Abhijit Basu
Professor
Sedimentary Geology
Office: GY521
Phone: 812-855-6654
Email: basu@indiana.edu
Educational Background
- Ph.D., 1975, Indiana University
- M.Sc., 1961, Calcutta University
Research Interests
Sedimentary Provenance, Processes and Products on Earth, Moon, Mars and Meteorite Parent Bodies; Proterozoic Sedimentary Geology of India
Courses Taught (Recent)
Meteorites and Planets (Freshman Topics)
Gas Prices and Petroleum Geology (Honors College Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Proterozoic Sedimentary Basins (Graduate)
Teaching Philosophy
Learning is the only goal of the process we call teaching; and, students are always right.
Recent Research Projects
Revision of Proterozoic geology of present-day India.
Regolith and comparative planetary geology.
Siliciclastic provenance and sequence stratigraphy
Graduate Student Projects
On any of the above topics.
Undergraduate Projects and Opportunities
On any of the above topics.
Representative Publications
207Pb/206Pb SHRIMP ages of detrital zircons in the Mesoproterozoic Chhattisgarh basin, central India, aid in identifying relative low-stand and high-stand sandstones by Abhijit Basu, Marion E Bickford, Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, and Pratap Dhang: Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Prog., v. 41, Paper 211-7 in CD-ROM (2009) (full ms. under preparation)
Ediacaran fossils in Meso- and Paleoproterozoic rocks in peninsular India extend Darwin by Abhijit Basu: Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 73, pp. 528-537 (2009).
Almandine garnet phenocrysts in a ~1 Ga rhyolitic tuff from central India by Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Juergen Schieber and Abhijit Basu: Geological Magazine, v. 146, pp. 133-143 (2009).
Stratigraphic position of the ~1000 Ma Sukhda Tuff (Chhattisgarh Supergroup, India) and the 500 Ma question by Abhijit Basu, Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Juergen Schieber, and Pratap C. Dhang: Precambrian Research, v. 167, pp. 383-388 (2009).
A working hypothesis on the Mesoproterozoic ages in India and its impact on some global concepts by Abhijit Basu: Journal of Applied Geochemistry, v. 11, pp. 43-57 (2009).
The Proterozoic puzzle of peninsular India by Abhijit Basu: Journal of Applied Geochemistry, v. 10, no. 2, pp. 201-202, (2008); also by invitation in Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 71, no. 5, pp. 752-753 (2008).
SHRIMP ages of zircon in the uppermost tuff in Chattisgarh Basin in central India require ~500Ma adjustment in Indian Proterozoic stratigraphy by Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, M. E. Bickford, Barbara Hill, Asru K. Chaudhuri and : Journal of Geology, v. 115, pp. 407-415 (2007)
Discussion and Reply: Journal of Geology, v. 116, pp. 540-542 (2008).
Comparative geology of Earth, Mars, and Moon during the first ~1.5Ga of their evolution by Mihaela Glamoclija and : Transactions, Mining, Metallurgical and Geological Institute, v. 103, pp. 30-82 (2007).
A perspective on quantitative provenance analysis by : in “Quantitative Provenance Analysis in Italy”: Memoir 61, Geological Survey of Italy, pp. 11-22 (2004).
Heterogeneous agglutinitic glass and the fusion of the finest fraction (F3) model by Susan J. Wentworth and David S. McKay: Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v. 37, pp. 1835-1842 (2002).
*Write to Basu for a complete list
Awards and Honors
Herman B Wells Endowed Professorship, Indiana University, 2003-2008
Felicitations, National Geophysical Research Institute and the Indian Society of Applied
Geochemists, 2007
Distinguished Service Award, Geological Society of America, 2006.
Distinguished Service Award, Indiana University, 1997
Distinguished Service Award, Cultural Association of Bengal (North America), 1994
Fulbright-Smithmund Grant, U.S. Educational Foundation, 1971
Service
Member, Editorial and Advisory Boards, International Journal of Earth Sciences and
Engineering, 2008- present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Geochemistry, 2008 - present
Member, Editorial Board, Periodico di Mineralogia, 2008 – present
Science Editor, Geological Society of America Books, 1996 – 2006
Member, Science Board, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, University of "G.d'Annunzio", Italy, 1999-present.
Member, Publications Committee, Geol. Soc. Am. 1996-2006
Panelist, NASA Grant Review Panel (PIDDP, 2001; LASER, 2008; NLSI, 2008)
Member, Scientific Organizing Committee, Conference on Earth-Moon Relationships, Academia Galileiana, University of Padova, Italy, 2000.
Co-Editor, Quantitative Provenance Studies in Italy, Memoir of the Geological Survey of Italy,
(2004)
Associate Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology/Research, 1993-1999.
Associate Editor, Proc. Lunar Science Conference 7th, 1976.
Associate Editor, Proc. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 12th, 1981.
President (& President-elect), Sigma Xi, I.U. Chapter, 1986-87 (1985-86) and 2005-06 (2003-05).
Laboratory Facilities
Use Departmental SEM, EMPA, XRD, etc.
