D. R. Rao

Biography

He is a Sceintist in the department of Petrology & Geochemistry at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India.  I had basic training in the field of petrology during my work for Ph.D. Working on the low- to high-grade transition zone rocks of the Krishnagiri - Dharmapuri region of Tamil Nadu, I had demonstrated that the lower crustal enderbites and mafic charnockites differ in the grade of metamorphism from that of the tonalitic gneisses and mafic gneisses of the intermediate crust. Arguing for single isobaric regime in low-land regions of Peninsular India, it had been shown that the time elapsed between crust-forming event and metamorphism in the area was short and that the metamorphites are of  ~2.4 Ga syn-accretion granulites. After this work, my interest during the last 20 years has been on the petromineralogical and geochemical aspects on two highly inaccessible and tough regions with distinctive geological settings, namely:  [A] East Antarctica and [B] Himalayan collision zone in NW Himalaya. Some significant contributions from the work carried out are highlighted below

Research Interest

Magmatic and metamorphic studies