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Dr. Mutum Rajanikanta Singh

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Dr. Mutum Rajanikanta Singh

Dr. Mutum Rajanikanta Singh

Designation : Scientist ‘C’

Phone : 8787599723 / 9505953037

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

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  • Research Group

    Petrology and Geochemistry

  • Specialization

    Igneous Petrology And Geochemistry

  • Academic Qualification

    Ph. D.

  • Professional Experience

    Year Experience
    2025 continue Scientist-C
    2020 November-2024 Scientist-B
    2020 Assistant Professor (Guest faculty), CUK
    2017-2019 National Post Doctoral Fellow, WIHG, Dehradun
    2012-2017 Ph.D. Research Fellow, CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad

  • Teaching Experience

    • Engaged on a contractual basis to serve as teaching faculty in the Department of Geology, School of Earth Sciences at the Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi.

    • Teaching geology related subjects for M.Sc. & U.G. (even+odd semester 2020)

  • Services

    None

  • Awards/Fellowships/Honors/Memorial Lectures

    • Received International Young Scientist Award 2023 (Silver medal and certificate) during 6th international Young Scientist Congress, 8-9, May 2023, GEDU

    • Received best oral presentation at Indian Science Congress 2013 held in Calcutta

    • Editorial Board Member in “Earth Sciences (EARTH); ISSN Print: 2328-5974 ISSN Online: 2328-5982

    • Received SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship for the year 2017-2019

    • Received Foreign Travel Grant from SERB in the year 2019 for attending Goldschmidt 2019, held in Barcelona, Spain.

    • Received Foreign Travel Grant from CSIR in 2017 for attending European Geoscience Union 2017, held in Vienna, Austria

    • Received Foreign Travel Grant from DST in the year 2015 for attending Goldschmidt 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic

    • Life membership of the journal “Himalayan Geologyâ€

  • Countries Visited

    Prague, Czech Republic and Barcelona, Spain

  • National/International (outside WIHG)Collaboration

    Inside WIHG Collaborator

    Activity 1A

  • List of Publications

    • Rajanikanta Singh, M., Singh, P., Sethy, P.C., Singh, A.K., 2024. Geochemistry of Mafic Rocks From the Nagrota– Kathindi Section, Himachal Pradesh, Northwestern Himalaya: A Probable Example of Plume– Lithosphere Interaction. Geological Journal 59, 3175–3202.

    • Singh P., Sethy P.C., Rastogi H., Singh M.R., Singh A.K., Thakur S.S., Singhal S. 2023. Geological field observations along the Pandoh Syncline: the Mandi-Kataula-Bajaura section of Himachal Pradesh, NW-India. In: Mukherjee S. (eds.), Structural Geology and Tectonics Field Guidebook-Volume 2, 179-201 pp.
    • Singh, M.R. 2022. Geochemistry of metabasites from the western Singhbhum Craton, eastern India: implications for subduction-zone tectonics and mantle-wedge metasomatism. Geologica Acta, 20, 1-15.
    • Rajanikanta Singh M., Manikyamba C., R.G.H., 2022. Subduction-related metabasalts from the western Singhbhum Craton, eastern India - A review. Journal of the Applied Geochemistry, 24, 174-184.
    • Rajanikanta Singh M., A.K., Singh, Santosh M., Lingadevaru M., Lakhan, N., 2020. Neoarchean arc-back arc subduction system in the Indian Peninsula: Evidence from mafic magmatism in the Shimoga greenstone belt, western Dharwar Craton. Geological Journal, Vol. 55, 7, 5308-5329.
    • Madhuparna Paul, Jyotisankar Ray, C. Manikyamba, Sohini Ganguly, M. Rajanikanta Singh, Saraswati Pachal, Debaleena Sarkar, 2020. Mafic volcanic rocks of western Iron Ore Group, Singhbhum Craton, eastern India: Geochemical evidence for ocean–continent convergence. Geological Journal.

    • Manikyamba C., Arijit P., Santosh M., Shinduja C.S., Subramanyam K.S.V., Rajanikanta Singh M. 2020. Mesoarchean gabbro-anorthosite complex from Singhbhum Craton, India. Lithos, Vol. 105541, 366-367
    • Govind O, A.K., Singh, M. Joshi, A. Dutt, M. Rajanikanta Singh, N. L., Singh, R. K. B. Singh, 2020. Continental extension of northern Gondwana margin in the Eastern Himalaya: Constraints from geochemistry and U–Pb zircon ages of mafic intrusives in the Siang window, Arunachal Himalaya, India. Comptes Rendus Géoscience-Sciences de la Planète, Vol. 352, 19-41.
    • Lakhan, n., Singh, A.K., Singh., B.P., Sen, K., Rajanikanta Singh., M., Khogenkumar, S., Singhal, S., Oinam, G, 2019. Zircon U–Pb geochronology, mineral and whole‐rock geochemistry of the Khardung volcanics, Ladakh Himalaya, India: Implications for Late Cretaceous to Palaeogene continental arc magmatism. Geological Journal, Vol. 55, 5, 3297-3320.
    • Singh S.P., Subramanyam K.S.V., Manikyamba C., Santosh M., Rajanikanta Singh M., B.Chandan Kumar, 2018. Geochemical systematic of the Mauranipur-Babina greenstone belt, Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: Insights on Neoarchean mantle plume-arc accretion and crustal evolution. Geosciences Frontiers, Vol. 9, 769-788.
    • Rajanikanta Singh M., Manikyamba C., Sohini G., Ray J., Santosh M., Singh Th.D., Chandan K., 2017. Paleoproterozoic arc basalt-boninite-high magnesian andesite-Nb enriched basalt association from the Malangtoli volcanic suite, Singhbhum Craton, eastern India: geochemical record for subduction initiation to arc maturation continuum. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 134, 191-206.
    • Rajanikanta Singh M., Manikyamba C., Ray J., Ganguly S., Santosh M., Saha A., Rambabu S., Sawant S.S., 2016. Major, trace and platinum group element (PGE) geochemistry of Archean Iron Ore Group and Proterozoic Malangtoli metavolcanic rocks of Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India: Inferences on mantle melting and sulphur saturation history. Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 72, 1263–1289.
    • Manikyamba C., Ray J., Ganguly S., Rajanikanta Singh M., Santosh M., Saha A., Satyanarayanan, M., 2015. Boninitic metavolcanic rocks and island arc tholeiites from the Older Metamorphic Group (OMG) of Singhbhum Craton, eastern India: Geochemical evidece for Archean subduction processes. Precambrian Research, Vol. 271, 138–159.
    • Manikyamba C., Saha A., Santosh M., Ganguly S., Rajanikanta Singh M., Subba Rao D.V., Lingadevaru M., 2014. Neoarchaean felsic volcanic rocks from the Shimoga greenstone belt, Dharwar Craton, India: Geochemical fingerprints of crustal growth at an active continental margin. Precambrian Research, Vol. 252, 1–21.
    • Manikyamba C., Ganguly S., Saha A., Santosh M., Rajanikanta Singh M., Subba Rao D.V., 2014. Continental lithospheric evolution: constraints from the geochemistry of felsic volcanic rocks in the Dharwar Craton, India. Journal of Asian Earth Science, Vol. 95, 65- 80.
    • Manikyamba C., Saha A., Santosh M., Ganguly S., Rajanikanta Singh M., Subba Rao D.V., Lingadevaru M., 2014. Sediment-infill volcanic breccia from the Neoarchean Shimoga greenstone terrane, western Dharwar Craton: Implications on pyroclastic volcanism and sedimentation in an active continental margin. Journal of Asian Earth Science, Vol. 96, 269–278.
    • Manikyamba C., Ganguly S., Santosh M., Rajanikanta Singh M., Saha A., 2014. Arc- nascent back-arc signature in metabasalts from the Neoarchaean Jonnagiri greenstone terrane, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India. Geological Journal, Vol. 50, 651-669.

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