astronomy

Kanchan Pande

Kanchan Pande is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kanchan Pande rather than just read about it. In short: Kanchan Pande (born 14 March 1958) is an Indian Isotope geologist, geochronologist and former professor at the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai. He is known for his studies on the evolution of continental flood basalts in the Indian subcontinent and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

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Reference excerpt

Kanchan Pande (born 14 March 1958) is an Indian Isotope geologist, geochronologist and former professor at the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai. He is known for his studies on the evolution of continental flood basalts in the Indian subcontinent and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2003.

Biography

Kanchan Pande, born on 14 March 1958 in the Indian state of Uttaranchal, completed his master's degree in geology at Kumaun University in 1981 and secured PhD in Geochronology and Isotope geology from Gujarat University in 1990. His career started at Physical Research Laboratory in 1990 as a scientist (Grade D) and he held the position of an associate professor from 1998 to 2002 before becoming a professor in 2003. However, his service as a professor at PRL lasted only 5 months and in June 2003, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as a professor at the department of earth sciences and retired from the post in March 2023. Pande is known to have done extensive research on the geochronology of the region covering the Deccan Traps. His researches are reported to have assisted in understanding the geochronological constraints for the evolution of continental flood basalts in the Indian subcontinent and highlighted their geological and geochemical impact which has been detailed in an article, Age and duration of the Deccan Traps, India: A review of radiometric and paleomagnetic constraints, published in June 2002. His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 70 of them.

Awards and honors Pande, who was selected as Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1987, received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1989. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003. The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2015.

Selected bibliography Jyotiranjan S, Ray Kanchan Pande, T. R. Venkatesan (March 2000). "Emplacement of Amba Dongar carbonatite-alkaline complex at Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Evidence from40Ar-39Ar chronology". Journal of Earth System Science. 109 (1): 39–47. doi:10.1007/BF02719147.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Jyotiranjan S. Ray, Kanchan Pande, S. K. Pattanayak (2003). "Evolution of the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex: Constraints from 40Ar-39Ar Chronologies of the Inner Basalt and an Alkaline Plug". International Geology Review. 45 (9): 857–862. Bibcode:2003IGRv...45..857R. doi:10.2747/0020-6814.45.9.857. S2CID 129933424.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Kanchan Pande, S. K. Pattanayak, K. V. Subbarao, P. Navaneethakrishnan, T. R. Venkatesan (December 2004). "40Ar-39Ar age of a lava flow from the Bhimashankar Formation, Giravali Ghat, Deccan Traps". Journal of Earth System Science. 113 (4): 755. Bibcode:2004InEPS.113..755P. doi:10.1007/BF02704034.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Archisman Sen, Kanchan Pande, Hetu C. Sheth, Kamal Kant Sharma, Shraboni Sarkar, A. M. Dayal, Harish Mistry (December 2013). "An Ediacaran–Cambrian thermal imprint in Rajasthan, western India: Evidence from 40Ar–39Ar geochronology of the Sindreth volcanics". Journal of Earth System Science. 122 (6): 1477–1493. doi:10.1007/s12040-013-0359-y.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Kanchan Pande (January 2015). "The Causal Link Between Deccan Flood Basalts and the Cretaceous Mass Extinctions: A Case of Unfounded Assumptions" (PDF). Workshop on Continental Crust and Cover Sequences in the Evolution of the Indian Sub-Continent.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kanchan Pande

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kanchan Pande claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kanchan Pande before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kanchan Pande ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kanchan Pande

In research: Kanchan Pande appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kanchan Pande in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kanchan Pande is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1958 births, 21st-century Indian geologists, Academic staff of IIT Bombay, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kanchan Pande outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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