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Dr. Dwijesh Ray
Associate Professor E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone:
+91-79-2631 4533 |
Research Interests
Earth and Planetary Materials
Terrestrial Impact Craters
Geochemistry of Planetary Crusts
Terrestrial Analogues to Moon and Mars
Academic Qualifications
B.Sc in Geology (Hons), Calcutta University
M.Sc. in Geology, Calcutta University
PhD in Science (Geology) CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa and Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Awards/ Recognitions
2008: Asiatic Society medal in recognition for significant contribution in Economic Geology
2006-’07: French Sandwich Ph.D. fellowship by French Embassy in India to work at IPG-Paris
2005: InterRidge Outstanding Student Award
2001: CSIR-UGC NET
Recent Publications
Ray, D. et al. 2021. Hematite concretions from Jhuran (Jurassic) sandstone: Implications for sedimentary diagenesis and analogy to blueberries on Mars. Planetary and Space Science 197, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2021.105163
Ray, D. et al. 2020. Iron-nickel metallic components bearing silicate-melts and coesite from Ramgarh impact structure, west central India: Possible identification of impactor. Journal of Earth System Science, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-020-1371-7.
Majumdar, A.S., Ray, D. and Shukla, A.D. 2020. Serpentinization of olivine–gabbro in Central Indian ridge: Insights into H2 production during alteration in lower oceanic crust and sustenance of life at slow–spreading ridges. Lithos 374-375, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105730.
Sinha, R.K., Ray, D. et al. 2020. Global documentation of overlapping lobate deposits in Martian gullies. Icarus, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113979.
Ray, D., et al. 2019. Shock-thermal history of the Agoudal (IIAB) meteorite from microstructural studies. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v. 54, 3082-3088, doi: 10.1111/maps.13399.
Ray, D. and Shukla, A.D. 2018. The Mukundpura meteorite, a new fall of CM chondrite, Planetary and Space Science 151, 149-154, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2017.11.005.
Ray, D., Mahajan, R.R., Shukla, A.D., Goswami, T. and Chakrabarty, S. 2017a. Petrography, classification, oxygen isotopes, noble gases and cosmogenic records of Kamargaon (L6) Meteorite: the latest fall in India. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, doi: 10.1111/maps.12875.
Ray, D., Upadhyay, D., Misra, S., Newsom, H.E., Ghosh, S. 2017b. New insights on petrography and geochemistry of impactites from the Lonar crater, India. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, doi: 10.1111/maps.12881.
Ray, D., Ghosh, S. and Murty, S.V.S. 2016a. On possible origin of troilite metal nodules in the Katol chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, doi:10.1111/maps.12742.
Murty, S.V.S., Ranjith Kumar, P.M., Ray, D., Ghosh, S., Chattopadhyay, B. and Shrivastava, K.L. 2016b. Microstructures, mineral chemistry, noble gases and nitrogen in the recent fall Bhuka iron (IAB) meteorite. Planetary and Space Science, 131, 119-127.
Ghosh, S., Ray, D. and Murty, S.V.S. 2016c. Raghunathpura: An early crystallized IIAB iron with sulphide micro nodules. Advances in Space Research 58, 1879-1892.
Ray, D., Ghosh, S. and Murty, S.V.S. 2015a. Shock-thermal history of Kavarpura IVA iron: Evidences from microtextutres and Ni profiling. Planetary and Space Science, 117, 136-145.
Courses Taught:
Planetary Geology, Terrestrial Impact Craters, Differentiated Asteroids, Geochemistry