Abhishek Prakash
  • Graduate Student

Biography

Advisor: Andreas Kronenberg

Courses

  • LABS: Structural Geology & Tectonics, Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology

Research Interests

  • Structural geology
  • Experimental studies of high temperature creep mechanisms of carbonates (dolomite and magnesite)
  • Water weakening of feldspar

Educational Background

  • Integrated M.Tech, Geology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Selected Publications

  • Prakash, A., Piazolo, S., Saha, L., Bhattacharya, A., Pal, D.K., & Sarkar, S. (2018). Deformation behavior of migmatites: Insights from microstructural analysis of a garnet-sillimanite-mullite-quartz-feldspar bearing anatectic migmatite at Rampura-Agucha, Aravalli Delhi Fold Belt, NW India. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1-28, doi:10.1007/s00531-018-1598-6.

  • Prakash, A., Saha, L., Petrik, I., Janak, M., & Bhattacharya, A. (2017). Metamorphic evolution of Palaeoproterozoic anatectic migmatites in the eastern part of the Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt, India: Constraints from thermodynamic modelling and monazite dating. Geological Magazine, 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0016756816001242.

  • Prakash, A., Saha, L., Sarkar, S. (2016) Origin of peak and retrograde assemblages during Grenvillian orogeny from garnet-staurolite bearing mica schist of Bhilwara Supergroup, NW India: constraints from pseudosection modelling. EGU General Assembly 2016.

  • Piazolo, S., Montagnat, M., Prakash, A., Borthwick, V., Evans, L., Griera, A., Bons, P. D., Svahnberg, H., Prior, D. J. (2015) Utilizing microstructural characteristics to derive insights into deformation and annealing behaviour: Numerical simulations, experiments and nature. EGU General Assembly 2015.