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Sumit Chakraborty

Sumit Chakraborty

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Earth Science

D-Index
55
Citations
9934
World Ranking
2583
National Ranking
166

Overview

Sumit Chakraborty is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Geophysics. Their research covers a range of subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Notable recent papers by Sumit Chakraborty include:

  • "Peel-back controlled lithospheric convergence explains the secular transitions in Archean metamorphism and magmatism" (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Marine phytoplankton responses to oil and dispersant exposures: Knowledge gained since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill" (2021), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Time will tell: Secular change in metamorphic timescales and the tectonic implications" (2021), published in Gondwana Research
  • "Multicomponent diffusion of F, Cl and OH in apatite with application to magma ascent rates" (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Zircon crystallization in low-Zr mafic magmas: Possible or impossible?" (2022), published in Chemical Geology

Sumit Chakraborty frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Elements
  • Chemical Geology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Chakraborty include:

  • Thilo Bissbort
  • Harry Becker
  • Aitor Cambeses
  • Ralf Dohmen
  • Priyadarshi Chowdhury

Best Publications

  • Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon chronology

    Daniela Rubatto;Sumit Chakraborty;Somnath Dasgupta

  • Cation diffusion in aluminosilicate garnets: experimental determination in spessartine-almandine diffusion couples, evaluation of effective binary diffusion coefficients, and applications

    Sumit Chakraborty;Jibamitra Ganguly

  • Rates and mechanisms of Fe‐Mg interdiffusion in olivine at 980°–1300°C

    Sumit Chakraborty

  • Time Scales of Magmatic Processes from Modeling the Zoning Patterns of Crystals

    Fidel Costa;Ralf Dohmen;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Diffusion coupling between trace and major elements and a model for calculation of magma residence times using plagioclase

    Fidel Costa;Fidel Costa;Sumit Chakraborty;Ralf Dohmen

  • Fe–Mg diffusion in olivine II: point defect chemistry, change of diffusion mechanisms and a model for calculation of diffusion coefficients in natural olivine

    Ralf Dohmen;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Compositional zoning and cation diffusion in garnets

    Sumit Chakraborty;Jibamitra Ganguly

  • Rates and Mechanisms of Isotopic Exchange

    David R. Cole;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Styles of post-subduction collisional orogeny: Influence of convergence velocity, crustal rheology and radiogenic heat production

    Manuele Faccenda;Taras V. Gerya;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Diffusion Coefficients in Olivine, Wadsleyite and Ringwoodite

    Sumit Chakraborty

  • Cation diffusion in aluminosilicate garnets: experimental determination in pyrope-almandine diffusion couples

    Jibamitra Ganguly;Weiji Cheng;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Silicon and Oxygen Self-Diffusivities in Silicate Liquids Measured to 15 Gigapascals and 2800 Kelvin

    Brent T. Poe;Paul F. McMillan;Paul F. McMillan;David C. Rubie;David C. Rubie;Sumit Chakraborty;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Fe–Mg diffusion in olivine I: experimental determination between 700 and 1,200°C as a function of composition, crystal orientation and oxygen fugacity

    Ralf Dohmen;Hans-Werner Becker;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Dynamic plumbing system beneath volcanoes revealed by kinetic modeling, and the connection to monitoring data: An example from Mt. Etna

    Maren Kahl;Sumit Chakraborty;Fidel Costa;Massimo Pompilio

  • Fe–Mg diffusion in olivine II: point defect chemistry, change of diffusion mechanisms and a model for calculation of diffusion coefficients in natural olivine

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  • Si and O diffusion in olivine and implications for characterizing plastic flow in the mantle

    Ralf Dohmen;Sumit Chakraborty;Hans-Werner Becker

  • Diffusion of Li in olivine. Part I: Experimental observations and a multi species diffusion model

    Ralf Dohmen;Simone A. Kasemann;Laurence Coogan;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Decadal time gaps between mafic intrusion and silicic eruption obtained from chemical zoning patterns in olivine

    Fidel Costa;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Experimental determination of the diffusion coefficient for calcium in olivine between 900°C and 1500°C

    L.A. Coogan;A. Hain;S. Stahl;S. Chakraborty

  • Experimental determination of Ni diffusion coefficients in olivine and their dependence on temperature, composition, oxygen fugacity, and crystallographic orientation

    Christof Petry;Sumit Chakraborty;Herbert Palme

  • Mg tracer diffusion in synthetic forsterite and San Carlos olivine as a function of P, T and fO2

    Sumit Chakraborty;John R. Farver;Richard A. Yund;David C. Rubie

  • The activities of NiO, CoO and FeO in silicate melts

    A. Holzheid;H. Palme;S. Chakraborty

  • Diffusion in silicate melts

    S. Chakraborty

Frequent Co-Authors

Fidel Costa
Fidel Costa Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Ralf Dohmen
Ralf Dohmen Ruhr University Bochum
Laurence A. Coogan
Laurence A. Coogan University of Victoria
Somnath Dasgupta
Somnath Dasgupta Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Jibamitra Ganguly
Jibamitra Ganguly University of Arizona
David C. Rubie
David C. Rubie University of Bayreuth
Massimo Pompilio
Massimo Pompilio National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Donald B. Dingwell
Donald B. Dingwell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tomoo Katsura
Tomoo Katsura University of Bayreuth

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