IISER Kolkata

Research Interests

1. Evolution of monsoon in Indian subcontinent.

2. Molecular level isotopic characterization of vegetation and its implication to paleoecology.

3. Calcrete on metamorphosed rock, their genesis and implications to climate.

4. Elements and isotopes to understand a large river system.

5. River Response to climate change.

6. Monsoon Dynamics.

Academic Background

PhD (Geology), Physical Research Laboratory (University of Baroda), 2004
MSc (Applied Geology), Jadavpur University, 1998
BSc (Geology), Jadavpur University, 1996

Positions

Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
Associate Professor, IISER-Kolkata (2010 - 2016)
Assistant Professor, IIT-Kharagpur (2006 - 2010)
Research Scientist, Indiana University, USA (2009 - 2009)
Lecturer, BHU (2005 - 2006)

Awards and Honors

National geoscience Award from MInistry of Mines (2016)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Ghosh, Sambit; Sanyal, Prasanta and Kumar, Rohtash. 2017."Evolution of C4 plants and controlling factors: Insight from n-alkane isotopic values of NW Indian Siwalik paleosols." Organic Geochemistry, 110, 110-121

Basu, Sayak; Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Mahato, Poritosh; Kumar, Satyam and Sarkar, Anindya. 2015."Carbon isotopic ratios of modern C3–C4 plants from the Gangetic Plain, India and its implications to paleovegetational reconstruction." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, 22–32

Agrawal, Shailesh; Galy, Valier; Sanyal, Prasanta and Eglinton, Timothy. 2014."C4 plant expansion in the Ganga Plain during the last glacial cycle: Insights from isotopic composition of vascular plant biomarkers." Organic Geochemistry, 67, 58-71

Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Sarkar, Anindya; Jaiswal, Manoj Kumar and Dutta, Koushik. 2012."Variability of Indian monsoonal rainfall over the past 100 ka and its implication for C3–C4 vegetational change." Quaternary Research, 77, 159-170

All Publications:

Pillai, Anusree; Anoop, Ambili; Sankaran, Mahesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Jha, Deepak K. and Ratnam, Jayashree. 2017."Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485, 869-878

Basu, Sayak; Ambili, Anoop; Sanyal, Prasanta and Singh, Pramod. 2017."Lipid distribution in the lake Ennamangalam, south India: Indicators of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic history,." Quaternary International, DOI, DOI

Ghosh, Sambit; Sanyal, Prasanta and Kumar, Rohtash. 2017."Evolution of C4 plants and controlling factors: Insight from n-alkane isotopic values of NW Indian Siwalik paleosols." Organic Geochemistry, 110, 110-121

Basu, Sayak; Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Mahato, Poritosh; Kumar, Satyam and Sarkar, Anindya. 2015."Carbon isotopic ratios of modern C3–C4 plants from the Gangetic Plain, India and its implications to paleovegetational reconstruction." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, 22–32

MAIBAM, B.; Sanyal, Prasanta and Bhattacharya, S. K.. 2015."Geochronological Study of Metasediments and Carbon Isotopes in Associated Graphites from the Sargur Area, Dharwar Craton: Constraints on the Age and Nature of the Protoliths." JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 85, 577-585

Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Balakrishnan, Srinivasanan and Dash, Jitendra K.. 2014."Climate induced temporal change in Sr-Nd isotope ratios in the valley-fill deposits of the Ganga River.." Geochemical Journal, 48, 451-462

Agrawal, Shailesh; Galy, Valier; Sanyal, Prasanta and Eglinton, Timothy. 2014."C4 plant expansion in the Ganga Plain during the last glacial cycle: Insights from isotopic composition of vascular plant biomarkers." Organic Geochemistry, 67, 58-71

Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Bera, M. K.; Dash, J K. and Balakrishnan, S.. 2013."Paleoclimatic, paleovegetational and provenance change in the Ganga Plain during the late Quaternary." Journal of Earth System Science , 122, 1141-1152

Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Balakrishnan, Srinivasanan and Dash, Jitendra. 2013."Exploring the temporal change in provenance encoded in the late Quaternary deposits of the Ganga Plain." Sedimentary Geology, 293, 1-8

Agrawal, Shailesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Sarkar, Anindya; Jaiswal, Manoj Kumar and Dutta, Koushik. 2012."Variability of Indian monsoonal rainfall over the past 100 ka and its implication for C3–C4 vegetational change." Quaternary Research, 77, 159-170

Bera, M. K.; Sarkar, A.; Tandon, S. K.; Samanta, A. and Sanyal, P.. 2010."Does burial diagenesis reset pristine isotopic compositions in paleosol carbonates?." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300, 85–100

Sanyal, Prasanta; Sarkar, A.; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Kumar, Rohtash; Ghosh, S. K. and Agrawal, S.. 2010."Intensification of monsoon, microclimate and asynchronous C4 appearance: Isotopic evidence from the Indian Siwalik sediments." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296 , 165–173

Purohit, Ritesh; Sanyal, Prasanta; Bhattacharya, S. K. and Roy, A. B.. 2010."13C enrichment in the Palaeoproterozoic carbonate rocks of the Aravalli Supergroup, northwest India: Influence of depositional environment." Gondwana Research, 18, 538–546

Sanyal, Prasanta and Sinha, R.. 2010."Evolution of the Indian summer monsoon: synthesis of continental records." Geological Society, London, 342, 153-183

Bera, M. K.; Sarkar, A.; Chakraborty, P. P.; Loyal, R. S. and Sanyal, P.. 2010."Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland: Reply." GSA Bulletin, 122, 956–959

Sanyal, Prasanta; Acharya, B. C.; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Sarkar, A.; Agrawal, S. and Bera, M. K.. 2009."Origin of graphite, and temperature of metamorphism in Precambrian Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, Orissa, India: A carbon isotope approach." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 36, 252-260

SARKAR, A; CHAKRABORTY, P. P.; MISHRA, B.; BERA, M. K.; Sanyal, P. and PAUL, S.. 2009."Mesoproterozoic sulphidic ocean, delayed oxygenation and evolution of early life: sulphur isotope clues from Indian Proterozoic basins." Geological Magazine, 147, 206–218

Bera, M.; Sarkar, A.; Chakraborty, P. P.; Loyal, R. S. and Sanyal, P.. 2008."Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland." GSA Bulletin, 120, 1214–1232

SINHA, SUBHAJIT; GHOSH, SUMIT K.; KUMAR, ROHTASH; ISLAM, R.; SANYAL, P. and SANGODE, S. J.. 2008."Role of Tectono-Climatic Factors in the Neogene Himalayan Foreland Sediments: Petrology and Geochemical Approach, Kangra Sub-basin." JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 71, 787-807

Sanyal, Prasanta. 2007."Monsoonal rainfall variation for last 11 Ma and its impact on vegetation: study based on Indian Siwalik sediments." Himalayan Geology, 28, 22-36

Sinha, R.; Tandon, S. K.; Sanyal, P.; Gibling, M. R.; Stuben, D.; Berner, Z. and Ghazanfari, P.. 2006."Calcretes from a Late Quaternary interfluve in the Ganga Plains, India: Carbonate types and isotopic systems in a monsoonal setting." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 242, 214–239

Banerjee, Santanu; Jeevankumar, S; Sanyal, P. and Bhattachrya, S. K.. 2006."STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS AND NODULAR LIMESTONE OF THE PROTEROZOIC ROHTAS LIMESTONE: VINDHYAN BASIN, INDIA." Carbonates and Evaporites, 21, 133-143

Sanyal, Prasanta; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Kumar, Rohtash; Ghosh, S. K. and Sangode, S. J.. 2005."Palaeovegetational reconstruction in Late Miocene: A case study based on early diagenetic carbonate cement from the Indian Siwalik." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 228, 245– 259

Sanyal, Prasanta; Bhattacharya, S. K. and Prasad, M.. 2005."Chemical diagenesis of Siwalik sandstone: Isotopic and mineralogical proxies from Surai Khola section, Nepal." Sedimentary Geology, 180, 57–74

Sanyal, Prasanta; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Bajpai, S. and Sharma, R.. 2005."Palaeoenvironmental Conditions during Deposition of Deccan Intertrappeans: Evidence from Stable Isotope Analysis of Fossil Ostracods." Gond. Geol. Magz, 8, 147-150

Sanyal, Prasanta; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Kumar, Rohtash; Ghosh, S. K. and Sangode, S. J.. 2004."Mio–Pliocene monsoonal record from Himalayan foreland basin (Indian Siwalik) and its relation to vegetational change." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 205, 23– 41

Chakraborty, P. P.; Sarkar, A.; Bhattacharya, S. K. and Sanyal, P.. 2002."Isotopic and sedimentological clues to productivity change in Late Riphean Sea: A case study from two intracratonic basins of India." Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., 111, 379-390

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

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Research Interests

Academic Background

Positions

Awards and Honors

Selected Publications