Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
📍 1F8, AB1
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Research Area
Economic Geology
Research Interests
We focus on the genetic links between granitic magmatism and metal enrichment in Earth’s crust. Our inquiry spans various stages in the ‘life cycle’ of metalliferous granites ranging from melt generation, through its geochemical evolution, till up to the terminal stage of granite crystallization involving exsolution of fluids. We look to uncover the vital roles each of these stages play in driving the enrichment of metals within the Earth’s crust. Driven by patterns between granite variants and ‘metal-package’ in associated ore systems, we attempt to shed light on the genetic factors and processes behind these associations. A key aspect of our research includes fluid inclusions – millions of years of old microscopic capsules of hydrothermal fluids entrapped in minerals. Through fluid inclusion studies we extract clues about past fluid activities in various crustal environments ranging up to lower crustal depths. Our recent and ongoing studies entails working out the auriferous potential of late Archean granites, and decoding the anatectic factors, fluid-rock reactions and fluid evolution liable to rare-metal fertility of granites and subsequent ore enrichment.
2015 - 2018 : DST-INSPIRE Faculty, University of Delhi
2019 - 2020 : Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
2014 - 2015 : Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
2008 - 2014 : PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
2006 - 2008 : Masters in Geology, M.S. University of Baroda
2003 - 2006 : B.Sc., M.S. University of Baroda
DST INSPIRE Faculty Award
Wiktoria Gmochowska, Richard Wirth, Ewa Słaby, Robert Anczkiewicz, Arkadiusz Krz{\ka}tała, Vladimir Roddatis, Jiř\'ı Sláma, Gabriela A Kozub-Budzyń, Sourabh Bhattacharya and Anja Schreiber. Hydrothermal alteration of accessory minerals (allanite and titanite) in the late Archean Closepet granitoid (Dharwar Craton, India): A TEM study. Geochemistry, page 126130, 2024.
Jitendra Kumar Roy, Aditya Naik and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Insights into the anatectic origin of granites parental to tungsten mineralization: A case study from the trans-Aravalli terrane, NW India. Resource Geology 74(1):e12327, 2024.
Jitendra Kumar Roy and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Records of fluid-rock interactions in the Degana tungsten deposit, India: Inferences from mineral paragenesis, whole-rock and mineral chemistry, and fluid inclusions. Ore Geology Reviews 143:104804, 2022.
Pritam P Paul, Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Fumito Shiraishi, Kaushik Das, Atsushi Kamei and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Clue on ocean redox condition from trace element and rare earth element (REE) composition of iron formation and carbonate rocks from the late Paleoproterozoic Morar Formation, Gwalior Group, central India. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 115(2):175–191, 2020.
Dinesh Pandit, Sourabh Bhattacharya and Mruganka K Panigrahi. Dissecting through the metallogenic potentials of Precambrian granitoids: case studies from the Bastar and Eastern Dharwar Cratons, India. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 489(1):157–188, 2020.
Sarangi Srinivasan George Singh Bhattacharya S R B G S K S Kesarwani M. and V N Vasudev.. Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints with example from the Dharwar craton, southern India. Ore Geology Reviews 107:754–779, 2019.
Sourabh Bhattacharya and Mruganka K Panigrahi. Volatiles associated with granitoid intrusives around orogenic gold deposits in Ramagiri and Penakacherla regions of Eastern Dharwar Craton, South India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 90:569–576, 2017.
SK Swain, S Sarangi, R Srinivasan, A Sarkar, S Bhattacharya, SC Patel, RM Pasayat and RH Sawkar. Isotope (C and O) composition of auriferous quartz carbonate veins, central lode system, Gadag Gold Field, Dharwar Craton, India: Implications to source of ore fluids. Ore Geology Reviews 70:305–320, 2015.
Sourabh Bhattacharya and MK Panigrahi. Source of ore fluid in lode gold deposits of Eastern Dharwar Craton: an intricate issue. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 95(2):173–186, 2015.
Sourabh Bhattacharya. Granitic Magmatism and Late-Stage Fluid Activity Vis-A-Vis.... 2015.
Sourabh Bhattacharya and M K Panigrahi. Physicochemical characterization of Archean granitic hydrothermal systems vis-a-vis lode gold mineralization: insights from eastern Dharwar craton, south India. In Magmatism, Tectonism and Mineralization (Indian Association of Gondwana Research Conference Series) 18. 2014, 98–99.
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Mruganka K Panigrahi and M Jayananda. Mineral thermobarometry and fluid inclusion studies on the Closepet granite, Eastern Dharwar Craton, south India: Implications to emplacement and evolution of late-stage fluid. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 91:1–18, 2014.
Sourabh Bhattacharya, MK Panigrahi, HK Sachan and Aditya Kharya. Oxygen isotope ratio of quartz veins from the auriferous Ramagiri–Penakacherla schist belt and surrounding granitoids in the Eastern Dharwar craton: A case for a possible link between gold mineralization and granite magmatism. Ore Geology Reviews 63:201–208, 2014.
S Bhattacharya and MK Panigrahi. Fluid Stratification in the Dharwar Crust - insights from Closepet Granite. In Asian Conference on Research in Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI-IV), Xi'an, China. 2014.
Sourabh Bhattacharya and MK Panigrahi. Fluid regime in the Ramagiri-Penakacherla Granite-Greenstone ensemble of Eastern Dharwar Craton: Implications for gold metallogeny. In Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI IV), Brisbane, Australia. 2012, 7–8.
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Panigrahi M.K. and M Jayananda. Fluid inclusion characteristics in parts of the Closepet granite, Dharwar craton, south India. In International Symposium on Precambrian Accretionary Orogens, New Delhi. 2011, 8–10.
Dhananjay A Sant, Sudesh K Wadhawan, Rajinder K Ganjoo, Nathani Basavaiah, Prabhin Sukumaran and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Linkage of paraglacial processes from last glacial to recent inferred from Spituk sequence, Leh valley, Ladakh Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India 78:147–156, 2011.
Dhananjay A Sant, Sudesh K Wadhawan, Rajinder K Ganjoo, Nathani Basavaiah, Prabhin Sukumaran and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Morphostratigraphy and palaeoclimate appraisal of the Leh valley, Ladakh Himalayas, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 77:499–510, 2011.
S Bhattacharya and MK Panigrahi. Heterogeneity in fluid characteristics in the Ramagiri–Penakacherla sector of the Eastern Dharwar Craton: implications to gold metallogeny. Russian Geology and Geophysics 52(11):1436–1447, 2011.
M K Panigrahi and Sourabh Bhattacharya. Heterogeneity in fluid characteristics in the granite-greenstone ensemble of the Eastern Dharwar Craton: a synoptic view. In Asian Conference on Research in Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI-III), Novosibirsk, Russia. 2010, 162–163.
S Bhattacharya, J Roy and S Sinha. Effect of seasonal variation in temperature on coal flotation. XIV ICPC, pages 359–364, 2002.
Jitendra Roy, Sourabh Bhattacharya, P Chakrawarti and Mahesh More. Mineral paragenesis, geochemical changes and fluid evolution vis-à-vis greisenization at Degana tungsten deposit, India. .