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Hetu Sheth is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in geophysics, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, artificial intelligence, and paleontology.

The scientist's publications focus on a range of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, as well as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hetu Sheth include:

  • Anmol Naik
  • Janisar M. Sheikh
  • Ciro Cucciniello
  • Alok Kumar
  • Raymond A. Duraiswami

Hetu Sheth has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geological Magazine
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Arabian Journal of Geosciences
  • Lithos

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hetu Sheth include:

  • A simple recipe for red bole formation in continental flood basalt provinces: weathering of flow-top and flow-bottom breccias (2020), Arabian Journal of Geosciences
  • The Southeastern Saurashtra dyke swarm, Deccan Traps: Magmatic evolution of a tholeiitic basalt-basaltic andesite-andesite-rhyolite suite (2020), Lithos
  • Widespread rheomorphic and lava-like silicic ignimbrites overlying flood basalts in the northwestern and northern Deccan Traps (2020), Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Geochemistry of Deccan Tholeiite Flows and Dykes of Elephanta Island: Insights into the Stratigraphy and Structure of the Panvel Flexure Zone, Western Indian Rifted Margin (2020), Geosciences
  • Physical volcanology of the Pavagadh rhyolites, northern Deccan Traps: Stratigraphic, structural, and textural record of explosive and effusive eruptions (2020), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Best Publications

  • Geochemistry of Flood Basalts of the Toranmal Section, Northern Deccan Traps, India: Implications for Regional Deccan Stratigraphy

    J. J. Mahoney;H. C. Sheth;D. Chandrasekharam;Z. X. Peng

  • Pin-pricking the elephant: Evidence on the origin of the Ontong Java Plateau from Pb-Sr-Hf-Nd isotopic characteristics of ODP Leg 192 basalts

    Maria Luisa Tejada;John Mahoney;Paterno Castillo;Stéphanie Ingle;Stéphanie Ingle

  • The Feeder System of the Deccan Traps (India): Insights from Dike Geochemistry

    Loÿc Vanderkluysen;John J. Mahoney;Peter R. Hooper;Hetu C. Sheth

  • Structure and emplacement of the Nandurbar–Dhule mafic dyke swarm, Deccan Traps, and the tectonomagmatic evolution of flood basalts

    Ranjini Ray;Hetu C. Sheth;Jyotirmoy Mallik

  • Flood basalts and large igneous provinces from deep mantle plumes: fact, fiction, and fallacy

    H.C. Sheth

  • ‘Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)’: Definition, recommended terminology, and a hierarchical classification

    Hetu C. Sheth

  • Geology and geochemistry of the Sangamner mafic dike swarm, western Deccan Volcanic Province, India: Implications for regional stratigraphy

    N. R. Bondre;W. K. Hart;H. C. Sheth

  • 40Ar-39Ar ages of Bombay trachytes: Evidence for a Palaeocene phase of Deccan volcanism

    Hetu C. Sheth;Kanchan Pande;Rajneesh Bhutani

  • From Deccan to Réunion: No trace of a mantle plume

    Hetu C. Sheth

  • 40Ar–39Ar age of the St. Mary’s Islands volcanics, southern India: record of India–Madagascar break-up on the Indian subcontinent

    Kanchan Pande;Hetu C Sheth;Rajneesh Bhutani

  • The High Deccan duricrusts of India and their significance for the ‘laterite’ issue

    Cliff D. Ollier;Hetu C. Sheth

  • Highly heterogeneous Precambrian basement under the central Deccan Traps, India: Direct evidence from xenoliths in dykes

    Ranjini Ray;Anil D. Shukla;Hetu C. Sheth;Jyotiranjan S. Ray

  • The Mount Pavagadh volcanic suite, Deccan Traps: Geochemical stratigraphy and magmatic evolution

    Hetu C. Sheth;Leone Melluso

  • Beyond Subduction and Plumes: A Unified Tectonic-Petrogenetic Model for the Mexican Volcanic Belt

    Hetu C. Sheth;Ignacio S. Torres-Alvarado;Surendra P. Verma

  • Were the deccan flood basalts derived in part from ancient oceanic crust within the indian continental lithosphere

    Hetu C. Sheth

  • What Is the "Calc-alkaline Rock Series"?

    Hetu C. Sheth;Ignacio S. Torres-Alvarado;Surendra P. Verma

  • Plume-related regional prevolcanic uplift in the Deccan Traps: Absence of evidence, evidence of absence

    H.C. Sheth

  • A historical approach to continental flood basalt volcanism: insights into pre-volcanic rifting, sedimentation, and early alkaline magmatism

    H.C. Sheth

  • Volcanology and eruptive styles of Barren Island: an active mafic stratovolcano in the Andaman Sea, NE Indian Ocean

    Hetu C. Sheth;Jyotiranjan S. Ray;Rajneesh Bhutani;Alok Kumar

  • A reappraisal of the coastal Panvel flexure, Deccan Traps, as a listric-fault-controlled reverse drag structure

    H.C Sheth

  • Elemental and Nd Sr Pb isotope geochemistry of flows and dikes from the Tapi rift, Deccan flood basalt province, India

    D Chandrasekharam;J.J Mahoney;H.C Sheth;R.A Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kanchan Pande
Kanchan Pande Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
John J. Mahoney
John J. Mahoney University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Yi-Gang Xu
Yi-Gang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Georg F. Zellmer
Georg F. Zellmer University of Bonn
Dominique Weis
Dominique Weis University of British Columbia
Surendra P. Verma
Surendra P. Verma National Autonomous University of Mexico
Nasrrddine Youbi
Nasrrddine Youbi Cadi Ayyad University
Robert A. Duncan
Robert A. Duncan Oregon State University
Paterno R. Castillo
Paterno R. Castillo Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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