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The Department of Geology was started as an undergraduate department in the year 1959 in an outhouse belonging to Zoology Department before occupying the KBR Hall in 1963. In that year, B.Sc. (Hons/Major) course was also introduced in the department. The M.Sc. course was started in 1986 under Gauhati University. It received the financial assistance from the DST, Govt. of India under its FIST programme. The department also received fund from the UGC under the scheme ‘Basic Scientific Research (BSR)’. The laboratories of the department have sound infrastructure for carrying out Ph.D. research. At present, the department has ten faculty members including one Adjunct Professer as well as three office staff.

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Head of the Department

  • Dr. Satyajit Kataki
  • hodgeology@cottonuniversity.ac.in

  • Department of Geology
    Cotton University
    Panbazar, Guwahati-781001

Recent Publications

  • Mazumder D, Das R, Das S, Laboratory Simulation of Rockfall Hazard in Different Sedimentary Rocks of Mizoram, India, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Issues in Energy, Infrastructure and Disaster Management. ICGEID 2024. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol.475 Springer, Singapore, 77-92, [2025], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1757-6_7

  • Das S, Das R, Mazumder D, Runout Characteristics of Rainfall-Induced Debris Flow: A Case Study from Sonapur, Meghalaya, India, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering , vol.43, [2025], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-025-03078-2

  • Das R, Catastrophic landslide in Wayanad district of Kerala, India on July 30, 2024: A complex interplay between geology, geomorphology, and climate, Landslides , vol.22, 271-281, [2025], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-024-02385-8

  • Parag Jyoti Dutta and Xavier Emery, Classifying rock types by geostatistics and random forests in tandem, Machine Learning: Science and Technology , vol.5, 1 - 25, [2024], https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad3c0f

  • Chutia, A., Kachari, D.M., Taye, C. D.,2024, Petrography and Geochemistry of the Lower Sylhet Sandstone Member (Therria Sandstone) of Jaintia Group exposed along Jowai-Badarpur road section, Jaintia Hills District, Meghalaya: Implication for Provenance and Palaeoclimate, Journal of Geological Society of India , [2024], https://doi.org/10.17491/jgsi/2024/xxxxxx

  • Das R, Singh TN, Geotechnical Insights of the Cut Slopes Along Silchar-Haflong National Highway, Assam, India, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering , vol.42, 6195–6217, [2024], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-024-02892-4

  • PJ Hazarika, R Dasgupta, A Baruah, N Mandal , Ground surface displacements and stress localization driven by dual magma chamber dynamics: analytical and numerical model estimates , International Journal of Earth Sciences , 1-20, [2024]

  • Dimple Moni Kachari, Chaitra Dhar Taye and Ananya Chutia, Provenance and depositional setting of the Disang Group exposed in the north‑easternmost part of Assam‑Arakan Basin, India: insights from petrography and clay mineralogy, Journal of Sedimentary Environments , [2024], https://doi.org/10.1007/s43217-024-00199-1

  • Das R, Tunnelling in squeezing ground – a review on prediction and measurement of boundary deformation and available mitigation methods, 5th International Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Conference (DVRC 2023). K. R. Baiju, Karunakaran Akhildev, Joice K Joseph, Naveen Babu, Anithomas Idiculla, Asha Rose, Shibu K Mani, Mahesh Mohanand A.P. Pradeep Kumar (Eds) 19-21 Jan 2023, Kerela, India , [2023], Link

  • Bordoloi, A., Chutia, A., & Taye, C. D., Reservoir characterization and rock eval pyrolysis of clastic sedimentary rocks in the Geku Formation, Arunachal Pradesh, North-eastern India, Journal of The Indian Association of Sedimentologists , vol.Vol-40 (I), 43–54, [2023], https://doi.org/10.51710/jias.v40iI.284

  • A Baruah, MK Roy, N Mandal, S Misra , Reaction-diffusion modelling of petrological mixing mechanisms in the evolution of continental crusts , Frontiers in Earth Science , vol.11, 1115103, [2023]

  • Chutia, A., Gogoi, M. P., Taye, C. D., and Bordoloi, A., 2022, Petrography and clay mineral study of Siwalik Group, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh: Implications for tectonic setting and depositional environment, Indian Journal of Geosciences , vol.Vol-76 (4), 371-384, [2022]

  • Bordoloi, A, Chutia, A., Taye, C. D. and Gogoi, M. P, Petrography and geochemistry of Palaeogene sandstones of Geku Formation, Yinkiong Group, Arunachal Pradesh, NE India: implications on provenance and tectonic setting, Journal of Sedimentary Environments , vol.7 (4), 691-709, [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/s43217-022-00116-4

  • Dr. Anamika Gogoi and Dr. Balen Bhagabaty, Mineral Chemistry and Geothermometry of Biotite in the Granitoids , Located in and around Jirang -Patharkhamah Area,Ri-Bhoi District,Meghalaya,India, Journal of the Geological Society of India , vol.98, 245–259, [2022]

  • Das R, Singh TN, A novel technique for temporal evolution of rockburst in underground rock tunnel: an experimental study, Environmental Earth Sciences , vol.81, 420, [2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10546-y

  • S Deb, A Baruah, S Kumar, Ensemble-based unsupervised machine learning method for membership determination of open clusters using Mahalanobis distance , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol.515 , 4685-4701, [2022], https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2116

  • Karishma Sarma and Parag Jyoti Dutta, Soil Erosion Estimation of Palasbari in Northeast India by RUSLE Model, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences-Geology , vol.40, 129-141, [2021], https://doi.org/10.5958/2320-3234.2021.00012.3

  • Das R, Phukon P, Singh TN, Understanding the cause and effect relationship of debris slides in Papumpare district, Arunachal Himalaya, India, Natural Hazards , vol.110, 1735-1760, [2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05010-2

  • Das R, Dhouchak R, Singh TN, Analysis and prediction of brittle failure in rock blocks having a circular tunnel under uniaxial compression using acoustic Emission technique: laboratory testing and numerical simulation, International Journal of Geo-Engineering , vol.12, [2021], https://doi.org/10.1186/s40703-020-00136-x

  • Das R, Singh TN, Effect of Rock Bolt Support Mechanism on Tunnel Deformation in Jointed Rockmass: A Numerical Approach, Underground Space , vol.6, 409-420, [2021], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.undsp.2020.06.001

  • Chutia, A and Sarma J.N., Petrography of Tipam Sandstone Formation of Miocene Age from Upper Assam Basin, India- A Compositional and Diagenetic Approach to Decipher the Sedimentation History , , 101-115, [2021]

  • H Das, S Deb, A Baruah , Optimal Softening for Gravitational Force Calculations in N-body Dynamics , The Astrophysical Journal , vol.911 , 83, [2021], DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abe94d

  • The American Astronomical Society, Dr. Amiya Barua (2021) : Optimal Softening for Gravitational Force Calculations in N-body Dynamics, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 911, Issue 2; doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abe94d , [2021]

  • (Geological Society of India), Dr. Ananya Chutia (2020): Petrography and Clay Mineralogcal Study of the Siwalik Group of Rocks Exposed along Paighat-Mariyang Road Section, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India, Journal of the Geological Society of India; Vol. 95; pp. 263-272; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-020-1424-1 , [2020]

  • Das R, Singh TN, Effect of Closely Spaced, Non-Persistent Ubiquitous Joint on Tunnel Boundary Deformation: A Case Study from Himachal Himalaya, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering , vol.39, 2447–2459, [2020], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-020-01637-3

  • MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, Dr. Amulya Mazumdar (2020): The Plasma Spectroscopic study of Dergaon Meteorite, India, Molecules; Vol. 25(4); https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25040984 , [2020]

  • International Union of Geological Sciences, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2020): Mafic-felsic magma interactions in the Bathani volcanic-plutonic complex of Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, eastern India: implications for assembly of the Greate, Episodes; Vol. 43(2); pp.785-810; https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020052. , [2020]

  • Chutia, A., Taye, C. D., Daimari, J. and Chutia, D., 2020, Petrography and Clay Mineralogical Study of the Siwalik Group of Rocks Exposed along Pasighat-Mariyang Road Section, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India, Journal of Geological Society of India , vol.95 (3), 263-272, [2020], http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12594-020-1424-1

  • Bibhuti Gogoi, Hiredya Chauhan, Gaurav Hazarika, Amiya Baruah, Mukunda Saikia, Pallab Jyoti Hazarika, Significance of viscous folding in the migmatites of Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, eastern India, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , vol.111, 119-134, [2020], https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691020000067

  • Dip Ghosh, Giridas Maiti, Nibir Mandal, Amiya Baruah, Cold Plumes Initiated by Rayleigh‐Taylor Instabilities in Subduction Zones, and Their Characteristic Volcanic Distributions: The Role of Slab Dip, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , vol.125, e2020JB019814, [2020], https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019814

  • Geochemical Society of Japan, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2020) : Origin of porphyritic texture by magma mixing in the andesitic rocks of Ghansura Rhyolite Dome from the Bathani volcano-sedimentary sequence, Eastern India, https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Geochemical-journal-GJ-0016-7002 , [2020]

  • Elsevier, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2020) : Understanding mafic-felsic magma interactions in a subvolcanic magma chamber using rapakivi feldspar: a case study from the Bathani volcano-sedimentary sequence, E. India, Chemie-der-Erde-Geochemistry; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2020.125730 , [2020]

  • Edizioni Nuova Cultura, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2020) : Viscous dilation as a mechanism of magma mixing in the Ghansura Rhyolite Dome of Bathani volcano-sedimentary sequence, E India, Periodico di Mineralogia 89:285-295 DOI:10.2451/2020PM16635 , [2020]

  • Royal Society of Edinburgh, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2020) : Significance of viscous folding in the migmatites of Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, eastern India, Earth-and-Environmental-Science-Transactions-of-the-Royal-Society-of-Edinburgh; http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755691020000067 , [2020]

  • American Geophysical Union, Dr. Amiya Barua (2020) : Cold Plumes Initiated by Rayleigh‐Taylor Instabilities in Subduction Zones, and Their Characteristic Volcanic Distributions: The Role of Slab Dip., Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(8); doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019814 , [2020]

  • Parag Jyoti Dutta, Jayanta Jivan Laskar, and Santanu Sarma, A Field Verification Based Statistical Approach toward Landslide Susceptibility Assessment, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences-Geology , vol.38, 266-273, [2019], https://doi.org/10.5958/2320-3234.2019.00020.9

  • (BPAS Publications), Dr. Santanu Sarma (2019). Effect of Channel Width Contraction at Bogibeel Bridge Site on the Morphology of the River Brahmaputra., Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences (Geology); Vol. 38F; P. 128-140 , [2019]

  • Canadian Mineralogical (Mineralogical Society of Canada), Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2019): The genesis of emulsion texture owing to magma mixing in the ghansura felsic dome of the Chotanagpur granite gneiss complex of eastern India, The Canadian Mineralogist 57,; 2019; pp 311-338; https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.1800064 , [2019]

  • Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences (BPAS Publications), Dr. Parag Jyoti Dutta & Dr. Santanu Sarma (2019): A Field Verification Based Statistical Approach toward Landslide Susceptibility Assessment, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences (Geology). Vol. 38F, No.2;: pp. 266-273 , [2019]

  • Journal of Geodynamics (Elsevier), Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2019). An appraisal of crustal structure of the Indo-Burmese subduction region, Journal of Geodynamics 127; 2019; pp 16-30; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2019.05.002 , [2019]

  • Geological Survey of India, Dr. Ananya Chutia (2019): Provenance of the Yinkiong Group exposed along Pasighat-Mariyang Road section, East Siang District: A Petrographic , heavy mineral, and clay mineralogical approach, Indian Journal of Geosciences; Vol.73; no. 4; pp.253-264 , [2019]

  • Chutia, A., Taye, C. D., Nath, D., and Chutia, D., 2019, Provenance of the Yinkiong Group exposed along Pasighat-Mariyang Road section, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh: A petrographic, heavy mineral and clay mineralogical approach, Indian Journal of Geosciences , vol.73 (4), 253-264, [2019]

  • Society of Earth Scientist Series, Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi (2019) : Mineral Chemistry, Sr-Nd Isotope Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Granites of Bathani Volcao-Sedimentary Sequence from the Northern Fringe of CGGC of Eastern India, In: Mondal M (eds) Geological Evolution of the Precambrian Indian Shield. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham, 79-120 , [2019]

  • Panthee S, Singh PK, Kainthola A, Das R, Singh TN, Comparative study of the deformation modulus of rock mass - a reply to the comments received from Gokceoglu (2018), Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment , vol.77, 763-766, [2018], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-018-1272-z

  • Dr. Anamika Gogoi and Dr. Balen Bhagabaty, Geochemical Characteristics of Metasomatised Diorites in and around Umsopri of Ri-bhoi District, Meghalaya, India, Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International , vol.15, 1-14, [2018]

  • Parag Jyoti Dutta, Santanu Sarma, Jayanta Jivan Laskar, Predicting the Spatial Distribution of Rain-Induced Shallow Landslides by applying GIS and Geocomputational Techniques: A Case Study from North East India, International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication , vol.5, 1306–1319, [2017], https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v5i5.698

  • Das R, Singh PK, Kainthola A, Panthee S, Singh TN, Numerical analysis of surface subsidence in asymmetric parallel highway tunnels, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering , vol.9, 170-179, [2017], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2016.11.009

  • Guha Roy D, Singh TN, Kodikara J, Das R, Effect of Water Saturation on the Fracture and Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering , vol.50, 2585-2600, [2017], https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1253-8

  • Maria Giuseppina Persichillo, Parag Jyoti Dutta, Massimiliano Bordoni, Claudia Meisina, Carlotta Bartelletti, Michele Barsanti, Roberto Giannecchini, Giacomo D'Amato Avanzi, Yuri Galanti & Andrea Cevasco, Nonlinear regression technique to assess the landslide susceptibility of the Kalapahar hill, Guwahati, Assam State (India), RENDICONTI ONLINE DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOLOGICA ITALIANA , vol.41, 179-182, [2016], https://doi.org/10.3301/ROL.2016.123

  • Panthee S, Singh PK, Kainthola A, Das R, Singh TN, Comparative study of the deformation modulus of rock mass, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment , vol.77, 751-760, [2016], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-016-0974-3

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