Prof. Amulya Chandra Mazumdar

Prof. Amulya Chandra Mazumdar

Professor(Adjunct)

Ph.D. : IIT Kharagpur

Research Interests:

Metamorphic Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology
Joined the University in Feb 19, 2020

Phone: 6001930013
Email: amulyaboko@gmail.com

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About

1. Retired Professor & Former Head, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Gauhati University, Assam

2. Member of Advisory Committee of Atomic Mineral Division, North-east India

3. Member of Board of Undergraduate Studies, NEHU Shillong

4. Member of Assam Science Society

5. Member of PLANEX

6. Gauhati University Gold Medal in M.Sc.1977

7. QIP Fellowship (Govt. of India), 1983-1987

 

Teaching

Teaching experience of nearly 40 years in colleges and university. 

Overall teaching experience in Post-graduate classes is 24 years: from 1990 to 1995 in Cotton College & from Feb'1995 onward in Gauhati University

Research Projects

Major  Projects completed:

1. Pressure-temperature path and fluid activity changes across amphibolite granulite terrain in Goalpara district Assam

(CSIR, 1992-1996)

2. Laboratory investigation of meteorite# DGN232001 and search for other meteorite infall in NE India

(ISRO)

3. Metamorphic evolution of podiform granulites in the Shillong Plateau, Assam-Meghalaya and an attempt to correlate metamorphism in time by EPMA monazite dating

(DST, 2004-2007)

4. Petrography, Mineral Chemistry Classification and Thermal metamorphism of ordinary chondrites

(ISRO, 2004-2007)

5. Tectonothermal evolution and EPMA geochronology and EPMA geochronology of granulite facies rocks from Gniessic complex of Shillong Plateau, India

(UGC,2015-2018)

Research paper publications till 2021

1. The Plasma Spectroscopic study of Dergaon Meteorite, India (2020): Molecules; Vol. 25 (4); 984

2. Monazite and Xenotime U-Th-Pb total ages from Basement rocks og the (Central) Shillong-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex, Northeast India (2018): Journal of Earth System Science; 

3. Geochemical Characteritics of Tukreswari and Borbhita Granitoid in Goalpara District, Assam (2017): Jour. of Geological Society of India; Vol. 89, pp.532-540

4. Petrology of the Umpyrtha-Patharkhammah Metapelites, Meghalaya in Northeast India (2015): Jour. of Assam Science Society; Vol. 56; pp.61-74

5. Late Cambrian Reworking of Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Granulites in Shillong-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex (Northeast India). Evidence from PT Pseudosection Analysis and Monazite Chronology and Implications for East Gondwana Assembly (2011): The Journal of Geology; Vol. 119(3); pp.311-330

6. Geochemistry of Basic Granulites from Goalpara District of Western Assam, India (2008): Memoir Geological Society of India; No. 73; pp.173-196

7. Petrology of Granulites from Shillong Plateau in West Garo Hills District, Meghalaya, India ((2008): Jour. of Nepal Geological Society; Vol. 37; pp.1-10

8. Mesoproterozoic Granulites of the Shillong-Meghalaya Plateau: Evidence of westward continuation of the Prybz Bay Pan African Suture into Northeastern India (2007): Precambrian Research; Vol. 152; pp.1-26

9. Dergaon (H5) chondrite: Fall, classification, petrological and chemicl characteristics, cosmogenic effects and noble gas records (2005): Meteoritic & Planetary Science

10. Compositional characteristics of charnockites and basic granulites in the transitional granulite terrain around Satnuru in Southern Karnataka (2005): Bulletin of Pure and Applied Science; 21F; 2; pp.65-71

11. Study of mineral reaction and paragenesis of rocks of the gneissic complex around Agia in Goalpara District, Assam (1999): Journal of Geoscience; 4; pp.1-10

12. Preliminary report on Dergaon Meteorite (2001): Meteoritical Bulletin

13. Structural style of the gneissic rocks in and around Umananda river island, Guwahati, Assam (1997): Indian Mineral Society; 1; pp.193-198

14. Polyphase deformation and fold geometry study around Nolonga hills, Goalpara district, Assam ((1994): Journal of Earth Science; 21; pp.236-296

15. Carbonic fluid inclusion in granulites from  high grade terrains near Satnaru, Karnataka, India (1991): Jour. of Assam Science Society; 33; pp.33-40

16. Compositional characteristic and phase equilibrium in the Manganiferous Iron Formation in the high grade terrain near Satnaru, Karnataka, India (1990): Journal of Metamorphic Geology; 8; pp.525-538

17. Fe-Mg mixing in cordierite: Constraints in the natural data and implication of Cordierite -Garnet geothermometry in granulites (1988): the American Mineralogist; 73; pp733-744

18. Garnet + 2 Sillimanite = 3 Mg-spinel + 5 Quartz equilibria -  a potential geobarometer (1986): Jour. of the Geological Society of India

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

Significance of Shillong Plateau (Northeast India) in the Palaeogeographic reconstruction of Gondwana Supercontinent, Northeast India (2020): Physical Landscape and Environment (in press); by Eastern Book House.