Selected Publications:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 258: 902-906.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hannigan, R.E. and Basu, A.R., 1997, Late diagenetic trace element remobilization in organic-rich black shales of the Taconic foreland basin of Québec, Ontario and New York. In, Mudstones and Shales: Recent Progress in Shale Research. J. Scheiber, P. Sethi and W. Zimmerle, eds., Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart Germany.

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

Hannigan, R.E. and Basu, A.R., 1998. Late diagenetic trace element remobilization in organic-rich black shales of the Taconic foreland basin of Quebec, Ontario, and New York. Shales and mudstones; II, Petrography, petrophysics, geochemistry, and economic geology, Stuttgart.

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.

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.

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)

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).

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.

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)

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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