INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

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Kajaljyoti Borah

Associate Professor
Dept: Earth Sciences (DES)
E-mail: kajal.borah [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Sarma, Banashree; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Bora, Dipok K. and Anand, Aakash. 2022."Seismic b-value reduction prior to the 28th April 2021, Mw 6.5 Sonitpur earthquake of Assam Valley." Journal of Earth System Science, 131, 1-13
  2. Mukherjee, Pousali; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Yadav, Alok. 2022."Crustal Structure beneath the Precambrian Cratons of Gondwanaland and Its Evolution Using Teleseismic Receiver Function." Lithosphere, 2022, 1-22
  3. Vengala, Pavan K; Gupta, Sandeep K; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Prakasam, K S and Rai, S S. 2022."Seismic anisotropy beneath the Kumaun–Garhwal Himalaya using core-refracted shear wave phases." Geological Journal International, 229, 1978-1989
  4. Bora, Dipok K; Singh, A P; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Anand, Aakash; Biswas, Rajib and Mishra, O P. 2022."Crustal Structure Beneath the Indo-Burma Ranges from the Teleseismic Receiver Function and Its Implications for Dehydration of the Subducting Indian Slab." Pure and Applied Geophysics, 179, 197-216
  5. Bora, Dipok K.; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Singh, A P and Mishra, O P. 2021."Distribution of b?values in Indo?Burma Ranges, northeast India: Implications to structural heterogeneities and style of faulting." Geological Journal, 2021, 4857-5373
  6. Bora, Dipok K.; Mukherjee, Pousali; Singh, A P; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Biswas, Rajib. 2021."Source parameters and scaling relations for small to moderate earthquakes in the Indo?Burma Ranges, North?east India, and its seismotectonic implications." Geological Journal, 57, 863-876
  7. Mukherjee, Pousali; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Bora, Dipok K.. 2019."Nature of crust beneath Sri Lanka using teleseismic receiver function." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 187, 104096
  8. Anand, Aakash; bora, Dipok; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Borgohain, Jayanta Madhab. 2018."Seismological evidence of the Hales discontinuity in northeast India." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 154, 238-247
  9. Borgohain, Jayanta Madhab; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Biswas, Rajib and Bora, Dipok. 2018."Seismic b-value anomalies prior to the 3rd January 2016, Mw=6.7 Manipur earthquake of northeast India." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 154, 42-48
  10. Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K. F.; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Gaur, V. K.. 2018."Crustal Structure and Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Plate Boundary System, Northeast India (in press)." Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), 123, 621-640
  11. Bora, Dipok; Hazarika, Devajit; Paul, Arpita; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Borgohain, Jayanta Madhab. 2018."Shear-Wave Splitting and Crustal Anisotropy in the Shillong–Mikir Plateau of Northeast India." Pure and Applied Geophysics, 175, 243-255
  12. Bora, Dipok; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Mahanta, Riku and Borgohain, Jayanta Madhab. 2018."Seismic b-values and its correlation with Seismic Moment and Bouguer Gravity Anomaly over Indo-Burma ranges of northeast India: Tectonic Implications." Tectonophysics, 728, 130-141
  13. Borgohain, J. M.; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Bora, D. K.. 2018."Sediment thickness beneath Shillong-Mikir plateau and its adjoining region of northeast India inferred from Teleseismic Receiver Function Modelling." Himalayan Geology, 39, 11-20
  14. Hazarika, Devajit; Wadhawan, M.; Paul, A.; Kumar, N. and Borah, Kajaljyoti. 2017."Geometry of the Main Himalayan Thrust and Moho beneath Satluj valley, Northwest Himalaya: constraints from receiver function analysis." J.Geophs. Res., 122, 2929-2945
  15. Chaudhuri, Kuntal; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Gupta, Sandip. 2016."Seismic evidence of crustal low velocity beneath Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt, India." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 261, 207-216
  16. Gupta, Sandeep; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Saha, Gokul. 2016."Continental like crust beneath the Andaman Island through joint inversion of receiver function and surface wave from ambient seismic noise." Tectonophysics, 687, 129-138
  17. Borah, Kajaljyoti; Bora, Dipok K.; Goyal, Ayush and Kumar, Raju. 2016."Crustal structure beneath northeast India inferred from Receiver Function modeling." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 258, 15-27
  18. Bora, Dipok K; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Goyal, Ayush. 2016."Crustal shear-wave velocity structure beneath Sumatra from receiver function modeling." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 121, 127-138
  19. Saikia, Utpal; Rai, S.S.; M., R.; V., B.N. and Borah, Kajaljyoti. 2016."Moho offsets beneath the Western Ghat and the contact of Archean crusts of Dharwar Craton, India." Tectonophysics, 673, 177-189
  20. Borah, Kajaljyoti; Kanna, N.; Rai, S. S. and Prakasam, K. S.. 2015."Sediment thickness beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Sivalik Himalaya inferred from Receiver Function Modelling." J. Asian Earth. Sc., 99, 41-56
  21. Saikia, U.; Rai, S. S.; Subrahmanyam, M.; Dutta, S.; Bose, S.; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Meena, R.. 2014."Accurate location and focal mechanism of earthquakes near Idukki Reservoir, Kerala, Southern India." Curr. Sc., 107, 1885-1891
  22. Bora, D.; Hazarika, D.; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Rai, S. S. and Baruah, S.. 2014." Crustal Shear-wave Velocity Structure beneath Northeast India from teleseismic Receiver Function Analysis." J. Asian Earth. Sc., 90, 1-14
  23. Borah, Kajaljyoti; Rai, S. S.; Gupta, S.; Prakasam, K. S.; Kumar, S. and Sivaram, K.. 2014."Preserved and modified mid-Archean crustal blocks in Dharwar Craton: Seismological evidence." Precam. Res., 246, 16-34
  24. Borah, Kajaljyoti; Rai, S. S.; Priestley, K. and Gaur, V. K.. 2014."Complex shallow mantle beneath the Dharwar craton inferred from Rayleigh wave inversion." Geophys. J. Int., 198, 1055-1070
  25. Borah, Kajaljyoti; Rai, S. S.; Priestley, K. and Gaur, V. K.. 2014."Seismic Imaging of Crust beneath the Dharwar Craton, India from Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Receiver Function modeling." Geophys. J. Int., 197, 748-767
  26. Rai, S. S.; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Das, R.; Gupta, S.; Shalivahan; Prakasam, K. S.; Sivaram, K.; Kumar, S. and Meena, R. 2013." The South India Precambrian crust and shallow lithospheric mantle: initial results from the India Deep Earth Imaging Experiment (INDEX)." J. Earth Sys. Sci, 122, 1435-1453
  27. Mandal, N.; Chakravarty, K. H.; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Rai, S. S.. 2012."Is a cation ordering transition of the Mg-Fe olivine phase in the mantle responsible for the shallow mantle seismic discontinuity beneath the Indian Craton?." J. Geophys. Res., 117, 1-12