Dr. Sudipta Dasgupta
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Phone : +91-22-2576 7284
sdasgupta@iitb.ac.in
About Me
Teaching & Research
Academic Background
Positions
Publications
About Me
Research and Teaching Interests
- Sedimentary processes: Flow rheology and transformation; bedload and sediment-gravity-flow deposits; soft-sediment deformations influenced by fluid-dynamic and slope instabilities and paleoseismicity
- Ichnology: Animal-sediment interactions under the ecologically stressed depositional environments; distribution and evolution of trace fossils in space and time
- High-resolution sequence stratigraphy: Evaluation of factors controlling autocyclicity and allocyclicity; high-frequency stacking patterns, substrate controlled ichnology of stratigraphic surfaces
- Geological material sciences and imaging
Teaching & Research
Ongoing Research Projects
Current and graduated External M.Sc. Students:
- Organism-sediment interactions in space and time, Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre; IIT Bombay
- A detailed ichnologic investigation of the Cenozoic sedimentary substrates and stratigraphic contacts of the Kutch basin, Gujarat, India; Science and Engineering Research Board, India (SERB)
- Mesozoic shelf-edge delta of the Nova Scotia offshore, Canada
- Applied Ichnology (GS 666),
- Reservoir Sedimentology (GS 672),
- Petroliferous Basins of India (GS 662),
- Petroleum Exploration (GS 675),
- Advanced Ichnology in Palaeoenvironmental Characterization (GS 833),
- Seismic Data Processing and Seismic Stratigraphy (GS 701),
- Sequence Stratigraphy (GS 704),
- Sedimentology (GS 436),
- Geological Fieldwork (GS 450),
- Applied Geology for Civil Engineers (GS 318)
Completed Ph.D.
- Somali Roy (Roll # 174067003): “Subsurface Geophysical Stratigraphic Analysis of the Cenozoic Kutch Offshore Basin” defended on 8 April 2022. Currently working as Research Associate at the National Centre of Excellence – CCU, at IIT Bombay
- Mohuli Das (Roll # 184060002; thesis submitted),
- Renzo Dsouza (Roll # 184063012),
- Shachi Bajpai (Roll # 184063011),
- Sreetama Aich (Roll # 194060002) (jointly supervised by Prof. Kumar Hemant Singh),
- Ayush Srivastava (Roll # 194063007),
- Krishanu Chatterjee (Roll # 194063006),
- Kanchan Prasad (Roll # 194066003),
- David Rajkhowa (Roll # 204060004) (jointly supervised by Prof. Soumyajit Mukherjee),
- Abhishek Roushan (Roll # 23D0469),
- Aman Kumar (Roll # 23D0472),
- Vivek Deep (Roll # 23D0474)
Current and graduated M.Tech. Students:
- Anurag Singh Yadav (Petroleum Geosciences, 2024): “Paleosol evaluation of Early Miocene Chhasra formation, Kutch basin, Gujrat, India”. Roll # 22M0923.
- Ananya Ghosh (Silver Medalist and Best Thesis Award in Petroleum Geosciences, 2023): “Ichnological and sedimentological characterisation of the Khari Nadi Formation”. Roll # 213060034.
- Debdeep Kirtonia (Petroleum Geosciences, 2022): “Ichnological and Petrophysical investigation of middle Eocene – Fulra Limestone in Kutch Basin, Western India”. Roll # 203060042.
- Rupak Sinha (Geoexploration, 2022): “Petrographic characterization of the Palaeogene karstification, Kutch basin, western India”. Roll # 203060014.
- Shivam Jaiswal (Geoexploration, 2021): “Mineralogy and Ichnology of the middle Eocene Harudi Formation of the Kutch Basin, Gujarat”. Roll # 193060010.
- Mohammad Walid Omid (Petroleum Geosciences, 2020): “Study of veins from Bhuj area, Kutch basin, Gujarat, India”; co-supervised by Prof. Soumyajit Mukherjee. Roll # 183062001.
- Patchamatla Vmv Prasada Raju (Petroleum Geosciences, 2020): “Cenozoic Stratigraphy of Kutch Offshore Basin from well log data using Empirical Mode Decomposition Technique”. Roll # 183060023.
- David Rajkhowa (Geoexploration, 2020): “Petrography, origin and diagenesis of carbonate concretions, Naredi Formation, Early Eocene Kachchh, Gujarat, western India”. Roll # 183060009.
Current and graduated M.Sc. Students:
- Sudipta Sarkar (Applied Geology, 2024): “An integrative ichnological and taphonomic approach of the Upper Oligocene interval of Kutch Basin, Gujarat, India”. Roll # 22N0223.
- Subhradip Roy (Applied Geology, 2024): “Detailed Facies analysis of Organic rich mudstones, Umasar lignite mine, Western India”. Roll # 22N0226.
- Subhajit Ghosh (Applied Geology, 2024): “Paleoclimatic reconstruction from paleosol using geochemical proxies, with special reference to Khari Nadi Formation, Kutch Basin, Gujarat, India”. Roll # 22N0227.
- Saptarsi Bhattacharjee (Applied Geology, 2023): “Sedimentological and ichnological characterization of Early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, Kutch Basin”. Roll # 215060002.
- Snigdha Biswas (Applied Geology, 2023): “Ichnology Of Colletidae Bees In IIT Bombay Campus Areas”. Roll # 215060029.
- Arya P. Jayan (Applied Geology, 2023): “Ichnology and microfabric study of the wasp nests of IIT Bombay campus”. Roll # 215060035.
- Abhishek Behera (Applied Geology, 2022): “Diagenesis of carbonate concretions in the Naredi Formation, Kutch, Gujarat, India”. Roll # 205060019.
- Madhu Pallavi Behera (Applied Geology, 2022): “Petrography and sedimentology of reworked volcaniclastic deposits of the Matanomadh Formation, Kutch Basin”. Roll # 205060020.
- Abhishek Natarajan (Applied Geology, 2021): “A juvenile crocodilian fossil from the Shell Limestone of the Bartonian Harudi Formation”. Roll # 195060001.
- Arkajyoti Pathak (Applied Geology, 2021): “Characterizations of the vertebrate taxa, taphonomy, and bioerosion of the Bartonian Harudi Formation, Kutch, Gujarat”. Roll # 195060029.
- Mohd Imran (Applied Geology, 2020): “Trace fossils and petrographic characterization of Matanomadh area, Kutch, Gujarat”. Roll # 185060030.
- Punyasloka Choudhury (Applied Geology, 2019): “Sedimentological evaluation of the Oligocene Maniyara Fort Formation, Kutch, Gujarat.” Roll # 175060014.
- Manoj Bai (Applied Geology, 2019): “Facies analysis and depositional environments of the Eocene Naredi Formation, Kutch, Gujarat.” Roll # 175060029.
- Suman Mazumder (Applied Geophysics, 2018): “Morphodynamics of “reservoir” Elements: A geophysical and petrophysical approach in the Moray Firth Field, offshore Scotland.” Roll # 165320014.
- Ayush Saoji (K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, 2023): “Compositional and textural characteristics of a reworked volcanoclastic succession of the Paleocene Matanomadh formation – Genetic and Paleoenvironmental implications”.
- Sumeka Ghosh (K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, 2024): “Ichno-sedimentological evaluation of Middle Eocene, Western Kutch Basin”.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. (Sedimentology, Ichnology and Sequence Stratigraphy), 2015
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Advisor: Prof. Luis Buatois.
- M.Tech. (Applied Geology), 2005
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. Advisor: Prof. Arun K. Saraf.
- B.Sc. (Hons. in Geology), 2002
Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Positions
- Associate Professor, 2022 – ongoing
Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
- Associate Warden, Hostel 3, IIT Bombay, 2021 – ongoing
- Assistant Professor, 2017 – 2022
Faculty Advisor for M.Tech. Petroleum Geosciences, 2020 – 2022
Faculty Advisor for M.Sc. Applied Geology, 2018 – 2020
Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
- Fellow of National Postdoctoral Program (CAPES Fellow), 2017
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Research Associate, 2016 – 2017
Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Independent consultant, Shell US (2013 – 2017)
- Teaching Assistant, 2010 – 2015
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Senior Geoscientist (Senior Geophysicist Interpretation), 2005 – 2010
Reliance Industries Ltd. (Exploration and Production), Navi Mumbai, India
- Onboard sedimentary geologist:
(1) JOIDES Resolution, 2006: Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01 [PDF] conducted by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, India, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and
(2) MV Geoexplorer, 2006: Seabed coring project, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Publications
- ResearchGate URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sudipta_Dasgupta
- Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uNK-uRYAAAAJ&hl=en
- ORCID URL: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-2991
Full Papers
- Srivastava, A., Das, M., Dasgupta, S., D’souza, R., 2024. The new ichnospecies Teredolites solitarius and its taphonomy from the Cenozoic carbonate intervals of Kutch Basin, India. Ichnos, in press. Doi: 10.1080/10420940.2024.2341381.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Srivastava, A., Rajkhowa, D., Banerjee, S., 2024. Ichnological response to the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in the Bartonian deposits of Kutch Basin, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112183
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Choudhury, T.R., D’souza, R., Banerjee, S., 2024. Impact of early Eocene (Ypresian) warming events on ichnological assemblage of the Naredi Formation, western Kutch (Kachchh) Basin of Gujarat, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 639, p.112063.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., D’souza, R., Natarajan, A., 2024. A new ichnospecies Nummipera saraswatii from the early Eocene (Ypresian) Assilina bank deposits of the Naredi Formation, Kutch Basin, India. Ichnos, 1–20 (in press).
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, S., Chatterjee, K., Das, M., 2024. Trace fossil evidences of an Early Miocene paleoseismic event and depositional regime change from the Kutch (Kachchh) Basin. Journal of Palaeogeography, 13(1), 165–180.
- Schmidt-Neto, H., Horodyski, R.S., do Nascimento Ritter, M., Dasgupta, S., 2023. Abandoned Quaternary gastropod shells: Incrustation, bioerosion, and fragmentation approaches. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 131, p.104634.
- Sedorko, D., Netto, R.G., Villegas-Martín, J., Dasgupta, S., Tognoli, F.M.W., Plantz, J., Carelli, T., Borghi, L., 2022. Glossifungites suites and tubular tempestites in Devonian shallow marine deposits from Paraná Basin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 522, 14 February 2022, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP522-2021-113.
- Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Klunk, M.A., Xavier, S.J.S., Caetano, N.R., Wander, P.R., 2021. Copper and chromium removal from synthetic textile wastewater using clay minerals and zeolite through the effect of pH. Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society, 18, 3377–3386.
- Mello, A.B., Netto, R.G., Aquino, C.D., Dasgupta, S., 2021. Crowded Rosselia ichnofabric in estuarine settings recording early transgressions in lowermost Permian post-glacial Gondwana (Rio Bonito Formation, Paraná Basin, S Brazil). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 110, p.103372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103372.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Conceição, R.V., Xavier, S.J.S., Chemale Jr., F., Wander, P.R., 2021. Application of geochemical modelling software as a tool to predict the diagenetic reactions between the marine connate water and the salt dome in a petroleum system. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 109, p.103272. ISSN 0895-9811, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103272.
- Dasgupta, S., Klunk, M.A., Das, M., Xavier, S.J.S., Chemale Jr., F., Wander, P.R., Mendes Moraes, C.A., 2021. Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolite Y from green materials. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 99(S1), S179–S189.
- Klunk, M.A., Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Caetano, N.R., Xavier, S.J.S., de Souza, D.M., Wander, P.R., Moraes, C.A.M., 2021. Synthesis of ZSM-5 Zeolite from Metakaolin and Rice Husk Ash to CO2 Adsorption. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 10(1), p.013001.
- Klunk, M.A., Shah, Z., Caetano, N.R., Conceição, R.V., Wander, P.R., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., 2020. CO2 sequestration by magnesite mineralisation through interaction of Mg-brine and CO2: integrated laboratory experiments and computerised geochemical modelling. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1–18.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Klunk, M.A., Xavier, S.J.S., Chemale Jr., F., Wander, P.R., 2020. Study involving removal of azo dye Direct Orange 34 by adsorption in zeolite–clay system. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 98(10): 609-615. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2020-0142
- Klunk, M.A., Schröpfer, S.B., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Caetano, N.R., Impiombato, A.N., Wander, P.R., Moraes, C.A.M., 2020. Synthesis and characterization of mordenite zeolite from metakaolin and rice husk ash as a source of aluminium and silicon. Chemical Papers, 1-9.
- Klunk, M.A., Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Impiombato, A.N., Caetano, N.R., Wander, P.R., Moraes, C.A.M., 2020. Comparative study using different external sources of aluminum on the zeolites synthesis from rice husk ash. Materials Research Express, 7, p.015023.
- De Souza, M.K., Klunk, M.A., Xavier, S.J.S,, Das, M., Dasgupta, S., 2020. Spectroscopic methods to determination of geothite in kaolinite, Periódico Tchê Química. 17(35), 303–314.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Wander, P.R., Di Capua, A., 2019. Geochemical speciation and batch mode simulation in the carbonate depositional environments. Periódico Tchê Química, 16(33), 736–748.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Cunha, M.G., Wander, P.R., 2019. Synthesis of Sodalite Zeolite and Adsorption Study of Crystal Violet Dye. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 8, N144–N150.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Wander, P.R., Shah, Z., 2019. Adsorption study of crystal violet and malachite green dyes in zeolitic material. Periódico Tchê Química, 16(33), 70–81.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Wander, P.R. 2019. Computer Codes of Geochemical Modeling used to Water-Rock Interaction Simple and Complex Systems. Periódico Tchê Química, 16(32), 108–118.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Nunes, B.V.G., Wander, P.R., 2019. Synthesis of sodalite zeolite to treatment of textile effluents. Periódico Tchê Química, 16(31), 778–783.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Schröpfer, S.B., Nunes, B.V.G., Wander, P.R., 2019. Comparative study of geochemical speciation modeling using Geodeling software. Periódico Tchê Química, 16(31), 816–822.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Conceição, R.V., 2018. Computerized geochemical modeling of burial diagenesis of the Eocene turbidite reservoir elements: Urucutuca Formation, Espírito Santo Basin, southeastern Brazil passive margin. Journal of Palaeogeography, 7:12, 1–15.
- Schmidt-Neto, H., Netto, R.G., Dasgupta, S., 2018. Storm-related taphofacies in estuarine settings: An integrated analysis on the Early Permian deposits of the Rio Bonito Formation (Paraná Basin, S Brazil). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 85, 263–277.
- Klunk, M. A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Shah, Z. 2018. System of Adsorption of CO2 in Coalbed. Southern Brazilian Journal of Chemistry, 26, 2–9.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., 2018. Slow Pyrolysis of Rice Straw: Analysis of Biochar, Bio-Oil and Gas. Southern Brazilian Journal of Chemistry, 26, 17–25.
- Klunk, M.A., Ponomarev, A.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., 2017. Arsenic speciation in groundwater using the softwares PHREEQC, GWB and Geodeling. Southern Brazilian Journal of Chemistry (ISSN 0104-5431), 25, 30–35.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., 2017. Influence of fast pyrolysis with temperature on gas, char and bio-oil production. Southern Brazilian Journal of Chemistry (ISSN 0104-5431), 25, 1–11.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., 2016. Living on the edge: evaluating the impact of stress factors on animal-sediment interactions from a shelf-margin delta, Mayaro Formation of Trinidad. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86, 1034–1066.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Zavala, C., Mángano, M.G., Törő, B., 2016. Ichnology of a subaqueously prograding clastic wedge, late Pliocene Morne L’Enfer Formation, Fullarton, Trinidad: Implications for recognition of autogenic erosional surfaces and delineation of stress factors on irregular echinoids. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 459, 365–380.
- Dasgupta S., Buatois, L.A., 2015. High-frequency stacking pattern and stages of canyon/gully evolution across a forced regressive shelf-edge delta-front. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 68(A), 40–53.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., 2012. Unusual occurrence and stratigraphic significance of the Glossifungitesichnofacies in a submarine paleo-canyon — Example from a Pliocene shelf-edge delta, Southeast Trinidad. Sedimentary Geology, 269–270, 69–77.
- Saraf, A.K., Rawat, V., Choudhury, S., Dasgupta, S., Das, J., 2009. Advances in understanding of the mechanism for generation of earthquake thermal precursors detected by satellites. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 11, 373–379.
- Kundu, A., Dasgupta, S., Sinha, N., Kale, A., Yadav, L., 2008. Interpreting Deepwater Sedimentary Facies Using Borehole Images: A Case Study of Tertiary Deepwater Deposits from Godavari Basin, East Coast of India. Memoir of 7th Biennial International Conference and Exposition on Petroleum Geophysics, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, 415–419.
- Saraf, A.K., Rawat, V., Banerjee, P., Choudhury, S., Panda, S.K., Dasgupta, S., Das, J.D., 2008. Satellite detection of earthquake thermal infrared precursors in Iran. Natural Hazards, 47, 119–135.
- Saraf, A.K., Choudhury, S., Panda, S.K., Dasgupta, S., Rawat, V., 2007. Does a major earthquake precede a thermal anomaly. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 3, 1–8.
- Choudhury, S., Dasgupta, S., Saraf, A.K., Panda, S.K., 2006. Remote Sensing Observations of Pre-Earthquake Thermal Anomalies in Iran. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 4381–4396.
- Saraf, A. K., Choudhury, S., Dasgupta, S., 2005. Satellite observations of the great mega thrust Sumatra earthquake activities. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1, 67–74.
Chapters in Books
- Roy, S., Mukherjee, B.K., Dasgupta, S., 2022. Stratigraphic boundary detection using UDWT and Edge-1 detection on well-log data. In: Mukherjee, S. (Ed.), Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience: Exploration, Characterization, and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Wiley–Blackwell, pp. pp.219-232.
- Klunk, M.A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., D’Souza, R., Xavier, S.J.S., Wander, P.R., 2022. Geochemical modeling of diagenetic reactions in the Eocene sediment-gravity-flow deposit reservoirs influenced by salt tectonics: the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil. In: Mukherjee, S. (Ed.), Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience: Exploration, Characterization, and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Wiley–Blackwell, pp. 212-218.
- Horodyski, R.S., Chinelatto, G.F., Schmidt-Neto, H., Guareschi, E., Dasgupta, S., 2022. Taphonomy, petrophysics, and the relationship of dense shell-accumulation with reservoir quality. In: Mukherjee, S. (Ed.), Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience: Exploration, Characterization, and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Wiley–Blackwell, pp. 341-373.
- Omid, M.W., Mukherjee, S., Dasgupta, S., 2021. Vein Geometry Around Bhuj (Gujarat, India). In: Mukherjee, S. (Ed.), 2021. Structural Geology and Tectonics Field Guidebook – Volume 1, Springer Geology, 707-714. ISBN 978-3-030-60143-0.
- D’Souza, R., Dasgupta, S., Sedorko, D., 2020. Capítulo 6. ICNOFÁCIES MARINHAS. In: Sedorko, D., Fransischini, H. (Eds.), 2020. Icnologia: Interações Entre Organismos e Substratos, Editora CRV, ISBN: 978-65-5578-074-1, Digital ISBN: 978-65-5578-075-8, DOI: 10.24824 / 978655578074.1. (in Portuguese)
- Saraf, A.K., Choudhury, S., Dasgupta, S., Das, J.D., 2006. Chapter 19: Satellite Detection of Pre-Earthquake Thermal Anomaly and Sea Water Turbidity. In: Murty, T.S., Aswathanarayana, U., Nirupama, N. (Eds.), 2006. The Indian Ocean Tsunami. (ISBN: 9780415403801). Taylor and Francis, New York, 215–234.
Conference Abstracts and Proceedings
- Aich, S., Dasgupta, S., Khanolkar, S., Singh, K.H., 2024. Changes in the benthic foraminiferal assemblage within the Middle Eocene Bassein B Formation, Bombay Offshore basin, western India. 37th International Meeting of Sedimentology, 2024, June 25-27 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Klunk M. A., D’souza, R., 2024. The Camborygma Ichnofacies in a high-resolution sequence-stratigraphic framework for the Eocene palustrine-alluvial depositional interval of Kutch Basin, India. The 6th International Conference of Palaeogeography, May 17-20, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Society of Palaeogeography. Nanjing, China.
- Prasad, K., Dasgupta, S., D’souza, R., 2024. Integrated sedimentological, ichnological, and taphonomic model of an Oligocene tropical bioclastic ramp: The Coral Limestone Member, Kutch Basin, India. The 6th International Conference of Palaeogeography, May 17-20, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Society of Palaeogeography. Nanjing, China.
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., 2024. Lower-order transgressive–regressive cycles within a higher-order transgression at the basin margin: an aberrant intercalation of palaeosol and biostromal ichnofabrics from the Early Miocene Kutch Basin, India. The 6th International Conference of Palaeogeography, May 17-20, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Society of Palaeogeography. Nanjing, China.
- Aich, S., Dasgupta, S., Singh, K.H., 2024. Facies versus diagenetic controls on carbonate reservoir in the subsurface: a case study from the Middle Eocene Bassein Formation, Bombay Offshore Basin, Western India. Cross Regional Carbonates and Mixed Carbonate Systems Symposium, April 22-24 (Oral Presentation). American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Sicily, Italy.
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, S., 2024. Trace-fossil distribution and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Claystone Member, Burdigalian Chhasra Formation, Kutch Basin, Western India. ICHNIA 2024 – 5th International Congress on Ichnology, April 14-19, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Ichnological Association. Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Prasad, K., Dasgupta, S., Abhishek, N., 2024. Nummulites Test Taphonomy: Insights from Oligocene deposits of the Kutch Basin, Gujarat, India. ICHNIA 2024 – 5th International Congress on Ichnology, April 14-19, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Ichnological Association. Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Chatterjee, K., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Abhishek, N., 2024. Integration of ichnological and pedological investigations reveals prevalence of specific hydrologic regime and ecosystem during the early progressively warming Aquitanian climate in the Kutch Basin, Gujarat, India. ICHNIA 2024 – 5th International Congress on Ichnology, April 14-19, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Ichnological Association. Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., 2024. Ichnological response to the Eocene hyperthermal events as recorded in the onshore Kutch Basin, India. ICHNIA 2024 – 5th International Congress on Ichnology, April 14-19, 2024 (Oral Presentation). International Ichnological Association. Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Srivastava, A., 2024. Ichnological record corresponding to the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO): A case study from the Bartonian Kutch Basin, western India. ICHNIA 2024 – 5th International Congress on Ichnology, April 14-19, 2024 (Poster Presentation). International Ichnological Association. Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Chatterjee, K., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., 2023. Field identification of Palaeosol with continental ichnofabric: a case study from the Early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation in the Kutch (Kachchh) Basin, Gujarat. 39th Convention of the Indian Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), December 6-8, 2023 (Oral Presentation). Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Prasad, K., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Abhishek, N., 2023. Taphonomic Insights into Shallow-Marine Shell Beds: Evidence from the Oligocene (Chattian) Coral Limestone Member, Kutch Basin, Gujarat. SLIC- V Latin American Symposium on Ichnology, November 21-24, 2023 (Oral Presentation). Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- Chatterjee, K., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Ghosh, A., Bhattacharjee, S., 2023. Distinct pedocomplexes and bioturbation vis-à-vis high-frequency fluctuations of relative sea level and paleohydrologic conditions: Early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, Kutch, Gujarat, India. SLIC- V Latin American Symposium on Ichnology, November 21-24, 2023 (Oral Presentation). Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- Abhishek, N., Dasgupta, S., Rakshit, N., Kashyap, Y.S., 2023. Landmark-based 2D and 3D geometric morphometry: a useful tool for taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of past life.7th National Geo-Research Scholars Meet on Geosciences: Emerging Methods, September 12-13, 2023 (Poster Presentation). Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
- Dasgupta, S., Bajpai, S.A., Hossain, S., Khan, S.H., 2023. Ichnology of the “paleo-Brahmaputra” shelf-margin hyperpycnal-deltaic system from the Miocene Boka Bil–Tipam formations of the Chittagong–Tripura Fold Belt, Bangladesh. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Aich, S., Dasgupta, S., Singh, K.H., 2023. Diagenetic evolution of the Middle Eocene ramp carbonates in the Bombay offshore basin, India, using petrographical and geochemical attributes. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., 2023. “Kuphus tube”? Or Teredolites? What does the Cenozoic carbonate intervals of the western Kutch (Kachchh) Basin of India suggest? 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., D’souza, R., 2023. Carbonate ichnology of the Early Eocene Naredi Formation, Kutch (Kachchh) basin, Gujarat, India: Evaluating paleo-environmental controls and biotic responses. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- D’souza, R., Dasgupta, S., Abhishek, N., Das, M., Rajkhowa, D., 2023. An ultra-stressed infaunal niche, and ichnology of restricted xylic embayment setting from the early Eocene of western Kutch (Kachchh) basin. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Bajpai, S.A., Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., 2023. Ichnology of a Lower Cretaceous Nova Scotian shelf-edge delta: the Missisauga Formation from the Sable Subbasin, offshore eastern Canada. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., 2023. Nummipera saraswatii: A proposed armored ichnospecies in a transgressive nummulitic-bank setting from the early Eocene (Ypresian) Naredi Formation, Kutch (Kachchh) basin of India. 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology, June 12-16, 2023 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Bajpai, S.A., Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., 2023. Ichnological variability of a Cretaceous shelf-edge delta: the Missisauga Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. Core Conference, May 11-12, 2023 (Oral and Poster Presentation). AER Core Research Centre, Calgary, Alberta Canada.
- Shaikh, M., Mukherjee, S., Dasgupta, S., Rajkhowa, D., Maurya, D., Chamyal, L., 2023. Insights into microstructural and petrophysical properties of deformation bands in porous sandstone, Kachchh (Kutch) Rift Basin, India (No. EGU23-1582). Copernicus Meetings. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Rajkhowa, D., D’souza, R., 2022. Bioherms produced by gregarious coven of armored-burrow producers from the early Eocene Naredi Formation of the Kutch basin, Gujarat, India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Aich, S., Dasgupta, S., Singh, K.H., 2022. Microfacies and facies-zone analysis of the Upper Bassein carbonate succession, Bombay Offshore Basin across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT). 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Dasgupta, S., Srivastava, A., Chatterjee, K., Das, M., 2022. Seismically induced soft-sediment-deformation structures (sand volcanoes) and the ichnological responses from the early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation of Kutch basin, western India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Prasad, K., Dasgupta, S., 2022. Ichnological and Sedimentological characteristics of the Oligocene Maniyara Fort Formation, Kutch basin, Gujarat, India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Chatterjee, K., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Srivastava, S., Das, M., 2022. Paleopedologic, ichnologic, and sequence-stratigraphic characterization of the early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, Kutch basin, Gujarat state of India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, A., Singh, A., Das, M., Chatterjee, K., 2022. Softground and firmground opportunistic Thalassinoides (-Gyrolithes) ichnofabric and paleosol ichnofabric of the early Miocene Chhasra Formation, Kutch basin, Gujarat state of India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- D’souza, R., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Natarajan, A., 2022. An opportunistic trophic generalist strategy for survival in a hyperstressed benthic niche in an ultra-restricted marginal-marine embayment setting. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- D’souza, R., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Rajkhowa, D., 2022. Ichnology and sedimentology of the tide-influenced marginal-marine setting within a restricted paleo-embayment during Eocene in the Kutch basin of Gujarat, India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., D’souza, R., 2022. Nummipera saraswatii, a new armored ichnospecies, and the Nummipera-Cylindrichnus ichnofabric in a parautochthonous biofabric: A transgressive bank setting from the early Eocene Naredi Formation, Kutch basin, India. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, August 20 – 27, 2022 (Oral Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., 2022. Ichnofossils and paleosol from the early Eocene Naredi Formation (Kutch, India): Proxies for construction of an integrated paleo-depositional and high-resolution sequence-stratigraphic model. 21st International Sedimentological Congress, Aug 20 – 27, 2022 (Poster Presentation). International Association of Sedimentologists. Beijing, China.
- Aich, S., Dasgupta, S., Singh, K.H., 2022. Stylolites in limestones: Conduits to fluid flow? Mountjoy Carbonate Research Conference III, August 14-18, Banff, Alberta Canada. https://www.cspg.org/Mountjoy/Mountjoy/Technical_Program.aspx?hkey=939fd40e-ebcd-441c-be65-dea84d50a911 (accessed on 25 August 2022)
- Das, M., Dasgupta, S., Singh, S., Klunk, M.A., 2022. Ichnological, palaeoenvironmental, and high-resolution sequence-stratigraphic analysis of the Palaeosol Member from the Ypresian (early Eocene) Naredi Formation, western Kutch basin, Gujarat, India. The 5th International Conference of Palaeogeography (Wuhan 2022), Wuhan, China. (Keynote Talk)
- Srivastava, A., Dasgupta, S., Chatterjee, K., Das, M., 2022. Seismically induced soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) from the early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, western Kutch basin of India: Evidence of a tectonic uplift triggering an ichno-sedimentological regime change. The 5th International Conference of Palaeogeography (Wuhan 2022), Wuhan, China.
- Sedorko, D., Netto, R.G., Villegas-Martín, J., Dasgupta, S., Tognoli, F.M.W., Plantz, J., Carelli, T., Borghi, L., 2022. Glossifungites suites and tubular tempestites in Devonian shallow marine deposits from Paraná Basin. 27º Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia (27th Brazilian Congress of Paleontology), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 5 May 2022, Cuiabá, Brazil.
- Dasgupta, S., Das, M., D’Souza, R., 2022. Unusual infaunal animal-sediment interactions: Unique ichnologic preservations around the Eocene shoreline of Kutch basin, Gujarat. National Conference on Resource Potential of the Sedimentary Basins, 37th Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists (IAS- 2022), Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu, April 26-27, India. (Keynote Talk)
- Chatterjee, K., Dasgupta, S., Das, M., Srivastava, A., Singh, S., 2021. Ichnology and low-order sequence-stratigraphy of pedogenized interval of the Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, western Kutch, Gujarat. International Conference in Geosciences with focus on Climate Change (ICGCC- 2021), Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU) Udaipur, Technical Session I, No. 23, India.
- Das., M., Dasgupta, S., D’Souza , R., 2021. Crayfish burrows from the Eocene Naredi Formation, Kutch: A tool for paleo-environmental, ethological, and high-resolution (low-order) stratigraphic analysis. International Conference in Geosciences with focus on Climate Change (ICGCC- 2021), Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU) Udaipur, Technical Session II, No. 28, India.
- Srivastava, A., Chatterjee, K., Das, M., Dasgupta, S., 2021. Seismically induced sand volcano from the Miocene Khari Nadi Formation of Kutch Basin, Western India. International Conference in Geosciences with focus on Climate Change (ICGCC- 2021), Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU) Udaipur, Technical Session II, No. 41, India.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., 2018. The dual ichnological nature of shelf-margin deltas. International Sedimentological Congress 2018, International Association of Sedimentologists, Quebec City, Canada.
- Netto, R.G., Dasgupta, S., Villegas-Martín, J., Mello, A.B., Schmidt-Neto, H., 2018. Water toxicity as a stress factor in estuarine settings: a hypothesis based on trace fossils. International Sedimentological Congress 2018, International Association of Sedimentologists, Quebec City, Canada.
- Mello, A.B., Netto, R.G., Dasgupta, S., Aquino, C.D., 2018. Crowded Rosselia ichnofabric: the persistent survivors of early transgression in postglacial Gondwana. International Sedimentological Congress 2018, International Association of Sedimentologists, Quebec City, Canada.
- Mello, A.B., Netto, R.G., Dasgupta, S., 2017. Rosselia em depósitos da Formação Rio Bonito (Borda Sul da Bacia do Paraná) e potencial estratigráfico. PaleoRS 2017, FURG, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Zavala, C., Törő, B., 2016. Distinguishing between allogenic and autogenic surfaces: An example from the late Pliocene palaeo-Orinoco delta in Trinidad. Abstract book: ICHNIA 2016 – 4th International Ichnological Congress, Idanha-a-Nova Naturtejo Global Geopark, Portugal.
- Dasgupta, S., 2014. Sedimentary Morphodynamic and Ichnologic Characteristics of Paleo-Orinoco Shelf-edge Delta – Example of Pleistocene Mayaro Formation. AAPG Foundation 2013 Grants-in-Aid Projects, AAPG Search and Discovery Article # 90183.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., 2014. Evaluating the stress factors on animal-substrate interactions from a Pleistocene shelf-edge delta, Mayaro Formation of Trinidad. GeoConvention 2014: FOCUS, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Canada.
- Dasgupta S., Buatois L.A., Töro B., Ramdular J., Arjoon A., Huedo Cuesta J.L., Vela R., 2013. A unique preservation of the Glossifungites ichnofacies redefines Late Pliocene stratigraphy of the Mayaro Formation, SE Trinidad: Understanding canyon morphodynamics across an accommodation-driven shelf-edge delta on an active continental margin. In: Demircan H., (Ed.), Abstracts Volume: XII. International Ichnofabric Workshop, Çanakkale (Dardanelles), Turkey, 50–52.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., 2012. Sedimentology and ichnology of the paleo-Orinoco shelf-edge delta in the Pliocene Mayaro Formation of Trinidad. In: McIlroy, D., Callow, R., Dufour, S., Herringshaw, L., (Eds.), Abstract book: ICHNIA 2012 – 3rd International Ichnological Congress, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 24.
- Dasgupta, S., Buatois, L.A., Zavala, C.A., 2011. An unusual occurrence of the Glossifungites ichnofacies on submarine canyon walls – an example from Pliocene Paleo-Orinoco shelf-edge deltaic sediments of the Mayaro formation, southeast Trinidad Island, Trinidad and Tobago. Abstracts with Programs: 2011 GSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 43(5), 432.
- Pal, N., Dasgupta, S., Morton, A., 2008. Mineralogy of the Ganges and Mahanadi rivers: implication of provenance change in the offshore Bengal Basin, India. Geo India 2008 – Expo XXI, AAPG and APG, Greater Noida, New Delhi.
- Dasgupta, S., Sinha, N., Kolla, V., Tripathi, S.S.P., Chattopadhyay, A., 2008. Factors Controlling Sediment Supply and Mechanism of Transport into Deepwater Tertiary Godavari Basin, East Coast of India, AAPG Hedberg Conference – 2008. “Sediment Transfer from Shelf to Deepwater – Revisiting the Delivery Mechanisms”, AAPG, Ushuaia, Argentina.
- Saraf, A.K., Choudhury, S., Panda, S.K., Dasgupta, S., 2007. Paper 6: Does a major earthquake precede a thermal anomaly? Proceedings of 1st International Workshop & Conference of Geoinformation Technology for Natural Disaster Management and Rehabilitation, Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok and Association of Geoinformation Technology, Bangkok, pp. 9.
- Saraf, A.K., Choudhury, S., Panda, S.K., Dasgupta, S., 2006. Satellites Detect Pre-Earthquake Transient Thermal Anomalies, Proceedings of 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (13 SEE-06), Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Vol. I, 65-74.
