Santanu Bose

Professor

B.Sc. Geology (Major) (Gauhati University, 1990)

M.Sc. Applied Geology (Jadavpur University, 1993)

Ph.D. (Jadavpur University, 2000)

My doctoral work at Jadavpur University was on understanding the deformation structures of Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. Subsequently, I joined as a CSIR Research Associate at Jadavpur University in 2001. I joined as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2002 and finally came back to India in December 2005 to join in a Lecturer position at the University of Calcutta. Since September 2018, I have been working in the Presidency University as a Professor of Geology.  

April 2013 - September 2018: Coordinator, UGC-SAP Program of the Geology Department of the University of Calcutta.

2010 - today: Secretary, Structural Geology and Tectonic Studies Group of India (SGTSGI).

December 2005 to December 2009: Lecturer in Geology, University of Calcutta

December 2009 to September 2018: Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Calcutta

September 2018 to today: Professor of Geology, Presidency University

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students interested in Structural Geology and Tectonics.

* indicates student author

(43) Bose, S., Schellart, W.P., Strak, V., Duarte, J.C.,  Chen, Z. 2023. Sunda subduction drives ongoing India-Asia convergence, Tectonophysics,  849, 229727.

(42) *Ghosh, S., Mandal, N., Roy, S., Bose, S. 2023. Tectono-metamorphic transitions in the higher Himalayan sequence: A clue for Main Central Thrust (MCT) localization in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya, Journal of Structural Geology, 167, 104783.

(41) *Das, A., Bose, S., Dasgupta, S., Roy, S. and Mukhopadhyay, B., 2022. Post-Oligocene evolution of Indo-Burma wedge: Insights from deformation structures of Tripura Mizoram fold belt. Journal of Structural Geology, 154, 104497.

(40) *Roy, S., Bose., S., Saha, P., 2020. Spatial variations of ductile strain in fold-and-thrust belts: From model to nature. Journal of Structural Geology, 134, 104012.

(39) *Ghosh, S., Bose, S., Mandal, N., Laik, A., 2020. Mid-crustal ramping of the Main Himalayan Thrust in Nepal to Bhutan Himalaya: New insights from analogue and numerical experiments. Tectonophysics, 782-783, 228425. 

(38) Marques F. O., Mandal, N., Ghosh, S., Ranalli, G., Bose, S., 2018. Channel flow, tectonic overpressure, and exhumation of high-pressure rocks in the Greater Himalayas. Solid Earth, 9, 1061–1078.

(37) *Ghosh, S., Bose, S., Mandal., N., Das, A., 2018. Control on frontal thrust progression by the mechanically weak Gondwana horizon in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 727, 12-27.

(36) Acharyya, S. K., Mandal, N., Ghosh, S., Bose., S., Pande, K, 2017. Pre-Himalayan

tectonomagmatic imprints in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (DSH) constrained by

40Ar/39Ar dating of muscovite. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 146, 211- 220.

(35) Bhattacharya, A.R., Bose, S., Mukherjee, B., Mamtani, M.A., Srivastava, D.C., 2016.

Status of Research in Structural Geology; the Indian Scene During the Last Five Years. Proc.

Indian Natn Sci Acad, 82, 435 - 443.

(34) *Saha, P., Bose., S., Mandal, N. 2016. Sandbox modeling of sequential thrusting in a

mechanically two-layered system and its implications in fold-and-thrust belts. Journal of

Geodynamics, 100, 104 – 114.

(33) *Ghosh, S.; Bose, S., Mandal, N. 2016. Dynamic recrystallization mechanisms and their

transition in the Daling Thrust (DT) zone, Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 674,

166 – 181.

(32) Bose, S.; Saha, P.; Mori, J.; Rowe, C.; Ujiie, K; Chester, F.M.; Conin, M.;

Regalla, C.; Kameda, J.; Toy, V.; Kirkpatrick, J.; Remitti, F.; Moore, J.C.; Wolfson-

Schwehr, M.; Nakamura, Y.; Gupta, A. 2015. Deformation structures in the frontal prism

near the Japan Trench: Insights from Sandbox Models, Journal of Geodynamics, 89, 29-38.

(31) *Dasgupta, Sujoy; Mandal, N.; Bose, S. 2015. How far does a ductile shear zone permit

transpression? In: Ductile Shear Zones: from micro-to macro-scales (edited by S. Mukherjee

and K.F. Mulchrone), John Wiley & Sons.

(30) Mandal, N.; Bose, S.; Baruah, A.; Sarkar, S. 2015. First-order topography of the

Himalayan Mountain belt: a deep-crustal flow analysis. In: Mukherjee, S., Carosi, R., van der

Beek, P. A., Mukherjee, B. K. & Robinson, D. M. (eds) Tectonics of the Himalaya.

Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP412.9

(29) Kirkpatrick, J. D.; Rowe,C.; Ujiie, K.; Moore, J.C.; Regalla, C.; Remitti, F.; Toy, V.;

Wolfson?Schwehr, M.; Kameda, J.; Bose, S.; Chester. F. 2015. Structure and lithology of

the Japan Trench subduction plate boundary fault. Tectonics, 34, 53 – 69.

(28) Bose, Santanu; Mandal, N.; Saha, P.; Sarkar, S.; Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. 2014. Thrust

initiation and its control on tectonic wedge geometry: an insight from physical and numerical

models. Journal of Structural Geology, 67, 37 – 49.

(27) Bose, Santanu; Mandal, N.; Acharyya, S.K.; Ghosh, S.; Saha, P. 2014. Orogen-

Transverse tectonic window in the Eastern Himalayan fold belt: A superposed buckling

model. Journal of Structural Geology, 66, 24 – 41.

(26) Marques, F.O., Mandal, N., Taborda, R., Antunes, J.V., Bose, Santanu, 2014. The

behaviour of deformable and non-deformable inclusions in viscous flow. Earth Science

Review, 134, 16 – 69.

(25) Frederick M. Chester, Christie Rowe, Kohtaro Ujiie, James Kirkpatrick, Christine

Regalla, Francesca Remitti, J. Casey Moore, Virginia Toy, Monica Wolfson-Schwehr,

Santanu Bose, Jun Kameda, James J. Mori, Emily E. Brodsky, Nobuhisa Eguchi, Sean

Toczko, and Expedition 343 and 343T Scientists. 2013 Structure and Composition of the

Plate-Boundary Slip Zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake. Science, 342, 1208-1211.

(24) Kohtaro Ujiie, Hanae Tanaka, Tsubasa Saito, Akito Tsutsumi, James J. Mori, Jun

Kameda, Emily E. Brodsky, Frederick M. Chester, Nobuhisa Eguchi, Sean Toczko, B. Cook,

T. Jeppson, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, Y. Sanada, S. Saito, Y. Kido, T. Hirose, J. H. Behrmann,

M. Ikari, C. Rowe, J. Kirkpatrick, S. Bose, C. Regalla, F. Remitti, V. Toy, P. Fulton, T.

Mishima, T. Yang, T. Sun, T. Ishikawa, J. Sample, K. Takai, J. Kameda, L. Maeda, S.

Kodaira, 2013, Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from

Laboratory Experiments. Science, 342, 1211- 1214.

(23) P. M. Fulton, E. E. Brodsky, Y. Kano, J. Mori, F. Chester, T. Ishikawa, R. N. Harris, W.

Lin, N. Eguchi, S. Toczko, B. Cook, T. Jeppson, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, Y. Sanada, S. Saito,

Y. Kido, T. Hirose, J. H. Behrmann, M. Ikari, K. Ujiie, C. Rowe, J. Kirkpatrick, S. Bose, C.

Regalla, F. Remitti, V. Toy, T. Mishima, T. Yang, T. Sun, T. Ishikawa, J. Sample, K. Takai,

J. Kameda, L. Maeda, S. Kodaira. 2013. Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault

Determined from Temperature Measurements. Science, 342, 1214-1217.

(22) Tao Yang, Toshiaki Mishima, Kohtaro Ujiie, Frederick M. Chester, James J. Mori,

Nobuhisa Eguchi, Sean Toczko, and IODP Expedition 343 Scientists 2013 Strain

decoupling across the décollement in the region of large slip during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki

earthquake from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility. EPSL, 381, 31 – 38.

(21) Rowe, C. D.,, Moore, J. C., Remitti, F., and IODP Expedition 343 Scientists 2013 The

thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone.

Geology v. 41 n. 9 991-994.

(20) Lin W., M. Conin, J. C. Moore, F. M. Chester, Y. Nakamura, J. J. Mori, L. Anderson,

E.E. Brodsky, H. Eguchi, B. Cook, T. Jeppson, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, Y. Sanada, S. Saito, Y.

Kido, T. Hirose, J. H. Behrmann, M. Ikari, K. Ujiie, C. Rowe, J. Kirkpatrick, S. Bose, C.

Regalla, F. Remitti, V. Toy, P. Fulton, T. Mishima, T. Yang, T. Sun, T. Ishikawa, J. Sample,

K. Takai, J. Kameda, S. Toczko, L. Maeda, S. Kodaira, R. Hino, D. Saffer. 2013. Stress state

in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake. Science v. 339 n. 6120

687-690.

(19)* Saha. P, Bose. S. and Mandal, N. 2013. Varying frontal thrust spacing in mono-vergent

wedges: An insight from analogue models. Journal of Earth system Science, 122, 699 – 714.

(18) Bose, S. and Mandal, N. 2010. Interaction of surface erosion and sequential thrust

progression: Implication on exhumation processes, Journal Geological Society of India, 75,

338-344.

(17) Mandal, N., Mitra , A and Bose, S. 2009. Orogenic processes in collisional tectonics

with special reference to the Himalayan Mountain chain: a review of theoretical and

experimental models. In: Physics and Chemistry of Earth’s Interior (Editor: Gupta, A.K.),

INSA Platinum Jubilee Volume.

(16) Bose, S., Mandal, N., Mukhopadhyay, D., Misra, P. 2009. An unstable kinematic state of

the Himalayan tectonic wedge: evidence from experimental thrust-spacing patterns. Journal

of Structural Geology, 31, 83 – 91.

(15) Marques, F.O., Taborda, R., Bose, S. 2006. A Discussion of "Numerical models of flow

patterns around a rigid inclusion in a viscous matrix undergoing simple shear: implications of

model parameters and boundary conditions" by N. Mandal, S.K. Samanta and C.

Chakraborty, Journal of Structural Geology 27 (2005) 1599 - 1609. Journal of Structural

Geology 28, 1371-1374.

(14) Rui Taborda, Fernando Ornelas Marques and Santanu Bose, 2005. Rigid inclusion

rotation in viscous shear flow. Excerpt from the Proceedings of the COMSOL Multiphysics

User's Conference 2005 Stockholm

(13) Sengupta, S., Bose, S. and Dasgupta, S. 2005. Reworking of early Basement in the

Tectonothermal evolution of the Precambrian basement of the Scirmacher Hills, East

Antarctica. . In: Antarctic Geosciences, Ocean-Atmosphere interaction and Paleoclimatology

(Ed. Rajan, S. and Pandey, P.C.)NCAOR, Goa, 17 – 37.

(12) Marques, F.O.,Taborda, R, Bose, S. and Antunes, J. 2005. Effects of confinement on

matrix flow around a rigid inclusion in viscous simple shear: Insights from modelling.

Journal of Structural Geology,27, 379-396.

(11) Marques, F.O. and Bose, S., 2004. Influence of a permanent low-friction boundary on

rotation and flow in rigid inclusion/viscous matrix systems from an analogue perspective.

Tectonophysics, 382, 229 – 245.

(10) Bose, S., Marques, F.O., 2004. Controls on the geometry of tails around rigid circular

inclusions: insights from analogue modelling in simple shear. Journal of Structural Geology

26, 2145-2156.

(9) Bose, S. and Marques. F.O. 2003. 2D flow of viscous linear matrix around an attached or

detached rigid particle: an experimental study. Indian Journal of Earth Sciences,1-4,29-42.

(8) Bose, S. and Sengupta, S. 2001. High temperature mylonitization of quartzofeldspathic

gneiss: Example from the Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. Gondwana Research, V. 6, No.

4, 805-816.

(7) Sengupta, S. and Bose, S. 2001. Tectonothermal evolution of the Schirmacher Hills,

Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. Gondwana Research, V.4, No. 4, 778 – 779.

(6) Bose, S. and Sengupta, S. 2001. Microstructural variation in quartzofeldspathic mylonite:

Example from Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. Gondwana Research, V.4.No.4, 581-582.

(5) Bose, S. and Samanta, S.K. 2001. Polyphase deformations in the Precambrian rocks of the

central part of the Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. Department of Ocean Development

Technical Publication No. 14.

(4) Bose, S. and Hazra, S. 2001. Structural analyses of the western part of the Schirmacher

Hills, East Antarctica. Department of Ocean Development Technical Publication No. 13.

(3) Dasgupta, S., Sengupta, S., Bose, S. Fukuoka, M.and Dasgupta, S. 2001.

Polymetamorphism in the Schirmacher Hills granulites, East Antarctica: Implication for

tectonothermal reworking of anisobarically cooled deep continental crust. Gondwana

Research V.4, No.3, 337 -357.

(2) Mandal, N., Chattopadhayay,A. and Bose, S. 1997.Imbricate thrust spacing : experimental

and theoretical analyses. In: Evolution of Geological Structures in Macro to Micro-Scale.

(Ed. Sengupta, S.) Chapman and Hall, London, 143 – 165.

(1) Sengupta, S. and Bose, S.1997.Development of successive generations of shear zones in

the Precambrian basement of Schirmacher Hills, East Antractica. Gondwana Research, 1, 35

–45.