Saibal Gupta
Professor
Geology and Geophysics
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
India
Biography
Saibal Gupta is an Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at IIT Kharagpur.
Research Interest
I am primarily interested in the nature and evolution of orogeny through time, and the controls on an orogen?s thermal evolution. This interest has led me to explore the nature and composition of the lower crust, its behaviour during orogeny and the manner of its exhumation to the surface, through a combination of structural, metamorphic, geochemical and geophysical studies. At present, I am actively collaborating with geophysicists in investigating the extent to which the exposed upper crust and the record of its geological evolution can give us an insight into the present-day lower crust. Orogenies commonly result in terrane amalgamation; a natural consequence of this interest is an investigation into the construction of past supercontinents, particularly Rodinia and Gondwanaland.
Publications
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Sub-surface structure of a craton-mobile belt interface: evidence from geological and gravity studies across the Rengali Province-Eastern Ghats Belt boundary, eastern India. by Mandal, A., Gupta, S., Mohanty, W.K., Misra, S. Tectonophysics 662 140-152 (2015)
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Jarosite occurrence in the Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP) of Kachchh, western India: spectroscopic studies on a martian analog locality by Bhattacharya, S., Mitra, S., Gupta, S., Jain, N., Chauhan, P., Parthasarathy, G., Ajai Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 121 1-30 (2016)
