M.P. Manu Prasanth

College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China| Tel: +86-17786445393

Email: manu@yangtzeu.edu.cn

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Personal information

Designation: Associate Professor

Date of Birth 1993/01/27

Address (Official): Office 517, Hubei Key Laboratory of Petroleum Geochemistry and Environment, College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China

EXPERIENCE

January 2025 – to the present day Associate Professor, College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, China

1st August 2021 – 31st December 2024 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Province of China

12th June 2019 – 31st July 2021 Postdoctoral fellow, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China

January 2019 – June 2019 Temporary Faculty, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Geology

(2015/September/09 – 2018/December/14)  Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India,

Thesis title: Petrogenetic study of the mafic and ultramafic rocks of Sonakhan greenstone belt, northeastern fringes of Bastar craton-implications for the crustal evolution.

Master of Science in Applied Geology

(June/2013 – May/2015) Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Bachelor of Science in Geology

(June/2010 - April/2013) University of Kerala, India

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Young Scientist Award-2018, Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology, under the discipline of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• Qualified CSIR/UGC-NET in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, December 2014, Reg no: 201552

• Qualified CSIR/UGC-NET in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, June 2014, Reg no:208118

ACADEMIC-RELATED SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

• Guest editor of the special issue in Frontiers in Geochemistry: Developments in our Understanding of Upper Mantle Derived from Peridotites (2025)

• Review editor in Frontiers in Geochemistry (2024 onwards)

• Guest editor of Special Topic in Frontiers in Earth Science: Developments in the Lithospheric Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Region (2023)

• Reviewed manuscripts for Lithos, Precambrian Research, Geology, Icarus, Gondwana Research, Journal of Geodynamics, Geological Journal, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Canadian Mineralogist, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, Geological Magazine, Frontiers in Earth Science, Communications Earth & Environment, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Journal of the Geological Society, The Journal of Geology, Journal of the Geological Society of India, Minerals, Scientific Reports, Island Arc, International Geology Review, Journal of Petrology, Geochemical Journal, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Chemical Geology and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

PUBLICATIONS

1. Zhu Xin, Xiao-Ping Xia, Jian Xu, Qing Yang, Zexian Cui, M.P. Manu Prasanth (2025),

Petrogenesis of early carboniferous and early Permian mafic intrusions in the Nanpanjiang Basin, SW China: Implications for northward subduction of the East Paleo-Tethys Ocean and back-arc basin formation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 287, 106597.

2. Yue, Yu-Fan, Xiao-Ping Xia, Pengfei Li, Bin He, Touping Peng, Min Sun, Jian Xu, and M.P. Manu Prasanth (2025). Revisiting the high temperature Darongshan-Shiwandashan granitoids in the South China: A response to slab tearing associated with diachronous collision between Indochina and South China blocks. Lithos, 107898.

3. Shellnutt, J. Gregory, Meng-Wan Yeh, Tung-Yi Lee, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Wei-Yu Chen & M. P. Manu Prasanth (2024). Sub-arc mantle heterogeneity of the Northern Luzon Volcanic Arc: mineral and whole rock compositional variability in mantle xenoliths from Lutao Island. Journal of Petrology (https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae037)

4. Shellnutt, J. Gregory., Meng-Wan, Yeh., Manu Prasanth, M. P., & Van-Duong, Nguyen. (2023). Editorial: Developments in the Lithospheric Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Region. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1327712.

5. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Sharma, A. S. P., Santosh, M., Yang, C. X., & Hari, K. R. (2023). Insights into the petrogenetic evolution of the Khallari layered intrusion and coeval granites of the Paleoproterozoic Dongargarh Supergroup, Bastar Craton, India. Precambrian Research, 391, 107040.

6. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Pang, K. N., Hari, K. R., Sahoo, B. B., Ravindran, A., & Iizuka, Y. (2023). Geochemistry of Precambrian dyke swarms in the Singhbhum craton, India: Implications for recycled crustal components in the mantle source. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1092823.

7. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Shellnutt, J. G., & Lee, T. Y. (2022). Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle. Earth-Science Reviews, 226, 103928.

8. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Shellnutt, J. G., Hari, K. R., Chalapathi Rao, N. V., & Hou, G. (2021). Platinum‐group element and Au geochemistry of an ultramafic intrusion from the Sonakhan greenstone belt, Bastar craton, Central India: Tectono‐magmatic implications. Geological Journal, 56(11), 5550-5563.

9. Shellnutt, J. G., Ur Rehman, H., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2022). Insight into crustal contamination and hydrothermal alteration of the Panjal Traps (Kashmir) from O-isotopes. International Geology Review, 64(11), 1556-1573.

10. Shellnutt, J. G., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2021). Modeling results for the composition and typology of non-primary venusian anorthosite. Icarus, 366, 114531.

11. Santosh, M., Tsunogae, T., Yang, C. X., Han, Y. S., Hari, K. R., Manu Prasanth, M. P., & Uthup, S. (2020). The Bastar craton, central India: A window to Archean–Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution. Gondwana Research, 79, 157-184.

12. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Hari, K. R., & Santosh, M. (2019). Tholeiitic basalts of Deccan large igneous province, India: An overview. Geological Journal, 54(5), 2980-2993.

13. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Hari, K. R., Chalapathi Rao, N. V., Santosh, M., Hou, G., Tsunogae, T., & Pandit, D. (2019). Neoarchean suprasubduction zone magmatism in the Sonakhan greenstone belt, Bastar Craton, India: Implications for subduction initiation and melt extraction. Geological Journal, 54(6), 3980-4000.

14. Hari, K. R., Manu Prasanth, M. P., Swarnkar, V., Kumar, J. V., & Randive, K. R. (2018). Evidence for the contrasting magmatic conditions in the petrogenesis of A-type granites of Phenai Mata Igneous complex: implications for felsic magmatism in the Deccan large Igneous Province. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 98, 379-399.

15. Hari, K. R., Swarnkar, V., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2018). Significance of assimilation and fractional crystallization (AFC) process in the generation of basaltic lava flows from Chhotaudepur area, Deccan Large Igneous Province, NW India. Journal of Earth System Science, 127(6), 85.

16. Santosh, M., Hari, K. R., He, X. F., Han, Y. S., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2018). Oldest lamproites from Peninsular India track the onset of Paleoproterozoic plume-induced rifting and the birth of Large Igneous Province. Gondwana Research, 55, 1-20.

17. Deshmukh, S. D., Hari, K. R., Diwan, P., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2018). Geochemical constraints on the tectonic setting of the sonakhan greenstone belt, Bastar craton, Central India. Acta Geochimica, 37, 489-499.

18. Manu Prasanth, M. P., Hari, K. R., Chalapathi Rao, N. V., Hou, G., & Pandit, D. (2018). An island‐arc tectonic setting for the Neoarchean Sonakhan Greenstone Belt, Bastar Craton, Central India: Insights from the chromite mineral chemistry and geochemistry of the siliceous high‐Mg basalts (SHMB). Geological Journal, 53(4), 1526-1542.

19. Deshmukh, S. D., Hari, K. R., Diwan, P., & Manu Prasanth, M. P. (2017). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of felsic meta-volcanic rocks of Baghmara Formation, Sonakhan Greenstone Belt, Central India. Journal of Geosciences Research. 2(1), 69-74.

20. S. D. Deshmukh, K. R. Hari, P. Diwan & Manu Prasanth M. P. (2017). Salient features of greenstone belts of India with special reference to Sonakhan greenstone belt, Central India. SGAT Bulletin, 18: 21-33.