Tiwari, A. K., Sarkar, T*, Karmakar, S., Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S. (2023). Long-lived high-grade metamorphism in southern India: Constraints from charnockites and sapphirine-bearing semipelitic granulites from the Madurai Block. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 41:1261–1297.
Talukdar, M*., Sarkar, T*., Sengupta, P. and Mukhopadhyay, D., 2022. The Southern Granulite Terrane, India: The saga of over 2 billion years of Earth's history. Earth-Science Reviews, p.104157.
Padmaja, J., Sarkar, T*., Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S., Das, N., Dasgupta, S. (2022). Petrochronological evolution of Mg-Al granulites and associated metapelites from the contact zone of the Archean Bastar Craton and Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Province, and its implications. Geosystems and Geoenvironment 1(4), p.100041.
Padmaja, J., Sarkar, T*., Dasgupta, S., Dash, J.K., Bhutani, R., Chauhan, H. (2021). High pressure granulite facies metamorphism at the interface of the Archean Bastar craton and the Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Precambrian Research.
Ray, S., Tiwari, A. K., Sarkar, T*. (2021). Ultrahigh-temperature mafic granulites from the Madurai Block, southern India: Constraints from conventional thermobarometry, pseudosection analysis, and rare earth element-based thermometry. Geological Journal 56 (7), p. 3720-3744
Chaudhury, J., Mitra, S*., Sarkar, T. (2021). Hales Discontinuity in the Southern Indian Continental Lithosphere: Seismological and Petrological Models. Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth 126, p. 1-21
Tiwari, A. K., Sarkar, T*. (2020). P-T-t evolution of sapphirine-bearing semipelitic granulites from Vadkampatti in Eastern Madurai Domain, southern India - Insights from petrography, pseudosection modelling and in-situ monazite geochronology. Precambrian Research 348, p. 1-25.
Sarkar, T*., Dubinina, E. O., Harris, C., Maier, W. D., & Mouri, H. (2018). Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks of komatiitic composition from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Evidence from O and H isotopes. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 147, 68-77.
Sarkar, T*., & Schenk, V. (2016). Early Mesoproterozoic (1.6–1.5 Ga) granulite facies events in the Ongole domain: geodynamic significance and global correlation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34(8), 765-784.
Sarkar, T*., & Mouri, H. (2016). Metamorphic evolution of ultramafic rocks of komatiitic composition from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology 2016, 119(3), 519-534.
Sarkar, T*., Schenk, V., & Berndt, J. (2015). Formation and evolution of a Proterozoic magmatic arc: geochemical and geochronological constraints from meta-igneous rocks of the Ongole domain, Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 169(1), 5.
Sarkar, T*., Schenk, V., Appel, P., Berndt, J., & Sengupta, P. (2014). Two-stage granulite formation in a Proterozoic magmatic arc (Ongole domain of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India): Part 2. LA-ICP-MS zircon dating and texturally controlled in-situ monazite dating. Precambrian Research, 255, 467-484.
Sarkar, T*., & Schenk, V. (2014). Two-stage granulite formation in a Proterozoic magmatic arc (Ongole domain of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India): Part 1. Petrology and pressure–temperature evolution. Precambrian Research, 255, 485-509.
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Sarkar, T*., Tiwari. A.K., Singha. A. (2023) Cryogenian tectonothermal events in the Madurai Block of the Southern Granulite Terrane, India: Characterization and implications. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria.
Tiwari. A.K.*, Sarkar, T., Sorcar. N., Mukherjee. M. (2023) Petrochronological appraisal on the timing and duration of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in southern India: Insights from charnockite and sapphirine bearing semipelitic granulite from the Madurai Block. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria.
Padmaja, J*., Sarkar, T., Dasgupta, S. (2023) Geodynamic significance of the Archean A-type granites exposed along the western margin of a Proterozoic orogenic belt: Insights on the final docking of the Eastern Ghats Belt with the Indian subcontinent. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria.
Singha, A., Tiwari, A. K., Sorcar, N., Mukherjee, S., & Sarkar, T. (2022). Petrochronological Evolution of Felsic and Metapelitic Granulites From the Northern Part of the Madurai Block: Implications for Ediacaran-Cambrian Orogenesis in the Southern Granulite Terrane, India. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. V42D-0106).
Padmaja, J*., Sarkar, T., Dasgupta, S. (2022) Occurrence of granulite facies metamorphosed Bastar cratonic rocks in the western margin of the Eastern Ghats Province: Implications from petrology and whole rock geochemistry of garnet-bearing charnockites. Goldschmidt Conference 2022 (Virtual).
Padmaja, J*., Sarkar, T., Dasgupta, S. and Bhutani, R. (2021) Underthrusting of the Archean Bastar Craton beneath Eastern Ghats Belt: Constraints from Distinct Metamorphic and Geochemical Signatures at the Craton-Orogenic Belt Boundary. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (Virtual)
Tiwari. A.K.*, Karmakar, S., Sarkar, T. (2021) Long lived high-grade metamorphism in southern India: Constraints from charnockites and sapphirine bearing semipelitic granulites from the Madurai Block. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (Virtual)
Padmaja, J*., Sarkar, T., Dasgupta, S., Bhutani, R. (2021). High-pressure granulite facies metamorphism of Archean Bastar craton at the interface of Eastern Ghats Belt, India: Implications for cratonic subduction/underthrusting. EGU General Assembly 2021 (Virtual), Geophysical Research Abstracts 2021, Vol. 23.
Chaudhury, J*., Mitra, S. and Sarkar, T. (2020). Imaging Hales Discontinuity beneath India: Seismological and Petrological Model. EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, Austria. Geophysical Research Abstracts 2020, Vol. 22.
Tiwari, A. and Sarkar, T* (2019). Pressure-Temperature-time evolution of sapphirine bearing semipelitic granulites from Eastern Madurai Domain: Insights from petrography, pseudosection modelling and monazite geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5.
Schenk, V*. and Sarkar, T. (2019). Paired metamorphic belts in the Usagaran orogen of Tanzania: evidence for one-sided oceanic subduction in the Palaeoproterozoic. 13th Eclogite conference, Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia. Abstracts volume 2019, pp. 73
Ray, S*. and Sarkar, T. (2019). Ultrahigh temperature (UHT) mafic granulites from South India: Comparison between temperature derived from REE-based thermometers and major element-based thermometers. EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria. Geophysical Research Abstracts 2019, Vol. 21.
Sarkar, T*., Dey, A., Mukherjee, S. (2017). Micro-textural studies of granulite-facies rocks from the Eastern Madurai Domain, Southern India: Evidence for decompression at high temperatures. Goldschmidt conference 2017, Paris, France. Goldschmidt Abstracts 2017, pp. 3510. (Poster presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Dey, A., Mukherjee, S. (2017). Formation of secondary feldspar by grain-scale fluid-rock interaction in high-grade rocks from the Granulite Terrane of South India. ‘Humboldt Kolleg’ on Earth and Material Science for Sustainable Societal Development, Raichak, West Bengal, India. (Poster presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Mouri, H., Maier, W.D., Dubinina, E.O. (2016). Metamorphic evolution and petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks of komatiitic composition from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa. (Oral presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Dey, A., Mukherjee, S., Mouri, H. (2016). Near-isothermal decompressive P-T path identified from micro- textural studies: Example from a suite of mafic granulite from the western part of Eastern Madurai Domain, Southern Granulite terrane, India. EMSI-2016, International conference on Electron Microscopy, Abstract volume, Varanasi, India. (Oral presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Schenk, V., Appel, P., Berndt, J., Sengupta P. (2014). A Palaeoproterozoic magmatic arc: Ongole domain of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2014. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.495. Vancouver, Canada (Oral presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Schenk, V., Berndt, J. (2013). Linking petrology with monazite and zircon geochronology: The polymetamorphic Ongole domain, Eastern Ghats Belt, India. DMG 2013. Geofluids: Lubricants of the Dynamic Earth, Tübingen. Abstracts volume, p. 257. (Oral presentation)
Sarkar, T*., Schenk, V. (2013). Correlating petrographic textures with monazite and zircon ages: The granulie-facies Ongole domain, Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Granulites and Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, India. In: Fitzsimons, I.C.W. and Clark, C. (eds.) Programs and Abstracts, p. 54. (Oral presentation)
Sarkar, T*., & Schenk, V. (2012). The granulite facies Ongole domain of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India–a Proterozoic island arc. EMC2012, Frankfurt, 311.
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