* Ph.D. Scholar ** BS-MS Student
2025
85. 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
84. 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.
83. 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
82. 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
81. 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.
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. Ghosh, S., Roy, B., & Sanyal, P. (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, London, Special Publications, 549(1), SP549-2023.
76. Prasanta Sanyal and Santrupta Samantaray, Analytical Isotope Geochemistry - Analytical Techniques for Lipid Biomarkers and their Isotopic Composition (Book Chapter), Springer Nature
75. 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
74. 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.
73. Bibhasvata Dasgupta*, Puneet Prakash, Rahul Sen*, Jacob Noble, Shamik Chatterjee, Prasanta 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
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. 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
70. 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
69. 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
68. 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
67. 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
2023
66. 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
65. 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)
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. 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
62. 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
61. Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, Lourembam R. Singh, Vaibhav Miglani, Deepak Kumar Jha*, Prasanta Sanyal, Sampat K. Tandon, Guntupalli V. R. Prasad, 2023: New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy , Plos One, 18 (1), e0278242
60. 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 : 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
2022
59. 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
58. 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
57. 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
56. 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
55. 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
54. 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.
53. 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.
52. 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.
2021
51. 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.
50. 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.
49. 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.
48. 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, Volume 126, Issue 15 e2020JD033950.
47. 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.
46. Matiatos I., Wassenaar L.I., .......Sanyal P., Tamooh F., Trinh A.D., Walters W., and
Welti N.: Global Patterns of Nitrate Isotope Composition in Rivers and Adjacent Aquifers Reveal Reactive Nitrogen Cascading, Communication Earth & Environment 2, 52 (2021).
45. Deepak Kumar Jha* , Rahul Samarat**, Prasanta Sanyal, 2021: 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.
44. 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
43. 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, 561, 110068.
42. 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.
41. Biswajit Roy*, S Patra, Prasanta Sanyal, 2020: The carbon isotopic composition of occluded carbon in phytoliths: A comparative study of phytolith extraction methods , Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 281, 104280.
40. Sambit Ghosh*, Prasanta Sanyal, Sohom 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
39. 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.
38. 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, 106121.
37. 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
36. 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.
35. 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.
34. Anurag Kumar*, Prasanta Sanyal, and Shailesh Agrawal*, 2019: Spatial distribution of δ18O values of water in the Ganga River Basin: Insight into the hydrological processes , Journal of Hydrology, 571, 225-234
33. 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
2018
32. 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.
31. Usman, M. O., Kirkels, F. M. S. A., Zwart, H. M., Basu, S., Ponton, C., Blattmann, T. M., Ploetze, M., Haghipour, N., McIntyre, C., Peterse, F., Lupker, M., Giosan, L., and Eglinton, T. I, 2018: Reconciling drainage and receiving basin signatures of the Godavari River system , Biogeosciences, 15, 3357-3375, 2018.
30. 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. 491, 77-91.
2017
29. Yadav Ankit, Praveen K. Mishra, Prem Kumar, Deepak K. Jha*, Vivek V. Kumar, V. Ambili, Ambili Anoop, 2017: Molecular distribution and carbon isotope of n-alkanes from Ashtamudi Estuary, South India: Assessment of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic implications . Marine Chemistry. 196, 62-70.
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. 485, 869-878.
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.
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. 443, 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. 85, 577-585.
2014
2013
19. 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.
18. 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
2011
2010
15. 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.
14. M.K.Bera, A. Sarkar, P.P. Chakraborty, R.S. Loyal, and P. Sanyal, 2010. REPLY: Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland . Geological Society of American Bulletin. 122, 956-959.
13. 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.
12. 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
11. 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.
10. 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, 206-218
2008
9. 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.
8. 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
2006
6. 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. 21,133-143.
5. 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
4. 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. 8, 147-150.
3. Prasanta Sanyal, S.K.Bhattacharya, Mahesh Prasad, 2005. Chemical diagenesis of Siwalik sandstone: Isotopic and mineralogical proxies from Surai Khola section, Nepal . Sedimentary Geology. 180, 57-74.
2. 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. 228, 245-259.
2004
