Sreejith Chettootty

The areas of research that currently I am interested in are classified into applications of the tools of metamorphic and magmatic petrology; geochemistry; and geochronology to decipher evolutionary history of planet. My expertise in these fields include structural and petrological field mapping of high-grade gneiss terrains, systematic sampling and analysis in extremely complex migmatitic terrains, and thermodynamic modelling of metamorphic phases. The research problem I am involved at present addresses the fundamental problems of planetary science that “when did plate tectonics begin?” or more precisely, when exactly did the modern-style plate tectonics took over from an earlier style of tectonics and why such tectonics are missing in other planetary bodies.