JSPS-DST Japan-India Forum for
Advanced Study“Progress and perspective of the studies on thecrustal evolution of the Indian Peninsula from
Archean to the present by geochemical,
chronological and geological approaches”
7 -16 March, 2019
at Nagoya Univ., NIPR, and Niigata Univ.
7～10 March Nagoya Univ.
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Session1: Precambrian craton-margin orogenic belts and theirtectonic implications
Session2: Continental and marine sedimentation around Indian
continent through geological time
Session3: New frontier of research in origin and evolution ofcontinents: Planetary and environmental sciences

11 March Field excursion 1
12 March National Institute of Polar Research•Workshop：Introduction of SHRIMP

13 March Field excursion 2
14～16 March Niigata Univ.
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Session4: Continent formation by accretion from Archean topresent days
Session5: Supercontinents
Short Course: Application of thermodynamics in Geosciencesusing Perple_X

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March 7 – 16, 2019

March 7, 2019
Registration and Ice-breaking party
13:00 – 17:30 Registration at Lecture Hall (Floor-1) at Environmental Studies Hall Building,Nagoya University
18:00 – 20:00 Ice-breaking party at Restaurant “Hana-no-ki” in Green Salon Higashiyama,
Nagoya University
March 8, 2019
Venue: Lecture Hall at Environmental Studies Building, Nagoya University
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome note by Hiroshi Hidaka
9:05 – 9:15 Highlights of the JSPS-DST Science Forum by Harinder P. Singh
9:15 – 9:25 Announcements
Session 1: Precambrian craton-margin orogenic belts and their tectonic implications
Convenors: Kaushik Das (Hiroshima University), Sankar Bose (Presidency University)
9:30 – 10:20 Ian C.W. Fitzsimons (Curtin University) – Pan-African charnockites of southern
India: A record of orogenic plateau formation and collapse?
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 11.10 M. Satish-Kumar (Niigata University) – Isotope geochemistry of metacarbonate
rocks in continental collision zones as proxies for sedimentation age, tectonic setting
and environment of deposition
11:10 – 11:50 S. Balakrishnan (Pondicherry University) – Is the Dharwar Craton a melangeof Archean mobile belts?
11:50 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:10 M. Jayananda (University of Hyderabad) – Volcano-sedimentary greenstone
sequences in the Dharwar craton: Windows to Archean mantle, surface environments
and biosphere
14:10 – 14:30 V. J. Rajesh (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology) – Petrogenesis,
geochronology and tectonic significance of Fe-Ti-P Gabbro in Achankovil Shear Zone,
southern India
14:30 – 14:50 Coffee break
14:50 – 15:20 Sankar Bose (Presidency University) – Prolonged geological evolution of acraton margin mobile belt: Evidences from the Rengali Province-Singhbhum Craton
sector, Eastern India
15:20 – 16:00 Partha P. Chakraborty (University of Delhi) – Tectonics and stratigraphic
riddles in Mesoproterozoic basins at the Eastern margin of Indian craton
16:00 – 17:30 Poster Presentations + Coffee
1.

Proloy Ganguly (Presidency University) – Styles of tectonothermal andtectonometamorphic processes in the Proterozoic: Insights from the northern part of
the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

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Yasutaka Hayasaka (Hiroshima University) – The Maizuru tectonic zone (MTZ), its
formation and rearrangement as revealed by new zircon chronology data

3.

Kaushik Das (Hiroshima University) – Minor elements with major effect in deep crustal
granulites: Fluorine in UHT rocks from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

4.

A.S. Silpa (Niigata University) – A comparative anatomy of mafic dyke swarms in
Dharwar and other Archean cratons5.

Swapnil Kumar Rai (Benaras Hindu University) – Metamorphic evolution of the ultrahigh temperature (UHT) Mg-Al granulites from Madurai Block, Southern Granulite
Terrane (SGT): Key issues and challenges

6.

Kenta Kawaguchi (Hiroshima University) – Discovery of 480 Ma mylonitized diorite quartz diorite body at the northern margin of Saganoseki Peninsula, Southwest Japanand relationship between Sambagawa terrane and Paleozoic igneous rocks of
Kurosegawa tectonic zone

7.

Keita Itano (University of Tokyo) – Evolution of continental crust elucidated by an
integration of detrital zircon and monazite records

8.

Mohd. Azhar-Ul-Haq (Pondicherry University) – U-Pb zircon geochronology ofcharnockites and migmatitic gneisses of the Madras Block, Southern India;
Implications for Neoarchean magmatism and metamorphism

March 9, 2019
Venue: Lecture Hall at Environmental Studies Building, Nagoya University
Session 2: Continental and marine sedimentation around Indian continent throughgeological time
Convenors: Partha P. Chakraborty (University of Delhi), Kohki Yoshida (Shinshu University)
9:30 – 10:00 Tetsuya Sakai (Shimane University) – Landslide records in delta and fluvial
plain deposits in Nepal Himalayas: examples from Kathmandu Valley and Siwalik Hills
10:00 – 10:30 Kohki Yoshida (Shinshu University) – Detrital heavy mineral record and Nd–
Sr isotopic signature in Bengal Fan demonstrating evolution of Himalaya andhistorical changes in two big river discharges
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:20 Supriyo Kumar Das (Presidency University) – Pleistocene stable nitrogenisotope (δ15N) record of marine biogeochemical response to climate forcing in the Bayof Bengal
11:20 – 11:40 Subham Chatterjee (Presidency University) – Reconstruction of paleoseismic
record in Andaman Basin using lipid biomarkers
11:40 – 12:00 Toru Nakajima (Kyoto University) – Middle Miocene denudation of the Higher
Himalayan Crystalline revealed by the chemical composition of detrital garnet fromthe Siwalik foreland basin sediments, western and central Nepal
12:00 – 12:20 Lalit Kumar Rai (Shinshu University) – Lithostratigraphy and facies analysis
of Siwwalik along Muksar Khola section, Eastern Nepal Himalaya
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March 7 – 16, 201913:30 – 14:00 P.P.Chakraborty (University of Delhi) – Precambrian fluvial systems: a pitfallin ‘Uniformitarianism’ doctrine?
14:00 – 14:30 Aditi Sharma (University of Delhi) – A relook to the Sleemanabad FormationParsoi Formation distinction and their transition, Mahakoshal Group, Central India,
India
14:30 – 15:00 Rasikh Barkat (University of Delhi) – Stratal architecture of regressive Panium
Sandstone, Kurnool Group, India
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 – 15:50 Fumito Shiraishi (Hiroshima University) –Biogeochemistry from India―future
prospectus―
15:50 – 16:20 Ramananda Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Science) –Significant variability in87
Sr/86Sr and 44/40Ca in water samples from the Bay of Bengal: implications for paleoseawater compositions
16:20 – 16:50 Anupam Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science) –Significant variability in44/40Ca of carbonatites and associated silicate rocks from the Ambadongar and Phenai
Mata complexes, western India: implications for recycled carbonates in the mantle,
crustal contamination and source heterogeneity
March 10, 2019
Venue: Lecture Hall at Environmental Studies Building, Nagoya University
Session 3: New frontier of research in origin and evolution of continents: Planetary andenvironmental sciences
Convenors: Hiroshi Hidaka (Nagoya University), Amit Basu Sarbadhikari (Physical ResearchLaboratory)
9:30 – 10:00 Hiroshi Hidaka (Nagoya University) – REE isotopic study for cosmochemistry:
La isotopic variations by spallation reactions
10:00 – 10:30 Amit Basu Sarbadhikari (Physical Research Laboratory) – Alkaline rocks of theMoon: Recent Discoveries and Implications for Formation
10:30 – 11:00 S. K. Sahoo (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science andTechnology) – Search for Pu and U traces in Fukushima soil samples using alpha andmass spectrometry
11:00 – 11:30 A.P. Nutman (University of Wollongong) – Eoarchaean Life (3.7 Ga)
Confirmation from Isua (Greenland)
11:30 – 11:40 Guidance for the field excursion 1 to Mt. Fuji by M. Satish-Kumar (Niigata
University)
11:40 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Poster presentations + Coffee
9.

Keisuke Sakuma (Nagoya University) – Ba isotopic compositions of CM Chondrites

10.

J. M. Guotana (Kanazawa University) – Serpentinization and carbonation of dunites in
the western part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Southwestern Greenland

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March 7 – 16, 201911.

M. Rajamanickam (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science andTechnology) – Geochemical, Sr and Nd isotopic studies on meta-volcanic rocks of the
Shimoga greenstone belt, Dharwar Craton, India: Evidence for continental arc
magmatism during Mesoarchean

12.

Vishal Goyal (Punjab University) – The early thermal evolution and differentiation ofMoon and its importance to crustal growth of Earth

15:00 ~ Campus tour of Nagoya University
March 11, 2019
Field excursion 1: Mt. Fuji Volcano on the way from Nagoya to Tachikawa
March 12, 2019
Workshop: Introduction of SHRIMP
Convenor: Hiroshi Hidaka (Nagoya University), Tomokazu Hokada (National Institute ofPolar Research), Kenji Horie (National Institute of Polar Research)
Venue: Auditorium (2nd Floor), National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa
9:30 – 10:30 Ian S. Williams (Australian National University) – Geological Secondary Ion
Mass Spectrometry
10:30 – 11:10 Chang-Sik Cheong (Korea Basic Science Institute) – Phanerozoic
tectonomagmatic evolution of the Korean Peninsula: An overview fromgeochronological, geochemical, and O-Hf isotopic perspectives
11:10 – 11:50 Allen P. Nutman (University of Wollongong) – Eoarchaean (3.67-3.60 Ga)
repeated high and low pressure granulite facies events in the Nuuk region (Greenland):
Earliest records of arc heat, collisional orogeny and late-orogenic lower crustal flow
11:50 – 12:00 Guidance for the filed excursion 2 to Nagatoro Sanbagawa schist by Tomakazu
Hokada (National Institute of Polar Research)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Visit to Analytical facilities at National Institute of Polar Researcha) Demonstration of analytical application by SHRIMPb) Visit to Meteorite collectionc) SelFrag (Sample pulverization system using pulse power of high voltage discharge)d) Visit to Polar Science Museum
March 13, 2019
Field excursion 2. Nagatoro Sanbagawa schists on the way from Tachikawa to Niigata
March 14, 2019

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March 7 – 16, 2019

Session 4: Continent formation by accretion from Archean to present days
Convenors: M. Satish Kumar (Niigata University), Tomokazu Hokada (National Institute ofPolar Research), and Sajeev Krishnan (Indian Institute of Science)
Venue: Library Hall, Ikarashi Campus, Niigata University
9:15 – 9:20 Introduction to the JSPS-DST Science forum: M. Satish-Kumar (Niigata
University)
9:20 – 9:30 Welcome Address by Executive Vice-President, Niigata University
Plenary Lecture
9:30 – 10:30 William F. McDonough (Maryland University) – Differentiation of the Earth andgrowth of the continents
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:20 S. Balakrishnan (Pondicherry University) – Geochemical and geochronologicalstudies on granite-greenstone belts of the Dharwar Craton: Evidence for plate tectonic
assisted accretion from Mesoarchean
11:20 – 11:50 Yuichiro Ueno (Tokyo Institute of Technology) – The Late Archean CO-worldor hazy atmosphere?
11:50 – 12:10 Shinnosuke Aoyama (Niigata University) – Surface sulfur in Archean granitoids
from Dharwar craton, Southern India constrained by multiple sulfur isotopes.
12:10 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:30 James A.D. Connolly (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) – A
hydromechanical model for metamorphic devolatilization and fluid flow in ductile rocks
13:30 – 14:10 M. Jayananda (University of Hyderabad) – Early Earth dynamics, continental
growth and craton formation : Insights from the Dharwar craton, Southern India
14:10 – 14:30 M. Satish-Kumar (Niigata University) – Geological and geochemical evidence
for short lived rifting and arc volcanism in the Archean Western Dharwar Craton,
southern India
14:30 – 14:50 Tomokazu Hokada (National Institute of Polar Research) – Geological Evolutionof Napier and Rayner Complexes: Implications for India-Antarctica relations in
Archaean and Proterozoic
14:50 – 15:10 Coffee Break
15:10 – 15:40 Ramananda Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Science) – Calcium isotopic
variability in the mantle
15:40 – 16:10 Hiroshi Hidaka (Nagoya University) – REE isotopic study for cosmochemistry:
Sm, Gd, and Er isotopic variations induced by neutron capture reactions
16:10 – 16:40 Tsuyoshi Iizuka (The University of Tokyo) – Zr isotope constraints on early
Earth differentiation
16:40 – 17:00 A.S. Silpa (Niigata University) – Geochemical evolution of mafic dykes from
Tiptur area, Western Dharwar craton, southern India
17:00 – 18:30 Poster Presentations
13.

D. Harinadha Reddy (Indian Institute of Science) – Numerical modelling of UHT
metamorphism in Lithosphere

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March 7 – 16, 201914.

Lakshmanan Sreehari (Niigata University) – Tectonic evolution of the Hiroo Complex
and its implication in paleo-Kuril Arc evolution

15.

Mami Takehara (National institute of Polar Research) – Disturbance of U-Pb andtrace-element systems in hydrothermally altered zircon

16.

Yoshihiro Nakamura (AIST, Geological Survey of Japan) – P-T estimations of Kashio
mylonite in Oshika, Nagano, Japan: Constraints on the amalgamation of Ryoke andSambagawa metamorphic belts

17.

Kota Suzuki (Kyoto University) – P-T estimates of the Lützow-Holm Complex byfocusing on distributions of trace elements and inclusions in garnet in pelitic gneisses

18.

Vanessa Andrade (Niigata University) – Refining age estimates for predecessors of the2004 Sumatra- Andaman earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami

19.

Sam Uthup (Tsukuba University) – Neoarchean arc magmatism in the southern partof the Nilgiri Block, southern India

20.

Durgalakshmi (Australian National University) – Timing and evolution of UHT
metamorphism in eastern Gondwana

21.

Akari Imura (Niigata University) – Lead and neodymium isotope geochemistry ofmetacarbonate rocks from the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka

22.

Otgonbayar Dandar (Tohoku University) – Formation of secondary olivine after
orthopyroxene induced by highly oxidizing fluid in the mantle wedge: An evidence fromthe Khantaishir Ophiolite, western Mongolia

23.

Astin Nurdiana (Tohoku University) – Pore throat network by feldspar replacementwith potassium-rich fluids on the top of granitic magma during supercritical fluid
processes

24.

P.G. Athira (Niigata University) – Detrital zircon geochronology, Hf isotope studies
and geochemistry of beach sediments from southwest coast of India: Implications forprovenance25.

Shun Watanabe (Niigata University) – Petrological and Geochemical features ofMiocene volcanic rocks in the Hokuriku region, Central Japan

26.

Keisuke Suzuki (Niigata University) – Paleo arc development during Permian-Early
Triassic based on detrital zircon U-Pb ages and sandstone provenance of the Hida
Gaien belt

27.

Ryusei Kohta (Niigata University) – Stratigraphy and clastic composition of the
Sorachi Group of Hokkaido, Japan - Another oceanic plate in the Mesozoic NW Pacific28.

Raiki Yamada (Niigata University) – Temporal evolution of continental-arc to islandarc felsic volcanism during the back-arc formation in the Japan Sea: Oligocene to
Miocene rhyolites in the Tonami area, central Japan

29.

Claude Nambaje (Indian Institute of Science & Niigata University) – Source,geochemical evolution and tectonic settings of granitic rocks from Karagwe Ankole
Belt (Rwanda), central-east Africa

30.

Vinod Samuel (Yonsei University) – Characteristics of granulite facies metamorphism
followed by arc magmatism in the Nilgiri Block, southern India

31.

Tadashi Usuki (National Taiwan University) – Prograde zoning of Zr in rutile: A newtime scale indicator of eclogite-facies metamorphism

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Chiranjeeb Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science) – Contamination and mixing ofolder Archean crust during the genesis of the early Proterozoic TTG phase: A study
approach from the southeastern margin of the Eastern Dharwar Craton

March 15, 2019
Venue: Library Hall, Ikarashi Campus, Niigata University
Session 5: Supercontinents
Convenors: M. Satish Kumar (Niigata University), T. Hokada (NIPR), and Sajeev Krishnan(Indian Institute of Science)
9:00 – 9:20 Kazuyuki Shiraishi (National Institute of Polar Research) – Geology of eastern
Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica --- 60 years of Japanese contribution --9:20 – 9:50 Ian C.W. Fitzsimons (Curtin University) – Hafnium isotopes and the rise and fallof the Gondwanan super-mountains
9:50 – 10:20 Chang Whan Oh (Chongbuk National University) – The continental collision
process deduced from the metamorphic pattern in the Himalayan and Qinling-DabieSulu-Hongseong-Odesan Collision Belts
10:20 – 10:40 Toshiaki Tsunogae (University of Tsukuba) – Phase equilibria modelling of
fluid-induced high-temperature metasomatism in granulite terranes
10:40 -11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40 Bernardo Cesare (University of Padova) – Nanogranitoids and their bearing on
crustal melting
11:40 – 12:10 Tetsuo Kawakami (Kyoto University) – Disequilibrium REE compositions ofgarnet and zircon in migmatites reflecting different growth timings during single
metamorphism (Aoyama area, Ryoke belt, SW Japan)
12:10 – 12:40 Sajeev Krishnan (Indian Institute of Science) – Continental growth during aninauspicious time
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch break and poster session
14:00 – 14:30 Eichi Takazawa (Niigata University) – Drilling of crust - mantle transition in
the CM site of Samail ophiolite: the ICDP Oman Drilling Project
14:30 – 14:50 V. J. Rajesh (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology) – Petrogenesis,
tectonics and economic significance of Neoarchean Alaskan-type ultramafic rocks in
Palghat Cauvery Suture Zone, southern India
14:50 – 15:10 Harinadha Reddy (Indian Institute of Science) – Numerical modeling of UHT
metamorphism in the lower crust of eastern Gondwana
15:10-15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Ian S. Williams (Australian National University) – An Introduction to oxygenisotope geochemistry
16:00 – 17:00 Ian S. Williams (Australian National University) – A practical introduction tooxygen isotope geothermometry
18:30 – 21:00 Closing Ceremony and Banquet @ ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel, Niigata

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March 16, 2019
Short Course on “Application of thermodynamics in Geosciences: A hands-on short course on
construction of phase diagrams for minerals and fluids using Perple_X”
Venue: Multimedia room (A 519), Faculty of Science, Ikarashi Campus, Niigata
University
9:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 15:00 James A.D. Connolly (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)