NCAOR Staff - Dr. Koushick Sen

Dr. Koushick Sen Project Scientist II Department Name : Marine Mineral Section Desk No : +91-832-2525587 koushick@ncpor.res.in koushick.geol@gmail.com Field Of Specilization : Geology, Tectonics, Mineralogy, EPMA Current Research Activities : Mid Ocean Ridges, Hydrothermal Sulphide Mineralization, Electron Probe (EPMA) applications

Academic Record

Ph.D (2015): Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun (MoU with UPES, Dehradun)
M.Tech. (2009): Petroleum Exploration from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad

M.Sc.(2007): Applied Geology from Presidency College, Kolkata

B.Sc. (2005): Geology from J.K. College Purulia, Burdwan University

Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE 2007: AIR 67)

National Eligibility Test in 2011(CSIR NET JRF + Lectureship: AIR 39) 

Awards

Scholarship from MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource, India) during M.Tech (2007-2009) 
D. N. Wadia National Fellowship Pursuing research (PhD) in Himalayan Geology,

Research Area

Mid Ocean Ridge Tectonics and Hydrothermal Mineralization,

Electron Probe Micro-Analyzer (EPMA) applications in various types of geological samples,

Himalayan Geodynamics (Suture Zone ophiolites and melanges)

Selected Publications:

Koushick Sen, P. John Kurian, Parijat Roy, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, Georgy Cherkashov, L. Surya Prakash, Katherine Kuksa, Vladislav Kuznetsov, Anna Firstova, Abhishek Tyagi, Deepak K. Agarwal, Fedor Maksimov, Signature of off-axis hydrothermal sulfide mineralization at 23.19°S of Central Indian Ridge: Insights from mineralogy, geochemistry, geochronology and near-seabed AUV survey ( 2025) Marine Geology, 482, 107500, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2025.107500

Surya Prakash, L., John Kurian, P., Sen, K., Tsunogai, U., Linsy, P., Shuhail, M., & Roy, P. (2025). Hydrothermal Methane Venting and Its Microbial Oxidation Along the Eastern Southwest Indian Ridge, 63.5°–68°E. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(2), e2024GL110958. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110958

Bhagyashree Doley, Abhishek Saha, M. Ram Mohan, Koushick Sen, Aditya Peketi, (2024). Petrogenesis of submarine volcanic arc rocks from Andaman subduction zone, Northeast Indian Ocean: Constraints from slab components and mantle wedge characteristics, Chemical Geology, Volume 659, 122118, ISSN 0009-2541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122118

Prakash, L. S., John, K. P., Resing, J. A., Tsunogai, U., Rao, A. S., Sen, K., Lupton, J. E., Baumberger, T., Prajith, A. and Roy, P. (2022). Volatile-rich hydrothermal plumes over the southern Central Indian Ridge, 24⁰49' S: Evidence for a new hydrothermal field hosted by ultramafic rocks. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010452

Souvik Das, Asish R. Basu, Barun K. Mukherjee, Franco Marcantonio, Koushick Sen, Satadru Bhattacharya, Robert T. Gregory (2020). Origin of Indus ophiolitehosted ophicarbonate veins Isotopic evidence of mixing between seawater and continental crust-derived fluid during Neo-Tethys closure. Chemical Geology

Sen, K., Mukherjee, B. K., Manas M., Sen, K., and Mukherjee, S. (2019). Two-stage exhumation of Zildat Ophiolitic Melange rocks, NW Himalaya, India. Himalayan Geology, 40(2), 182-189

Sen Koushick, Das Souvik, Mukherjee Barun K, Sen Koushik., 2013, Bimodal stable isotope signatures of Zildat Ophiolitic Mélange, Indus Suture Zone, Himalaya: implications for emplacement of an ophiolitic mélange in a convergent set-up, International Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol 102 (7) 2033-2042.

 

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• Sen Koushick, “Section of Nidar Ophiolite, Indus Suture Zone, Himalaya”. Cover Image published in Geology (GSA), Vol.45,No.8,2017
• Sen Koushick, “Pseudo-Nodules in Chakrata Formation: A syndepositional record of paleoseismicity”, Cover Photo published in Himalayan Geology, Vol.31,No.2,2010.