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Dr. C. SREEJITH
Associate Professor
Geology
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Education

P.hD

National Centre for Earth Science Studies

MSc

University of Calicut

BSc

University of Calicut
Experiences
Associate Professor

MES Ponnani College, Ponnani

PG Studies & Research in Geology

3 Year 2 Month 15 Days
Assistant Professor

MES Ponnani College

PG Studies & Research in Geology

12 Year 1 Month 20 Days
Research Scholar

National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Geosciences Division

4 Year 20 Days
Senior Research Fellow

National Centre for Earth Sciences Studies

Marine Sciences Division

10 Month 5 Days
CSIR Diamond Jubilee Research Intern

Regional Research Laboratory (RRL-CSIR)

Geological Sciences

1 Year 6 Month 1 Days
Guest Lecturer

MES Ponnani College

Geology

3 Month 25 Days
Research Fellow

Centre for Earth Science Studies

Geoscience Division

5 Month 2 Days
Achievements

HONORS AND AWARDS

Awarded with International Travel Grant (US$1,500) by the Geological Society of America, USA to attend GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Awarded with IGCP Grant (€500) by IUGS & UNESCO to attend 4th International Heritage Stone Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Awarded with 6th International Archean Symposium Grant (AUD2,000) by Geoconferences, Geological Survey of Western Australia to attend the 6th International Archean Symposium, Fremantle, Perth, Australia

Awarded with International Travel Grant (Rs. 86,505/- INR; approx. US$1,100) by Science and Engineering Board (SERB), DST, Govt. of India (ITS/2023/001883) to attend Goldschmidt Conference 2023, Lyon, France.

Awarded with IGCP Grant by IUGS & UNESCO for attending European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019 held at Vienna, Austria

Awarded with Goldschmidt Conference Need-based grants 2018 jointly by the Geochemical Society, USA and European Association of Geochemistry, France to attend the Goldschmidt Conference 2018 held at Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Awarded with International Travel Grant (ITS/2018/002924) by Science and Engineering Board (SERB), DST, Govt. of India to attend Goldschmidt Conference 2018 held at Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

Qualified National Eligibility Test (CSIR-UGC-NET) conducted in December 2008, jointly by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India.

Secured Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2007), ranking 90 (out of 678) with a score of 342, conducted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt. of India

Awarded with CSIR Diamond Jubilee Research Internship (2004), by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India

Qualified State Eligibility Test (SET-2004) conducted by the Govt. of Kerala

Positioned Third in order of merit in the M.Sc. Final Examination (University of Calicut, 2003)

Project

Occurrence and behaviour of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in selected alkaline granitoids and their weathered crusts of Kerala, southern India

Type : Major
Sanction Date : 11/01/2023
Duration : 20/02/2023 TO 19/02/2026
Sponser : Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB)
Project Amount : 4934240

Capacity Building Grant

Type : Major
Sanction Date : 11/01/2023
Duration : 01/02/2023 TO 31/01/2023
Sponser : Geochemical Society, USA
Project Amount : 210500
Paper Presentation

Seminar/Workshop Presentation

The La/Yb, Sr/Y and Eu characteristics of continental-arc granitoids as proxies for lithospheric thickness, intracrustal melting and differentiation mechanisms of continental crust.

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : GSA Connects 2025
Type : International
Date : 11/10/2025 TO 14/10/2025
Sponser : Geological Society of America
College Conducted : San Antonio, Texas, US
Organizer : Geological Society of America

Contrasting geochemistry of granitoid twins from southern India as a proxy for changeovers of Precambrian geodynamics

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : 6th International Archean Symposium
Type : International
Date : 25/07/2023 TO 27/07/2025
Sponser : Geoconference, Western Australia
College Conducted : Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia
Organizer : Geoconference, Western Australia

Peninsular gneiss: A common heritage stone resource from the oldest continental crustal segment of India

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : 4th International Heritage Stone Conference on Natural Stones and Conservation of Heritage stone: from quarries to craft practitioners and buildings
Type : International
Date : 14/07/2025 TO 17/07/2025
Sponser : IUGS-UNESCO
College Conducted : Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Organizer : Heritage Stone Sub-commission (HSS), IUGS-UNESCO

High-grade gneiss terrains of southern India: The imperative archives for early Earth tectonics and secular lithospheric evolution

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : Goldschmidt Conference 2023
Type : International
Date : 09/07/2023 TO 14/07/2023
Sponser : European Association of Geochemistry
College Conducted : Lyon, France
Organizer : European Association of Geochemistry, France & Geochemical Society, USA

Charnockite: An international stone as potential Global Heritage Stone Resource

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly
Type : International
Date : 12/04/2019 TO 12/04/2019
Sponser : Heritage Stone Sub-commission (HSS), IUGS-UNESCO
College Conducted : Vienna, Austria
Organizer : European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Crustal-derived granitoids in accretionary orogens: implications for the evolution and differentiation of continental crust

Name of Seminar/Programme/Award : Goldschmidt Conference 2018
Type : International
Date : 12/08/2018 TO 17/08/2018
Sponser : Geochemical Society, USA
College Conducted : Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Organizer : Geochemical Society, USA
Professional Activity

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Abishek, P., Libeesh, N.K., Arivazhagan, S., Sreejith, C., 2025. Spectral dispersion matching technique for multi-class spatial-spectral feature detection of REE-fertile lithology in the Samalpatti alkaline–carbonatite complex (SACC) using Hyperion data. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 100488, doi: 10.1016/j.geogeo.2025.100488

Kaur, P., Saini, J., Sharma, U., Duraiswami, R., Mathew, B.P., Sreejith, C., Kaur, G., 2023. Western Ghats Laterite: an Architecturally and Culturally Iconic Stone from India with Special Reference to Goa. Geoheritage, 15, 38, doi: 10.1007/s12371-023-00804-1

Sreejith, C., E.A. Del Lama, Gurmeet Kaur, 2020. Charnockite: a candidate for ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ designation from India. Episodes, doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/0200s11

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2016. Petrology and geochemistry of charnockites (felsic ortho-granulites) from the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India: evidence for intra-crustal melting, magmatic differentiation and episodic crustal growth. Lithos, 262, pp. 334–354. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.07.009

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2013. Petrogenesis of high-K metagranites in the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India: a possible magmatic-arc link between India, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar. Journal of Geodynamics, 63, pp. 69–82. doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2012.10.002

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2012. MnNCKFMASH phase relations in cordierite–orthopyroxene migmatitic gneisses, southern India: implications for low-pressure crustal melting under granulite-facies. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 80, pp. 613-627. doi:10.1007/s12594-009-0018-8

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., 2010. Origin of granitoids of the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India: Biotite as potential tectonomagmatic indicator. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.74(12/1), A985 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.04.045

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2010. Geochemistry of granitoids of the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India–magmatic petrogenesis in an arc-accretion setting. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.74(12/1), A851 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.04.044

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2010. Relationship between heavy mineral placer deposits and hinterland rocks of southern Kerala: a new approach for source-to-sink link from the chemistry of garnets. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, v. 39 (4), pp.562–571

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2009. Petrological and Geochemical Characteristics of Marunthurkota Syenites from the Kerala Khondalite Belt, Southern India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 73, pp.386–392. doi:10.1007/s12594-009-0018-8

Iyer, C.S.P., Sreejith, C., Subha, S., Smitha Sukumaran, 2005. Geochemistry and quality of groundwater, and natural radioactivity measurements in parts of Manavalakurichi: an active placer mineral mining site, southern India. In: V.J. Loveson, N. Chandrasekhar and A. Sinha (Eds.), Capacity Building for Coastal Placer Mineral. Allied Publishers, New Delhi. pp.256–263

Sreejith, C., 2025. The La/Yb, Sr/Y and Eu characteristics of continental-arc granitoids as proxies for lithospheric thickness, intracrustal melting and differentiation mechanisms of continental crust. GSA Connects 2025, Geological Society of America Annual General Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, US, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025am-4386

Sreejith, C., Nithya, M., Gurmeet Kaur, 2025. Peninsular gneiss: A common heritage stone resource from the oldest continental crustal segment of India. 4th International Heritage Stone Conference on Natural Stones and Conservation of Heritage stone: from quarries to craft practitioners and buildings, IUGS-UNESCO-HSS, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Nanditha Nandan, T., Nazna Nazar, Sreejith, C., 2024. Conflicting shear sense indicators in the western parts of Palghat–Cauvery Shear Zone, Southern India: insights into crustal dynamics. International Conference on Deformation Mechanisms, Processes and Fabric Analysis in Earth Materials from the Global to the Nano Scale - Methods and Applications, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.10013.12008

Sreejith, C., Gurmeet Kaur, 2023. Laterites of Kerala: A National Geological and Geo-heritage Monument stone with profuse architectonic legacy. III International Workshop-cum-Seminar on Natural Stones and Conservation of Heritage Stones, IUGS-UNESCO-HSS, Jaipur–Makrana–Agra

Kaur, P., Saini, J., Sharma, U., Duraiswami, R., Mathew, B.P., Sreejith, C., Gurmeet Kaur, 2023. Western Ghats Laterite: an Architecturally and Culturally Iconic Stone from India with Special Reference to Goa. III International Workshop-cum-Seminar on Natural Stones and Conservation of Heritage Stones, IUGS-UNESCO-HSS, Jaipur–Makrana–Agra

Sreejith, C., 2023. Contrasting geochemistry of granitoid twins from southern India as a proxy for changeovers of Precambrian geodynamics. 6th International Archean Symposium, Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia

Sreejith, C., 2023. High-grade gneiss terrains of southern India: The imperative archives for early Earth tectonics and secular lithospheric evolution. Goldschmidt Conference, Lyon, France, doi:10.7185/gold2023.13950

Parvathy, M.S., Sreejith, C., 2023. Karur–Kambam–Painavu–Trichur Shear Zone (KKPTSZ) as a possible terrane boundary in Madurai Granulite Block, Southern India: Current understanding and future perspectives. EGU23-11846, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 2023. Doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11846

Nanditha Nandan, T., Sreejith, C., 2023. A geochemical perspective on the petrogenesis of charnockites from the western parts of the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone, southern India: implications for collisional geodynamics. EGU23-11847, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 2023. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11847

Sreejith, C., Gurmeet Kaur, Eliane Aparecida Del Lama, 2019. Charnockite: An international stone as potential Global Heritage Stone Resource. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-1280-2, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 2019

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2018. Crustal-derived granitoids in accretionary orogens: implications for the evolution and differentiation of continental crust. Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Abstract ID 2403

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2018. Archaean high-grade gneiss terrains as a key to the understanding of early Earth tectonics. Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Abstract ID 1366

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2017. The contrasting Sr/Y ratios in fraternal granitoid twins of a TTG parent: An indicator of crustal remelting for granite genesis. Goldschmidt Abstracts, Paris, France, Abstract ID: 3743

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2015. Felsic magmatism through intracrustal melting of previously formed volcanic-arc crust: implications for differentiation and secular evolution of the continental crust, AGU Fall 2015 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Abstract ID: V51G-3122

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2013. Pervasive lower crustal melting and granite genesis in southern India: mechanisms of magma differentiation and rheological equilibration in continental-arc roots. AGU Fall 2013 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Abstract ID: V13B-2607

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2012. Contrasting geochemistry of arc-related metagranitoids in the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India: evidence for flat to steep transition in subduction style at the end of the Archaean. AGU Fall 2013 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Abstract ID: V13B-2607

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2011. Growth and evolution of the Kerala Khondalite Belt, Southern India: mineral and whole-rock chemical evidence for intracrustal melting and magmatic petrogenesis. AGU Fall 2011 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Abstract ID: V21D-2531

Ravindra Kumar, G.R., Sreejith, C., 2011. Remelting of tonalitic crust and genesis of high-K granitoid during arc-accretion: evidence for crustal reworking in the Kerala Khondalite Belt, International Symposium on Precambrian Accretionary Orogens, Delhi University, Delhi, India, Abstract Volume, Geological Society of India, pp.108–109

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2011. Geochemistry of K-feldspar megacryst granitoids of the Kerala Khondalite Belt: evidence for exposed roots of an accreted continental-arc system, International Symposium on Precambrian Accretionary Orogens, Delhi University, Delhi, India, Abstract Volume, Geological Society of India, pp.127–128.

Sreejith, C., Ravindra Kumar, G.R., 2010. Petrogenesis and significance of the high-K calc-alkaline meta-granitoids in the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Conference, Hyderabad, India, Abstracts, 2010

Nanditha Nandan, T., Sreejith, C., 2026. Geometry of conjugate shears with conflicting shear-sense indicators in the western Palghat–Cauvery Shear Zone, Southern India. EGU26-999., European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 2026. Doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-999

Sreejith, C., Rajesh, S., Kiran Vasundharan, 2026. Rare earth element (REE) enriched granitic pegmatites associated with alkaline granite complex of southern India: Source characteristics, enrichment mechanisms, and insights into potential ion-adsorption REE deposits. EGU26-790., European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria 2026. Doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-790

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Professional Member/Fellow of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI), Munich, Germany (2026 Onwards)

Professional Member/Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), Aubiere, France (2021 Onwards)

Professional Member/Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Colorado, USA (2019 Onwards)

Member/Fellow of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Munich, Germany (2019 Onwards).

Correspondent of the Heritage Stone Sub-commission (HSS), IUGS-UNESCO (2019 Onwards)

Professional Member/Fellow of the Geochemical Society (GS), Virginia, USA (2017 Onwards)

Member/Fellow of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore (2010 Onwards)

Member/Life Fellow of the Geological Society of India (GSI), Bangalore (Enrolled in 2009)

Professional Member/Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA (2026 Onwards)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Peer Reviewer to international journals like Minerals, Processes, Geoscience Frontiers, Geological Magazine, Episodes, Physics and Chemistry of Earth, Geological Journal, Geosystems and Geoenvironment, Geoscience Frontiers, Geoheritage, Geological Society of India, Current Science etc.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Successfully completed Short Course on Introduction to Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) in the Earth Sciences, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Berlin, Germany during August 2025

Successfully completed Short Course on Fluids in the Earth (with 5 credits), University of Milan, Bicocca, Milan, Italy during September 2019

Successfully completed Science Academies'' Refresher Course on “Crystallography, Mineralogy, Igneous Petrology and Thermodynamics, Sedimentology and Economic Geology” organized jointly by the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Indian National Science (INSA), and the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) during December 2015

Successfully completed on board training programme on “Sampling and analysis of Seawater, Planktons, and sediments” conducted on the Research Vessel Sagar Purvi under the Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (COMAPS) Programme of the Department of Ocean Development (DOD) during January 2005

Successfully completed the Department of Science and Technology (DST) sponsored training course on “Application of Radiogenic Isotopes in Geochronology and Geochemistry” organized by the National Facility for Geochronology and Isotope Geosciences at Department of Earth Sciences, Pondicherry University during December 2008

Participated in the Faculty Development Programme: Teachers' Training on Disaster Management, conducted by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, during September 2020