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Assistant Professor
Geology and Geophysics
I am actively involved in doing sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and stable isotope geochemistry of Palaeogene foreland sediments of the Himalaya to understand the India-Asia collision and its effect on Late Cenozoic climate change which is famously known as ?tectonic forcing hypothesis on Cenozoic climate? since 2005. So far, I have finished looking at the central and western Himalayan foreland and planning to expand my fieldwork in the eastern and north-western Himalaya. Apart from this long term plan in Himalaya, I am also trying to understand the organic matter production, transport, and sequestration in the world?s largest delta system i.e., Ganges-Brahmaputra delta using novel compound specific stable isotope ratio of organic matter. In near future I will be trying to understand the response of this large delta system across short term i.e., glacial-inter glacial cycle and long term orgenic forcing i.e., effect of the Himalayan erosion on organic matter sequestration in the fan system.
Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization by Sarkar, A., Deshpande, A., Bera, M.K., Das, B., Juyal., N., Morthekai, P., Deshpande, R.D., Shinde, V.S., Rao, L.S. Nature Scientific Report 6 - (2016)
Climate-modulated sequence development in a tropical rift basin during the Late Palaeocene to Early Eocene super greenhouse Earth by Samanta, A., Bera, M.K., Sarkar, A. Sedimentology 63 917-939 (2016)
Does burial diagenesis reset pristine isotopic compositions in paleosol carbonates? by Bera, M.K., Sarkar, A., Tandon, S.K., Samanta, A. and Sanyal, P. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300 85-100 (2010)
Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland by Bera, M.K., Sarkar, A., Chakrabarty, P.P., Loyal, R. and Sanyal, P. Bulletin Geological Society of America 120 1214-1232 (2008)
Evolution of Ganges-Brahmaputra western delta plain: Clues from sedimentology and carbon isotope by Sarkar, A., Sengupta, S., McArthur, J.M., Ravenscoft, P., Bera, M.K., Bhushan, R., Samanta, A. and Agrawal, S. Quaternary Science Reviews 28 2564-2581 (2009)
Forced regressive shoreface sandstone from Himalayan foreland: implications to early Himalayan tectonic evolution by Bera, M.K., Sarkar, A., Chakrabarty, P.P., Ravikant, V. and Choudhury, A.K. Sedimentary Geology 229 268-281 (2010)
Unrevealing the True Magnitude of the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion from Equatorial Marginal Marine Carbonate Succession of NE India Ministry of Earth Sciences
Depositional Modeling and Hf/Nd Isotope Fingerprinting in Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Bering and Dhamta Group of Rocks Inner Lesser Himalaya Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Understanding the Timing and Dynamics of the India-Asia Collision using Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence Indian National Science Academy
Understanding the organic carbon dynamics in Sundarban Mangrove - Bengal delta system using novel organic Geochemical proxy & its implication to carbon cycle SRIC, IIT KHARAGPUR
Bithika Das
Area of Research: Stable Isotope studies in Ganges delta sediments
Arpita Sreemany
Area of Research: Stable isotope geochemistry
Pallab Roy
Area of Research: Seedimentology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Sruthi P.S
Area of Research: Geology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Sagar Damania
Area of Research: Sedimentology, Isotope Geochemistry
