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Prof. M. Ram Mohan

Prof. M. Ram Mohan

Designation : Director

Phone : 0135-2525103/104

E-mail : director [at] wihg [dot] res [dot] in

  • Affiliation

    Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Dehradun, an Autonomous Research Institute under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

  • Academic Qualification

    PhD in Geology, 2003, Osmania University, Hyderabad

  • Research interests

    Archean Geodynamics and Metallogeny

  • Field Of Specialization

    Petrology and Geochemistry

  • Professional Experience

    09/2026  - Till date Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
    07/2026 - 09/2026 Professor, CEOAS, University of Hyderabad
    10/2021 - 06/2026 Chief Scientist, CSIR-NGRI
    10/2015 - 10/2021 Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-NGRI
    10/ 2010 - 09/2015 Principal Scientist, CSIR-NGRI
    10/ 2006 - 09/ 2010 Senior Scientist, CSIR-NGRI
    10/ 2002  - 09/ 2006 Scientist-C, CSIR-NGRI
    10/ 1999 - 09/2002 Scientist-B, CSIR-NGRI

  • Honors and Awards

    • H H Read Memorial Gold Medal - 2025

    • Fellow - National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad

    • Bellur Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award-2025

    • National Geoscience Award-2024

    • Fellow - Telangana Academy of Sciences, Hyderabad

    • CSIR-Raman Research Fellowship - 2015

    • IGU-Krishnan Gold Medal - 2012

    • BOYSCAST Post-Doctoral Fellowship - 2007

    • Editorial Board Member, Lithos

  • Visiting Positions

    From To Institute Position
    04-2015 06/2015 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Raman Research Fellow
    09/2012 10/2012 John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Research Associate
    11/2011 12/2011 John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Research Associate
    04/2007 03/2008 Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada BOYSCAST Post-Doctoral Fellow

  • Student Mentoring

    PhD Supervision 7 (awarded) + 4 (ongoing)
    Post-Doc 2 (completed) + 3(ongoing)
    Master's Dissertation 12students from different universities across India

  • Projects actively involved

    • Plume-Arc interaction and evolution of the Mesoarchean Holenarsipur Nucleus, Karnataka, India (Role: Project Leader, DST-under FASTTRACK)

    • Exposing the gold potential of the Neoarchean “Himalaya” of the Dharwar Craton in southern India (Role: Co-Project Leader, DST-sponsored, Collaboration with Curtin University under AISRF program)

    • India Deep Earth Exploration Program (Role: WP Leader, CSIR 12th V year plan)

    • Petrology, geochemistry of the mafic - ultramafic and alkaline rocks of Dharwar Craton, Bundelkhand Craton; Central India and Deccan flood basalt province and mineralisation through space and time (Role: participant, Main Lab Project, CSIR)

    • Metallogenic Processes in selective Precambrian terranes of India (Role: Project Leader, FBR Project, CSIR funded)

    • Chronostratigraphic and Provenance analysis from the sub-surface samples of exploratory wells of Oil India Limited (Role: Project Leader, OIL funded)

  • Summary of citations

    (As on 27thSeptember 2026)

    Total Citations 3128
    h-index 27
    I 10-index 50

  • List of Publications

    • V P Rao, S S Babu, M. Ram Mohan (2026) An update on the geochemical composition of Peninsular India Rivers Average Clay (PIRAC): A regional reference for river sediments of Peninsular India. Minerals, v. 16, 985,

    • V P Rao, Waliur Rahaman, S S Babu, M. Ram Mohan (2026) Controls of lithology, weathering, and sediment sorting on the Sr-Nd isotopic composition of river bed sediments along the east coast of India. Journal of Earth System Science, v. 135, 246.
    • Md. Qasim1, S N Mahapatro, Aparajita Tripathi, M. Ram Mohan (2026) Petrology and mineral chemistry of Mesoproterozoic granitoids from the southwestern Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (CGGC), Central India: Physico-chemical conditions of crystallization. Journal of the Indian Geophysical Union, v. 30, pp. 364-384.
    • S. James, Saranya R. Chandran, J. Aswathi, Arun Bhadran, Drishya Girishbai, M. N. Praveen, Anil Chavan, Subhash Bhandari, M. Satyanarayanan, M. Ram Mohan, Dwijesh Ray, K. S. Sajinkumar (2025) Enhanced understanding of the K–Pg boundary in the Indian subcontinent: Petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical insights. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences,

    • Sameer Ranjan2, Ajay Dev Asokan, M. Ram Mohan*, M. Satyanarayan and D. Srinivasa Sarma (2025) Protocol for the in-situ U-Pb dating of zircon with high sample throughput and spatial resolution using LA HR ICP-MS: A case study on detrital zircon from the Cuddapah Basin. Journal of Earth System Sciences, v. 134, 204

    • Mohammed Qasim1, Mahapatro S N, Sameer Ranjan, Ajay Dev Asokan, Srinivasa Sarma D, Ram Mohan M* (2025) Zircon U-Pb age and petrogenetic constraints on granitic magmatism from the southwestern Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex: Implications for Proterozoic crustal growth in the Central India. Precambrian Research, v. 422, 107783

    • Babu S, Rao V P and Ram Mohan M (2025) Clay Mineralogy and Major and Trace Elements Chemistry of Recent Sediments in Rivers Along the West Coast of India: Implications for Provenance and Chemical Weathering. Minerals, v. 15 (1), 43;

    • Vikram Raju B V1, Ajay Dev Asokan, Xia X P, Cui Z, Arathi Panicker and Ram Mohan M* (2024) Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes constraints on the petrogenesis of Neoarchean granitic from the northeastern part of the Eastern Dharwar Craton, Southern India. Lithos, v. 488, 107807

    • Babu S S, Rao V P and Ram Mohan M (2024) Controls on the distribution and fractionation of rare earth elements in recent sediments from the rivers along the west coast of India. Environmental Earth Sciences, v. 83, 547

    • Panicker A G1, Ram Mohan M* and Ravi Shankar (2024) Transition from vertical to horizontal tectonic regime during the Paleoarchean-Mesoarchean: Evidence from mafic-ultramafic rocks of the Holenarsipur greenstone belt, Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India.Precambrian Research, v. 411, 107492

    • Doley B, Saha A, Ram Mohan M, Koushick Sen and Peketi A (2024) Petrogenesis of submarine volcanic arc rocks from Andaman subduction zone, Northeast Indian ocean: Constraints from slab components and mantle wedge characteristics. Chemical Geology,v. 659, 122118

    • Manikyamba C, Dewashish Upadhyay and Ram Mohan M (2024) Archean crustal evolution and craton formation in Peninsular India: New insights from the Singhbhum, Dharwar and Bastar cratons. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy,v. 90, pp. 167-195.

    • Sai Babu S, Prajith A, Purnachandra Rao V, Ram Mohan M, Ramana R V and Satyasree N (2024) Sources of rare earths and prospects for a viable REE deposit in river sediments of Kerala, southwest India: Sources of rare earths and prospects for a viable REE deposit in river sediments of Kerala, southwest India. Current Science, v. 126, 345-359, doi. 10.18520/cs/v126/i3/345-359
    • Verencar A, Saha A, Ganguly S, Satyanarayanan M and Ram Mohan M (2024) Geochemical dichotomy of Tethyan oceanic mantle and the supercontinent connection: Insights from Os isotopic signatures of mantle peridotites from Naga Hills ophiolite. Gondwana Research, v. 128, 424-438,

    • Ajay Dev Asokan1, Ram Mohan M, Mahapatro S N, Ravi Shankar and Rasheed K (2023) Petrogenesis of metavolcanics and detrital zircon geochronology of the Mesoarchean western Iron Ore Group supracrustals, Singhbhum Craton (India): Evidence for an intracontinental extension setting. Precambrian Research, v. 396, 107157,

    • Babu S, Prajith A, Rao V P, Ram Mohan M, Ramana R V, Satya Sree N (2023) Composition of river sediments from Kerala, southwest India: Inferences on lateritic weathering. Journal of Earth System Science, v. 132,

    • Ziem A Bidias2, Ram Mohan M, Chalapathi Rao N V and Moundi A (2023) Petrogenesis and geodynamic environment of the Recent pyroclastic deposits from Baigom and Petpenoun volcanoes of the Noun Plain, Cameroon Volcanic Line, Central Africa. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, v. 2, 100213,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Neal J McNaughton, Sarma D S, Rajamanickam M, Fletcher I R, Wilde S A, Rasmussen B, Krapez B, Balakrishnan S (2023) Petrogenesis of Meso-Neoarchean granitoids from the Chitradurga greenstone belt: Implications on crustal growth and reworking of the Dharwar Craton, southern India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,v. 242,

    • Vikram Raju, B1, Asokan AD, Rohit Pandey, PanickerAG and Ram Mohan M* (2022) Neoarchean crust–mantle interactions from the Eastern Dharwar Craton: Insights from mineral chemistry of the Nizamabad granites, southern India. Journal of Earth System Science, v. 131,

    • Doley B, Saha A, Verencar A and Ram Mohan M (2022) Melt generation and trace element fractionation of intermediate arc magma from Andaman subduction zone. Geochemistry, v. 82, 125899,

    • AG Panicker1, B Sai Kiran, B Vikram Raju, M Ram Mohan* (2022) Characterisation of serpentine polymorphs from the Holenarsipur Greenstone Belt, Western Dharwar Craton: Implications for multi-stage serpentinization. Journal of Earth System Science, v. 131,

    • Ntieche, B2, Nguet P W, Moundi A, Ram Mohan M, Mounjouohou M A, Atsalang CAS and Nchouwet Z (2022) Arc magmatism in the Nkoula granitoid suites, Central African Fold belt in Cameroon: evidence of a metasomatized high oxidized S-and I-type magma. International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 111, pp. 1223-1250,

    • Verencar A, Saha A, Ganguly S, Satyanarayanan M, Doley B and Ram Mohan, M (2022) Multistage melt impregnation in Tethyan oceanic mantle: Petrochemical constraints from channelized melt flow in the Naga Hills Ophiolite. Geochemistry, v. 82, 125821,

    • Ajay Dev Asokan1, Mahapatro SN, Ram Mohan M*, Rocholl A, Wiedenbeck M and Nanda JK (2021) Paleoarchean evolution of the Singhbhum Craton, eastern India: New constraints from geochemistry and geochronology of granitoids of Bonai and Champua area. Precambrian Research, v. 366, 106429,

    • Panicker A G1, Ram Mohan M*, Upadhyay D, Raju BV, Chauhan H and NVC Rao (2021) U-Pb zircon age, geochemistry and petrogenesis of Mesoarchean anorthositic rocks from the Holenarsipur greenstone belt, Western Dharwar Craton: Implications for accretionary tectonics in southern India. Lithos, v. 398,

    • Ram Mohan M, Sarma D.S, Tarun C Khanna, Satyanarayanan, M and Keshav Krishna, A (2021) Geochemical studies in India: CSIR-NGRI contributions. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 97, 1240-1250,

    • Ziem A Bidias2, Hiredya Chauhan, M Ram Mohan and N V C Rao (2021) Green core clinopyroxenes from basanites of Petpenoun volcanoes, Noun Plain, Cameroon volcanic line: chemistry and genesis. Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 83,

    • SK Sai Babu, VP Rao, N Satyasree, R Venkata Ramana, M Ram Mohan, S Sawant (2021) Mineralogy and geochemistry of the sediments in rivers along the east coast of India: Inferences on weathering and provenance. Journal of Earth System Sciences, v. 130,

    • Gajender Kumar, Santosh Kumar and M Ram Mohan (2021) Redox series assessment, petrogenetic, and geodynamic appraisal of Neoarchean granites from the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: Constraints from phase petrology and bulk rock geochemistry. Geological Journal, v. 10,

    • SK Sai Babu, R Venkata Ramana, VP Rao, M Ram Mohan, S Sawant, N Satyasree, A Keshav Krishna (2021) Rare earth elements of sediments in rivers and estuaries of the east coast of India. Current Science, v.120, 519-537,

    • Ntieche, B1, M. Ram Mohan, Moundi, A. Nguet, P W, Mounjouohou, A, Nchouwet Z, Mfepat D (2021) Petrochemical constraints on the origin and tectonic setting of mafic to intermediate dykes from Tikar plain, Central Cameroon Shear Zone. Springer Nature Applied Science, v. 3,

    • Ajay Dev Asokan1, Elangovan R, Vishwakarma N, Hari KR and Ram Mohan M* (2020) Petrogenesis of the Kanker granites from the Bastar Craton: Implications for the crustal growth and evolution during the Archean-Proterozoic transition. Frontiers in Earth Science8:212, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00212
    • Ajay Dev Asokan1, Kumar Krishna, Ram Mohan M* (2020) Petrogenesis of the Palaeoarchean Keonjhar Granite, Singhbhum Craton, India: product of crustal reworking or subduction? Current Science, v. 118, pp. 910-919,

    • Elangovan R1, Ajay Dev Asokan, Dinesh Pandit and Ram Mohan M* (2020) Magma chamber processes and geodynamic implications of the Pithora pluton, Bastar Craton, Central India. Geological Journal, v. 55, 2738-2759,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Ajay Dev Asokan and Simon Wilde (2020) Crustal Growth of Eastern Dharwar Craton: A Neoarchean collisional orogeny? Geological Society London Special Publication,v. 489, pp. 51-77,

    • B. Krapež, DS Sarma, M Ram Mohan, NJ McNaughton, B Rasmussen, SA Wilde (2020) Tectonostratigraphy of the Late Archean Dharwar Supergroup, Dharwar Craton, India: defining a tectonic history from spatially linked but temporally distinct intracontinental and arc-related basins. Earth Science Reviews,v. 201, 102966,

    • Babu SS, Ramana R V, Rao, V P, Ram Mohan M, Keshav Krishna A, Sawant SS, Satyasree N (2020) Composition of the peninsular India rivers average clay (PIRAC): A reference sediment composition for the upper crust from peninsular India. Journal of Earth System Sciences, v. 129,

    • Soumya Shukla1 and Ram Mohan, M* (2019) Magma mixing in Neoarchean granite from Nalgonda region, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: Morphological, mineralogical and geochemical evidences. Journal of Earth System Sciences, v. 28, pp. 71-98,

    • Elangovan R1, Kumar Krishna, Vishwakarma N, HariK and Ram Mohan M* (2017) Interaction of coeval felsic and mafic magmas from the Kanker granite, Pithora region, Bastar Craton, Central India. Journal of Earth System Sciences, v. 126, pp. 92-107,

    • Ntieche Benjamin2, Ram Mohan M*, and Maoundi A (2017) Granitoids of the Magba Shear Zone, west Cameroon, Central Africa: evidences for emplacement under transpressive tectonic regime. The Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 89, pp. 33-46,

    • Sheppard S, Rasmussen M, Zi J-W, Somasekhar V, Srinivasa Sarma D, Ram Mohan M, Krapez B, Wilde S A, McNaughton N J (2017) U–Pb dating of metamorphic monazite establishes a Pan-African age for tectonism in the Nallamalai Fold Belt, India. Journal of the Geological Society (London), v. 174, pp. 1062-1069,

    • Muller E, Philippot P, Rollion-Bard C, Cartigny P, Assayag N, Carbonne J, Ram Mohan M, Srinivasa Sarma D (2017) Primary sulfur isotope signatures preserved in high-grade Archean barite deposits of the Sargur Group, Dharwar Craton, India. Precambrian Research, v. 295, pp. 38-47,

    • Sheppard S, Rasmussen B, Zi J-W, Somasekhar V, Srinivasa Sarma D, Ram Mohan M, Krapež D, Wilde SA, McNaughton N J (2017) Sedimentation and magmatism in the Paleoproterozoic Cuddapah Basin, India: Consequences of lithospheric extension. Gondwana Research, v. 48, pp. 153-163,

    • Ntiéche, B1, Ram Mohan, M, Moundi, A and Mounjouohou, M A (2016) Petrogenesis and Geochemical Characterization of the Granitoids of the Magba Shear Zone West Cameroon Central Africa. Open Journal of Geology, v. 6, pp. 812-839,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Shaji E, Satyanarayanan M, Santosh M, Tsunogae T, Yang Q-Y, and Dhanil Dev SG (2016) Imprints of Marion hotspot in southern India: Evidence from Ezhimala igneous complex. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 121, pp. 56-71,

    • Santosh M, Yang Q-Y, Shaji E, Ram Mohan M, Tsunogae T and Satyanarayanan M (2016) Oldest rocks from Peninsular India: Evidence for Hadean to Neoarchean crustal evolution. Gondwana Research, v. 29, pp. 105-135,

    • Santosh M, Yang Q-Y, Shaji E, Tsunogae T, Ram Mohan M and Satyanarayanan M (2015) An exotic Mesoarchean microcontinent: The Coorg Block, southern India. Gondwana Research, v. 27, pp. 165-195,

    • Balaram V, Roy P, Subramanyam K SV, Durai L, Ram Mohan M, Satyanarayanan M, Sawant S.S, Kalyan Kamal and Vani K (2015) REE geochemistry of sea water from Afanassey-Nikitin seamount in north central Indian Ocean by High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, v. 44 (3)
    • Ram Mohan M*, Srinivasa Sarma D, McNaughtonN, Fletcher, I R, Wilde S A, SiddiquiM A, Rasmussen B, Krapez B, Gregory C and KamoS L (2014) SHRIMP zircon and titanite U-Pb ages, Lu-Hf isotope signatures and geochemical constraints for ~2.56 Ga granitic magmatism in western Dharwar Craton, southern India: Evidence for short-lived Neoarchean crustal growth? Precambrian Research, v. 243, pp. 197-220,

    • Santosh M, Yang Q-Y, Ram Mohan M, Tsunogae T, Shaji E, and Satyanarayanan M (2014) Cryogenian alkaline magmatism in the Southern Granulite Terrain, India: Petrology, geochemistry, zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopes. Lithos, v. 208-209, pp. 430-445,

    • Santosh M, Shaji E, Tsunogae T, Ram Mohan M, Satyanarayanan M and Horie K (2013) Suprasubduction zone ophiolite from Agali hill: Petrology, zircon SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry and implications for Neoarchean plate tectonics in southern India. Precambrian Research, v. 213, pp. 301-324,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Satyanarayanan M, Santosh M, Paul J Sylvester, Tubret, M and Lam R (2013) Neoarchean suprasubduction zone arc magmatism in southern India: Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of the Sittampundi Anorthosite Complex. Gondwana Research, v. 23, pp. 539-557,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Piercey SJ, Kamber BS and Sarma, DS (2013) Subduction related tectonic evolution of the Late Archean Eastern Dharwar Craton, southern India: New Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints, Precambrian Research, v. 227, pp. 204-226,

    • Balaram V, Banakar VN, Subramanyam KSV, Parijat Roy, Satyanarayanan M, Ram Mohan M and Sawant SS (2012) A preliminary note on Yttrium and REE contents in seamount cobalt crusts in the Indian Ocean. Current Science, v. 103, pp. 1334-1338,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Singh SP, Santosh M, Siddiqui MA and Balaram V (2012) TTG suite from the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: Geochemistry, petrogenesis and implications for Archean crustal evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 58, pp. 38-50,

    • Sarma DS, McNaughton NJ, Belusova E, Ram Mohan M, and Fletcher IR (2012) U–Pb ages and Hf-isotope systematics of detrital zircons from the Gadag greenstone belt: Implications for the Achaean crustal growth processes in the western Dharwar Craton, India.Gondwana Research, v. 22, pp. 843-854,

    • Sarma DS, Fletcher IR, Rasmussen B, McNaughtonNJ, Ram Mohan M and Groves DI (2011) Archean gold mineralization synchronous with late cratonisation of the Western Dharwar Craton, India: 2.52 Ga ages of hydrothermal monazite and xenotime in gold deposits. Mineralium Deposita, v. 46, pp. 273-288,

    • Sarma DS, Ram Mohan M, Prasad PSR (2010) Infrared spectroscopic studies on the mobility of metamorphic fluids in quartz veins of Dharwar Craton. Open Mineralogy Journal, v.4, pp. 1-8.
    • Naqvi SM, Ram Mohan M, Rana Prathap JG and Srinivasa SarmaD (2009) Adakite-TTG connection and the fate of Mesoarchean basaltic crust of Holenarsipur Nucleus, Dharwar Craton, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 35, pp. 416-434,

    • Charan SN, Babu EVSSK, Naqvi SM, Rana Prathap JG, Ram Mohan M and Srinivasa Sarma D (2009) REE-HFSE distribution/ partitioning between garnetiferous restites and TTG from Nademavinapura area, western Dharwar Craton. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 73, pp. 371-378,

    • Sarma D S, Neal McNaughton, Fletcher I R, Groves D I, Ram Mohan M and Balaram V (2008) The Timing of gold mineralization of Hutti gold deposit, Dharwar Craton, South India. Economic Geology, v. 103, pp. 1715-1727,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Kamber B S and Piercey SJ (2008) Boron and arsenic in highly evolved Archean magmas: Implications for Archean subduction zone processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 274, pp. 479-488,

    • Ram Mohan M*, Sarma D S, Rajasekhar VB, Charan SN, Balaram V and Talat Ahmad (2008) Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of amphibolites from the southern part of Gadag greenstone belt, Karnataka. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v.72, pp. 484-494,

    • Naqvi SM, Sarma D S, Sawkar R H, Ram Mohan M and Rana Prathap J G (2008) Role of adakitic magmatism and subduction in gold endowment of Dharwar Neoarchaean greenstone belts, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 71, pp. 875-888,

    • Sarma D S, Janet Muhling, Ram Mohan M and Neal J McNaughton (2008) Occurrence of Hydrothermal Phosphate Minerals in the Gold Mineralized Zones at Hutti Gold Deposit, Karnataka, South India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 71, pp. 223-228,

    • Naqvi SM, Khan RMK, Manikyamba C, Ram Mohan M and Tarun C Khanna (2006) Geochemistry of the Neoarchaean high-Mg basalts, boninites and adakites from Kushtagi-Hungund greenstone belt of eastern Dharwar Craton (EDC), consequence of arc-plume interaction. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 27, pp. 25-44,

    • Manikyamba C, Naqvi SM, Subba Rao DV, Ram Mohan M, Tarun C Khanna, Rao TG and Reddy GLN (2005) Boninites from the Neoarchaean Gadwal Greenstone belt, Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: implications for Archaean subduction processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 230, pp. 65– 83,

    • Manikyamba C, Robert Kerrich, Naqvi SM and Ram Mohan M (2004) Geochemical systematics of tholeiitic basalts from the 2.7 Ga Ramagiri-Hungund greenstone belt, Dharwar Craton: An intraoceanic arc. Precambrian Research, v. 134, pp.21-39,

    • Manikyamba C, Naqvi SM, Ram Mohan M and Gnaneshwar Rao, T (2004) Gold mineralisation and alteration of Penakacherla Schist Belt, India: Constraints on Archaean subduction and fluid processes. Ore Geology Reviews, v. 24, pp. 199-227,

    • Ram Mohan M* and Prasad, PSR (2002) FTIR Investigations on Fluid Interactions in Mesothermal Quartz-Gold Veins of Penakacherla Schist Belt, India, Current Science, v. 83, pp.755-760,

    • Naqvi SM, Manikyamba C, Gnaneshwar Rao T, Subba Rao DV, Ram Mohan M and Srinivasa Sarma D (2002) Geochemical and isotopic constraints of fossil plumes for the evolution of the volcanic rocks of Sandur greenstone belt, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India. v.60, pp.25-56,

    • Ramesh SL, Sunder Raju PV, Anjaiah KV, Ramavathi Mathur, Rao TG, Dasaram B, Charan SN, Subba Rao DV, Sarma DS, Ram Mohan M and Balaram V (2001) Determination of gold in rocks, ores, and other geological materials by atomic absorption techniques. Atomic Spectroscopy, v. 22, pp. 263-268
    • Balaram V, Sunder Raju PV, Ramesh SL, Anjaiah KV, Dasaram B, Manikyamba C, Ram Mohan M and Sarma DS (1999) Rapid partial dissolution method in combination with AAS techniques for use in geochemical exploration. Atomic Spectroscopy, v. 20, pp. 155-160

    1 Research Scholar as the lead author

    2Post-Doc as the lead author

    In Books with peer review process

    • Ram Mohan, M and Srinivasa Sarma, DS (2010) Geodynamics and Evolution of the Hutti-Maski greenstone belt: Link between Archean crustal evolution and gold mineralization, In Gold Metallogeny- India and Beyond(Ed: Mihir Deb and Goldfarb, R.J), pp. 191-204.

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