Asish Basu - PhD University of California, Davis 1975

Publications


2008



S.B. Shirey, B.S. Kamber, M.J. Whitehouse, P.A. Mueller and A.R. Basu, A Review of the isotopic evidence for mantle and crustal processes in the Hadean and Archean: Implications for the onset of plate tectonic subduction, Special Paper, Geological Society of America, in press, 2008.


2007



R.Chakrabarti, A.R.Basu, and A. Chakrabarti, Trace Element and Nd-isotopic Evidence for Sediment Sources in the Mid-Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin, Central India, Precambrian Research, v 159 ( 3), 260-274, 2007.

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R. Chakrabarti, P. A. Abanda, R. E. Hannigan, and A. R. Basu, Effects of diagenesis on the Nd-isotopic composition of black shales from the 420 Ma Utica Shale Magnafacies, Chemical Geology, v244, 221-231, 2007.

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R. Chakrabarti, A. R. Basu, and D. K. Paul, Nd-Hf-Sr-Pb and trace element geochemistry of Proterozoic lamproites from southern India: Subducted komatiite in the source, Chemical Geology, v 236, 291-302, 2007.

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2006



R. Chakrabarti, A. R. Basu, and Arundhuti Ghatak, Reply To: Comments on "Trace Element and Isotopic Evidence for Archean Basement in the Lonar Crater Impact Breccia, Deccan Volcanic Province" by Ramananda Chakrabarti and Asish R. Basu, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v250, 669-670, 2006.

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R. Chakrabarti, and A. R. Basu, Trace Element and Isotopic Evidence for Archean Basement in the Lonar Crater Impact Breccia, Deccan Volcanic Province, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v247, 197-211, 2006.

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2005



A. Saha, A. R. Basu, S.B. Jacobson, R.J. Poreda, Q.-Z. Yin, and G.M. Yogodzinski, Slab devolatilization and Os and Pb mobility in the mantle wedge of the Kamchatka arc, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v236, 182-194, 2005.

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A. Saha, A.R. Basu, J.Wakabayashi and G.L. Wortman, Geochemical evidence for subducted infant arc in Franciscan high-grade tectonic blocks, Bulletin Geological Society of America, v117, 9/10, 1318-1335, 2005.

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C.Garzioni, M.J.Ikari, and A.R.Basu, Sources of Oligocene to Pliocene sedimentary rocks in the Linxia basin in northeastern Tibet from Nd isotopes: Implications for tectonic forcing of climate, Bulletin Geological Society of America, v117, 9/10, 1156-1166, 2005.

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2004



A.Saha, A.R.Basu, C.N.Garzioni, P.K.Bandyopadhyay, and A. Chakrabarti, Geochemical and petrological evidence for subduction-accretion processes in the Archean Eastern Indian Craton, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220,91-106, 2004.

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L. Becker, R.J. Poreda, A.R. Basu, K.O. Pope, T.M. Harrison, C. Nicholson, R. Iasky, Bedout: A Possible End-Permian Impact Crater Offshore of Northwestern Australia, Science, v304, 1469-1476, 2004.

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O.Katz, M.Beyeth, N.Miller, R.Stern, A.R.Basu and A.D.Anbar, A late Neoproterozoic high-magnesian andesite from southern Israel : Implications for the consolidation of Gondwana, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218,475-490, 2004.

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2003



Dowling, C.B., Poreda, R.J. and Basu, A.R., 2003. The groundwater geochemistry of the Bengal Basin; weathering, chemsorption, and trace metal flux to the oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(12): 2117-2136.

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Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Asish R. Basu, and Kshitij M. Kulkarni, 2003.Comment on "Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh" (I), Science, 300: 584 (in Technical Comments).

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Basu, A.R., Petaev, M.I, Poreda.R.J. and Jacobsen, S.B, Becker.L., 2003. Chondritic meteorite fragments associated with the Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica. Science, 302(5649): 1388-1392.

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2002



Charles F. Harvey, Asish R. Basu, Stein B. Jacobsen, Robert J. Poreda, Carolyn B. Dowling, and Pradeep K. Aggarwal, 2002.Groundwater Flow in the Ganges Delta, Science, 296: 1563 (in Technical Comments).

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A.R.Basu, S.B. Jacobsen, R.J. Poreda, C.B. Dowling and P.K. Aggarwal, Groundwater Flow in the Ganges Delta, Reply to Comments by C.F. Harvey, Science, v296,1563A, 2002.



Dowling, C.B., Poreda, R.J., Basu, A.R., Peters, S.L. and Aggarwal, P.K., 2002. Geochemical study of arsenic release mechanisms in the Bengal Basin groundwater. Water Resources Research, 38, no. 9(9).

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2001



Basu, A.R. and Premo, W.R., 2001. U-Pb age of the Diana Complex and Adirondack granulite petrogenesis. Recent researches in petrology and geochemistry, 110(4): 385-395.



Hannigan, R.E., Basu, A.R. and Teichmann, F., 2001. Mantle reservoir geochemistry from statistical analysis of ICP-MS trace element data of equatorial Mid-Atlantic MORB glasses. Chemical Geology, 175(3-4): 397-428.

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Basu,A.R., Jacobsen, S.B., Poreda, R.J., Dowling, C.B., and Aggarwal, P.K.,2001.Large Groundwater Strontium Flux to the Oceans from the Bengal Basin and the Marine Strontium Isotope Record, Science,; 293: 1470-1473.

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2000



P.K. Aggarwal, A.R. Basu, R.J. Poreda, K.M. Kulkarni and others, Isotope Hydrology of Ground Water in Bangladesh, International Atomic Energy Agency Technical Collaboration Project Report: BGD/8/016, Vienna, 61p, 2000 (Work performed under IAEA Project BGD-8-016).


1998



Basu, A.R., Hannigan, R.E., and Jacobsen, S.B., 1998, Melting of the Siberian mantle plume, Geophysical Research Letters, 25:12, 2209-2212.

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Hannigan, R.E. and Basu, A.R., 1998. Late diagenetic trace element remobilization in o rganic-rich black shales of the Taconic foreland basin of Quebec, Ontario, and New York, p209-234, in Shales and mudstones; II, Petrography, petrophysics, geochemistry, and economic geology, J. Scheiber, P. Sethi and W. Zimmerle, eds., Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart Germany.


1996



Basu, A.R. and Faggart, B.E., 1996, Temporal Variation in the Hawaiian Mantle Plume: The Lanai Anomaly, The Molokai Fracture Zone and a Seawater-altered Lithospheric Component in Hawaiian Volcanism, In, Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code (A. Basu and S. Hart, eds.) Geophysical Monograph 95: 149-159.



Basu, A.R. and Hart, S., eds., 1996, Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code. Geophysical Monograph Series 95.



Basu, A.R., Sharma, M. and Premo, W.R. 1996. U-Pb age of an older metamorphic group mica schist: earliest terrain of the eastern Indian craton. In, Recent Researches in Geology and Geophysics of the Precambrian (A.K. Saha, ed.), Hindustan Publishing Corporation: 93-102.



Teichmann, F. and Basu, A.R., 1996, Nd-Sr isotopic trace element study of rocks and fluids from the Continental Deep Drilling Project (KTB), Germany. Geologische Runschau, 85: 162-171.


1995



Basu, Asish, R., Poreda, R.J., Renne, P.R., Teichmann, F., Vasilev, Y.R., Sobolev, N.V. and Turrin, B.D.,1995, High 3He Plume Origin and Temporal-Spatial Evolution of the Siberian Flood Basalts, Science, 269: 822-825.



Cole, R.B. and Basu, A.R. 1995. Nd-Sr isotopic geochemistry and tectonics of ridge subduction and middle Cenozoic volcanism in western California, GSA Bulletin,107: 167-179.

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Renne, P.R., Zichao, Z., Richards, M.A., Black, M.T. and Basu, A.R. 1995. Synchrony and Causal Relations between Permian-Triassic Boundary Crises and Siberian Flood Volcanism. Science, 269: 1413-1416.


1994



Sharma, M., Basu, A.R., and Ray, S.L. 1994. Sm-Nd Isotopic and Geochemical Study of the Archean Tonalite-Amphibolite association from the eastern Indian Craton, Contrib. Min. Pet., 117: 45-55.


1993



K. A. Farley, A. R. Basu and H. Craig, He, Sr and Nd-isotopic variations in lavas from the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, southeast Pacific, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v125, 75-87, 1993.



Basu, A.R., Renne, P.R., DasGupta, D.K., Teichmann, F. and Poreda, R.J., 1993, Early and Late Alkali Igneous Pulses and a High-3He Plume Origin for the Deccan Flood Basalts. Science 261: 902-906.

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1992



Tatsumoto, M., Basu, A.R., Wankang, H., Junwen, W., and Guanghong, X., 1992, Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes of ultramafic xenoliths in volcanic rocks of eastern China: Enriched components EMI and EMII in subcontinental lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 113: 107-128.



Sharma, M., Basu, A.R. and Nesterenko, G.V., 1992, Temporal Sr-, Nd- and Pb- isotopic variations in the Siberian Flood Basalts: Implications for the Plume-source characteristics. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 113: 365-381.



Cole, R.B. and Basu, A.R. 1992. Middle Tertiary Volcanism during Ridge-Trench Interactions in Western California. Science, 258: 793-796.


1991



A.R.Basu, M. Sharma, and P. G. DeCelles, Nd, Sr-isotopic Provenance and Trace Element Geochemistry of Amazonian Foreland Basin Fluvial Sands, Bolivia and Peru: Implications for Ensialic Andean Orogeny, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v105, 149-169, 1991.



Renne, P.R. and Basu, A.R., 1991, Rapid Eruption of the Siberian Traps Flood Basalts at the Permo-Triassic Boundary. Science 253: 176-179.



M. Sharma, A. R. Basu, R. B. Cole and P. G. DeCelles, Basalt-rhyolite volcanism by MORB-continental crust interaction: Nd, Sr - isotopic and geochemical evidence from southern San Joaquin Basin, California, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v109, 159-172, 1991.



Sharma, M., Basu, A.R. and Nesterenko, G.V., 1991, Nd-Sr isotopes, petrochemistry and origin of the Siberian flood basalts, USSR. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 55: 1183-1192.



Basu, A.R., Junwen, W., Wankung, A., Guanghong, X. and Tatsumoto, M. 1991. Major element, REE, Pb, Nd and Sr-isotopic geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic rocks of eastern China: Implications for their origin from sub-oceanic-type mantle reservoirs. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 105: 149-169.


1990



Basu, A.R., Sharma, M. and DeCelles, P.G. 1990. Nd, Sr-isotopic provenance and trace element geochemistry of Amazonian foreland basin fluvial sands, Bolivia and Peru: Implications for ensialic Andean orogeny. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 100: 1-17.


1987



N. Srimal, A. R. Basu, and T. K. Kyser, Tectonic inferences from oxygen isotopes in volcano-plutonic complexes of the India-Asia collision zone, NW India, Tectonics, v6, 3, 261-273, 1987.



J.S. Ongley, A.R. Basu and T.K. Kyser, Oxygen isotopes in coexisting garnets, clinopyroxenes and phlogopites of Roberts Victor Eclogites: Implications for petrogenesis and mantle metasomatism, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v83, 80-84, 1987.


1986



A.R. Basu, J.S. Ongley, and I.D. MacGregor, Eclogites, pyroxene geotherm and layered mantle convection, Science, v233, 1303-1305, 1986.


1985



Faggart, B.E., Basu, A.R.and Tatsumoto, M. 1985. Origin of the Sudbury Complex by Meteoritic Impact: Neodymium Isotopic Evidence. Science, 230: 436-439.



R.A. Burwash, J. Krupicka, A.R. Basu and P.A. Wagner, resetting of the Nd and Sr whole-rock isochrones from polymetamorphic granulites, north-eastern Alberta, Can. J. Eart Sci., v22, 7, 992-1000, 1985.


1984



A.R. Basu, A.M. Goodwin and M. Tatsumoto, Sm-Nd Study of Archean Alkalic Rocks from the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v70, 40-46, 1984.



A.R. Basu, E. Rubury, H. Mehnert and M. Tatsumoto, Sm-Nd, K-Ar, and petrologic study of some kimberlites from eastern United States and their implications for mantle evolution, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v86, 35-44, 1984.



A.R. Basu and H. S. Pettingill, Origin and age of Adirondack anorthosites re-evaluated with Nd-isotopes, Reply to Parrish and Emslie, Geology, v12, 6, 380-381, 1984.



R.J. Poreda, A.R. Basu, Rare gases, water, and carbon in kaersutites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v69, 58-68, 1984.


1983



A.R. Basu and H. S. Pettingill, Origin and Age of Adirondack Anorthosites Re-evaluated with Nd-isotopes, Geology, v11, 9, 514-518, 1983.


1982



M.A. Domenick and A.R. Basu, Age and origin of the Cortlandt Complex, New York: Implications from Sm-Nd data, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v79, 290-294, 1982.


1981



A.R. Basu, S.L. Ray, A.K. Saha, and S.N. Sarkar, 3800 million year old crust in Eastern India and early mantle differentiation, Science, v212, 1502-1506, 1981.



A.R. Basu, Ultramafic rocks and mantle evolution, Proceedings, Symposium on Quinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, 539-544, 1981.


1980



A.R. Basu, Jointed blocks of peridotite xenoliths in basalts and mantle dynamics, Nature, v284, 612-613, 1980.



A.R. Basu, M. Tatsumoto, Nd-isotopes in selected mantle-derived rocks and minerals and their implications for mantle evolution, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v75, 43-54, 1980.



A.R. Basu, Jointed blocks of peridotite xenoliths in basalts and mantle dynamics, Matters Arising Reply to Wolff, Nature, v288, 103, 1980.


1979



A.R. Basu and M. Tatsumoto, Sm-Nd systematics in kimberlites and in the minerals of garnet lherzolite inclusions, Science, v205, 398-401, 1979.



A.R. Basu, Geochemistry of ultramafic xenoliths from San Quentin, Baja California: in The Mantle Sample: Inclusions in kimberlites and other volcanics, FR Boyd and H.O.A. Meyer, editors, American Geophysical Union, 391-399, 1979.



I.D. MacGregor and A.R. Basu, Petrogenesis of the Mt. Albert ultramafic massif, Quebec, Summary Bulletin Geological Society of America Part-I, v90, 10, 898-900, 1979.



I.D. MacGregor and A.R. Basu, Petrogenesis of the Mt. Albert ultramafic massif, Quebec, Summary Bulletin Geological Society of America Part-II, v90, 10, 898-900, 1979.


1978



A.R. Basu, Trace elements and Sr-isotopes in some mantle-derived hydrous minerals and their significance, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v42, 659-668, 1978.



K. Saito, A.R. Basu, E.C. Alexander, Planetary type rare gases in an upper mantle-derived amphibole, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v39, 274-290, 1978.



D.P. Thompson, A.R. Basu, E.W. Hennecke and O.K. Manuel, Noble gases in the Earth's mantle, Physics of the Earth and Planet Interiors, v17, 98-107, 1978.



A.R. Basu and M. Tatsumoto, Nd-isotopes in mantle-derived rocks and minerals and their implications for basalt evolution, Extended Abstract Lunar and Planetary Science IX pt-1, 53-55, 1978.



A.R. Basu and M. Tatsumoto, Nd-isotopes in mantle derived rocks and minerals and the evolution of the earth's mantle, Short papers of the Fourth International Conf. Geochron., Cosmochron., Isot. Geology, Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-701, 28-30, 1978.



K. Saito, E.C. Alexander, and A.R. Basu, Rare gases in mantle-derived amphiboles, Short papers of the Fourth International Conf. Geochron., Cosmochron., Isot. Geology, Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-701, 368-370, 1978.


1977



A.R. Basu, Olivine spinel equilibria in ultramafic xenoliths from San Quintin, Baja California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v33, 433-450, 1977.



A.R. Basu, Textures, microstructures and deformation of ultramafic xenoliths from San Quitin, Baja California, Tectonophysics, v43, 213-246, 1977.



A.R. Basu and V.R. Murthy, Kaersutites, suboceanic low-velocity zone and the origin of mid-oceanic ridge basalts, Geology, v 5(6), 365-368, 1977.

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A.R. Basu and V.R. Murthy, Ancient lithospheric lherzolite xenolith in basalt from Baja California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v35, 239-246, 1977.



A.R. Basu and V.R. Murthy, Significance of amphibole and phlogopite in basalt genesis - Trace elemental and Sr-isotopic evidence, Extended Abstract International Conference on Experimental Trace Element Geochemistry, Sedona, Arizona, 2-4, 1977.



A.R. Basu, K. Saito, E. C. Alexander, Primary 'planetary' Rare Gas in a mantle-derived amphibole, Extended Abstract Second International Kimberlite Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 7-10, 1977.



A.R. Basu and V.R. Murthy, Trace elements and Sr-isotopes in ultramafic xenoliths from San Quitin, Baja California, Extended Abstract Second International Kimberlite Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11-13, 1977.



A.R. Basu, Nobel gases in the upper mantle, Indian Journal Earth Sc., S. Ray volume, 157-169, 1977.


1976



I.D. MacGregor and A.R. Basu, Geological problems in estimating mantle geothermal gradients, American Mineralogist, v61, 715-724, 1976.


1975



A.R. Basu and I.D. MacGregor, Chromite spinels from ultramafic xenoliths, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v39, 937-945, 1975.


1974



I.D. MacGregor and A.R. Basu, Thermal structure of the lithosphere - A petrologic model, Science, 185, 1007-1011, 1974.


1970



M.K. Bose and A.R. Basu, Structure of the Alkalic pluton of Sivanmalai, Coimbatore, India, Quart. Jour. Geol. Min. Met. Soc. India, v 42, 46, 1970.