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.
Co-Principal Investigator
- Inferring Paleoarchean Crustal Evolution of the Bastar Craton from Granitoids and their Supracrustal Enclaves using Geochemistry and U - Pb, Sm - Nd and Lu - Hf Geochronology Ministry of Earth Sciences
Ph. D. Students
Debashish Pradhan
Area of Research: Sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, Stable isotope geochemistry
Raskar Trupti Dadabhau
Area of Research: Sedimentology, Stable isotope geochemistry
Sagar Damania
Area of Research: Sedimentology, Isotope Geochemistry
