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2023
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2023
  1. Arya, P.C., Nambaje, C., Kiran, S., Satish-Kumar, M., Sajeev, K. (2023) Himalayan magnesite records abrupt cyanobacterial growth that plausibly triggered the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event, Precambrian Research, Volume 395, 107129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107129.

  2. Athira, P.G., Sajeev, K., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., George , P.M., Zhai, M. G., Zhou, L.G., Wijeratne, G., Dharmapriya, P.L., Windley , B. F. Ayisha V.A. (2023) U-Pb ages of detrital zircon and monazite from beach placers in Sri Lanka: implications for configuration of the Columbia supercontinent. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 105668, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105668

  3. Athira, P.G., Sajeev, K., George , P.M., Zhai, M. G., Zhou, L.G., Razakamanana, T., Windley , B. F. Ayisha V.A. (2021) Tracing remnants of Ediacaran S-type granitoids from beach placers in SE Madagascar. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36176.1

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2022
  1. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K., Satish-Kumar, M., Williams, I.S., Wilde, S.A., Hokada T., Windley B.F. (2022) Paleo- to Mesoarchean crustal growth in the Karwar 1 block, southern India: Constraints on TTG genesis and Archean tectonics. American Journal of Science 322, 108-162 (10.2475/02.2022.02).

  2. Bala, P.R.+, Kavil, S.P., Tayasu, I., Yoshimizu, C., Thirumalai, K., Sajeev, K., Sukumar, R. (2022) Paleovegetation dynamics in an alternative stable states landscape in the montane Western Ghats, India. The Holocene, 32, 297-307.

  3. Basu, P., Ishwar-Kumar, C., Chaudhary, S., Chakrabarti, R., Satish-Kumar, M., Sajeev, K. (2023) Major, trace element, and Nd isotopic compositions of banded iron formation and shales from the Sirsi shelf, Dharwar Craton, India: Implications for paleo-seawater chemistry, post-depositional alteration, and provenance. Precambrian Research, 382, 106882

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2021​

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  1. ​Ao, W., Zhai, M., Zhao, Y., Zhang, C., Sun, Y., George, P.M.+, Sajeev, K., Gou, L., Lu, J. and Hu, Y. (2021) Paleo-Mesoarchean crustal growth and reworking in the western Dharwar Craton, southwestern India: Evidence from trondhjemitic gneiss and granitic gneiss. Precambrian Research, 367, 106428.

  2. Nambaje, C., Satish-Kumar, M., Williams, I.S., Takahashi, T., Sajeev, K. (2021) Granitic rocks from Rwanda: Vital clues to the tectonic evolution of the Karagwe–Ankole Belt, Lithos, 106490.

  3. Athira, P.G. +, Sajeev, K., Dunkley, D.J., George, P.M. +, Zhai, M., Zhou, L., Ayisha, V.A. (2021) Beach placers of southwestern India: An archive of Precambrian supercontinent growth histories. Precambrian Research, 364, 106342.

  4. Zhao, Y., Zhai, M., Zhang, C., Sun, Y., Gou, L., Lu, J., Sajeev, K., George, P.M. +, Ao, W., Hu, Y., Xu, A. (2021) Zircon-monazite geochronology and P-T evolution of the Sargur Greenstone Belt: Implications for the end-Archean tectonics of the Dharwar Craton in southern India. Precambrian Research, 364, 106384.

  5. Sajeev, K. (2021) The Tectonic and Metamorphic Perspective of Southern Granulite Terrane, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 97, p. 1112.

  6. Durgalakshmi, Sajeev, K., Williams, I.S., Harinadha Reddy, D.+, Satish-Kumar, M., Jöns, N., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Samuel, V.O.+, George, P.M.+ (2021) The timing, duration and conditions of UHT metamorphism in remnants of the former eastern Gondwana, Journal of Petrology (in press) https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egab068

  7. Thanooja, P.V., Williams, I.S., Satish-Kumar, M ., Durgalakshmi+, Zhai, M.G., Oh, C.W., Windley, B.F., Sajeev, K. (2021) Were South India, the North China Craton, and the Korean Peninsula contiguous in a Neoarchaean supercontinent? New geochemical and isotopic constraints Lithos, 106294.

  8. Chikkanna, A., Ghosh, D., Sajeev, K. (2021) Bio-weathering of granites from Eastern Dharwar Craton (India): a tango of bacterial metabolism and mineral chemistry. Biogeochemistry, 153, 303-322

  9. John, B., Singh, Y., Rao, D.T., Barman, M.C., Pradeepkumar, A.P., Sajeev, K. (2021) Observation on Rock Melt Extrusion Occurrence in Southern Part of Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 97, 119-124.

  10. Satish-Kumar, M., Shirakawa, M., Imura, A., Otsuji-Makino, N., Imanaka-Nohara, R ., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Fitzsimons, I.C.W.,  Sajeev, K.,  Grantham, G.H., Windley, B.F., Hokada, T., Takahashi, T., Shimoda, G., Goto, K.T. (2021) A geochemical and isotopic perspective on tectonic setting and depositional environment of Precambrian meta-carbonate rocks in collisional orogenic belts. Gondwana Research 96, 163-204.

  11. He, H-L., Wang, Y., George. P.M.+, Sajeev, K., Guo, J., Zhai, M.G. (2021) Formation of ~2.5 Ga Sittampundi anorthosite complex in southern India: Implications to lower crustal stabilization of Dharwar Craton. Precambrian Research, 354, 105914.

  12. Silpa, S.A., Satish–Kumar, M., Takazawa, E., Sajeev, K. (2021) Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of clinopyroxene in mafic dykes from Western Dharwar craton, southern India. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 116, 108-112.

  13. Nambaje, C., Williams, I.S., Sajeev, K. 2021 SHRIMP U-Pb dating of cassiterite: Insights into the timing of Rwandan tin mineralisation and associated tectonic processes. Ore Geology Reviews, 104185.

  14. He, H-L., Zhang, C., Zhai, M., Lu, J., George, P.M.+, Sajeev, K., Rajkumar, P., Zhao, Y., Ao, W.,  Gou, L., Hu, Y. (2021) Lower crust-mantle interactions in the massif-type anorthosite formation: New evidence from zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes of the Neoproterozoic Kadavur Complex, South India. Lithos, 380–381, 105836.

  15. Wang, Y., Zhai, M.G., Hailong, H., George. P.M.+, Sajeev, K., Jiao, S., Liu, B., Guo, J. (2021) Incipient charnockite formation in the Trivandrum Block, southern India: Evidence from melt-related reaction textures and phase equilibria modelling. Lithos 380–381, 105825, 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105825.

  16. Nambaje, C.,  Mweene, L., Subramanian, S., Sajeev, K., Santosh, M. (2021) Xanthan gum based investigations into the surface chemistry of cassiterite and beneficiation of cassiterite tailings. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 10.1080/08827508.2020.1825957

  17. Dharmapriya, P., Malaviarachchi, S.P. K., Galli, A., Kriegsman, L. M., Osanai, Y., Sajeev, K., Su, B-X., Tsunogae, T., Zhang, C., Adachi, T., Dissanayake, C.B., Subasinghe, N.D. (2021) Hybrid Phase Equilibria Modelling with Conventional and Trace Element Thermobarometry to Assess the P-T Evolution of UHT Granulites: An Example from the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 39, 209-246.

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2020

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  1. He, H-L., Wang, Y-Q, Bao Z-A., George, P.M.+, Veni, S.+, Sajeev, K., Guo J-H., Zhai M. G., Lai C. K. (2020) Role of magma injection and mixing in the formation of chromitite in Archean anorthosites: Evidence from the Sittampundi Complex, southern India. Precambrian Research, 350, 105914.

  2. Nambaje, C.+,  Williams, I.S., Satish-Kumar, M., Sajeev, K. (2020) Direct evidence for Archean crust in the Western Domain of the Karagwe Ankole Belt, Rwanda: Implications for Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution. Precambrian Research, 350, 105851.

  3. Dharmapriya, P., Malaviarachchi, S.P. K..  Kriegsman, L. M.,  Galli, A., Dyck, B., Sajeev, K., Su, B-X., Pitawala, A. (2020) Symplectite growth in the presence of alkaline fluids: evidence from high-aluminous metasediments of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka. Mineralogy and Petrology, 114, 515–538.

  4. Nambaje, C.+,  Eggins, S.M., Yaxley, G.M., Sajeev, K. (2020) Micro-characterisation of cassiterite by geology, texture and zonation: A case study of the Karagwe Ankole Belt, Rwanda, Ore Geology Reviews, 124, 103609.

 

2019

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  1. George, P.M.+, Sajeev, K., Santosh, M., Zhai, M., (2019) Granulite-grade garnet pyroxenite from the Kolli-massif, southern India: Implications for Archean crustal evolution. Lithos, 342-343, 499–512.

  2. Samuel, V.O.+, Harlov, D.E., Kwon, S., Sajeev, K. (2019) Silicate, Oxide and Sulphide Trends in Neo-Archean Rocks from the Nilgiri Block, southern India: The Role of Fluids During High-Grade Metamorphism. Journal of Petrology, 60, 1027–1062.

  3. Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Bindusaraa, S., Dharmapriya, P.L., Su, B-C., Su, L., Su, B-X., Zhang, H., Sajeev, K., Sakyi, P.A., Alemayehu, M., (2019) U-Pb geochronology of zircons from river sediments in Sri Lanka: Implications on early Archean to late Cambrian magmatism and episodic crustal growth. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 171, 388–412.

 

2018

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  1. Li, S-S., Santosh, M., Ganguly, S., Thanooja, P.V.+, Sajeev, K., Pahari, A., Manikayamba, C. (2018) Neoarchean microblock amalgamation in southern India: Evidence from the Nallamalai Suture Zone. Precambrian Research, 314, 1–27.

  2. Prabhakaran, D.C., Sajeev K., Rammurthy, P.C., Sivry, Y., Quantin, C., Subramanian, S. (2018) Utility of Chromobacterium violaceum SUK1a, an indigenous bacterial isolate for bioremediation of Cr(VI). Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing, 54, 1266–1281.

  3. Samuel, V.O.+, Kwon, S., Santosh, M., Sajeev, K. (2018) Garnet pyroxenite from Nilgiri Block, southern India: vestiges of a Neoarchean volcanic arc. Lithos, 310-311, 120–135.

  4. Guruprasad Y. K., Ramaswamy, A., Sajeev, K. (2018) Thermal Effect on Micro Properties of Granite Aggregate in Concrete. ACI Materials Journal, 115, 77–88.

  5. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Rajesh, V.J., Windley, B,F., Razakamanana, T., Itaya, T., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., Sajeev, K. (2018) Chromite chemistry as an indicator of petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Ranomena ultramafic complex in north-eastern Madagascar. Geological Magazine 155, 109–118.

  6. Guitreau, M., Mukasa, S.B., Loudin, L., Sajeev, K. (2018) New constraints on the early formation of the Western Dharwar Craton (India) from igneous zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes. Precambrian Research, 302, 33–49.

 

2017

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  1. Dharmapriya, P.L., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Kriegsman, L.M., Galli, A., Sajeev, K., Zhang, C. (2017) New constraints on the P-T path of HT/UHT metapelites from the Highland Complex of Sri Lanka, Geoscience Frontiers, 8, 1405–1430.

  2. Dharmapriya, P.L., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Kriegsman, L.M., Sajeev, K., Galli, A., Osanai, Y., Subasinghe, N.D., Dissanayake, C.B. (2017) Distinct metamorphic evolution of alternating silica-saturated and silica-deficient microdomains within garnet in ultrahigh-temperature granulites: An example from Sri Lanka, Geoscience Frontiers, 8, 1115–1133.

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2016​

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  1. Osanai, Y., Sajeev, K., Nakano, N., Kitano, I., Kehelpannala, W.K.V., Kato, R., Adachi, T., Malaviarachichi, S.P.K., (2016) UHT granulites of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka 1: Geological and petrological back ground, Journal of mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 111, 145–156.

  2. Osanai, Y., Sajeev, K., Nakano, N., Kitano, I., Kehelpannala, W.K.V., Kato, R., Adachi, T., Malaviarachichi, S.P.K., (2016) UHT granulites of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka II: Geochronological constraints and implications for Gondwana correlation, Journal of mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 111, 145–156.

  3. Saha, D., Bhowmik, S.K., Bose, S., Sajeev, K., (2016) Proterozoic Tectonic and Trans – Indian Mobile Belt: A status Report, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 82, 445-460.

  4. Dharmapriya, P.L., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Sajeev, K., Zhang, C. (2016) New LA-ICPMS U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Highland Complex: insights into late Cryogenian to early Cambrian (ca. 665–535 Ma) linkage between Sri Lanka and India. International Geology Review, 58, 1856-1883.

  5. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Rajesh, V,J., Windley, B,F., Razakamanana, T., Itaya, T., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., Sajeev, K.,  (2016) Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Bondla ultrmafic – mafic complex, Western India: Inferences from chromian spinel chemistry, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 130, 192-205.

  6. Singh, M., Rajesh, V,J., Sajinkumar, K.S., Sajeev, K., Kumar, S.N. (2016) Spectral and chemical characterization of jarosite in a palaeolacustrine depositional environment in Warkalli Formation in Kerala, South India and its implications. Spectrochimica Acta part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 168, 86 – 97.

  7. Bala, P. R.+, Nakamura, T., Sajeev, K., Sukumar, R. (2016) High-resolution age-depth chronology from tropical montaneminerotrophic peat in the Sandynallah valley, Western Ghats, southern India: Analytical issues and implications. Quaternary Geochronology, 34, 12-23.

  8. Samuel, V.O.+, Santosh, M., Yang, Q.Y., Sajeev, K. (2016) Geochemistry and zircon geochronology of the Neoarchean volcano-sedimentary sequence along the northern margin of the Nilgiri Block, southern India. Lithos, 263, 257-273.

  9. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Santosh, M., Wilde, S. A., Tsunogae, T., Itaya, T., Windley, B.F., Sajeev, K. (2016) Mesoproterozoic suturing of Archean crustal blocks in western peninsular India: Implications for India–Madagascar correlations. Lithos, 263, 143-160.

  10. Ratheesh-Kumar, R. T.+, Santosh, M., Yang, Q.Y., Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Chen, N.S., Sajeev, K. (2016) Archean tectonics and crustal evolution of the Biligiri Rangan Block, southern India. Precambrian Research, 275, 406 -428.

 

2015

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  1. Dharmapriya, P.L., Malaviarachchi, S.P., Santosh, M., Tang, L., Sajeev, K. (2015) Late-Neoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka, Precambrian Research, 271, 311-333.

  2. Shazia, J.R.+, Harlov, D.E., Suzuki, K., Kim, S.W. Girish-Kumar, M. Hayasaka, Y., Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Windley, B.F., Sajeev, K. (2015) Linking monazite geochronology with fluid infiltration and metamorphic histories: nature and experiment, Lithos, 236-237, 1-15.

  3. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F., Kusky, T.M., Feng, P., Ratheesh-Kumar, R.T.+, Huang, Y. Zhang, Y., Jiang, X., Razakamanana, T., Yagi, K., Itaya, T. (2015) Evolution of high-pressure mafic granulites and pelitic gneisses from NE Madagascar: Tectonic implications, Tectonophysics, 662, 219-242.

  4. Samuel, V.O.+, Sajeev, K., Hokada, T., Horie, K., Itaya, T. (2015) Neoarchean arc magmatism followed by high-temperature, high-pressure metamorphism in the Nilgiri Block, southern India. Tectonophysics, 662, 109-124.

  5. Ratheesh-Kumar, R. T.+, Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Windley, B. F., Razakamanana, T., Nair, R. R., Sajeev, K. (2015) India–Madagascar paleo-fit based on flexural isostasy of their rifted margins. Gondwana Research, 28, 581-600.

  6. George. P.M.+, Sajeev, K. (2015) Crustal Evolution of Kolli-Massif, Southern India. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 96, 187-202.

  7. George, P.M.+, Santosh, M., Chen, N., Nandakumar, V., Itaya, T., Sonali, M.K., Smruti, R.P., Sajeev, K. (2015) Cryogenian magmatism and crustal reworking in the Southern Granulite Terrane, India. International Geology Review, 57, 112–133.

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2014

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  1. Bhattacharya, S.+, Santosh, M., Zhang, Z., Huang, H., Banerjee, A.+, George, P.M., Sajeev, K. (2014) Imprints of Archean to Neoproterozoic crustal processes in the Madurai block, Southern India: Hf isotope perspective from zircons. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 88, 1-10.

  2. Samuel, V.O.+, Santosh, M., Liu, S., Wang, W., Sajeev, K. (2014) Neoarchean continental growth through arc magmatism in the Nilgiri Block, southern India. Precambrian Research, 245, 146-173.

  3. Ratheesh Kumar, R.T.+, Windley, B.F., Sajeev, K. (2014) Tectonic inheritance of the Indian Shield: New insights from its elastic thickness structure. Tectonophysics, 615-616, 40-52.

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2013

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  1. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Windley, B.F., Horie, K., Kato, T. Hokada, T. Itaya, T., Yagi, K., Gouzu, C.,  Sajeev, K. (2013) A Rodinian suture in western India: New insights on India-Madagascar correlations. Precambrian Research, 236, 227-251.

  2. Banerjee, A.+, Bhattacharya, S.+, Sajeev, K., Santosh M. (2013) Numerical simulations of CO2 migration during charnockite genesis. Geology, 41, 743-746.

  3. Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F., Hegner, E., Komiya, T. (2013) High-temperature, high-pressure granulites (retrogressed eclogites) in the central region of the Lewisian, NW Scotland: crustal-scale subduction in the Neoarchaean. Gondwana Research, 23, 526-538.

  4. Dharma Rao, C.V., Santosh, M., Sajeev, K., Windley B.F. (2013) Chromite–silicate chemistry of the Neoarchaean Sittampundi Complex, southern India: Implications for subduction-related arc magmatism. Precambrian Research, 227, 259-275.

  5. Samuel, V.O.+, Sajeev, K., Gouzu, C., Itaya, T. (2013) EPMA analysis on mafic granulites of Archean Nilgiri Block, southern India. Okayama University of Science, Science Reports, 39, 29-30.

  6. Ishwar-Kumar, C.+, Sajeev, K., Gouzu, C., Itaya, T. (2013) Electron Microprobe Analysis of Quartz-phengite schist from Kumta suture, western India. Okayama University of Science, Science Reports, 39, 31-30.

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2012

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  1. Belyanin, G., Rajesh, H.M., Sajeev, K., van Reenen, D.D. (2012) Orthopyroxene + sillimanite predating sapphirine + quartz: A rare case of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism from the Central Zone, Limpopo Complex, South Africa. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1153-1163.

  2. Shazia, J.R.+, Santosh, M., Sajeev, K. (2012) Peraluminous sapphirine-cordierite pods in Mg-rich orthopyroxene granulite from southern India: Implications for lower crustal processes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 58, 88-97.

  3. Belyanin, G., Rajesh, H.M., Sajeev, K., van Reenen, D.D. (2012) Ultrahigh temperature metamorphism from an unusual corundum + orthopyroxene intergrowth bearing Al-Mg granulite from the Southern Marginal Zone, Limpopo Complex, South Africa. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 164, 457-475.

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2011

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  1. Thanh, N.X., Sajeev, K., Itaya, T., Windley, B.F. (2011) Multiple garnet growth in garnet–kyanite–staurolite gneiss, Pangong metamorphic complex, Ladakh Himalaya: New constraints on tectonic setting. Lithos, 127, 552-563.

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2010

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  1. Sajeev, K., Williams, I.S., Osanai, Y. (2010) Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe U-Pb dating of prograde and retrograde ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism as exemplified by Sri Lankan granulites. Geology, 11, 971-974.

  2. Sajeev, K., Kawai, T., Omori, S., Windley, B.F., Maruyama S. (2010) P-T evolution of Glenelg eclogites, NW Scotland: Did they experience ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism? Lithos, 114, 473-489.

  3. Sajeev, K., Jeong. J., Kwon, S., Kee, W-S., Kim. S.W., Komiya, T., Itaya, T., Jung, H-S., Park, Y. (2010) High P-T granulite relicts from the Imjingang belt, South Korea: tectonic significance. Gondwana Research, 17, 75-86.

  4. Nakano, N., Osanai, Y., Sajeev, K., Hayasaka, Y., Miyamoto, T., Minh, N. T., Owada, M., Windley, B.F. (2010) Triassic eclogite from northern Vietnam: inferences and geological significance. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28, 59-76.

 

2009

  1. Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F., Connolly J.A.D., Kon, Y. (2009) Retrogressed eclogite (20 kbar, 1020ºC) from the Neoproterozoic Palghat-Cauvery suture zone, southern India.  Precambrian Research, 171, 23-36.

  2. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y. Kon, Y., Itaya, T. (2009) Stability of pargasite during ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: a consequence of titanium- and REE- partitioning? American Mineralogist, 94, 535–545.

  3. Santosh, M., Sajeev, K., Li, J.H., Liu, S.J., Itaya T. (2009) Counterclockwise exhumation of a hot orogen: The Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature granulites in the North China Craton. Lithos, 110, 140–152.

  4. Kwon, S., Sajeev, K., Mitra, G., Park, Y., Kim, S.W., Ryu, I-C. (2009) Evidence for Permo-Triassic collision in Far East Asia: The Korean collisional orogen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 279, 340-349.

  5. Thanh, N.X., Itaya T., Sajeev, K., Ahmad, T., Kojuma, S., Ohtani, T.,  Ehiro, M. (2009) K-Ar ages of biotite and muscovite from Pangong metamorphic complex, Shyok suture zone, India, Implications for the youngest post-collision metamorphic event in Ladakh Himalaya. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 104, 188-191.

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2007

  1. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y., Connolly, J.A.D., Suzuki, S. Ishioka, J., Kagami, H., Rino S. (2007) Extreme Crustal Metamorphism during a Neoproterozoic Event in Sri Lanka: A Study of Dry Mafic Granulites. Journal of Geology, 115, 563–582.

  2. Collins, A.S., Clark, C, Sajeev, K., Santosh, M., Kelsey D. E., Hand M. (2007) Passage through India: The Mozambique Ocean suture, high pressure granulites and the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone System. Terra Nova, 19, 141-147.

 

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2006

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  1. Sajeev, K., Santosh, M., Kim, H.S. (2006) Partial melting and P-T evolution of the Kodaikanal Metapelite Belt, southern India. Lithos, 92, 465–483.

  2. Santosh, M., Sajeev K. (2006) Anticlockwise evolution of ultrahigh-temperature granulites within continental collision zone in southern India. Lithos, 92, 447–464.

  3. Sajeev, K., Santosh, M. (2006) An unusual high-Mg Garnet-Spinel-Orthopyroxenite from southern India: evidence for ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism at high pressure conditions. Geological Magazine, 143, 923–932.

  4. Santosh, M. Sajeev, K., Li, J. (2006) Extreme crustal metamorphism during Columbia supercontinent assembly: Evidence from North China Craton. Gondwana Research, 10, 256–266.

  5. Osanai, Y., Sajeev, K., Owada, M., Kehelpannala, K.V.W., Prame, W.K.B.  Nakano, N., Jayatileke, S. (2006) Metamorphic evolution of ultrahigh-temperature and high-pressure granulites from Highland Complex, Sri Lanka. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 28, 20–37.

  6. Kim, S W., Oh, C.W., Ryu, I. C., Williams, I.S., Sajeev, K., Santosh, M. Rajesh V.J. (2006) Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanism in the Okcheon Belt, South Korea, and its comparison with the Nanhua Rift, South China: implications for rifting in Rodinia. Journal of Geology, 114, 717-733.

  7. Oh, C.W., Sajeev, K., Kim, S.W., Kwon, Y.W. (2006) Mangerite magmatism associated with a probable late-Permian to Triassic Hongseong-Odesan Collision Belt in South Korea. Gondwana Research, 9, 95–105.

 

2005

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  1. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y. (2005) Thermal gradients in the Sri Lankan granulite terrane: a garnet–biotite thermometric approach. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 383–397.

  2. Oh, C.W., Kim S.W., Choi, S.G., Zhai, M., Guo, J., Sajeev, K. (2005) First finding of eclogite facies metamorphic event in South Korea and its correlation with the Dabie-Sulu collision belt in China. Journal of Geology, 113, 226-232.

 

2004

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  1. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y. (2004) Ultrahigh-temperature Metamorphism (1150° C and 12 kbar) and Multi-stage Evolution of Mg-Al Granulites from Central Highland Complex, Sri Lanka. Journal of Petrology, 45, 1821-1844.

  2. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y., Santosh, M. (2004) Ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism followed by two-stage decompression of garnet-orthopyroxene-sillimanite granulites from Ganguvarpatti, Madurai block, southern India. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 148, 29-46.

  3. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y. (2004) 'Osumilite' and 'spinel+quartz' from Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: a case of cooling and decompression after ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 99, 320-327.

  4. Tamashiro, I., Santosh, M., Sajeev, K., Morimoto, T., Tsunogae, T. (2004) Multistage orthopyroxene formation in ultrahigh-temperature granulites of Ganguvarpatti, southern India: implication for complex metamorphic evolution during Gondwana assembly. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 99, 279-297.

 

2001

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  1. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y., Santosh, M. (2001) Ultrahigh-temperature stability of sapphirine and kornerupine in Ganguvarpatti granulite, Madurai block, Southern India. Gondwana Research, 4, 762-766.

  2. Osanai, Y., Owada, M., Tsunogae, T., Toyoshima, T., Hokada, T., Long, T.V., Sajeev, K., Nakano, N. (2001) Ultrahigh-temperature pelitic granulite from Kontum massif, central Vietnam: Evidence for east Asian juxtaposition at ca. 250 Ma. Gondwana Research, 4, 720-723.

 

Publications in non-ISI Journals during 2001-2010:

  1. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y., Suzuki. S., Kagami, H. (2003) Geochronological evidence for multistage-metamorphic events in ultrahigh-temperature granulites from central Highland Complex, Sri Lanka. Polar Geosciences, 16, 138-149.

  2. Shabeer, K.P., Sajeev, K., Okudaira, T. Santosh, M. (2002) Two stage spinel generation in the high-grade metapelites of central Kerala Khondalite Belt: Implication for prograde P-T path. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University, 45, 29-43.

  3. Sajeev, K., Osanai, Y. (2003) Geology of high- to ultrahigh-temperature granulites from central Madurai block, southern India; with emphasis on the evolution of Grt-Opx-Crd granulite. Okayama University Science Reports, 9, 1-8.

  4. Sajeev, K., Itaya, T., Santosh, M. (2006) Geology of southern Indian Granulite Terrane: A preliminary report of the 2005 field survey. Okayama University of Science, Science Reports, 31, 9-16.

 

International Symposia / conference abstracts:

  1. Sajeev, K., Veni, S., Windley, B.F. 2020.  Layered chromitite: a signpost towards a hydrated magma chamber in the Archean. Goldschmidt Conference 21-26 June. 

  2. Veni, S., Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F. 2020.  Peraluminous minerals from Chromite layers in the Fiskenæsset Complex, Greenland. Goldschmidt Conference 21-26 June.

  3. Hailong, H., George, P.M., Sajeev, K., Zhai M-G. 2020.Role of melt injection and mixing in formation of Archean chromitite in anorthosites: Evidence from the Sittampundi anorthosite complex, southern India. Goldschmidt Conference 21-26 June.

  4. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I. S., Sajeev, K. 2020. Gabbroic to granitic crust formation at the Archaean-Proterozoic boundary and its metamorphic evolution, southern India. Goldschmidt Conference 21-26 June.

  5. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I.S., Sajeev, K., Harinadha Reddy, D., Satish-Kumar, M. 2019.  Timing and evolution of UHT metamorphism in eastern Gondwana. JSPS-DST Japan India Forum for Advanced Study. 7-16 March.

  6. Samuel, V.O., Harlov, D.E., Kwon, S., Sajeev, K. 2019. Characteristics of granulite facies metamorphism followed by arc magmatism in Nilgiri Block, southern India. JSPS-DST Japan India Forum for Advanced Study. 7-16 March.

  7. Samuel, V.O., Harlov, D.E, Kwon, S., Sajeev, K. 2019. Neoarchean continental crust formation and metamorphism- An example from southern India. KSEG Conference, South Korea. Jeju, South Korea 23-27 September.

  8. Thanooja, P.V., Satish-Kumar, M., Williams, I. S., Sajeev, K. 2019. Chronological and geochemical characterization of charnockite from the type locality. 9th International SHRIMP workshop, Korea. Vol. 1, pp. 73.

  9. Thanooja, P.V., Sajeev, K. 2018.  2.5 Ga crustal growth and Granulite grade metamorphism in southern India: Implications on supercontinent reconstruction. International Symposium on the granulite facies metamorphism and the early plate tectonics. 23-25 October. Laiyang, Shandong Province, China. Vol. 1, pp. 83.

  10. Sajeev, K. 2018.  UHT metamorphism and tectonic models of Eastern Gondwana: problems and possibilities. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 20-24 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  11. Sajeev, K. 2018. Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) 9th International SHRIMP Workshop. Ochang Centre, Korea Basic Science Institute, 9th to 20th September.

  12. Thanooja, P.V., Harlov, D.E., Sajeev, K. 2017. Petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of Madras Block, southern India. JPGU-AGU Joint Meeting 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  13. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I. S., Satish-Kumar, M., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Sajeev, K. 2017.  Timing of UHT metamorphism in eastern Gondwana. JPGU-AGU Joint Meeting 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  14. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I. S., Satish-Kumar, M., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Sajeev, K. 2017. P-T-t Evolution of Ultrahigh-temperature granulites from eastern Gondwana. UGC-SAP-DRS II & CTESS Seminar, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

  15. Mubarish, T., Sajeev, K., Kawakami, T. 2017.  Significance of corona textures in ultra-high temperature metamorphic assemblages: A study between south-Indian and east- Antarctican sections. JPGU-AGU Joint Meeting 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  16. Samuel, V.O., Harlov, D.E., Kwon, S., Sajeev, K. 2017. Composition and Redox Potential of High-Grade Fluids: An Example from the Nilgiri Block, Southern India. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA. 11-15 December. www. agu.org. V31D-04.

  17. Harlov, D.E., Samuel, V.O., Sajeev, K. 2017. Silicate, oxide, and sulfide trends in granulite-facies neo-Archean rocks from the Nilgiri Block, S India. Goldschmidt, Paris, FRANCE. 13-18 August. 06L.

  18. Sajeev, K. 2017. Garnet granulites from the Palghat-Cauvery suture zone, southern India: indications of high-temperature Gondwana suture. JPGU-AGU Joint Meeting 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  19. Momoko S., Satish-Kumar, M., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Sajeev, K., Grantham, G.H. 2017. Sr isotope chemostratigraphy of metacarbonate rocks from East Gondwana; Implications for depositional environments and correlations. JPGU-AGU Joint Meeting 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  20. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I. S., Samuel, V.O., Rajesh, V.J., Sajeev, K. 2016. HT-UHT metamorphism of the Kerala Khondalite Belt: Complexity and interpretations. International Association for Gondwana Research.

  21. Sajeev, K. 2016.  Implications of Zn-Spinel + quartz association during high-grade metamorphic rocks of Trivandrum Block, southern India. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 22-26 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  22. Thanooja, P.V., Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K. 2015. Geology and petrography of major rock types from Madras Block, southern India. Shear Zones and Crustal Blocks of southern India, 3rd UGC SAP DRS II Seminar and talks of the current trends in Earth System Sciences (CTESS2015), Dept of Geology, University of Kerala. Vol. 3

  23. Sajeev. K., Ishwar-Kumar, C. 2015. Evolution of Mesoproterozoic Kumta and Mercara Suture Zones in Western India: Constraints on India-Madagascar Correlations. XII International Conference on Antarctic Earth Sciences, 13th-17th July, Goa, India. A:115-116.

  24. Ishwar-Kumar C., Sajeev, K.  2015. Paleogeography of Eastern Gondwana: Constraints from India-Madagascar correlations. Earth Resources Assessment and Management, 24th-25th November, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.

  25. Sajeev K., Ishwar-Kumar, C, Ratheesh Kumar R.T, Satish-Kumar M. 2015. Mesoproterozoic suture between India and Madagascar. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 24-28 May, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.

  26. Samuel, V.O., Sajeev, K. 2014. Crustal growth on Archean Nilgiri Block, southern India. An International Seminar on Sedimentary Processes and Metallogeny, The Centre for Application of Spatial Information System and Tool (ASIST), Department of Civil Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad and Geological Society of India, Karnataka, INDIA.

  27. Sajeev, K., Ishwar-Kumar, C., Ratheesh-Kumar, R.T., Satish-Kumar, M. 2014. Geological correlations between India and Madagascar in a Gondwanan perspective. Earth History of Asia- II, November, Niigata, Japan.

  28. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F. 2014. Kumta suture in western India and constraints on the paleogeography of Gondwana. Sedimentary Processes and Metallogeny through Time. Dharwad, Karnataka, India.

  29. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F., Satish-Kumar, M., Hokada, T., Horie, K., Itaya, T. 2014. Evolution of Karwar and Coorg blocks, southern India. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 28th Apr- 1st May, Yokohama, Tokyo, Japan

  30. George P.M., Wilde, S.A., Satish-Kumar, M., & Sajeev, K. 2014. Continental arc accretion and crustal evolution at the end of the Archean in southern India. 7th International SHRIMP Conference, Tachikawa, Japan.

 

Previous review period

  1. Ramyabala, P., Nakamura, T., Sajeev, K. & Sukumar, R. (2014) Variations associated with pre-treatment method in radiocarbon age measurement from mineral rich peat, India. Techniques: Radiocarbon and palaeo-environmental reconstruction in practice, Radiocarbon in the environment conference 2014, Belfast, Ireland, August 2014, p. 44

  2. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K., Windley, B.F., Satish-Kumar, M., Hokada, T., Horie, K. & Itaya, T. (2014) Tectonic evolution of Karwar and Coorg blocks, southern India. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Yokohama, Tokyo, Japan. April 2014.

  3. Shazia, J.R., Sajeev, K. & Suzuki, K. (2014) On province, protolith, metamorphic ages and fluid induced alteration from Kodaikanal, Southern India. International seminar on sedimentary processes and Metallogeny through Time (SPMT)-2014.Dharwad, Karnataka, India-Keynote, p. 53-54.

  4. Samuel, V.O., Santosh, M., Liu, S., Wang, W. & Sajeev, K. (2014) Arc magmatism in an Archean tectonic settings: An example from Nilgiri Block, southern India. Sedimentary Processes and Metallogeny through Time- January 2014, Dharwad, India, p. 11-12.

  5. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Sajeev, K. & Windley, B.F.  (2014) Kumta suture in western India and constraints on the paleogeography of Gondwana. Sedimentary Processes and Metallogeny through Time- January 2014, Dharwad, India, p. 50.

  6. Shazia, J.R., Sajeev, K. & Suzuki, K. (2013) Do metamorphic monazite confer age or timing on fluid regime? Granulites and Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, 16-20 January 2013-Keynote.

  7. Samuel, V.O., Sajeev, K. & Itaya, T. (2013) P-T evolution of high-pressure mafic granulites from Nilgiri Block, southern India. National Institute for Polar Research Symposium November 2013, Tokyo, Japan.

  8. Samuel, V.O., Sajeev, K., Harlov, D.E. & Itaya, T. (2013) Evolution of charnockites and mafic granulites in the Nilgiri Block, southern India. Granulites and Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, 16-20 January 2013.

  9. George, P. M., Sajeev, K. & Itaya, T. (2013) Metamorphism of Archaean Iron formations from the Salem-Namakkal Region, Tamil Nadu, southern India, Granulites and Granulites Symposium, Hyderabad, January, 2013.

  10. George, P.M., Itaya,T., Horie, K., Hokada, T., Satish-Kumar, M. & Sajeev, K. (2013) Evolution of Archean high-pressure granulites from the Namakkal Block, southern India, Japan Geological Union Meeting, Makhuhari Messe (Tokyo), May, 2013.

  11. Ishwar-Kumar, C., George, P.M., Adachi, T., Nakano, N., Osanai, Y., Itaya, T. & Sajeev, K. (2013) Evolution of mafic and calc granulites from Coorg, southern India. Granulites and Granulites-January 2013, A34. Hyderabad, India.

  12. Sajeev, K., Ishwar-Kumar, C. & Windley, B.F. (2013) High-pressure granulites from the Betsimisaraka suture zone: implications on India-Madagascar correlation. Granulites and Granulites-2013, A52. Hyderabad, India. January 2013. -Keynote.

  13. Ishwar-Kumar, C., Ratheesh-Kumar, R.T., Windley, B.F., Horie, K., Kato, T., Hokada, T., Itaya, T., Yagi, K., Gouzu, C., Razakamanana, T. & Sajeev, K. (2013) A precise India-Madagascar palaeo-fit. National Institute for Polar Research Symposium November 2013, Tokyo, Japan.

  14. Sajeev, K., Dunkley, D.J. & Itaya, T. (2013) Tectonic significance of UHT granulites from Cauvery Shear Zone, southern India, National Institute for Polar Research Symposium November 2013, Tokyo, Japan.

  15. Samuel, V.O. & Sajeev, K. (2011) Rock magnetic properties of metamorphic rocks. International workshop on rock magnetism, Minnesota.

  16. Sajeev, K. & Dunkley, D.J. (2010) One migmatite, three ages: Metamorphic zircon growth during and after partial melting? Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2010.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, A900.

  17. Williams, I.S., Sajeev, K. & Trotter J.A. (2009) Advances in the SHRIMP II ion microprobe and its geological applications. 11th ISMAS-TRICON-2009. Hyderabad

  18. Windley, B.F. & Sajeev, K. (2009) Archaean eclogites in the mainland Scourian, and Palaeoproterozoic garnet lherzolites and retrogressed eclogites at Rodel, Outer Hebrides, Scotland; implications for widespread subduction tectonics. Evolution of the Continental Crust. The Janet Watson Meeting, The Geological Society (Burlington House), London.

  19. Thanh, N.X., Sajeev, K., Itaya, T. & Tu M.T. (2009) Garnet-kyanite-staurolite gneiss in Pangong metamorphic complex, Ladakh Himalaya: new insights on tectonic setting. IAGR annual convention, Gondwana to Asia, Vietnam.

  20. Kwon, S. & Sajeev, K. (2008) The occurrences of Eclogite to high-P metamorphism in Korean Peninsula: The Easternmost Permo-Triassic Suture? IAGR annual convention, Gondwana to Asia, Seoul, p. 9.

  21. Sajeev, K. (2008) Southern India as a key to Earth History: A tectonic perspective. IAGR annual convention, Gondwana to Asia, Seoul, p. 21.

  22. Rajesh V.J. & Sajeev, K. (2008) Petrology of ultramafic rock in Palghat Cauvery suture zone, southern India: Implication on origin and Tectonic evolution. IAGR annual convention, Gondwana to Asia, Seoul, p. 25.

 

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