A tribute to Sarbani Patranabis-Deb (13th November, 1966?31st October, 2022): A superb sedimentologist

Shanmugam G

doi:10.51710/jias.v1i2.259

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Shanmugam G

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https://doi.org/10.51710/jias.v1i2.259

Abstract

Sarbani Patranabis-Deb was an impressive multi-disciplinary earth scientist grounded on conventional scientific method of examining the rocks in the field. She was born in West Bengal, India on the 13^th November, 1966 and passed away in Kolkata, India on the 31^st October, 2022. Sarbani was an accomplished sedimentologist, stratigrapher, sandstone petrologist, volcanic geologist, geochronologist, tectonics specialist, basin analyst, and a global geologist. She had a remarkable career in academia by joining the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1997. I had the privilege of getting to know Sarbani both professionally and personally during the past 20 years since her obtaining Ph.D. in 2001. It was serendipity that the Directors of ISI requested my professional evaluation of her academic performance in 2008, 2013, and 2019 towards her career advancements at ISI. Although my research interest focuses primarily on deep-water processes (Shanmugam, 2021, 2022), Sarbani and I had many common interests of research domains, which included deltaic sedimentation, shelf sedimentation, tidal sedimentation, sequence stratigraphy, sediment deformation, tectonics, and diagenesis. We both published articles on fan deltas (McPherson et al., 1987; Patranabis-Deb and Chaudhuri, 2007).

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Basu, A., Schieber, J., Patranabis-Deb, S. and Dhang, P.C. (2013). Recycled detrital quartz grains are sedimentary rock fragments indicating unconformities: examples from the Chhattisgarh Supergroup, Bastar craton, India. Journal of Sedimentary Research 83, 368–376.

Bhattacharya, P. and Patranabis-Deb, S. (2016). Stratigraphic evolution of the Proterozoic succession in the western part of the Chattisgarh basin, India. Journal Geological Society of India, 87, 287-307.

Bickford, M.E., Basu, A., Patranabis-Deb, S., Dhang, P.C. and Schieber, J. (2011). Depositional History of the Chhattisgarh Basin, Central India: Constraints from New SHRIMP Zircon Ages. Journal of Geology 119, 33–50.

Bickford, M.E., Basu, A., Mukherjee, A., Hietpas, J., Schieber, J., Patranabis-Deb, S., Ray, R. K., Guhey, R., Bhattacharya, P. and Dhang, P.C. (2011). 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. Journal of Geology, 119, 535–548.

Bickford, M.E., Basu, A., Kamenov, G.D., Mueller, P.A., Patranabis-Deb, S. and Mukherjee, A. (2014). Petrogenesis of 1000 Ma Felsic Tuffs, Chhattisgarh and Indravati Basins, Bastar Craton, India: Geochemical and Hf-Isotope Constraints. Journal of Geology 122, 43-54.

Chaudhuri, A. K., Saha, D., Deb, G. K., Patranabis Deb, S., Mukherjee, M. K. and Ghosh, G., (2002). The Purana Basins of Southern Cratonic Province of India ? A Case for Mesoproterozoic Fossil Rifts. Gondwana Research 5, 23-33.

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Chaudhuri, A.K., Deb, G.K., Patranabis-Deb, S. (2015). Conflicts in stratigraphic classification of the Puranas of the Pranhita–Godavari Valley: review, recommendations and status of the ‘Penganga’ sequence. In: Mazumder, R. & Eriksson, P. G. (eds) Precambrian Basins of India: Stratigraphic and Tectonic Context. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 43, 165–183.

Collins, A.S., Patranabis-Deb, S., Alexander, E., N. Bertram, C.N., Falster, G.M., Gore, R.J., Mackintosh, J., Dhang, P.C., Saha, D., Payne, J.L., Jourdan, F., Backé, G, Halverson, G.P, Wade B.P. (2015). Detrital Mineral Age, Radiogenic Isotopic Stratigraphy and Tectonic Significance of the Cuddapah Basin, India. Gondwana Research, 28, 1294-1309. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.013.

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Deb, G.K., Saha, D., Patranabis-Deb, S., Banerjee, A. (2021). Coexisting Arc and MORB signatures in the Sonakhan greenstone belt, India: late Neoarchean – early Proterozoic subduction rollback and back-arc formation. The American Journal of Science 321, 1308-1349.

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