Souvik Mitra

Assistant Professor

B.Sc.(Hons.) Geology , (Burdwan University, 2006)

M.Sc. Applied Geology, (Presidency College, 2008)

M.Tech. Earth and Environmental Sciences (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2010)

Ph.D. Planetary Science (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2017)

My doctoral work at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur was on Basalt weathering and Jarosite formation in Kachchh, India as a terrestrial analogue to Mars. After completion of the degree I joined BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, India in 2018 as an assistant professor in the department of Geology. I taught Mineralogy, Petrology, Engineering Geology and Indian Stratigraphy at that time. After 7 months of teaching there I joined Presidency University, Kolkata.

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Remote sensing and GIS in UG and PG level
Stratigraphy of India in UG level
Martian Geology in UG level
Igneous petrology (Practical) in UG level
Mineralogy (practical) in UG Level

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Chavan, A., Sarkar, S., Thakkar, A., Solanki, J., Jani, C., Bhandari, S., Bhattacharya S.,Desai B.G., Ray, D., Shukla A.D.,Sajinkumar K.S., Mitra, S.,Gupta S.,and Thakkar, M. G. (2022). Terrestrial Martian Analog Heritage of Kachchh Basin, Western India. Geoheritage, 14(1), 1-26.

Mitra, K., Mitra, S., Gupta, S., Bhattacharya, S., Chauhan, P. and Jain, N., 2018. Modelling basalt weathering at elevated CO2 concentrations: implications for terminal to post-magmatic rifting in the Deccan Traps, Kachchh, India. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 463(1), pp.227-241.

Mitra, S., Mitra, K., Gupta, S., Bhattacharya, S., Chauhan, P. and Jain, N., 2017. Alteration and submergence of basalts in Kachchh, Gujarat, India: implications for the role of the Deccan Traps in the India–Seychelles break-up. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445(1), pp.47-67.

Bhattacharya, S., Mitra, S., Gupta, S., Jain, N., Chauhan, P. and Parthasarathy, G., 2016. Jarosite occurrence in the Deccan Volcanic Province of Kachchh, western India: Spectroscopic studies on a Martian analog locality. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 121(3), pp.402-431.