Dr. C. SREEJITH
Associate Professor
Geology
- [email protected]
- Subject Specialisation In Petrology, Geochemistry, Precambrian Crustal Evolution, and Planetary Tectonics
Education
P.hD
National Centre for Earth Science Studies
MSc
University of Calicut
BSc
University of Calicut
Experiences
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Research Scholar
Senior Research Fellow
CSIR Diamond Jubilee Research Intern
Guest Lecturer
Research Fellow
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