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Dr. Neil R. Banerjee

IODP Expeditions

• Expedition 312: Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 3
• Expedition 309: Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 2

Previous Research Expeditions

• ODP Leg 206: Superfast Spreading Crust (Publications)
• ODP Leg 192: Basement Drilling of the Ontong Java Plateau (Publications)

Research

• Publications
• General research interests: biogeochemical effects of water-rock-microbial interactions, microbial alteration of modern and ancient oceanic crust, evidence for early life on Earth, formation and evolution of oceanic crust, geochemical cycling at mid-ocean ridges, element mobilization in magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits, formation of massive sulfide deposits at mid-ocean ridges, trace-element modeling of minerals resulting from fluid-rock exchange, and the origin and emplacement of ophiolites

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC)