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Nilanjan Chatterjee

Nilanjan Chatterjee

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
4795
World Ranking
8863
National Ranking
2876

Overview

Nilanjan Chatterjee is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focused expertise in geophysics. Their research spans various subfields including artificial intelligence applications, molecular biology, genetics, and statistics and probability, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

Their scholarly output includes work published in notable venues such as Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Gondwana Research, Advanced Optical Materials, Minerals, and the American Journal of Epidemiology. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Gondwana Research
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Minerals
  • American Journal of Epidemiology

The main topics covered in their research involve geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, genetic associations and epidemiology, magneto-optical properties and applications, and phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens. Specifically, these topics include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens

Among Nilanjan Chatterjee's recent publications are:

  • "Late Cretaceous alkaline magmas of the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt (NE Turkey): A review with new geological, geochemical and geochronological data" (2021) published in Gondwana Research
  • "Origin of the primitive, strongly SiO2-undersaturated alkalic rocks from the Deccan Traps by low-degree mantle melting and high-pressure fractional crystallization" (2021) in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • "Magneto-Optical Bi-Substituted Yttrium and Terbium Iron Garnets for On-Chip Crystallization via Microheaters" (2024) in Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Thermobarometry of the Rajmahal Continental Flood Basalts and Their Primary Magmas: Implications for the Magmatic Plumbing System" (2023) in Minerals

Their frequent collaborators include Francis Ö. Dudás, Yener Eyüboğlu, Ze Liu, Di-Cheng Zhu, and Liang-Liang Zhang. These coauthors have contributed to a significant portion of the scientist's published work, highlighting a network of collaborative research in their field.

Best Publications

  • Fractional crystallization and mantle-melting controls on calc-alkaline differentiation trends

    Timothy L. Grove;Linda T. Elkins-Tanton;Stephen W. Parman;Nilanjan Chatterjee

  • The influence of H2O on mantle wedge melting

    Timothy L. Grove;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Stephen W. Parman;Etienne Médard

  • Thermodynamic data on oxides and silicates : an assessed data set based on thermochemistry and high pressure phase equilibrium

    Surendra K. Saxena;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Yingwei Fei;Guoyin Shen

  • Kinematic variables and water transport control the formation and location of arc volcanoes

    T. L. Grove;C. B. Till;E. Lev;N. Chatterjee

  • Magnesian andesite and dacite lavas from Mt. Shasta, northern California: products of fractional crystallization of H 2 O-rich mantle melts

    Timothy L. Grove;Michael B. Baker;Richard C. Price;Stephen W. Parman

  • Mesoproterozoic granulites of the Shillong–Meghalaya Plateau: Evidence of westward continuation of the Prydz Bay Pan-African suture into Northeastern India

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;A.C. Mazumdar;A. Bhattacharya;R.R. Saikia

  • Geochronology of the 1.55Ga Bengal anorthosite and Grenvillian metamorphism in the Chotanagpur gneissic complex, eastern India

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;James L. Crowley;Naresh C. Ghose

  • Silica and volatile-element metasomatism of Archean mantle: a xenolith-scale example from the Kaapvaal Craton

    David R. Bell;David R. Bell;M. Grégoire;T. L. Grove;N. Chatterjee

  • Indian Intraplate and Continental Margin Rifting, Lithospheric Extension, and Mantle Upwelling in Deccan Flood Basalt Volcanism near the K/T Boundary: Evidence from Mafic Dike Swarms

    S. Bhattacharji;N. Chatterjee;J. M. Wampler;P. N. Nayak

  • Extensive Early Neoproterozoic high-grade metamorphism in North Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;Naresh C. Ghose

  • Monazite chronology, metamorphism–anatexis and tectonic relevance of the mid-Neoproterozoic Eastern Indian Tectonic Zone

    N. Chatterjee;M. Banerjee;A. Bhattacharya;A.K. Maji

  • Petrology, geochemistry and tectonic settings of the mafic dikes and sills associated with the evolution of the Proterozoic Cuddapah Basin of south India

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;Somdev Bhattacharji

  • Experimental and petrological constraints on lunar differentiation from the Apollo 15 green picritic glasses

    Linda T. Elkins-Tanton;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Timothy L. Grove

  • Eocene granitoids of northern Turkey: Polybaric magmatism in an evolving arc–slab window system

    Yener Eyuboglu;Francis O. Dudas;Derek Thorkelson;Di-Cheng Zhu

  • Thermodynamic Mixing Properties of Muscovite-Paragonite Crystalline Solutions at High Temperatures and Pressures, and their Geological Applications

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  • The reaction enstatite ss +sillimanite ⇌ sapphirine ss +quartz in the system MgO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2

    N. D. Chatterjee;W. Schreyer

  • Metamorphic evolution of the Naga Hills eclogite and blueschist, Northeast India: implications for early subduction of the Indian plate under the Burma microplate

    N. Chatterjee;N. C. Ghose

  • The Spatial Distribution of Garnets and Pyroxenes in Mantle Peridotites: Pressure–Temperature History of Peridotites from the Kaapvaal Craton

    R. L. Saltzer;N. Chatterjee;T. L. Grove

  • Geochronology of the 983‐Ma Chilka Lake Anorthosite, Eastern Ghats Belt, India: Implications for Pre‐Gondwana Tectonics

    Nilanjan Chatterjee;James L. Crowley;Amalbikash Mukherjee;Subhasish Das

  • Cenozoic forearc gabbros from the northern zone of the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt, NE Turkey: Implications for slab window magmatism and convergent margin tectonics

    Yener Eyuboglu;Francis O. Dudas;M. Santosh;Di-Cheng Zhu

  • Late Cambrian Reworking of Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Granulites in Shillong-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex (Northeast India): Evidence from PT Pseudosection Analysis and Monazite Chronology and Implications for East Gondwana Assembly

    N. Chatterjee;A. Bhattacharya;B. P. Duarah;A. C. Mazumdar

  • Geological and mineralogical study of eclogite and glaucophane schists in the Naga Hills Ophiolite, Northeast India

    Naresh C. Ghose;Om Prakash Agrawal;Nilanjan Chatterjee

  • Magmatic processes that produced lunar fire fountains

    Linda T. Elkins-Tanton;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Timothy L. Grove

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Neil E. Caporaso
Neil E. Caporaso National Institutes of Health
Demetrius Albanes
Demetrius Albanes National Institutes of Health
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health
Susan M. Gapstur
Susan M. Gapstur American Cancer Society
Kevin B. Jacobs
Kevin B. Jacobs Progenity (United States)
Maria Teresa Landi
Maria Teresa Landi National Institutes of Health

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