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Geochronological and metal isotopic studies in India: an overview of new and existing geoanalytical facilities in India

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This manuscript enlists Indian research laboratories that are equipped with sophisticated instrumental facilities to cater the needs of Indian geoscientific community for high precision metal isotopic and geochronologic measurements. This status report of 2020–2024 includes research outcomes of these facilities in India that are aggressively producing high quality isotopic and geochronologic data for improving our understanding about the Earth and its geologic processes. In this report, key publications and research findings are presented, based on data produced exclusively in Indian laboratories. There has been a huge jump in research activities and high impact publications that incorporates high precision metal isotopic composition and geochronologic applications during the past 4 years. This has been possible through generous funding from government agencies to bolster cutting-edge research by the Indian geoscientific communities.

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PKM, PK & SC sincerely thank INSA and Prof. DM Banerjee for giving this opportunity to prepare this important report on the development in metal isotopic & geochronologic research in India during the last 4 years. PK and SC would like to thank Ministry of Earth Sciences for generous funding to create National Geochronology Facility at IUAC and Director IUAC for his encouragement.

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  1. National Geochronology Facility, Inter University Accelerator Center (IUAC), New Delhi, India

    P. K. Mukherjee, Pankaj Kumar & S. Chopra

  2. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India

    S. Singhal, Paramjeet Singh & S. Das

  3. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

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  4. National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India

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    J. K. Thomson

  6. Formerly at Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

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Mukherjee, P.K., Kumar, P., Singhal, S. et al. Geochronological and metal isotopic studies in India: an overview of new and existing geoanalytical facilities in India. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-024-00262-5

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