Geology Department

RESEARCH

 

SPONSORED MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT (2019 ONWARDS)

 

  • Systematic Study of Molluscs and other Benthic Faunal Diversity and Their Palaeoecological Palaeobiogeographical Distribution during Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Kutch, Western India”; Funding Agency: DST, Science and Engineering Board, Government of India Tenure-3 years, Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 28,58,360/-; Commencement: March 2019; PI: Dr. Pinaki Roy, Department of Geology
  • Tectonothermal history of the high-grade rocks of Angul and Tikadpada domains and its bearing on the evolution of the northern Eastern Ghats Belt, India; Funding Agency: DST, Science and Engineering Board, of India Tenure-2 years, Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 31,40,040/-; Commencement: December 2022; PI: Dr. Proloy Ganguly, Department of Geology
  • The End Permian Mass Extinction Event (Epme) And Its Effects On The Non-Marine,Triassic Vertebrates: An Integrated study From The Indian Gondwana Basins; Funding Agency: DST, Science and Engineering Board, Govt. of India Tenure-3 years, Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 11,82,500/-; Commencement: August 2022; PI: Dr. Saradee Sengupta, Department of Geology,; Co-PI: Dr. Prabir Dasgupta, Retired Faculty Member, Department of Geology

 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN SCI/SCOPUS INDEXED JOURNALS (2020 ONWARDS)

NO. Title of paper Name of the author/s Department of the teacher Name of journal Year of publication ISSN number
1 Drilling gastropod predation on the lower Miocene gastropod assemblages from Kutch, western India: spatiotemporal implications Pritha Goswami, Shiladri S. Das, Subhendu Bardhan,Shubhabrata Paul Geology Historical Biology 2020 1029-2381
2 Formation of intracratonic Gondwana basins: Prelude of Gondwana fragmentation? Prabir Dasgupta Geology Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 2020 1349-3825
3 Neoproterozoic Blaini Formation of Lesser Himalaya, India: Fiction and Fact Sumit Dey, Prabir Dasgupta,Kaushik Das, Abdul Matin Geology Geological Society of America Bulletin 2020 1943-2674
4 Taphonomic signatures of a new upper triassic phytosaur (diapsida,archosauria) bonebed from India: aggregation of a juvenile-dominated paleocommunity Debajit Datta, Debarati Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Ray Geology Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2020 1937-2809
5 Vulnerability assessment for Sagar Island coast, West Bengal with respect to inundation hazard D Chakraborty, P Saha Geology Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences 2020 0975-1033
6 Widespread Azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of Western USA And India Sterling J. Nesbitt, Michelle R. Stocker,Martín D. Ezcurra,Nicholas C. Fraser,Andrew B. Heckert,William G. Parker,Bill Mueller,Saradee Sengupta,Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Adam C. Pritchard,Adam D. Marsh Geology Papers in Palaeontology 2021 2056-2802
7 Taphonomy and Depositional Setting of the Shringasaurus indicus (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) bonebed from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, India Saradee Sengupta, Dhurjati P. Sengupta Geology Palaios 2021 0883-1351
8 Heavy Minerals from Gopalpur Coast, Odisha with Special Reference to Ilmenite: Implication to Provenance Dola Chakraborty & Bijan Kumar Saha Geology Journal of the Geological Society of India 2021 0016-7622
9 Composition and genesis of albitite-hosted antecrystic pyrochlore from the Sevattur carbonatite complex, India Monojit Dey,Roger H. Mitchell,Sourav Bhattacharjee,Aniket Chakrabarty,Supriyo Pal,Supratim Pal and Amit Kumar Sen Geology Mineralogical Magazine 2021 0026-461X (Print), 1471-8022 (Online)
10 Compositional variation and genesis of pyrochlore, belkovite, and baotite from the Sevattur carbonatite complex, India Monojit Dey,Sourav Bhattacharjee,Aniket Chakrabarty,Roger H. Mitchell,Supriyo Pal,Supratim Pal and Amit Kumar Sen Geology Mineralogical Magazine 2021 0026-461X (Print), 1471-8022 (Online)
11 Polyphase deformation and ultrahigh temperature metamorphism of the deep continental crust: Implications for tectonic evolution of the northern Eastern Ghats Belt, India Proloy Ganguly, Gautam Ghosh, Sankar Bose, Kaushik Das Geology Journal of Structural Geology 2021 0191-8141
12 Development of Crustal-Scale Shear Zones at the Singhbhum Craton–Eastern Ghats Belt Boundary Region: A Critical Review of the Mesoarchean–Neoproterozoic Odyssey Gautam Ghosh; Proloy Ganguly; Shuvankar Karmakar; Sankar Bose; Joydip Mukhopadhyay; Susmita Ghosh Geology Lithosphere 2021 1947-4253
13 Krol Sandstone-black shale association of the Lesser Himalayan Neoproterozoic succession, Himachal Pradesh, India: An unexplored record of the hothouse aftermath Dey, S., Dasgupta, P., Das, K., Goto, K. T., Matin, A., Suzuki, K., and Kubota, M. Geology Marine and Petroleum Geology 2022 0264-8172
14 Fault zone architecture and lithology-dependent deformation mechanisms of the Himalayan frontal fold-thrust belt: Insights from the Nahan Thrust, India. Sarkar, D.P., Ando, J., Ghosh, G., Das, K., Dasgupta, P., and Tomioka, N. Geology Geological Society of America Bulletin 2022 0016-7606
15 Pulsed tectonic evolution in long-lived orogenic belts: An example from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India S Bose, N Sorcar, K Das, P Ganguly, S Mukherjee Geology Precambrian Research 2022 0301-9268
16 The Osteology of Shringasaurus indicus, an archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India Sengupta, S. and Bandyopadhyay, B. Geology Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2022 2694-7684
17 Implications of marine Gastropoda Baylea DeKoninck, 1883 from the Permian Barren Measures Formation, Lower Gondwana, West Bokaro Basin, eastern India BIPLAB BHATTACHARYA, PARTHA PRATIM BANERJEE and PINAKI ROY Geology J. Earth Syst. Sci 2022  0253-4126
18 Link between Lesser Himalayan Neoproterozoic Krol succession and the Adelaide rift complex of Australia ‒ evidence from the mudstone deposits of Krol succession, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dey, S., Dasgupta, P., Das, K., Matin, A. Geology Marine and Petroleum Geology 2023 0264-8172
19 Contrasting Styles of Lower Crustal Metamorphism from a Granulite Suite of Rocks from Angul, Eastern Ghats Belt, India: Implications for the India–Antarctica Correlation Banerjee, A., Ganguly, P., Das, K., Sorcar, N., Bose, S Geology Journal of Petrology 2023  1460-2415
20 The role of magmatic-to-carbohydrothermal processes in rare earth mineralization in Hogenakkal carbonatites, India Sourav Bhattacharjee  , Aniket Chakrabarty, Roger H. Mitchell , Suresh Chandra Patel , Evgeniy N. Kozlov , Ekaterina N. Fomina, Monojit Dey, Supratim Pal Geology Lithos 2024 0024-4937
21 The redescription of Malerisaurus robinsonae (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from the Upper Triassic lower Maleri Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India Saradee Sengupta, Martín D. Ezcurra, Saswati Bandyopadhyay Geology The Anatomical Record 2024 1932-8494

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS (2022 ONWARDS)

No. Name of the teacher Title of the Year of publication ISBN/ISSN number Name of the publisher
1 Dr. Proloy Ganguly Two-Stage Metamorphism of the Angul-Tikarpada Area, Eastern Ghats Belt and its Implications on the India-East Antarctica Correlation 2022 Goldscmidt 2022
2 Dr. Proloy Ganguly Metasomatic Transformation and Deformation at the Calc-silicate Granulite and Charnockite Interface in the Phulbani Area of the Eastern Ghats Province, India: Implications on the Fluid Movement and Strain Localization in the Lower Crust 2022 American Geophysical Union
3 Dr. Dola Chakraborty Clay Minerals: Their Antimicrobial and Antitoxic Applications 2023 Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22326-6
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22327-3		 Springer

 

 

FACULTY MEMBERS OF DURGAPUR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE AS RESOURCE PERSONS IN EVENTS ORGANIZED BY EXTERNAL AGENCIES (2022 ONWARDS)

No. Name of the Faculty Member Department

 

 Name of the Event Organized by

(Name of External Agency)

 Date of the event
1 Dr. Pinaki Roy Geology Invited Lecture on “Functional traits, Ecology and Phylogeny” Government General Degree College, Kabi Jagadram Roy Government General Degree College, Mejia 24-03-2022
2 Dr. Prabir Dasgupta Geology 46th Professor S. Ray Memorial lecture on “The Saga of Cryogenian Earth- from the pages of Lesser Himalayan Krol succession” Department of Geology, Presidency College, Kolkata 07-09-2022

 

 

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

 

Research Collaboration with Department of Geology, Jadavpur University; 1 Joint Major Research Project funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India completed during the tenure 2019-2022

 

Research Collaboration with Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata; 1 International research article jointly published in SCI (Web of Science)and SCOPUS indexed journal

Research Collaboration with Geological Studies Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; 2 International research articles jointly published in SCI (Web of Science)and SCOPUS indexed journal