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Prof.Pranab Das

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Applied Geology

Email: pranab[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5894

Personal Page: Under Construction

Research Interest: Petroleum Geology, Geochemistry, Marine Geochemistry, Marine Geomorphology

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Position

Assistant Professor

Awards and Honors

  • CSRI Junior Research Fellowship 2001 
  • French PhD-Sandwich Fellowship, 2007-08, by French Embassy India

Publications

Books Published

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List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Pranab Das, Bishwajt Chakraborty, V. N. Kodagali and Vasudev Mahale (2003) Segmentation of sea floor bathymetric profile use of artificial neural network architecture, National Conference on Advanced Machine Vision Systems for Societal Application (AMSA-2003), pp. 222-232.
  2. Bishwajit Chakraborty, Vasudev Mahale, Carlyle de Sousa and Pranab Das (2004) Seafloor classification using echo-waveforms: a method employing hybrid neural network architecture, IEEE (GRSL) 1(3) 196-200.
  3. Pranab Das, Sridhar D. Iyer, V. N. Kodagali and K. S. Krishna (2005) Distribution and origin of seamounts in the Central Indian Ocean Basin, Marine Geodesy, 28, pp. 259-269.
  4. Sridhar D. Iyer, M. Sdhakar, Pranab Das (2007). Composition and genesis of zeolitic claystones from the Central Indian Ocean. Acta Geologica Sinica. 81, 756-770.
  5. Pranab Das, Sridhar D. Iyer and V. N. Kodagali (2007) Morphological characteristics and emplacement mechanism of the seamounts in the Central Indian Ocean Basin. Tectonophysics, 443, 1-18.
  6. Pranab Das and Sridhar D Iyer (2009) Geochemical characterization of oceanic basalts using Artificial Neural Network. Geochemical Transactions, 10:13 doi: 10.1186/1467-4866-10-13.
  7. Pranab Das, Sridhar D. Iyer and Sugata Hazra (2012) Petrological characteristics and genesis of the Central Indian Ocean Basin basalts. Acta Geol. Sin., 86, 801-817.
  8. Iyer SD, Mehta CM, Das P. and Kalangutkar NK, (2012) Seamounts – Characteristics, Formation, Mineral Deposits and Biodiversity. Geologica Acta, 10(3), 295-308.
  9.  Iyer, S.D., Das, P., Kalangutkar, N.G., Mehta, C.M. (2012) ‘Seamounts - windows of opportunities and the Indian scenario’, Current Science, vol 102(10), 1382-1391.
  10. D. RAY, D. KOTA, P. DAS, L. S. Prakash, V.D. KHEDEKAR, A. L. PAROPKARI, A. V. MUDHOLKAR (2014) Microtexture and distribution of minerals in hydrothermal barite-silica chimney from the Franklin seamount, SW Pacific: Constraints on the mode of formation, Acta Geol. Sin., 88, 801-813.
  11. Sridhar D. Iyer, Ankeeta A. Amonkar and Pranab Das (2018) Genesis of Central Indian Ocean basin seamounts: morphological, petrological, and geochemical evidence, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107(7), 2517–2538.
  12. Santosh Garain, Debashis Mitra and Pranab Das (2019) Detection of hydrocarbon microseepage‐induced anomalies by spectral enhancements of Landsat 7 ETM+ images in part of Assam–Arakan Fold Belt, India, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 9, 2573–2582.
  13.  Santosh Garain, Debashis Mitra and Pranab Das (2020) Landsat 8-based surface temperature anomaly and hydrocarbon prospectivity: a study in part of Assam–Arakan Fold Belt, North East India, Current Science, 119(1), 128-133.
  14. PRAKASH JHA, PRANAB DAS and DWIJESH RAY (2020) Understanding genesis of iron oxide concretions present 4 in Dhandraul (Vindhyan) Sandstone: Implications 5 in formation of Martian hematite spherules, J. Earth Syst. Sci., 130(1), 1-20
  15.  Santosh Garain, Debashis Mitra, Pranab Das (2020) Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of hydrocarbon microseepage-induced sediments in part of Assam-Arakan Fold Belt, Cachar area, NE India
  16. Santosh Garain, Debashis Mitra, Pranab Das, (2021) Mapping hydrocarbon microseepage prospect areas by integrated studies of ASTER processing, geochemistry and geophysical surveys in Assam-Arakan Fold Belt, NE India., Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 102: 102432
  17. Prakash Jha, Pranab Das, Jai Krishna Pandey, KK Mishra, Marco Cardinale, (2022), Understanding redox processes during iron precipitation in standing water: implications in formation of iron oxides minerals in the terrestrial planetary environment (especially Mars), Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy volume 88, pages729–741
  18. Aniruddha Mitra, Sukanta Dey, Pranab Das, Keqing Zong, Yongsheng Liu, Anirban Mitra, Arvind Kumar Gond (2022), Time-space evolution of an ancient continent, a window to changing crustal architecture: Insights from granitoids of Singhbhum Craton, eastern India, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 234,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104183
  19. Debajyoti Nayak, pranab Das, and Sagar Misra (2023), Petrology and Geochemistry of Mesoarchean Sukinda Ultramafics, Southern Singhbhum Odisha Craton, India: Implications for Mantle Resources and the Geodynamic Setting, Minerals 13(11):1440, DOI: 10.3390/min13111440
  20. Prakash Jha, Pranab Das and Dwijesh Ray, (2024), Bleaching of Dhandraul sandstone and spectral characterization of Dhandraul (Vindhyan) iron oxide concretions. J. Ind. Geophys. Union, 28(1), 53-64
  21. Gouri Bhattacharyya, Sandipan Ghosh,  Prakash Jha, Irfan Shaaban Asaad, Pranab Das and Sabyasachi Mondal, (2024) Petrography, mineral chemistry and FTIR spectral study of lateritic iron oxide concretions from the Damodar River basin, India, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-024-00320-y

Projects & Activities

Guidance

PhD Awarded

  1. Mr. Aniruddha Mitra: “Origin and Tectonic Setting of Granitoids along Champua- Hat Gamhariya Tract, Jharkhand, Singhbhum Craton”. Awarded in 2021
  2. Mr. Santosh Garain: “HYDROCARBON PROSPECTING USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES IN PARTS OF ASSAM-ARAKAN FOLD BELT, INDIA”. Awarded in 2021
  3. Mr. Prakash Jha. “The study of iron oxide concretions from Dhandraul (Vindhyan) sandstone: Inferences the formation of Martian hematite spherule”. (2022) 
  4. Mr. Anirban Mitra: “GEOCHEMISTRY AND DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF SOME SELECTED QUARTZITE UNITS OF DHARWAR CRATON: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL EVOLUTION” (2024)

 

On Going PhD

  1. Mr. Tofan Kumar Sahoo. “Geochemical characterization of Proterozoic volcanics in and around Kendujhar district Odisha”
  2. Mr. Sabyasachi Mandal. “An Implication Towards the Origin of Gold Mineralization within Metasedimentary Rocks in Mankarahachua area, Angul District, Odisha, India”
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