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
Currently teaching:
Meteorites and Planets (Freshman Topics)
Gas Prices and Petroleum Geology (Honors College Interdisciplinary Seminar)
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 and tectonics of India.
Regolith and comparative planetary geology.
Graduate Student Projects
On any of the above topics.
Undergraduate Projects and Opportunities
On any of the above topics.
Representative Publications
New U-Pb SHRIMP zircon ages of the Dhamda Tuff in the Mesoproterozoic Chhattisgarh Basin, Peninsular India: stratigraphic implications and significance of a 1-Ga thermal-magmatic event by Marion E. Bickford, Abhijit Basu, Arunangshu Mukherjee, Jack Hietpas, Juergen Schieber, Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Ranjan Kumar Ray, Rajeeva Guhey, Purbasha Bhattacharya, and Pratap Chandra Dhang: Journal of Geology, v. 119, pp. 535-548 DOI: 10.1086/661193 (2011)
Depositional history of the Chhattisgarh Basin, central India: Constraints from new SHRIMP zircon ages by M. E. Bickford, Abhijit Basu, Sarbani Patranabis-Deb, Pratap C. Dhang, and Juergen Schieber: Journal of Geology, v. 119, pp. 33-50 DOI: 10.1086/657300 (2011)
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).
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)
Comparative geology of Earth, Mars, and Moon during the first ~1.5Ga of their evolution by Mihaela Glamoclija and Abhijit Basu: Transactions, Mining, Metallurgical and Geological Institute, v. 103, pp. 30-82 (2007).
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Recent Awards and Honors
Herman B Wells Endowed Professorship, Indiana University, 2003-
Felicitations, National Geophysical Research Institute and Indian Society of Applied Geochemists, 2007
Recent Service
Foreign Secretary, Indian Society of Applied Geochemistry, 2011 - present
Associate Editor, Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2009 - present
Member, Editorial and Advisory Boards, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, 2008- present
Member, Editorial Board, Periodico di Mineralogia, 2008 – present
Foreign Secretary, Indian Association of Sedimentologists, 1990 - present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Geochemistry, 2008 - 2011
Member, Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Precambrian Accretionary Orogens (Delhi, Feb 2011), 2010-2011
Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Paleoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution (Kolkata, Nov 2009), 2009
Member, Science Board, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, University of "G.d'Annunzio", Italy, 1999 - 2009
Laboratory Facilities
Use Departmental SEM, EMPA, XRD, etc.
