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Soumyajit Mukherjee is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant contribution to geophysics, earth-surface processes, artificial intelligence applications in geosciences, mechanics of materials, and environmental engineering.

Their scholarly output encompasses various topics, particularly in earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological formations and processes, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, groundwater and watershed analysis, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent publication venues for Mukherjee include Marine and Petroleum Geology, where 11 of their works have appeared. Other notable journals featuring their research are the International Journal of Earth Sciences with 4 publications, Journal of Structural Geology with 3 publications, Journal of Earth System Science with 3 publications, and Journal of the Geological Society of India with 3 publications.

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Mery Biswas (16 collaborations), Swagato Dasgupta (9 collaborations), Nihar Ranjan Kar (6 collaborations), Mohamedharoon A. Shaikh (5 collaborations), and Manash Pratim Gogoi (5 collaborations).

Representative recent papers showcase the breadth of their research:

  • Structural evolution and sediment depositional system along the transform margin- Palar-Pennar basin, Indian east coast (2022), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Tectonic evolution of the intra-uplift Vigodi-Gugriana-Khirasra-Netra Fault System in the seismically active Kachchh rift basin, India: Implications for the western continental margin of the Indian plate (2020), Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonic instability of the petroliferous upper Assam valley (NE India): A geomorphic approach (2022), Journal of Earth System Science
  • Extrusion kinematics of UHP terrane in a collisional orogen: EBSD and microstructure-based approach from the Tso Morari Crystallines (Ladakh Himalaya) (2020), Tectonophysics
  • Morphotectonic analysis of petroliferous Barmer rift basin (Rajasthan, India) (2022), Journal of Earth System Science

Best Publications

  • Higher Himalayan Shear Zone, Sutlej section: structural geology and extrusion mechanism by various combinations of simple shear, pure shear and channel flow in shifting modes

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;Hemin A. Koyi

  • Higher Himalayan Shear Zone, Zanskar Indian Himalaya: microstructural studies and extrusion mechanism by a combination of simple shear and channel flow

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;H. A. Koyi

  • A review on out-of-sequence deformation in the Himalaya

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Near N–S paleo-extension in the western Deccan region, India: Does it link strike-slip tectonics with India–Seychelles rifting?

    Achyuta Ayan Misra;Achyuta Ayan Misra;Gourab Bhattacharya;Soumyajit Mukherjee;Narayan Bose

  • Channel flow extrusion model to constrain dynamic viscosity and Prandtl number of the Higher Himalayan Shear Zone

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Higher Himalaya in the Bhagirathi section (NW Himalaya, India): its structures, backthrusts and extrusion mechanism by both channel flow and critical taper mechanisms

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Review of flanking structures in meso- and micro-scales

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Viscosity estimates of salt in the Hormuz and Namakdan salt diapirs, Persian Gulf

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;Christopher J. Talbot;Hemin A. Koyi

  • Brittle Shear Tectonics in a Narrow Continental Rift: Asymmetric Nonvolcanic Barmer Basin (Rajasthan, India)

    Swagato Dasgupta;Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Rifts and Passive Margins

    Achyuta Ayan Misra;Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Mineral fish: their morphological classification, usefulness as shear sense indicators and genesis

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Implications of channel flow analogue models for extrusion of the Higher Himalayan Shear Zone with special reference to the out-of-sequence thrusting

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;Hemin A. Koyi;Christopher J. Talbot

  • Deformation Microstructures in Rocks

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Repeat ridge jumps and microcontinent separation: insights from NE Arabian Sea

    Achyuta Ayan Misra;Achyuta Ayan Misra;Neeraj Sinha;Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Atlas of Structural Geology

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Atlas of Shear Zone Structures in Meso-scale

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Simple shear is not so simple! Kinematics and shear senses in Newtonian viscous simple shear zones

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Structural evolution and sediment depositional system along the transform margin- Palar–Pennar basin, Indian east coast

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  • Remote Sensing in Lineament Identification: Examples from Western India

    Swagato Dasgupta;Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Review on symmetric structures in ductile shear zones

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  • Tectonics of the Himalaya: an introduction

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;Rodolfo Carosi;Peter van der Beek;Barun Kumar Mukherjee

  • Estimating the viscosity and Prandtl number of the Tso Morari crystalline gneiss dome, Indian western Himalaya

    Soumyajit Mukherjee;Kieran F. Mulchrone

Frequent Co-Authors

Hemin Koyi
Hemin Koyi Uppsala University
Christopher J. Talbot
Christopher J. Talbot Uppsala University
R. Carosi
R. Carosi University of Turin
Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Harro Schmeling
Harro Schmeling Goethe University Frankfurt
Snehashish Chakraverty
Snehashish Chakraverty National Institute of Technology Rourkela

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