2017

Visiting scientist: “Sedimentary and stratigraphic evolution of the Andaman Islands”

Pinaki was the former head of the Indian geological survey and a life-long scholar of Andaman Island geology. We did fieldwork together on the Andaman Islands, and Pinaki visited our group for the summer of 2017. He sadly passed away in 2022, and we remember him fondly.

Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Alexis Plunder, Eldert Advokaat

Publications

1. Bandopadhyay, P., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Bandyopadhyay, D., Licht, A., Advokaat, E.L., Plunder, A., Dasgupta, A., Ghosh, B., and Trabucho-Alexandre, J., 2022, Paleogeography of the West Burma Block and the eastern Neotethys Ocean: constraints from Cenozoic sediments shed onto the Andaman-Nicobar ophiolites, Gondwana Research 103, 335-361
2. Bandyopadhyay, D., Ghosh, B., Guilmette, C., Plunder, A.*, Corfu, F., Advokaat, E.L.*, Bandopadhyay, P.C., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2021, Geochemical and geochronological record of the Andaman Ophiolite, SE Asia: From back-arc to forearc during subduction polarity reversal?, Lithos 380-381, 105853
3. Bandyopadhyay, D., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Plunder, A.*, Bandopadhyay, P.C., Advokaat, E.L.*, Chattopadhaya, S., Morishita, T., and Ghosh, B., 2020, Andaman ophiolites; an overview, in The Andaman Islands and Adjoining Offshore: Geology, Tectonics and Palaeoclimate, edited by J. S. Ray and M. Radhakrishna, pp. 1-17, Springer International Publishing, Cham.
4. Plunder, A.*, Bandyopadhyay, D., Ganerød, M., Advokaat, E.L.*, Ghosh, B., Bandopadhyay, P.C., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2020, History of subduction polarity reversal during arc-continent collision: constraints from the Andaman Ophiolite and its metamorphic sole, Tectonics 39, e2019TC005762

Outreach

Fieldwork

1. Andaman Islands 2017