India: Implications for paleogeographic reconstructions of Rodinia. Journal of the Geological Society, pp.jgs2024-062.
  • Chakraborty T, Syed TH, Heggy E, Putrevu D, Dutta U. (2024).  On the reachability and genesis of water ice on the Moon. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 1;211:392-405.
  • Chakrabarty, A., Karmakar, S., Dutta, U., Sanyal, S., & Sengupta, P. (2024). Evidence of fluid-induced myrmekite formation after alkali-feldspar megacrysts: an example from a meta-porphyritic granitoid in Makrohar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Mineralogical Magazine, 88(3), 262-276.
  • Dutta, U., Sarkar, A. K., Chatterjee, S. M., Manna, A., Roy, A., & Das, S. (2022). Petrological implications of element redistribution during metamorphism: insights from meta-granite of the South Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, India. Geological Magazine, 159(5), 735-760.
  • Adak, V. and Dutta, U. (2021). Genesis of coronae and implications of an early Neoproterozoic thermal event: a case study from SE Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India. Geological Magazine, 158(2), 199-218.
  • Karmakar, S., Mukherjee, S., and Dutta, U. (2020). Origin of corundum within anorthite megacrysts from anorthositic amphibolites, Granulite Terrane, Southern India. American Mineralogist, 105(8), 1161-1174.
  • Dey, A., Karmakar, S., Mukherjee, S., Sanyal, S., Dutta U. and Sengupta P. (2019). High Pressure metamorphism of mafic granulites from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India: Evidence for collisional tectonics during assembly of Rodinia. Journal of geodynamics, 129, 24-43.
  • Banerjee, M., Dutta, U., Anand, R. and Zachary, A. (2019). Insights on the process of two-stage coronae formation at olivine-plagioclase contact in mafic dyke from Palghat Cauvery Shear Zone, Southern India. Mineralogy and Petrology, 113, 625–649.
  • Mukherjee, S., Dey, A., Sanyal, S., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Dutta., U. and Sengupta, P. (2017). Petrology and U –Pb geochronology of zircon in a suite of charnockitic gneisses from parts of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (CGGC): evidence for the reworking of a Mesoproterozoic basement during the formation of the Rodinia supercontinent.  In: Pant, N.C. & Dasgupta, S. (eds) Crustal Evolution of India and Antarctica: The Supercontinent Connection. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 457.
  • Dutta, U., Bhui, U. K., Sengupta P., Sanyal, S. and Mukhopadhyay D. (2011). Magmatic and metamorphic imprints in 2.9 Ga chromitites from the Sittampundi Layered Complex, Tamil Nadu, India.  Ore Geology Reviews, 40, 90-107.

  • Sengupta, P., Dutta, U., Bhui, U. K. and Mukhopadhyay D. (2009). Genesis of wollastonite- and grandite- rich skarns in a suite of marble-calc-silicate rocks from Sittampundi, Tamil Nadu: Constraints on the P-T-fluid regime in parts of the Pan-African mobile belt of South India. Minerology and Petrology, 95, 179–200.

  • Sengupta, P.,  Bhui, U. K.,  Braun, I., Dutta, U. and Mukhopadhya D. (2009). Chemical substitutions, paragenetic relations, and physical conditions  of formation of högbomite in the Sittampundi layered anorthosite complex, south India.  American Mineralogist, 94, 1520–1534.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • Influence of micro-domain phase variation on kinematic and metamorphic reactions in assessing petrological evolution of rocks. Core Research Grant (CRG/2019/004573) funded by SERB,  Government of India for the period of 2020-2023. Role-P. I. (Co P.I.-Dr. Sadhana M. Chatterjee, Jadavpur University).
  • Structural and petrological evolution across South Delhi Fold Belt: the geodynamic evolution of the Precambrian terrane of northwestern India.  Funded by CSIR (Scheme No. 24(0359)/19/EMR-II), India for the time period of 2019-2023. (Role-Co-P. I.; P. I. - Dr. Sadhana M. Chatterjee and Co P. I. Prof. Sudipta Sengupta from Jadavpur University).
  • Petrological and Tectonic Significance of Archaean Banded Iron  Formation (BIF) from parts of the Palghat Cauvery Shear Zone (PCSZ) of South India. Research Project (No. SR/FTP/ES-115/2012) under Fast Track Proposals For Young Scientists funded by Science & Engineering Reasearch Board (SERB), Government of India for the period of 2013-2017.

Guidance

1. Vedanta Adak (2023)

Topic :

Metamorphic evolution of pelitic, ultramafic and mafic rocks from parts of southeastern Chotonagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India

2. Tathagata Chakraborty (2024)

Topic : 

Investigation and characterization of anomalous craters: Implications for detection of water in the polar regions of the moon.

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