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 Nilanjan Chatterjee
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Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

  1. Chatterjee, N., Crowley, J.L., Mukherjee, A. and Das, S. (2008) Geochronology of the 983 Ma Chilka Lake Anorthosite, Eastern Ghats Belt, India: implications for pre-Gondwana tectonics. Journal of Geology, 116, 105-118.doi: 10.1086/528901
  2. Chatterjee, N., Crowley, J.L. and Ghose, N.C. (2008) Geochronology of the 1.55 Ga Bengal anorthosite and Grenvillian metamorphism in the Chotanagpur gneissic complex, eastern India. Precambrian Research, 161, 303-316.doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.09.005
  3. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2008) Trace element variations in Deccan basalts: roles of mantle melting, fractional crystallization and crustal assimilation. Journal of Geological Society of India, 71, 171-188.
  4. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2008) Geochemistry of the felsic intrusives associated with Deccan basalts in southern Saurashtra and Mumbai, India: implications for their tectonic emplacement conditions. In: Srivastava, R.K., Sivaji, Ch., Chalapathi Rao, N.V. (eds.) "Indian Dykes", Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, in press.
  5. Ghose , N.C. , Chatterjee, N., Mukherjee, D., Kent, R.W. and Saunders, A.D. (2008) Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Bengal Anorthosite massif in the Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex at the eastern Indian shield margin. Journal of Geological Society of India, in press.
  6. Ghose, N.C. and Chatterjee, N. (2008) Petrology, tectonic setting and source of dykes and related magmatic bodies in the Chotanagpur Gniessic Complex, Eastern India. In: Srivastava, R.K., Sivaji, Ch., Chalapathi Rao, N.V. (eds.) "Indian Dykes", Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, in press.
  7. Chatterjee, N., Mazumdar, A.C., Bhattacharya, A. and Saikia, R.R. (2007) Mesoproterozoic granulites of the Shillong-Meghalaya Plateau: Evidence of westward continuation of the Prydz Bay Pan-African suture into Northeastern India. Precambrian Research, 152/1-2, 1-26. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2006.08.011
  8. Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N., Parman, S.W. and Medard, E. (2006) The influence of H2O on mantle wedge melting. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 74-89. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.043
  9. Bell, D.R., Gregoire, M., Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N., Bowring, S.A., Carlson, R.W. and Buseck, P.R. (2005) Silica and volatile-element metasomatism of Archean mantle: a xenolith-scale example from the Kaapvaal Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150, 251-267. doi: 10.1007/s00410-005-0673-8
  10. Chatterjee, N., Bhattacharji, S. and Fein, C. (2005) Depth of alkalic magma reservoirs below Kolekole cinder cone, Southwest Rift zone, East Maui, Hawaii. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 145, 1-22. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.01.001
  11. Mukherjee, D., Ghose, N.C. and Chatterjee, N. (2005) Crystallization history of a massif anorthosite in the eastern Indian shield margin based on borehole lithology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 25/1, 77-94. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2004.01.012
  12. Grove, T.L., Baker, M., Price, R.C., Parman, S.W., Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Chatterjee, N. and Muentener, O. (2005) Magnesian andesite and dacite lavas from Mt. Shasta, northern California: products of fractional crystallization of H2O-rich mantle melts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 148, 542-565. doi: 10.1007/s00410-004-0619-6
  13. Ghose, N.C., Mukherjee, D. and Chatterjee, N. (2005) Plume generated Mesoproterozoic mafic-ultramafic magmatism in the Chotanagpur mobile belt of Eastern Indian shield margin. Journal of Geological Society of India, 66, 725-740.
  14. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2004) A preliminary geochemical study of zircons and monazites from Deccan felsic dikes, Rajula, Gujarat, India: implications for crustal melting. In: Sheth, H.C. and Pande, K. (eds.) "Magmatism in India through time", Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences), 113/4, 533-542. Online
  15. Bhattacharji, S., Sharma, R. and Chatterjee, N. (2004) Two and three-dimensional gravity modeling along western continental margin and intraplate Narmada-Tapti rifts: its relevance to Deccan flood basalt volcanism. In: Sheth, H.C. and Pande, K. (eds.) "Magmatism in India through time", Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences), 113/4, 771-784. Online
  16. Grove, T.L., Elkins-Tanton, L., Parman, S.W., Chatterjee, N., Muentener, O. and Gaetani, G.A. (2003) Fractional crystallization and mantle-melting controls on calc-alkaline differentiation trends. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145, 515-533. doi: 10.1007/s00410-003-0448-z
  17. Elkins-Tanton, L., Chatterjee, N. and Grove, T.L. (2003) Experimental and petrological constraints on lunar differentiation from the Apollo 15 green picritic glasses. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 38/4, 515-527. Online
  18. Elkins-Tanton, L., Chatterjee, N. and Grove, T.L. (2003) Magmatic processes that produced lunar fire fountains. Geophysical Research Letters, 30/10, 1513, doi: 1029/2003GL017082. Online
  19. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2001) Origin of the felsic dikes and basaltic dikes and flows in the Rajula-Palitana-Sihor area of the Deccan Traps, Saurashtra, India: a geochemical and geochronological study. International Geology Review, 43, 1094-1116. Abstract
  20. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2001) Petrology, geochemistry and tectonic settings of the mafic dikes and sills associated with the evolution of the Proterozoic Cuddapah Basin of South India. Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences), 110/4, 433-453. Online
  21. Saltzer, R.L., Chatterjee, N. and Grove, T.L. (2001) The spatial distribution of garnets and pyroxenes in mantle peridotites: pressure-temperature history of peridotites from the Kaapvaal craton. Journal of Petrology, 42/12, 2215-2229. Online
  22. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (1998) Formation of Proterozoic Tholeiite intrusives in and around Cuddapah Basin, South India and their Gondwana Counterparts in East Antarctica; and Compositional Variation in their Mantle Sources. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abh., 174/1, 79-102. Abstract
  23. Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N. and Wampler, J.M. (1996) Timing of Narmada-Tapti rift reactivation and Deccan volcanism: Geochronological and Geochemical Evidence. Gondwana Geological Magazine Special Volume 2, 329-340.
  24. Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N., Wampler, J.M., Nayak, P.N., and Deshmukh, S.S. (1996) Indian Intraplate and Continental Margin Rifting, Lithospheric Extension and Mantle Upwelling in Deccan Flood Basalt Volcanism near K/T Boundary: Evidence from Mafic Dike Swarms. Journal of Geology, 104, 379-398. Abstract
  25. Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N., Wampler, J.M. and Ghazi, M. (1994) Mafic dikes in Deccan Volcanics - Indicator of India Intraplate Rifting, Crustal Extension and Deccan Flood Basalt Volcanism. In: Subbarao, K.V. (ed.) "Volcanism", Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, India, p. 253-276.
  26. Chatterjee, N. (1987) Evaluation of thermochemical data on Fe-Mg olivine, orthopyroxene, spinel and Ca-Fe-Mg-Al garnet. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 2515-2525.
  27. Saxena, S.K. and Chatterjee, N. (1986) Thermochemical data on mineral phases: the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2. Journal of Petrology, 27, 827-842.

Book:

  • Saxena, S.K., Chatterjee, N., Fei, Y. and Shen, G. (1993) "Thermodynamic data on oxides and silicates: An assessed data set based on thermochemistry and high pressure phase equilibrium". Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 428 pp.

Meeting Abstracts:

  1. Till, C.B., Grove, T.L., Withers, A.C., Hirschmann, M.M., Medard, E., Chatterjee, N. (2007) Extending the wet mantle solidus: implications for H2O transport and subduction zone melting processes. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting Supplement.
  2. Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N., Singletary, S.J., Delano , J.W. (2006) Experiments on the Apollo 15 red glass: new constraints on melting depth and TiO2 melt contents of ilmenite saturated residues. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVII Abstracts.
  3. Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N., Medard, E. and Parman, S.W. (2006) Chlorite stability in the mantle wedge and its role in subduction zone melting processes. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting Supplement.
  4. Crowley, J.L., Chatterjee, N., Bowring, S.A., Sylvester, P.J., Myers., J.S. and Searle, M.P. (2005) U-(Th)-Pb dating of monazite and xenotime by EMPA, LA-ICPMS, and IDTIMS: examples from the Yilgarn Craton and Himalayas. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, A19.
  5. Boyce, J.W., Hodges, K.V., Crowley, J.L., Chatterjee, N. and Searle, M. (2005) Laser microprobe (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of monazite. 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, A298.
  6. Boyce, J.W., Hodges, K.V., Olszewski, W.J. and Chatterjee, N. (2005) The importance of material characterization in (U-Th)/He thermochronometry: diffusivity of He and heterogeneous distribution of U and Th in monazite. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geosciences Union, 7, 09935.
  7. Chatterjee, N. (2005) Application of large area X-ray mapping for textural analysis of geological samples. Abstract, 22nd Annual Spring Symposium, New England Society for Microscopy, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, 29-30 April.
  8. Bell, D.R., Grégoire, M., Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N. and Bowring, S.A. (2003) Silica and carbon deposition in the Kimberley peridotites. Extended Abstract 8th International Kimberlite Conference, Victoria, Canada, 4 pp (unpaginated CD).
  9. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2003) Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the rejuvenated-stage lavas, and structure of the Kolekole volcanic center, Southwest Rift Zone, East Maui, Hawaii. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Paper No. 152-20.
  10. Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Chatterjee, N. and Grove, T.L. (2003) Magmatic processes that produced lunar fire fountains: evidence from vesicular rims on picritic glass beads. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXIV Abstracts, No. 1486.
  11. Villalta, P., Garcia-Godoy, F. and Chatterjee, N. (2003) Enamel Fluoride Penetration of a Neutral Fluoride Rinse: EPMA Study. 32nd Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Association for Dental Research, San Antanio, Texas, Seq#169, No. 1349.
  12. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2002) A geochemical and geochronological study of the felsic dikes associated with the Northwestern Deccan basalts of Southern Saurashtra, India. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21B-10, 83(19), S365.
  13. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (2001) Crust-mantle interactions in the origin of the Early to Mid-Proterozoic basaltic dikes and sills in and around Cuddapah Basin, South India. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 33/6, 373.
  14. Chatterjee, N. and Bhattacharji, S. (1999) Contrasting crystallization conditions recorded in Proterozoic basaltic dikes around Cuddapah Basin, South India. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting Supplement, Abstract V51A-04.
  15. Wagner, T.P. and Chatterjee, N. (1997) Petrology of lava and ash from the 1996-1997 eruptions of Manam volcano, Papua New Guinea: evidence for variable magmatic water contents. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union. Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V32C-16.
  16. Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N., and Wampler, J.M. (1993) Timing of intraplate Narmada-Tapti rifting, lithospheric extension and the Deccan flood basalt event. Geological Society of America Southeastern Section, Abstracts with Programs, 25/4, 3.
  17. Kim. J.S., Chatterjee, N. and Reucroft, P.J. (1993) A study on Al-doped ZnO films grown by low pressure metal organic vapor deposition technique. Proceedings of Annual Microbeam Analysis Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, 2, S132.
  18. Bhattacharji, S., Chatterjee, N., Gazi, M., Kunk, M., Dhoundial, D.P. and Dutta, K.K. (1991) Mafic dikes and dike swarms in Deccan volcanics, India: Plume related magmatism with propagating dikes along rifts and lithospheric flexures. IUGG Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
  19. Saxena, S.K., Chatterjee, N., and Fei, Y. (1991) A Geophysical/Geochemical thermodynamic data base. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 72, 282.
  20. Weisberg, M.K., Prinz, M., Chatterjee, N., Clayton, R.N. and Mayeda, T.K. (1991) Dark inclusions in CR2 chondrites. Meteoritics, v.26/4, p.407.
  21. Prinz, M., Weisberg, M.K., and Chatterjee, N. (1991) LEW88055: Aubritic inclusions in a Si-free iron meteorite. Meteoritics, v.26/4, p.386.
  22. Prinz, M., Chatterjee, N., Weisberg, M.K., Clayton, R.N. and Mayeda, T.K. (1991a) Silicate inclusions in Antarctic irons. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXII, 1101.
  23. Prinz, M., Chatterjee, N., Weisberg, M.K., Clayton, R.N. and Mayeda, T.K. (1991b) MAC88177: A new type of achondrite. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXII, 1099.
  24. Prinz, M., Chatterjee, N., Weisberg, M.K., Clayton, R.N. and Mayeda, T.K. (1991c) Lea Co. 002: A second Kakangari-type chondrite. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXII, 1097.
  25. Saxena, S.K., Chatterjee, N., Fei, Y. and Zhang, Z. (1989) A critically assessed thermodynamical data base. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 70, 475.
  26. Fei, Y. and Chatterjee, N. (1988) Optimized thermodynamic data on hydrous phases in the system MgO-SiO2-H2O. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 69, 473.
  27. Chatterjee, N. (1987) An internally consistent thermodynamic data base in the CaO-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 system and its applications. Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, 19/7, 618.
  28. Chatterjee, N. (1986) Thermobarometry in the systems CaO-FeO-Al2O3-SiO2 and MgO-FeO-Al2O3-SiO2. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 67, 414.
  29. Chatterjee, N. and Saxena, S.K. (1985) Thermochemical data on mineral phases 1. The system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 66, 412.
Other articles:
  1. Chatterjee, N. (2007) Large-area, stage-rastered WDS X-ray mapping in electron probe microanalysis. Microscopy and Analysis, 21(3), S5-S7.
  2. Chatterjee, N. (2001) Application of the electron microprobe in mineralogy. Microscopy Today, 01-6, 20-26.
  3. Chatterjee, N. (1998) Fe2+/Fe3+ calculation in Spinels from Oxygen Deficiency Sum. Microscopy Today, 98-4, 10.

Dissertations

  • Chatterjee, N. (1989) An internally consistent thermodynamic data base on minerals: application to the earth's crust and upper mantle. Ph.D. thesis, City University New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Chatterjee, N. (1983) Study of a base-metal deposit: Agucha, Bhilwara district, Rajasthan. M.Sc. thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Last Revised 02/25/2008. E-mail: nchat@mit.edu