Recent activity

• Chatterjee, N. (2023) Origin of the Paleoproterozoic basaltic dikes from the central and eastern Dharwar Craton and sills and volcanics from the adjoining Cuddapah Basin, southern India. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 178,28. doi: 10.1007/s00410-023-02012-0
• Chatterjee, N. and Ghose, N.C. (2023) Thermobarometry of the Rajmahal Continental Flood Basalts and their primary magmas: Implications for the magmatic plumbing system. Minerals, 13(3),426. doi: 10.3390/min13030426
• Dudas, F., Chatterjee, N. and Krol, M. (2023) Eocene andesitic adakite from Lone Mountain, Southwestern Montana. Journal of Geology, 131(1), 75-95. doi: 10.1086/726207
• Ramey‐Lariviere, J.Y.F., Gong, J., Baldes. M.J., Chatterjee, N., Bosak, T. and Pruss, S.B. (2023) Organic‐rich bimineralic ooids record biological processes in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Geobiology, 21(5), 629-643. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12558
• Mansbach, E.N., Weiss, B.P., Schnepf, N.R., Lima, E.A., Borlina, C.S., Chatterjee, N., Gattacceca, J., Uehara, M. and Wang, H. (2023) Magnetism of the acapulco primitive achondrite and implications for the evolution of partially differentiated bodies. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, e2023JE008076. doi: 10.1029/2023JE008076
• Chatterjee, N. (2021) Origin of the primitive, strongly SiO2-undersaturated alkalic rocks from the Deccan Traps by low-degree mantle melting and high-pressure fractional crystallization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176,31. doi: 10.1007/s00410-021-01787-4
• Borlina, C.S., Weiss, B.P., Bryson, J.F.J., Bai, X-N., Lima, E.A., Chatterjee, N. and Mansbach, E.N. (2021) Paleomagnetic evidence for a disk substructure in the early solar system. Science Advances, 7, eabj6928. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj6928

Research Topics

• Paleoproterozoic basaltic dikes intruding the central and eastern Dharwar Craton, and sills and volcanics within the Cuddapah Basin
• Petrogenesis and emplacement conditions of the Early Cretaceous Rajmahal Traps flood basalts
• Petrogenesis of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Deccan Traps flood basalts
• Magmatism in the Eastern Pontides orogenic belt
• Proterozoic metamorphic and magmatic history of the Indian Shield
• Cenozoic collisional metamorphism in northwestern Himalayas and at the eastern margin of the Indian Plate
• Hydrous magmatism in subduction zones
• Fire fountains on the moon
• Kimberlite hosted peridotite xenoliths
• Hawaiian volcanism