Academics

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Ph.D

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 2004.

M.Sc

Applied Geology, Jadavpur University, 1998.

B.Sc

Honours in Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, 1996.

Research Field

Paleoclimatology | Paleomonsoon | Paleoecology | River Response to Climate

Research Interest

• Evolution of Indian monsoon and its effect on ecosystem and landforms.
• Past atmospheric CO2 variations.
• Carbon isotope thermometry.

Positions

HAG Professor | Sep 2025 - Present

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

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Professor | Feb 2016 - Sep 2025

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

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Associate Professor | Dec 2010 - Feb 2016

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

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Research Scientist | May-July 2009

Indiana University, USA

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Assistant Professor | Jan 2006 - Dec 2010

IIT Kharagpur

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Lecturer | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Awards & Honors

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1. Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
2. Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
3. Associate Editor for the journal “Organic Geochemistry”.
4. Member of the Research Advisory Council of Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences for a period of 3 years w.e.f. March 21, 2025.
5. Editor in Nature group journal Scientific Report (2016-2020).
6. Expert Committee of PMECRG (Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant of ANRF) in area of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (2025-present).
7. Served as an expert in Programme Advisory Committee on Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (2022-2025).
8. Serving SERB-SURE – Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) member 2023-present.
9. Selected at IGPB Landmark Synthesis Event AGU 2015.
10. National Geoscience Award for significant work in the field of basic Geosciences- Ministry of Mines, 2014.
11. BOYSCAST fellowship- Department of Science and Technology, 2009.
12. Selected as a participant in 2nd Indo-American Frontiers of Science Symposium held during 17-20 Jan 2007 at the Beckham Centre in Irvine, California , USA
13. Young Earth Scientist award by Department of Science and Technology, 2004.
14. Best paper presentation award in 11th Indian Society of Mass Spectrometry workshop which was held in Shimla during October 7th to 12th , 2004.
15. Qualified the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR-1999) NET
16. Research Scholarships at Physical Research Laboratory (1999-2004), Ahmedabad, India.
17. National Scholarship (Govt. of India) 1991-1996.

Publications

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2026

• 98. Arun Kaushik, Biswajit Palar, Anil K Gupta, Pankaj Kumar, Abhayanand S Maurya, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): Late Holocene Tectonoclimatic driven river avulsion and lake formation impacting societies in the Central Ganga Basin, Quaternary Science Reviews,Volume 382,2026,109980,ISSN 0277-3791.
• 97. Chakresh Kumar, Anwesha Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, Punyasloke Bhadury (2026): Genome description of a potentially novel species of Billgrantia sp. strain SL18_1 isolated from Sambhar Lake, India, Access Microbiology, Volume 8, Issue 6.
• 96. Uday Narayan Guria, Santrupta Samantaray, Rahul Sen, Vishal Kumar, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Mahesh Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): Distributions of membrane lipids (3-hydroxy fatty acids and brGDGTs) in the Eastern Himalayan soil and their global context: insights into temperature and pH variations, Organic Geochemistry, Volume 218, 2026, 105229, ISSN 0146-6380
• 95. Biswajit Roy, Santrupta Samantaray, Kanva Goyal, Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): n-Alkyl lipid signatures across similar plant-soil continuum reveals depth-dependent edaphic controls on carbon stabilisations, Organic Geochemistry,2026,105216,ISSN 0146-6380.
• 94. Chandrima Shaw, Neeraj Rastogi, Ritwick Mandal, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): Sources and formation pathways of particulate nitrate over the western India: Insights through δ15N and δ18O isotopes, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 May 2026, EGU26-128
• 93. Vishal Kumar, Biswajit Roy, Manish Tiwari, Meloth Thamban, Prasanta Sanyal(2026): Understanding Microbial Lipid (GDGTs and 3-OH FAs) Responses Across Arctic Ecological Gradients, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 May 2026, EGU26-3820.
• 92. Gunjan Agrawal, Mahesh Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): A validated one-stop resource for oxygen isotope analysis of human scalp hair, Forensic Science International: Reports, 2026, 100461, ISSN 2665-9107.
• 91. Manoj Jakhar, Prasanta Sanyal (2026): Deciphering Groundwater Nitrate Origins in a Hypersaline Inland Wetland through Isotopic Fingerprinting

2025

• 90. Biswajit Roy, Twismary Kharphuli, Disha Baidya, Prasanta Sanyal (2025): Exploring the Signature of Lipid Biomolecules Influenced by Soil Aggregates Across Terrestrial Ecosystems , JGR Biogeosciences doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008424 IF: 3.7
• 89. Sambit Ghosh, Biswajit Roy, Prasanta Sanyal (2025): The Late Neogene distribution of C3-C4 plants in the Himalayan foreland basin: Insight from the δ13C values and sedimentological architecture of the Siwaliks , Geological Society of London Special Publications on Asian Geodynamics, Surface Processes and Biodiversity 549 (1), SP549-2023-145.
• 88. Yachna Verma, Anil K. Gupta, Prasanta Sanyal, Priyantan Gupta, Som Dutt, Pankaj Kumar, Abhijit Mukherjee: (2025) Deciphering Holocene monsoon dynamics in northeastern India using speleothem δ18O record and petrography, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 684, 2026, 113518, ISSN 0031-0182,
• 87. Shaw C, Rastogi N, Mandal R, P Sanyal (2025). Formation pathways of particulate NO₃^- and sources of its precursor over the northwest India: Insights through dual isotopes, Atmospheric Environment, 360, 121426. IF:3.7
• 86. Ram A, Gupta A K, P Sanyal (2025). Reconstructing evolution of the western Equatorial Pacific and its thermocline dynamics since the latest Miocene Global and Planetary Change 253,104939. IF:4.0
• 85. Mathew S.M., Agrawal S, Manoj MC, Sanyal P, Rahi IC, Parmar S, Prasad V, Sharma A. (2025) Unearthing the PETM in the Indian tropics: n-alkane and bulk carbon isotope records from the Barmer Basin, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
• 84. Kaushik A, Gupta A.K., Clemens S.C., Kumar P, Sanyal P., Jaiswal M.K., Maurya A.S, Sengupta S (2025): Indian monsoon variability during the past 600 years , Quaternary International 718 109583, IF:1.9
• 83. Sengupta S, Gupta A. K., Kumar P, Sanyal P, Jaiswal M.K, Maurya A.S, Kaushik A, Pawar R, Sharma R, Kumar N. (2025): Paleomonsoon variability during the past seven centuries: Insights from a northwest Himalayan lake , Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 668 112911, IF: 2.6
• 82. Majumder J, Gupta A.K, Sanyal P, Mohanty R.N (2025): Changes in surface conditions and associated hypoxia since the late Marine Isotope Stage 3, eastern Arabian Sea , Global and Planetary Change, 246, 104734, IF:4.0.
• 81. Palei RR, Gupta A, Sanyal P, Jaiswal MK (2025): Geochemical and microtextural properties of pyritized foraminiferal tests: Results from ODP Site 763A, southeastern Indian Ocean, Geological Magazine IF:2.0
• 80. Mahanta P, Gupta A. K, Sanyal P (2025): A pronounced deep water cooling in the Indian Ocean at ∼ 3.3–2.3 Ma linked to a major increase in the Antarctic ice volume , Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 657, 112612, IF:2.6.
• 79. Palar B, Gupta A.K, Sanyal P, Kumar P, Jaiswal M.K, Singh R.K, Dash M.K, Sharma R. (2025): Multi-proxy record of monsoon variability since ∼ 1300 CE from Anshupa Lake, Core Monsoon Zone of India , Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 661,112718

2024

• 78. Prasanta Sanyal, Sourav Priyam Adhya, Ritwick Mandal, Biswajit Roy, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Santrupta Samantaray, Rahul Sen, Vijayananda Sarangi, Anurag Kumar, Deepak K Jha, Ajay Ajay, 2024: The Geologic History of Plants and Climate in India, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 52, February 2024
• 77. Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Puneet Prakash, Rahul Sen, Jacob Noble, Shamik Chatterjee, Prasantajy6 Sanyal, 2024: The isotopic composition of the world’s highest river basins: Role of hydrological mixing ratios and transit time, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 638, July 2024, 131544
• 76. De Jonge, C., Peterse, F., Nierop, K. G., Blattmann, T. M., Alexandre, M., Ansanay‐Alex, S., Sanyal P. ... & Zhou, A. (2024).: Interlaboratory comparison of branched GDGT temperature and pH proxies using soils and lipid extracts , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(7), e2024GC011583.
• 75.R Sánchez‐Murillo, L Ortega, P Vreča, K Žagar....P Sanyal... Ajay.... Miller J. Tracing Urban Drinking Water Sources: Global State of the Art and Insights, Tracing Urban Drinking Water Sources: Global State of the Art and Insights From an IAEA‐Coordinated Research Project Hydrological Processes 38; e15312, IF:2.8.
• 74. Saishree, Amrita, Shreyas Managave, M. G. Yadava, Salam Maheshwori Devi, and Prasanta Sanyal. 2024: Tropical leaf wax n‐alkane and n‐alkanoic acid reflect δD of precipitation during early stages of leaf growth: Insights from an isotope labeling experiment, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 39, 10, e2024PA004899
• 73. Singh P, Sarangi V, Bhushan R, Ali SN, Agrawal S, Tiwari P, Kawsar M, Agnihotri R, Prasanta Sanyal, Kumar K, Thakur B, MC Manoj, Singh V, Dabhi A,Sharma A, Prakash K, Morthekai P Presence and implications of petrogenic organic carbon in High Himalayan Crystalline lake sediment, Radiocarbon, 66 (4) 783 – 805 IF 4.9
• 72. Rina Rani Palei, Anil K. Gupta, Prasanta Sanyal, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, 2024: Leeuwin current dynamics in the SE Indian Ocean and implications for regional surface hydrography since the latest Miocene: Results from ODP Site 763A, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 237, June 2024, 104459
• 71. Sarkar, A. Sengupta T., Ambekar A, Bhushan R, Dimri A.P, Deshpande-Mukherjee A., Sharma A., Liang M C, Jena P S, Chakraborty A, Prasanta Sanyal, Dabhi A, Juyal N. Climate, human settlement, and migration in South Asia from early historic to medieval period: Evidence from new archaeological excavation at Vadnagar, Western India, Quaternary Science Reviews 324, 108470 IF 4.0.
• 70. Sreya Sengupta, Anil K Gupta, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Pankaj Kumar, Prasanta Sanyal, Shilpa Pandey, Dhruv Sen Singh, Arun Kaushik, Anoop Kumar Singh, Biswajit Palar, Rajveer Sharma, Vartika Singh, 2024: Palaeoclimatic shifts in the Central Ganga Basin during the Middle- to Late Holocene: Exploring the 4.2 ka arid event and its implications in northern India, The Holocene, May 2024, 09596836241247310
• 69. Deepak Kumar Jha, Pranav Hirave, Sambit Ghosh, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Prasanta Sanyal, 2024: Does leaf wax isotopic characterisation of gymnosperms and angiosperms capture environmental gradients in Himalayas?, Organic Geochemistry, Volume 187, January 2024, 104720
• 68. Raj S.I.S. Podder, Anil K. Gupta, Prasanta Sanyal, Steven Clemens, 2023: Changes in surface hydrography of the western equatorial Indian Ocean during the Pleistocene: Implications for East African climate variability, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 231, December 2023, 104322
• 67. Raj S.I.S. Podder, Anil K. Gupta, Steven Clemens, Prasanta Sanyal, M.K. Panigrahi, 2024: Changes in the Indian Ocean surface hydrography driven by the seaway closure and monsoonal circulation since the late Oligocene, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 232, January 2024, 104335
• 66. Anurag Kumar, Sayak Basu, Ajay Ajay, Deepak Kumar Jha, Prasanta Sanyal, 2024: Quantitative delineation of water sources in the river Ganga using stable water isotopes, River Research and Applications, Volume 40, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 177-190
• 65. Jeet Majumder, Anil K Gupta, Prasanta Sanyal, Pankaj Kumar, Rudra Narayan Mohanty, Rajveer Sharma, Mohan Kuppusamy, Mruganka K Panigrahi, 2024: Surface oceanographic changes from ∼ 25,000 to 3500 cal yr BP in the eastern Arabian Sea, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 234, March 2024, 104397

2023

• 64. Amrita Saishree, Shreyas Managave, Vijayananda Sarangi, Prasanta Sanyal, 2023: Experimental evidence suggests dominance of species effect on the variability in hydrogen isotope fractionation between leaf wax compounds and source water, Organic Geochemistry, 104656
• 63. Gunjan Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, 2023: Discerning animal-sourced food in diet using isotope analysis of human scalp hair and fingernails, European Journal of Nutrition, Volume 63, pages 409–423, (2024)
• 62. S Samantaray, P Sanyal, 2023: Effect of salinity on the preservation of plant-derived n-alkyl compounds in the terrestrial-aquatic interface , Organic Geochemistry, 104653
• 61. Anurag Kumar, Ajay Ajay, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Punyasloke Bhadury, Prasanta Sanyal: Deciphering the nitrate sources and processes in the Ganga river using dual isotopes of nitrate and Bayesian mixing model, Environmental Research, 216, Part 4,114744 IF: 8.431
• 60. Arun Kaushik, Anil K Gupta, Steven C Clemens, Pankaj Kumar, Prasanta Sanyal, Priyantan Gupta, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Abhayanand S Maurya, Sreya Sengupta, Rajveer Sharma, Rahul Pawar, 2023: Paleoclimatic reconstruction of northwest Himalaya since CE 475 using lake sediments from Tadag Taal, Kumaun, India ,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 619, 111544
• 59. Pradeep Srivastava, Prasanta Sanyal, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Praveen K. Mishra, Suryendu Dutta, Rajarshi Chakravarti, Niraj Rai, Naveen Navani, Anoop Ambili, K. P. Karanth, Jahanavi Joshi, Sushmita Singh and Senthil Kumar Sadasivam, 2023: A need to integrate metagenomics and metabolomics in geosciences and develop the deep-time digital earth-biome database of India, Current Science Volume 124, Issue 1, p. 26
• 58. Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, Lourembam R Singh, Vaibhav Miglani, Deepak Kumar Jha, Prasanta Sanyal, Sampat K Tandon, Guntupalli VR Prasad, 2023: New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy, Plos One, 18 (1), e0278242

2022

• 57. Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Asiya B.S., Ajay Ajay, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Hydrometeorological progression of the Himalayan cryosphere: The Karakoram predicament, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 613, Part A, October 2022, 128348
• 56. Koushik Sahaa, Prasanta Sanyal, Swarnadip Saha, 2022: Source assessment of tropical-marshland sediment for evaluating seawater intrusion in Chandipur, India: An integrated granulometric and stable isotope approach,Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 278, 5 November 2022, 108096
• 55. Anurag Kumar, Ajay Ajay, Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Punyasloke Bhadury, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Deciphering the nitrate sources and processes in the Ganga river using dual isotopes of nitrate and Bayesian mixing model,Environmental Research, Volume 216, Part 4, 1 January 2023, 114744
• 54. Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Ajay Ajay, Puneet Prakash, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Understanding the disparity in n-alkane production among angiosperms and gymnosperms from the higher Himalayas: Inferences drawn from a Machine Learning approach, Organic Geochemistry Volume 171, September 2022, 104463
• 53. Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Linking Land Use Land Cover change to global groundwater storage,Science of The Total Environment, Volume 853, 20 December 2022, 158618
• 52. Shilpi Samiksha, Ramya Sunder Raman, Jai Prakash, Annada Padhi, Gazala Habib, Prasanta Sanyal, Ankur Bhardwaj, 2022: Characteristics of PM2. 5 emitted from the combustion of vehicular fuel and solid biomass: Thermally fractionated carbon, δ13C values, and filter-based light absorption Atmospheric Pollution Research,Volume 13, Issue 6, 101443.
• 51. Vijayananda Sarangi, Sohom Roy, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Effect of burning on the distribution pattern and isotopic composition of plant biomolecules: Implications for paleoecological studies Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,Vol 318, Pages 305-327.

2021

• 50. Santrupta Samantaray, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: Sources and fate of organic matter in a hypersaline lagoon: A study based on stable isotopes from the Pulicat lagoon, India Science of the Total Environment,Vol 807, Part 2, 150617.
• 49. Biswajit Roy, Prasanta Sanyal, 2022: Isotopic and molecular distribution of leaf-wax in plant-soil system of the Gangetic floodplain and its implication for paleorecords Quaternary International,Vol 607, Pages 89-99.
• 48. Sohom Roy, Prasanta Sanyal, Parthasarathi Ghosh, S.K. Bhattacharya, A. Ajay., 2021: Atmospheric CO2 estimates based on Gondwanan (Indian) pedogenic carbonates reveal positive linkage with Mesozoic temperature variations Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatalogy, Palaeoecology,582, 110638.
• 47. Sohom Roy, Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India Geobiology.
• 46. Bibhasvata Dasgupta, Ajay Ajay, Anurag Kumar, Meloth Thamban, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: Isoscape of surface runoff in high mountain catchments: An alternate model for meteoric water characterization and its implications Jouranal of Geophysical Reaearch Atmosphere, e2020JD033950, Volume 126, Issue 15.
• 45. Biswajit Roy, Sohom Roy,Kanva Goyal, Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: Biomarker and carbon isotopic evidence of marine incursions in the Himalayan Foreland Basin during its overfilled stage Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36, e2020PA004083.
• 44. Deepak Kumar Jha , Rahul Samarat, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: The first evidence of controlled use of fire by prehistoric humans during the Middle Paleolithic phase from the Indian subcontinent,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 110151.
• 43. Matiatos I., Wassenaar L.I., .......Sanyal P., Tamooh F., Trinh A.D., Walters W., and Welti N., 2021: Global Patterns of Nitrate Isotope Composition in Rivers and Adjacent Aquifers Reveal Reactive Nitrogen Cascading, Communication Earth & Environment 2, 52 (2021).
• 42. Sambit Ghosh, Melinda Kumar Bera, Biswajit Roy, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: Revisiting the diachronous transition of C3 to C4 plants in the Himalayan foreland and other parts of the globe: A sedimentological perspective ,Sedimentology.

2020

• 41. Vijayananda Sarangi, Shailesh Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: The disparity in the abundance of C4 plants estimated using the carbon isotopic composition of paleosol components ,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 110068.
• 40. Biswajit Roy, Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: Morpho-tectonic control on the distribution of C3-C4 plants in the central Himalayan Siwaliks during Late Plio-Pleistocene, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 535, 116119
• 39. Biswajit Roy, Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: Impact of monsoon, vegetation, and landscape on pedogenesis: A case study using organic and inorganic tracers from the Himalayan foreland sediments,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 556, 109854.
• 38. Biswajit Roy, Sutapa Patra, Prasanta Sanyal. The δ13C values of phytoliths: A comparative study on phytolith extraction methodsReview of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 281, 104280, IF: 1.67.
• 37. Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, Soham Roy, Ravi Bhushan, S.P. Sati, Anne Philippe, Navin Juyal, 2020: Early Holocene Indian summer monsoon and its impact on vegetation in the Central Himalaya: insight from δD and δ13C values of leaf wax lipid, The Holocene, 30, 7:1063-1074
• 36. Deepak Kumar Jha, Prasanta Sanyal, Anne Philippe, 2020: Multi-proxy evidence of Late Quaternary climate and vegetational history of north-central India: implication for the Paleolithic to Neolithic phases, Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106-121.
• 35. Sayak Basu, Sarthak Mohanty, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: Possible role of warming on Indian summer monsoon precipitation over north-central Indian subcontinent, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 65, 660-670

2019

• 34. Sayak Basu, Prasanta Sanyal, Anusree A.S Pillai,Anoop Ambili, 2019: Response of grassland ecosystem to monsoonal precipitation variability during the Mid-Late Holocene: Inferences based on molecular isotopic record from Banni grassland, western India, Plos One, 14(4): e0212743.
  
• 33. Sayak Basu, Sambit Ghosh, and Prasanta Sanyal, 2019: Spatial heterogeneity in the relationship between precipitation and carbon isotopic discrimination of C3 plants: Inferences from a global compilation, Global and Planetary Change, 176, 123-131.
• 32. Anurag Kumar, Prasanta Sanyal, Shailesh Agrawal.Spatial distribution of δ18O values of water in the Ganga River Basin: Insight into the hydrological processes, Journal of Hydrology, 571, 225-234, IF:4.50.
• 31. Vijayananda Sarangi, Anurag Kumar, Prasanta Sanyal. (2019) Effect of pedogenesis on the stable isotopic composition of calcretes and n-alkanes: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Sedimentology, 66 (5),1560-1579. IF:3.405.

2018

• 30. Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal, S.J. Sangode, A.C. Nanda 2018: Substrate control of C4 plant abundance in the Himalayan foreland: A study based on inter- basinal records from Plio- Pleistocene Siwalik Group sediments, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 511, 341-351. IF:3.318.
• 29. Sayak Basu, Prasanta Sanyal, Kshirod Sahoo, Naveen Chauhan, Anindya Sarkar, Navin Juyal, 2018: Variation in monsoonal rainfall sources (Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal) during the late Quaternary: Implications for regional vegetation and fluvial systems., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Volume 491, 1 February 2018, Pages 77-91
  

2017

• 28. Anusree A.S. Pillai, Ambili Anoop, Mahesh Sankaran, Prasanta Sanyal, Deepak K. Jha, Jayashree Ratnam, 2017: Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology .
  
• 27. Pratul Kumar Saraswati, Asmita Singh, Karyne Rogers, Prasanta Sanyal, Kanchan Pande and Kenji Iwao, 2017: δ18O of Larger Benthic Foraminifera: Temperature Calibration for Shallow Marine Tropical-Subtropical Carbonates., Micropaleontology and its Applications. Scientific Publishers (India), 59-70 pp.
  
• 26. Sambit Ghosh, Prasanta Sanyal and Rohtash Kumar, 2017: Evolution of C4 plants and controlling factors: Insight from n-alkane isotopic values of NW Indian Siwalik paleosols . Organic Geochemistry, 110,110–121.
  
• 25. Sayak Basu, Anoop Ambili, Prasanta Sanyal, Pramod Singh, 2017: Lipid distribution in the lake Ennamangalam, south India: Indicators of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic history. Quaternary International, Volume 443, Part B, 10 July 2017, Pages 238-247
  

2015

• 24. Sayak Basu, Shailesh Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, Poritosh Mahato, Satyam Kumar, Anindya Sarkar, 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.
  
• 23. V. Maibam, P Sanyal, S.K. Bhattacharya, 2015: Geochronological Study ofMetasediments and Carbon Isotopes in Associated Graphites from the Sargur Area,Dharwar Craton: Constraints on the Age and Nature of the Protoliths. Journal of Geological Society of India, Volume 85, Issue 5
  

2014

• 22. Shailesh Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, Srinivasanan Balakrishnan and Jitendra K. Dash, 2014: Climate induced temporal change in Sr-Nd isotope ratios in the valley-fill deposits of the Ganga River. Geochemical Journal, Vol. 48 (No. 5), pp. 451-462
  
• 21. Shailesh Agrawal, Valier Galy, Prasanta Sanyal, Timothy Eglinton, 2014: C4 plant expansion in the Ganga Plain during the last glacial cycle: Insights fromisotopic composition of vascular plant biomarkers. Organic Geochemistry, 67, 58-71.
  

2013

• 20. Shailesh Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, Srinivasanan Balakrishnan, Jitendra Dash, 2013: Exploring the temporal change in provenance encoded in the late Quaternarydeposits of the Ganga Plain. Sedimentary Geology, 293,1-8.
  
• 19. Agrawal, S., Sanyal, P., Bera, M.K., Dash, J.K., Balakrishnan S, 2013: Paleoclimatic, paleovegetational and provenance change in the Ganga Plainduring the late Quaternary. Journal of Earth System Science, 122, 1141-1152.
  

2012

• 18. Shailesh Agrawal, Prasanta Sanyal, A. Sarkar, M. Jaiswal, K. Dutta, 2012: Variability of Indian monsoonal rainfall over the past 100 ka and its implication for C3–C4 vegetational change. Quaternary Research, 77-159-170.
  

2010

• 17. M K Bera, Anindya Sarkar, S K Tandon, A Samanta, P Sanyal, 2010: Does burial diagenesis reset pristine isotopic compositions in paleosol carbonates? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300, 85-100.
  
• 16. Prasanta Sanyal, A. Sarkar, S.K. Bhattacharya, Rohtash Kumar, S.K.Ghosh S.Agrawal, 2010: Intensification of monsoon, microclimate and asynchronous C4 appearance: isotopic evidence from the Indian Siwalik sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 296, 165-173.
  
• 15. M.K.Bera, A. Sarkar, P.P. Chakraborty, R.S. Loyal, and P. Sanyal, 2010: Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland. Geological Society of American Bulletin 122, 956-959.
  
• 14. Prasanta Sanyal and R. Sinha, 2010: Evolution of the Indian summer monsoon: Synthesis of continental records. Special Publications Geological Society of London in Clift, P. D., Tada, R. & Zheng, H. (Edt) Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics-Climate Linkage in Asia., 342, 153–183.
  
• 13. Ritesh Purohit, Prasanta Sanyal, A.B. Roy, S.K. Bhattacharya, 2010: 13C enrichment in the Palaeoproterozoic carbonate rocks of the Aravalli Supergroup, northwest India: Influence of depositional environment. Gondwana Research. 18, 538-546.
  

2009

• 12. Prasanta Sanyal, B.C. Acharya, S.K. Bhattacharya, A. Sarkar, S. Agrawal, M.K. Bera, 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.
  
• 11. A. Sarkar, P. P. Chakraborty, B. Misra, M. K. Bera, P. Sanyal, S. Paul, 2009: Mesoproterozoic sulphidic ocean, delayed oxygenation and evolution of early life: sulphur isotope clues from Indian Proterozoic basins. Geological Magazine, 147(2)
  

2008

• 10. Subhajit Sinha, Sumit K. Ghosh, Rohtash Kumar, R. Islam, P. Sanyal, S. Sangode, 2008: Role of tectonic-climatic factors in the Neogene Himalayan foreland sediments: petrology and geochemical approach, Kangra sub-basin. J. Geological Society of India. 71, 787-807.
  
• 9. M.K. Bera, A.Sarkar, P.P. Chakraborty, R.S. Loyal, P.Sanyal, 2008: Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 120, 1212-1232.
  

2007

• 8. Prasanta Sanyal, 2007: Monsoonal rainfall variations for last 11 Myr and its impact on vegetation: study based on Indian Siwalik sediments. Himalayan Geology. 28, 23-36.
  

2006

• 7. Santanu Banerjee, S. Jeevankumar, P. Sanyal, S.K.Bhattacharya, 2006: Stable isotope ratios and nodular limestone of the Proterozoic Rohtas limestone : Vindyan Basin, India. Carbonates and Evaporites.v.21, no. 2,133-143.
  
• 6. R. Sinha, S.K. Tandon, P. Sanyal, M.R. Gibling, D. Stuben, Z. Berner, and P. Ghazanfari, 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.
  

2005

• 5. Prasanta Sanyal, S.K. Bhattacharya, S. Bajpai and R. Sharma, 2005: Palaeoenvironmental conditions during deposition of Deccan intertrappeans: Evidence from stable isotope analysis of fossil ostracods. Gondwana Geological Magazine, Spl. v. 8,pp. 147-150.
  
• 4. Prasanta Sanyal, S.K.Bhattacharya, Mahesh Prasad, 2005: Chemical diagenesis of Siwalik sandstone: Isotopic and mineralogical proxies from Surai Khola section, Nepal. Sedimentary Geology v.180, 57-74.
  
• 3. Prasanta Sanyal, S.K.Bhattacharya, Rohtash Kumar, Sumit K. Ghosh, S.J. Sangode, 2005: Paleovegetational reconstruction in Late Miocene: a case study based on early diagenetic carbonate cement from Indian Siwalik. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology v. 228,245-259.
  

2004

• 2. Prasanta Sanyal, S.K.Bhattacharya, Rohtash Kumar, Sumit K. Ghosh, S.J. Sangode, 2004: Mio-Pliocene monsoonal record from Indian Himalayan Foreland basin (Siwalik) and its relation to vegetational change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. v.205, 23-41

2002

• 1. P.P. Chakraborty, A.Sarkar, S.K.Bhattacharya, P.Sanyal, 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. (Earth Planet Sci.) v. 111 No.4, 379-390.