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Dr. Madhavan K.
Dr. Madhavan K.

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

DB 314 Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut

Home Address:

  • Ph.D. Metamorphic Petrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Thesis: Metamorphism and Monazite Geochronology of the Low Pressure Metamorphic Belt Near Ramanujganj, Western Chhotanagpur Terrane, Chhattisgarh)

  • Master of Science in Geology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Thesis: Fabric analysis in Meta Gabbro from Italy.)

  • Bachelor of Science in Geology, National College, Trichy, India

  • Educational Qualifications

    • Ph.D. Metamorphic Petrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Thesis: Metamorphism and Monazite Geochronology of the Low Pressure Metamorphic Belt Near Ramanujganj, Western Chhotanagpur Terrane, Chhattisgarh)

    • Master of Science in Geology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Thesis: Fabric analysis in Meta Gabbro from Italy.)

    • Bachelor of Science in Geology, National College, Trichy, India

    July 22 – Present                Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut

    September 21-June 22       Temporary Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, NITK Surathkal

    January-June 2021             Research Associate, Dept of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay             

    2012-2013                          National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR–NGRI, Hyderabad)

    Title: HEART PSC (Project Assistant Level-II)       

    June-July 2012                  Summer Intern, ONGC , Karaikal,Tamil Nadu,  India

    Publication

    2020

    Chaurasia, C., Madhavan, K., Thakur, S.S., Patel, S.C., Samal, A.K., Nema, S., Dixit, P.K. (2020). Occurrence and stability of allanite and monazite in the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Dhauliganga valley, Garhwal Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 96, pp. 557–564

    Sheikh, J.M., Patel, S.C., Champati, A.K., Madhavan, K., Behera, D., Naik, A., Gerdes, A. (2020). Nepheline syenite intrusions from the Rengali Province, eastern India: Integrating geological setting, microstructures, and geochronological observations on their syntectonic emplacement. Precambrian Research, v. 346: 105802 

     

     

    2018

    Thakur, S.S., Madhavan, K., Patel, S.C., Rameshwar Rao, D., Singh, A.K., Pandey, S., Nandini, P. (2018). Yttrium-zoning in garnet and stability of allanite in metapelites from the Main Central Thrust Zone and adjacent Higher Himalayan Crystallines along the Alaknanda Valley, NW Himalaya. Lithos, v. 320–321, pp. 1–19

    2017

    Deshmukh, T., Prabhakar, N., Bhattacharya, A., Madhavan, K. (2017). Late Paleoproterozoic clockwise P–T history in the Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Implications for Columbia supercontinent assembly. Precambrian Research, v. 298, pp. 56–78

    2016-2019                            Senior Research Fellowship by MHRD, Govt. of India

    2013-2015                             Junior Research Fellowship by MHRD, Govt. of India

    2010-2012                            Institute Inspire Scholarship by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

    Selected for Officer Trainee (E-1) post in Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (A Govt. of India Enterprise)

    Qualified UGC NET (AIR-96) and Lectureship (2013)

    Qualifed GATE 2013 Entrance exam

    Qualified JAM 2010 Entrance exam

    Teaching courses at NIT Calicut

    • CE2005D: Engineering Geology
    • CE6426: Landslide Mitigation Methods

    Teaching courses at NITK Surathkal

    • CV202: Engineering Geology
    • CV218: Mining Geology Lab 

    Teaching Assistanhip at IIT Bombay

    • GS430: Metamorpic petrology Lab
    • GS318: Applied Geology for Civil Engineers Lab

    Workshop attened:

    Sept 2011                     Workshop on “Log Analysis” at IIT Kharagpur

                                      (Instructor: Prof. Max Mille, TOTAL Professeurs Associes, Paris, France)

    January 2013               DST- Sponsored National Training on “Geochemical Modelling in Igneous Petrogenesis:                                                 An Introduction to GCDkit”

     

    Conference:

     

               C Chaurasia, S Thakur, K Madhavan, S Patel, A Samal - AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2021

     

    • Records of near-isothermal decompression and clockwise P–T history from the Paleoproterozoic Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Constraints from pseudosection modelling and monazite geochronology

               Tanzil Deshmukh (1), Prabhakar Naraga (1), Abhijit Bhattacharya (2), and Madhavan Kaliappan (1) 

               EGU General Assembly 2017

    Consultany works:

    1) Landslide Proneness study, impact of traffic and transportation and impactof impoundments in the vicinity of proposed quarry at Kannamangalam village, Malappuram District Kerala.

    2) Landslide susceptibility due to the existing slope and drainage scenario of the project by Thriuvambadi rocks Private Limited, Calicut, Kerala.

    3) Test of permeability test on (Gravel+crushed aggregate mix) for usage in NH 66 road works.