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School of
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LOPAMUDRA SAHA
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2008
Lecturer (Mineralogy and Metamorphic Petrology)
School of Geological Sciences
Room-117, H1 Building,
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Westville Campus
Private Bag X54001
Durban 4000
Tel: +27(0)31 260 8781
Fax: +27(0)31 260 2280
sahal
AT ukzn.ac.za
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Teaching
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LEVEL I
GEOL
101: EARTH AND ITS MATERIALS
LEVEL II
GEOL
200: GEOLOGY FIELD MODULE
GEOL
201: MINERALOGY
GEOL
206: PRINCIPLES OF IGNEOUS AND
METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY
LEVEL III
GEOL
306: GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SOUTH
AFRICA
Honours
GEOL
708: PRECAMBRIAN TECTONICS
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Research Interest
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Tectonic evolution of
Archaean greenstone belts (South Africa and India),
Crustal melting
processes
Evolution of
high-grade metamorphic terrains.
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Current Projects
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Tectonic
and thermal evolution of an Archaean granitoid-greenstone terrain in
northern KwaZulu-Natal: Constraints from trace element and radiogenic
isotope geochemistry, and quantitative modelling of phase equilibria.
Paleoarchaean
tectonic evolution of Singhbhum craton, Eastern India, Competitive
Research Grant, UKZN.
Neoarchaean
plate-tectonic processes from Bundelkhand craton, Central India
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Recent Publications
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Peer-reviewed
publications
Saha,
L., Pant, N.C., Pati, J. K., Upadhyay, D., Berndt, J.,
Bhattacharya, A. & Satyanarayanan, M., 2011, Neoarchean
high-pressure margarite–phengitic muscovite–chlorite corona mantled
corundum in quartz-free high-Mg, Al phlogopite–chlorite schists
from the Bundelkhand craton, north central India, Contributions to Mineralogy and
Petrology, 161,
511-530.
Saha,
L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H., Hegner, E., Wilson, A., Wan, Y., Liu,
D. and Kröner, A., 2010, Zircon ages and metamorphic evolution of
the Archaean Assegaai – De Kraalen granitoid-greenstone terrain,
southeastern Kaapvaal Craton, American
Journal of Science, 310,
1384-1420.
Bhowmik,
S.K, Saha, L., Dasgupta, S. & Fukuoka, M., 2009,
Metamorphic phase relations in orthopyroxene- bearing granitoids:
Implication for high-pressure metamorphism and prograde melting in
the continental crust, Jounal
of Metamorphic Geology, 27,
295-315.
Saha,
L., Bhowmik, S.K., Fukuoka, M. & Dasgupta, S., 2008
Contrasting episodes of regional granulite facies metamorphism in
enclaves and host gneisses from the Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt, NW
India, Journal of Petrology,
49, 107-128.
Sikdar,
P.K., Mondal, S., Saha, L., Sarkar, S.S. & Banerjee, S.,
2002., Environmental impact assessment of a proposed info-tech
complex in East Calcutta Wetlands, The Environmentalist, 22, 241-260.
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Peer-reviewed conference
proceedings
Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H.
& Hegner, E., 2011, A Palaeoarchaean high pressure metamorphic event
from SE Kaapvaal Craton, CAG23,
Johannesburg.
Saha, L., Hofmann, A. & Xie,
H., 2011, Prograde P-T path of a 3.2 Ga tectono-metamorphic event from
Assegaai greenstone belt, SE Kaapvaal Craton, Goldschmidt Conference, Prague.
Pati,
J.K. & Saha, L., 2011,
Mesoarchaean tectono-metamorphic event from Bundelkhand Craton, India, Goldschmidt Conference, Prague.
Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H.
& Hegner, E., 2010, A 3.2 Ga high-grade tectono-metamorphic event
recorded from the Assegaai, De Kraalen and Witrivier greenstone belts,
southeastern Kaapvaal craton,
Field Workshop on Early
crustal evolution of the southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa and
Swaziland.
Saha, L., Hofmann, A., Xie, H.
& Hegner, E., 2010, Tectono-metamorphic history of some greenstone
belts of SE Kaapvaal craton, 5th International Archaean
Symposium, Perth, Australia.
Raith, M.
M., Saha, L. & Bhattacharya, A., 2009, The origin of
sapphirine-cordierite intergrowths in an iron/alkali-free Mg-Al granulite
from the Eastern Ghats Belt (India), 87th annual meeting of the German
Mineralogical Society (DMG), Halle.
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