Books

  • Ganguly, J., and S.K. Saxena (1987)  MIXTURES AND MINERAL REACTIONS, 291 p., Springer-Verlag
  • Ganguly, J., editor (1991)  DIFFUSION, ATOMIC ORDERING AND MASS TRANSPORT: Selected Topics in Geochemistry, Advances in Physical Geochemistry, vol. 8, 581 p.,  Springer-Verlag
  • Ganguly, J.  THERMODYNAMICS: Principles and Applications to Natural Systems (Springer-Verlag), 2007 (expected)


Papers (1995 -; graduate student) (download pdf files by double-clicking on <pdf file>)

·        Ganguly, J., Ito, M. and Zhang, X-Y (2007) Cr diffusion in orthopyroxene: Experimental determination, 53Mn-53Cr thermochronology, and planetary applications. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 71, 3915-3925  (.pdf file).

·        McCallum I.S., Domeneghetti, M.C., Schwratz. J.F., Mullen, E.K., Zema, M., Camara, F., McCammon, C., Ganguly, J. (2006) Cooling history of lunar Mg-suite gabbronorite 76255, toctolite 76535 and stillwater pyroxenite SC-936: The record in exsolution and ordering in pyroxenes. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 70, 6068-6078.  (.pdf file).

·        Ganguly, J, and Frost, D.L (2006) Stability of Anhydrous phase B: Experimental studies and implications for phase relations in subducting slab and the X-discontinuity in the mantle. J. Geophys Research, 111, B06203, doi: 10.1029/2005JB003910  (.pdf file).

·        Ito, M., and Ganguly, J. (2006) Diffusion kinetics of Cr in olivine and 53Mn-53Cr thermochronology of early solar system objects. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 70, 799-806 (.pdf file).

·        Stimpfl, M., Ganguly, J. and Molin, G.M. (2005) Fe2+-Mg order-disorder in orthopyroxenes: Experimental studies and applications to cooling rates of rocks. Contrib Mineral Petrol, 150, 319-334  (.pdf file).

·        Tirone, M., Ganguly, J., Dohmen, R., Langehorst, F., Hervig, R. and Becker, H-W. (2005) Rare earth diffusion kinetics in garnet: Experimental studies and applications. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 2385-2398 (.pdf file).

·        Ganguly, J. (2005) Adiabatic decompression and melting of mantle rocks: an irreversible thermodynamic analysis. Geophys Research Let, 32 (.pdf file).

·        Ito, M. and Ganguly, J. (2004) Potassium Diffusion in Melilite: Experimental studies and constraints on the thermal history and size of planetsimals hosting CAIs. Meteoritics & Planetary Sci. 39, 1911-1919.  (.pdf file).

·        Dasgupta, S., Ganguly, J. and Neogi, S. (2004) Inverted metamorphic sequence in Sikkim Himalayas: crystallization history, P-T gradient, and implications. J. Metamorphic Geology, 22, 395-412  (.pdf file).

·         Liermann, H-P and Ganguly, J. (2003) Fe-Mg fractionation between orthopyroxene and spinel: Experimental calibration in the system FeO-MgO-Al2O3-Cr2O3-SiO2, and applications. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 145, 217-227 (.pdf file).

·         Ducea, M., Ganguly, J., Rosenberg, E., Patchett, P. J., and Cheng, W. (2003) Sm-Nd dating of spatially controlled domains of garnet single crystal: A new method of high temperature thermochronology. Earth Planet Sci Lett, 213, 31-42 (.pdf file)

·         Ganguly, J. (2003) Diffusion kinetics in minerals: Principles and applications to tectono-metamorphic processes. European Mineralogical Union, Notes in Mineralogy, 4, 271-309 (.pdf file)  

·         Liermann, H-P. and Ganguly, J. (2002)  Diffusion kinetics of Fe and Mg in aluminous spinel: Experimental determination and applications. Geochim et Cosmochim Acta 66, 2903-2913 (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., Hensen, B.J. and Cheng, W. (2001) Reaction texture and Fe-Mg zoning in granulite garnet from Soestrene island, Antarctica: modeling and constraint on the time scale of Pan-African tectono-metamorphic event, Proc. Indian Acad Sci 110, 305-312. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J. (2001) Thermodynamic modeling of solid solutions, In Geiger, C. (ed.) Solid solutions in silicate and oxide systems. European Mineralogical Union, Notes in Mineralogy, 3, 37 - 70, Eoetvoes University Press, Budapest. (.pdf file)

·        Liermann, H-P., and  Ganguly, J.. (2001) Compositional properties of coexisting orthopyroxene and spinel in some Antarctic diogenites: Implications for thermal history. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, 155 – 166. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., and. Tirone, M. (2001) Relationship between cooling rate and cooling age of a mineral: Theory and applications to meteorites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, 167 – 176. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., Dasgupta, S., Cheng, W. and Neogi, S. (2000) Exhumation history of a section of the Sikkim Himalayas, India: records in the metamorphic mineral equilibria and compositional zoning in garnet. Earth & Planet Sci Lett, 183, 471 – 486. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J. and Stimpfl, M. (2000) Low temperature cooling history of orthopyroxenes from two stony-iron meteorites: implications for metal-silicate mixing and parent body. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 64, 1291 – 1297.

·        Ganguly, J. and Tirone, M. (1999) Diffusion closure temperature and age of a mineral with arbitrary extent of diffusion: Theoretical formulation and applications, Earth & Planet Science Letters, 170, 131-140 (.pdf file); Correction (.pdf file)

·        Stimpfl, M., Ganguly, J. and Molin G. (1999) Fe2+-Mg order-disorder in orthopyroxene: Equilibrium fractionation between the octahedral sites and thermodynamic analysis, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 136, 297-309 (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., Tirone, M., and Hervig, R. (1998) Diffusion kinetics and closure temperature of Sm  and Nd in garnet. Science, 281, 805-807

·        Ganguly, J., Cheng, W. and Chakraborty, S. (1998) Cation diffusion in aluminosilicate garnets: experimental determination in pyroxene-almandine diffusion couples. Contrib. Mineral Petrol, 131, 171- 180 (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly. J., Cheng, W. and Tirone, M. (1996) Thermodynamics of aluminosilicate garnet solid solution: new experimental data, an optimized model, and thermometric applications. Contrib.. Mineral. Petrol., 126, 137-151 (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., Chakraborty, S., Sharp, T. and Rumble, D. III (1996) Constraint on the time scale of biotite grade metamorphism during Acadian orogeny from a natural  garnet-garnet diffusion couple. American Mineralogist, 81, 1208-1216. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J. and Domeneghetti, M. C. (1996) Cation ordering of orthopyroxenes from the Skaergaard intrusion: Quantitative constraints on the subsolidus cooling rates and permeabilities, Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 122, 359-367 (.pdf file)

·        Bose, K. and Ganguly, J. (1995) Experimental and theoretical studies of the stabilities of talc, antigorite and phase A at high pressures with applications to subduction processes. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 136, 109-122. (.pdf file)

·        Ganguly, J., Singh, R.N. and D. V. Ramana (1995) Thermal perturbation during charnockitization and granulite facies metamorphism in southern India. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 1-12