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Dr. B.K. Mukherjee

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Dr. B.K. Mukherjee

Dr. B.K. Mukherjee

Designation : Scientist ‘E’

Phone : Office : 01352525189,
Personal : 09917154141

E-mail : barun[at]wihg[dot]res[dot]in

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  • Research Group

    Petrology and geochemistry

  • Field Of Specialization

    Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, recycled volatiles and Mineral Isotopes (Acc. Phase)

  • Academic Qualification

    Ph. D.

  • Professional Experience

    Twenty years as a researcher

  • Visiting Positions

    2 Years JSPS Post Doctorate Fellow at Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan.

  • Teaching Experience

    Honorary Teaching Service to School Students (underprivileged)

  • Services

    a. Supervision/Guidance to Ph.D. Students:

    • 2017‐ Tania Saha Growth of Accessory minerals in Gneiss Dome, Indus Suture Zone, NW Himalaya, India: tectonic implication. (Pursuing).

    • 2016 - Manas M. Petrological evolution of Indus Suture Zone rocks in Western Ladakh, Himalaya, India. (Pursuing)

    • 2015 ‐ Koushick Sen, NET, SRF (Barthrust, UK fellow Student) Tectonic evolution of Zildat Ophiolitic Melange, NW Himalaya, India. (Completed)

    • 2014 ‐ Souvik Das, NET, (Berkner Fellow, AGU) Nature and evolution of mantle section in the Nidar Ophiolite Suite, Ladakh, India (WIHG‐UPES DDN)(Completed).

    • Reasearch Input to Gov. of India, National Green Tribunal & PSUs.

    b. Supervision/Guidance to Master Dissertation

    • 2020 ‐ Amit, Mysore University: Study of zircons in continental quartzofeldspathic rocks of subduction complex, Himalaya: special emphasis on zircon surface topography and internal structure. (Pursuing)

    • 2019 ‐ Sukalpa Chatterjee, IIT Roorkee `Study of zircon in UHP grade rock Ladakh Himalaya, Morphology, Internal structure and Growth` (Completed)

    • 2016 ‐ Gokul Anand, Mysore University ` Petrography and Fluid Inclusion study in ISZ rock, Ladakh Himalaya.(Completed)

    c. Training:

    N. A.

    d. Teaching:

    Teaching to High School Students

    e. Membership:

    • Life Member: Indian Geological Congress, Roorkkee.

    • Fellow Member: Japan Society of Promotional Science, Japan.

    • Life Member: Himalayan geology Society, Dehradun.

    f. Editorial Board:

    • Guest Editor: Geological Society of London, Cambridge Press sp 412.

    • Guest Editor: International Journal of Earth Sciences, Springer, v 102.

    • Member Editor: 2 Wadia Institute Golden Jubilee Compendium 2018 & 2019

    g. International/National Seminars/Workshop:

    • Co‐convener & Chairman: EGU, General Assembly 2012 Vienna (Austria) Session TS 4.5.

    • Co‐convener: EGU, General Assembly 2013 Vienna (Austria) Session TS/ GM/TT.

    • Core Committee Member: 2015 Himalayan Karakoram Tibet workshop, India.

    h. External Research Fund received & Project Handled:

    N. A.

    i. Member of important Committees:

    N. A.

    j. Professional Services

    • Co-convener & Chairman: EGU, General Assembly 2012 Vienna (Austria) Session TS 4.5

    • Co-convener: EGU, General Assembly 2013 Vienna (Austria) Session TS/ GM/TT

    • Core Committee Member: 2015 Himalayan Karakoram Tibet workshop, India.

    k. Science Editorial Services

    • Guest Editor: Geological Society of London, Cambridge Press sp 412

    • Guest Editor: International Journal of Earth Sciences, Springer, v 102.

  • Awards/Fellowships/Honors/Memorial Lectures

    a. Awards/Medals/Prizes:

    • Wadia Institute best Paper Award 2007 & 2009.

    • Second best paper award during 13th convention, IIGC‐ Silver Jubilee Celebrations, 2003.

    b. Fellowships:

    2 yrs JSPS Post Doc Fellowship.

    c. Memorial Lectures:

    NA

    d. Recognition/Honors:

    Appreciation Letter Received from Govt. of India, MINSTRY OF SCIENCE & TECNOLOGY on "First Discovery of UHP Mineral Coesite from Himalaya", 2001

  • Countries Visited

    a. Awards/Medals/Prizes:

    • Ascona, SWITZERLAND

    • Aussios, FRANCE

    • Tokyo, JAPAN

    • Cambridge, UK

    • Vienna , AUSTRIA

  • National/International (outside CSIR-NGRI) Collaboration

    Texas Arlington, SAC, Ahmedabad, Calcutta University.

    Inside WIHG Collaborator:

    Geophysics & Geochemistry Group

  • Scholarships Awarded, GATE

    Scholarship Awarded from Japan Society for Promotion of Science.

  • Ph.D. Advisor

    PhD Advisor to 4 PhD students.

  • List Of Publications

    (a) Book Edited
    • In Geological Society of London, Title ''Tectonics of the Himalaya", Lyell special publication SP 412, 2015 by Soumyajit Mukherjee, Rodolfo Carosi, Peter van der Beek, Barun K Mukherjee and Delores M Robinson.
    • In International Journal of Earth Sciences, Title “Geosciences of Himalayan Karakoram Tibet” Springer V 102, 7, 2013, by Soumyajit Mukherjee, Barun K Mukherjee, Rasmus Thiede.
    (b) SCI Papers
    Communicated/Revision:
    • Parakh Sahu,Barun K Mukherjee, Raza Saha Ahmedy, Non silicate needles and metals in serpentinised peridotite from western Ladakh, India Evidence of deep Earth origin. Journal of Geology.
    • Manas M and Barun Kumar Mukherjee and "Microbe signature in volcanic-section of Neotethyan Ocean floor, from Suture-Zone Ophiolte melange, Western Ladakh Himalaya, India" Geomicrobiology.
    (C) Published
    • Barun k Mukherjee and T Saha, (2024) Tracing a remnant of subducted Indian felsic crust: insights from zircon studies. Journal Geological Society (London) 181, 4, (JGS Most Read Article -2024).

    • Manas M, Barun K Mukherjee, R Dubey, (2021) non-silicate needles and metals in peridotites from Himalayan ophiolite, Western Ladakh, India: evidence of deep Earth origin, International Journal of Earth Sciences 110, 2849-2862.
    • Souvik Das, Asish R Basu, Barun K Mukherjee & Group (2020) Origin of Indus ophiolite-hosted ophicarbonate veins: Isotopic evidence of mixing between seawater and continental crust-derived fluid during Neo-Tethys closure. Chemical Geology, 551, 119772.
    • Vimal Kumar, S. S. Panda, B.P. Naunia, Barun K Mukherjee and Ram Ji Nigama; Geochemical investigation and scientific conservation of exterior surface of Shri Kedarnath temple, Uttarakhand, India. Current Science.121, 4, 560-566.
    • Koushick Sen (Jr) Barun K Mukherjee, Manas M, Koushik Sen, S Mukherjee Two-stage exhumation of Zildat Ophiolitic Melange rocks, NW Himalaya, India, Himalayan Geology (2019) 40 (2).
    • Souvik. Das, A R Basu, Barun K Mukherjee; In situ peridotitic diamond in Indus ophiolite sourced from hydrocarbon fluids in the mantle transition zone, Geology (2017) 45 (8): 755-758. (Citation 20).
    • A Bhattacharya, Santanu Bose, Barun K Mukherjee, Manish Mamtani, Deepak C Srivastava (2016) Status of research in Structural geology, Indian Scene in last 5 yeras ; PNSA 82 No. 3 July Spl Issue 2016 pp. 435-443
    • Souvik Das, Barun K Mukherjee, Asish R Basu, Koushick Sen (Jr), (2015) Relict mineral phases sourced from Mantle Transition Zone, in the Nidar ultramafic, Himalaya Geological Society of London Sp.

    • S. Mukherjee, R. Carosi, P. van der Beek, Barun K Mukherjee, D. M. Robinson, (2015), Editorial on Tectonics of the Himalaya in Geological Society of London (Sp).(online).

    • Koushik Sen, Barun K. Mukherjee, Alan S. Collins, (2014) Reply to Comment by Wallis et al on Interplay of deformation and magmatism in the Pangong Transpression Zone, Eastern Ladakh, India: Implications for partial melting of the Indo-Eurasian collisional arc and age of initiation of the Karakoram Fault Zone, Journal of Structural Geology.

    • S Mukherjee, Barun K. Mukherjee, R Theide (2013) editorial, Geosciences of the Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet orogen, editorial, international journal of Earth Sciences, v 102, issue 7 p 1755.
    • Koushick Sen, S Das, Barun K Mukherjee, Koushik Sen; (2013) Bimodal stable-isotope signature of Zildat Ophiolitic Mélange, Indus Suture Zone, Himalaya: implications for emplacement of an ophiolitic mélange in a convergent set-up. International journal of Earth Sciences, v 102, issue 7, p 2032.
    • H Lelop, H C Weinberg, Barun K Mukherjee P Lacassion, P Tapponier: (2013) Comment on « Displacement along the Karakoram fault, NW Himalaya, estimated from LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of offset geologic markers » published by Shifeng Wang et al. paper in EPSL, 2012., Earth and Planetary Science Letters 363 242–245.
    • Barun K Mukherjee, Kaushik Sen, Himanshu K Sachan Sudip Paul (2012) Exhumation history of KFZ mylonites: new constraints from microstructure, fluid inclusion and Ar-Ar analyses. Lithosphere (GSA) V 4 , 3 p 230 (Selected as a MOST READ ARTICLE May 2012)
    • Barun K. Mukherjee & Himanshu K. Sachan, (2009) Fluids in coesite bearing rock of Tso Morari Region, NW- Himalaya: evidence of entrapment during peak metamorphism and subsequent upliftment. Geological Magazine. V. 146, 06 p. 876-889.
    • Kaushik Sen, Barun K Mukherjee & Himanshu K Sachan (2009) Field and microstructural analysis of the Pangong Granodiorite, Ladakh (NW India): Implications for tectonics along the Karakoram Fault Zone. Current Science. V. 96, 08, p. 1124-1129.
    • H K. Sachan, Barun K. Mukherjee & Robert J. Bodner, (2007) Methane (CH4) in upper mantle rocks from the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh (India): Evidence from fluid inclusion and Raman spectroscopy, Earth & Planetary Sciences Letter. V. 257. p. 47-59.
    • H. K Sachan., Barun K. Mukherjee & Talat Ahmad, (2007) Brine –rich hydrothermal fluid circulation level of Nidar Ophiollite Sequence, Ladakh: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions, Journal of Geological Society of India. V.70. p.780-786.
    • H. K. Sachan., Barun K. Mukherjee, Y. Ogasawara, S. Maruyama, Anand K. Pandey, A. Muko ,N. Yoshioka & H. Ishida, (2001) Discovery of Coesite from Indian Himalaya: Consequences on Himalayan Tectonics in International Lithosphere Proc. Paper, Japan. p. 124-128.
    • T. Ahmad, Nigle Harris, Rafiq Islam, Parampal P.Khanna, Himanshu.K Sachan & Barun K. Mukherjee, (2005) Contrasting mafic magmatism in the Shyok and Indus Suture Zone Geochemical constraints, Himalayan Geology. v. 26. p. 34-40.
    • H. K. Sachan, Barun K. Mukherjee & Talat Ahmad, (2005) Cold subduction of Indian continental crust: Evidence from Tso-Morari region, Ladakh India, Himalayan Geology. v. 26, p. 25-33.
    • H. K. Sachan, Barun K. Mukherjee,Y. Ogasawara & S. Maruyama, (2004) Discovery of Coesite from Indian Himalaya: Consequence for Himalayan Tectonics, European Journal of Mineralogy. v. 16 p. 235-240.
    • H. K Sachan & Barun K. Mukherjee, (2003) Genesis of Chromite In Ophiolites from Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh India: Evidence From Mineral Chemistry of Solid Inclusions In Chromite, Himalayan Geology. v. 24. p. 63-74.
    • Barun K. Mukherjee, Himanshu K. Sachan, Yoshide Ogasawara, Atsumi Muko, & Nobuhiro Yoshioka, (2003) Carbonate-bearing UHPM rocks from Tso-morari region, Ladakh India : Possible Petrological Implication, International Geology Review. v. 45. p.49-69.
    • H. K. Sachan. & Barun K. Mukherjee, (2001). Evidence of Fluid re-equilibration in Blueschist rocks from Shergol ophiolitic malange, Indus Suture zone, Ladakh, Himalayan Geology. v. 22. p. 127-132.
    • Barun K. Mukherjee & Himanshu K. Sachan, (2001) Discovery of Coesite from Indian Himalaya: A record of ultra –high pressure metamorphism in Indian continental crust, Current Science. v. 81, p. 1358-1361.

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