Jayanta Kumar Pati

Professor at Earth and Planetary ScienceDirector at the National Centre for Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology
University of Allahabad

Jayanta Kumar Pati is a trained Experimental Mineralogist and Petrologist and currently teaches Mineralogy and Petrology to post-graduate students in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Allahabad. He is also serving as the Director of National Centre of Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Allahabad, India. He has worked in natural and synthetic rock systems up to 30 kb using various high P-T static high pressure equipments. He served the Geological Survey of India, Government of India (1992 – 2000) as a Geologist prior to joining the University of Allahabad in 2000. In addition, he has mapped large part of Bundelkhand craton, India and made some spectacular discoveries including the Bundelkhand Tectonic Zone, an Archean age suture zone. Jayanta is the only Indian till date to establish a confirmed meteoritic impact structure (Dhala structure, Shivpuri district, India) based on the petrological study of the impactites in 2005/2008.  It is the largest complex impact structure in SE Asia and the seventh oldest as per the Earth Impact Database. He also focuses on local environmental issues along with planetary science research. He is involved in several Govt. of India funded and collaborative research projects with colleagues from India and abroad. In his free time he enjoys painting and gardening.

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RTG Projects
Research interest
Field of Expertise
Selected publications
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RTG Projects

  • Geochronology of a large volume tectonic pseudotachylite
  • Temporal evolution of a crustal-scale suture zone).

Research interest

  • Precision dating of a meteoritic impact event
  • Zircon, monazite, apatite and sphene geochronology to ascertain impact and post-impact events

Field of Expertise

Impact Cratering Research and Experimental Mineralogy & Petrology

Selected publications

  • Pati, J.K., Reimold, W.U., Koeberl, C. and Pati, P. (2008): The Dhala Structure, Bundelkhand Craton, Central India – eroded remnant of a large Paleoproterozoic impact structure, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v.43, No.8, 1383-1398.
  • Pati, J.K., Jourdan, F., Armstrong, R.A., Reimold, W.U., and Prakash, K. (2010) First SHRIMP U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar chronological results from impact melt breccia from the Paleoproterozoic Dhala impact structure, India, in Reimold, W.U., and Gibson, R.L., eds., Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV: Geological Society of  America Special Paper 465, 571-591. (doi: 101130/2010.2465(27)).
  • Pati, J.K., Reimold, W.U., Greshake, A., Schmitt, R.T., Koeberl, C., Pati, P. and Prakash, K. (2015) Pseudotachylitic breccia from the Dhala impact structure, north-central India: texture, mineralogy and geochemical characterization, Tectonophysics, 649, 18-32.
  • Pati, J.K., Qu, W.J., Koeberl, C., Reimold, W.U., Chakarvorty, M. and Schmitt, R.T. (2017) Geochemical evidence of an extraterrestrial component in impact melt breccia from the Paleoproterozoic Dhala impact structure, India, Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Wiley). doi:10.1111/maps.12826.
  • Pati, J.K., Reimold, W.U. and Heusar, N. (2018) Comment on “Anatomy of impactites and shocked zircon grains from Dhala reveals Paleoproterozoic meteorite impact in the Archean basement rocks of Central India” by Li et al., 2018, Gondwana Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.03.019.

Contact details

Address:

Nehru Science Centre
University of Allahabad
Allahabad-211002, India

Phone: +919450551686

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