Research Interests

• Analysis of meso and microscopic strain fabrics of the ductile shear zone.
• Interpretation of  tectonics of Gondwanaland and Rodinia, in reference to the deformation and tectonic setting of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, Delhi-Aravalli Mobile Belt and Southern Granulite Terrane.
• Active tectonics and Paleoseismological Studies
• Tectonics( Extensional, Compressional and Strike Slip).

• Structural Geology, Tectonics, Structural Analysis, Precambrian Geology.
• Climate Geology.

• Ph. D., 1989
  Rajasthan University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
• M. Sc. (Applied Geology), 1979
  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

• Professor, 2002-
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
• Associate Professor, 1999-2002
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
• Assistant Professor, 1994-99
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
• Geologist, 1981-94
  Geological Survey of India.
• Adjunct Faculty, 2013- till now, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Administrative

• Chair Professor IIT Bombay, 2015-2018
• Head, Department of Earth Sciences 2008-2011
  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India.
• Organizing Vice Chairman, GATE-2005
• Warden, Hostel-1 – 2000-05

Awards and Honours

• Departmental Awards for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay, 2016.
• Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2014.
• Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2010.
• Recipient of National Mineral Award from Ministry of Mines, GOI, New Delhi, in Basic Geosciences, 2008 (Awarded in 2010).
• Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2006.
• Won th best paper of the year 1987 medal from Mineralogical Metallurgical Society of India, Calcutta.

Membership

• Geological Society of India, Bangalore
• Mineralogical Metallurgical Society of India, Calcutta
• International Association for Structural and Tectonic Geologist, London
• International Association for Gondwana Research, Japan

International Seminars

• International Conference, Gondwana-15, Madrid, Spain, 2014.
• International Seminar, Earth Scienecs and Climate Change, Chicago, USA, 2012.
• International Seminar, Gondwana-12, Mendoza, Argentina.
• International Seminar, Gondwana-11, Cristchurch, New Zealand.
• International Symposium on the Assembly and Break up of Rodinia and Gondwana and Growth of Asia, at Osaka City University, Japan. (October 26 – 30, 2001)
  Topic : Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt is an epitome of mesoproterozoic fold thrust belt : A study from its NW margin.
• Intrnational seminar on Precambrian Crust in Eastern and Central India, at Bhubaneshwar, Orissa (October, 29-31, 1998).
  Topic : Tectonostratigraphy of Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt: A study from its western margin in Balangir and Nawapara District of Orissa.
• International Seminar on Event stratigraphy of Gondwana at Cape Town, South Africa (June 28th-July 4th, 1998).
  Topic : Fold – Thrust Belt Geometry of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt : A structural study from its western margin, Orissa, India.

• • Papers:
    1. Naha, K., Mukhopadhyay, D. K., Mohanty R, Mitra S.K. and Biswal,T.K. (1984) Significance of contrast in the early stages of the structural history of the Delhi and pre-Delhi rock groups in the Proterozoic of Rajasthan, Tectonophysics, v. 105, pp.193-206. [PDF]
    2. Naha, K. Mitra,S.K. and Biswal, T.K. (1987) Structural history of the rocks of the Delhi Group around Todgarh, Central Rajasthan, Ind. Jour. Geol. v. 59. pp. 126-156. [PDF]
    3. Biswal, T.K. (1988) Polyphase deformation in Delhi rocks, southeast of Amirgard, Banaskhantha Dist. Gujarat. Geol. Soc. Ind. Mem. No.7, pp.267-277. [PDF]
    4. Chande, V.D. and Biswal T. K. (1989) Some salient features of Tungsten mineralization in Rajasthan, Indian  Minerals. v. 43. No. 1, pp.31-38. [PDF]
    5. Biswal, T.K. and Shashidharan, K. (1992) Scheelite mineralisation in Bhurkhola area, Sarbhang dist. Bhutan: An example of syngenetic tungsten deposit, Ind. Min. v. 46, n. 1, pp. 47-52. [PDF]
    6. Biswal, T. K. (1993)  Structural history of Barotia group near, Pali district Rajasthan, Ind. Min. v.47,n.2,pp.123-130. [PDF]
    7. Biswal, T. K. (1995), Structural and geochemical evidence of a continental arc setting in the granulite-charnockite rocks of Delhi Supergroup, Balaram-Mawal area, Aravalli Mountain, Gujarat International Symp. On charnockites and granulite facies rocks Held in Chennai, 1995, pp. 101-109. [PDF]
    8. BiswaL, T.K., Nayak Subhasree, Harish, T.R. and Unikrishnan, Smita (1997) Evidence of ductile shearing from the extensional crenulation cleavage: An example from Zawar area, the Aravalli Mountain. Current Sci. v. 73, No.8, pp.701-703. [PDF]
    9. Biswal,T.K.(1997) Structural contrast across the Main Central Thrust in Bhutan Himalaya. Himalayan Geology, v.18, No. 1&2, pp. 113-117. [PDF]
    10. Biswal, T. K. ,Sahoo,D, Harish, T. R. and Jena, S. K. (1998) Deformational history of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, along its western margin with Bastar Craton, Orissa. Indian Precambrian (Ed. B.S.Paliwal), pp. 424-436. [PDF]
    11. Biswal T. K., Gyani, K. C, Parthasarathy, R. and Pant, D. R. (1998) Implications of the geochemistry of the Pelitic Granulites of the Delhi Supergroup, Aravalli Mountain Belt, Northwestern India. Precambrian Res. v.87, pp 75-85. [PDF]
    12. Biswal, T. K. Sajeevan, G. and Nayak, B. P. (1998) Deformational history of eastern Ghat Mobile Belt around Lathore, Balangir District, Orissa.Geol. Soc. India. v. 51, pp 219-225. [PDF]
    13. Biswal T. K., Gyani, K. C, Parthasarathy, R. and Pant, D. R (1998) Tectonic implication of Geochemistry of gabbro -norite -basic granulite suite in the Proterozoic Delhi Supergroup, Rajasthan, India.Geol.Soc. India.v.52, pp.721-732. [PDF]
    14. Biswal, T. K. and Sahoo, D. (1998) IRS-1C Digital data interpretation of Lithotectonic setting in western part of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt , Orissa. Current Sci.v.75, 846-850. [PDF]
    15. Biswal, T. K. (1998) The lithotectonic setting of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and adjoining craton in Western Orissa, India: An Example of Mesoproterozoic Fold-Thrust Belt. Gondwana Research. v.1, No. 3/4 pp. 410-412. [PDF]
    16. Biswal, T. K. and Jena, S. K. (1999). Large lateral ramp in the fold-thrust belts of Mesoproterozoic Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, Eastern India. Gondwana Res., 2, 4, pp. 657-660. [PDF]
    17. Biswal, T.K., Jena, S. K., Datta, S., Das, R. and Khan, K. (2000). Deformation of the Terrane Boundary Shear Zone (Lakhna shear zone) between the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and the Bastar Craton, in the Balangir and Kalahandi districts of Orissa. Jour. Geol. Soc. Ind., v.55, pp. 367-380. [PDF]
    18. Biswal. T. K. (2000). Fold-thrust belt geometry of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, a structural study from its western margin, Orissa, India. Journal of African Earth Sciences 31 (1) , pp. 25-33. [PDF]
    19. Kano, T., Baba, S., Biju, S.S., Biswal, T.K., Chauhan, N.K., Eto, T., Gyani, K.C., Yoshida, M. (2000), Geological fieldwork in the Aravalli and Delhi belts in Rajasthan, India,   Journal of Geosciences,(43), pp. 149-163. [PDF]
    20. Biswal, T. K. (2000). Contrast in deformational history of Aravalli and Delhi Supergroup: a reappraisal. Tectonomagmatism, Geochemistry and Metamorphism of Precambrian Terrains. Proceeding volume on the National seminar, Udaipur, pp.159-167. [PDF]
    21. Biswal, T. K. Seward, D. and  Jena, S. K.(2001) – Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt is an epitome of Mesoproterozoic fold thrust belt: A study from its NW margin. International Conf. Rodinia, Gondwana and Asia, Gondwana Research 2001 v. 4. 579-581.[PDF]
    22. Gyani, K.C., Biswal, T.K., Yoshida, M.(2001). Neoproterozoic Magmatism and Metamo- rphism in Northwestern Indian Shield: Implications of Rodinia-Gondwana  Tectonics  Gondwana Research, 4 (4), pp. 625-626. [PDF]
    23. Biswal, T. K., Biswal, B., Mitra, S. and Roy Moulik, M. (2002). Deformation pattern of the NW terrane boundary of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India A Tectonic Model and Correlation with Antarctica. Gondwana Res. v. 51, pp. 45-52. [PDF]
    24. Biswal, T. K. and Sinha, S. (2003). Deformation history of the NW salient of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India. Jour. As. Earth Sc., v. 22, pp. 157-169.  [PDF]
    25. Sahu, R., Kumar, A., Subbarao, K.V., Walsh, J.N., Biswal, T.K. (2003). Rb-Sr age and Sr isotopic composition of alkaline dykes near Mumbai: Further evidence for the Deccan trap-réunion plume connection. Journal of the Geological Society of India 62 (5) , pp. 641-646. [PDF]
    26. Biswal T. K. and Seward D. (2003). Tectonic implication of the Apatite Fission-track analysis of the mylonites from the Terrane Boundary Shear Zone of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt around Lakhna, Orissa. Gondwana Res., v. 6, pp. 321-325. [PDF]
    27. Biswal, T. K., Sinha, S., Mandal, A., Ahuja, H. and Das, M. K. (2003). Deformation Pattern of Bastar Craton Adjoining Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, NW Orissa. Gondwana Geological Magazine, Spl. v. 7, pp. 101-108. [PDF]
    28. Biswal, T. K. and Sinha, S. (2004). Fold-Thrust-Belt structure of the Eastern Ghats   Mobile Belt; A line of correlation between India and Antarctica in the Gondwana. Gond. Res., v. 7, pp. 43-56. [PDF]
    29. Biswal, T.K., Ahuja, H, Sahu,S.(2004) Emplacement kinematics of nepheline syenites from the Terrane Boundary Shear Zone of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, west of Khariar, NW Orissa: Evidence from meso, micro-structures, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.), v.113, No.4, pp. 785-793. [PDF]
    30. Biswal, T.K., Sarkar, S., Pal, A. and Chakraborty, U., (2004) Pseudotachylites of the Kui-Chitraseni shear zones of the Precambrian Aravalli Mountain, Rajasthan, Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.64, pp.325-335. [PDF]
    31. Sarkar, Sunayana and Biswal, T. K. (2005) Tectonic Significance of Fissure Veins Associated with Pseudotachylites of the Kui-Chitraseni Shear Zone, Aravalli Mountain, NW India, Gond. Res., v.8 (2), pp.277-282.[PDF]
    32. Anbazhagan S., Biswal, T.K. Roy T. and Kusuma K.N. (2006). Remote sensing study of granulitic terrain in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan,, Photonirvachak,J. Indian Society of Remote Sensing,Vol. 34, No. 4. [PDF]
    33. Biswal, T.K.; Waele B. D. and  Ahuja H., (2007), Timing and dynamics of the juxta- position of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt against the Bhandara Craton, India: A structural and zircon U-Pb SHRIMP study of the fold-thrust belt and associated nepheline syenite plutons. Tectonics, V. 6, TC4006,  doi: 10.1029/ 2006 TC 00 2005. [PDF]
    34. Biswal, T. K. and Ahuja Harish. (2009)  Fold-Thrust Belt and Synkinematic Alkali Magmatism Along Terrane Boundary Shear Zone of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: Does the Rayner-Napier Boundary of East Antarctica Reflect That ? Indian Journals of Geosciences, 63(2) pp. 175-186. [PDF]
    35. Biswal, T.K., Thirukumaran, V.,  Ratre, Kamleshwar, Sundaralingam .K ⁽2009), Study of the Salem–Attur shear zone, east of Salem, Tamil Nadu:A new kinematic interpretation,  Current Science, V. 96, NO. 10, pp.1-4. [PDF]
    36. Biswal, T. K., Arivazhagan, S., Guru Balamurugan, Krishanu Bandyopadhyay, Mary, (2009). Horizontal gliding and nappe sheets in the Charnockite Hills,east of Salem, Tamil Nadu. In: Anbazhagan, S.,Venkatachalapathy, R.,Neelakantan, R. (Eds.), Exploration Geology and Geoinformatics. MacmillanPublishers, New Delhi. pp. 147-155. [PDF]
    37. Yengkhom, K. S., Suvajit Chakraborty, Biswal, T. K., (2009). Deformation pattern of Delhi rocks around Uplagarh-Sagna transect, Sirohi district, Rajasthan. In: Anbazhagan, S., Venkatachalapathy, R., Neelakantan, R.(Eds.), Exploration Geology and Geoinformatics. Macmillan Publishers, New Delhi. pp. 157-172. [PDF]
    38. Balamurugan, G., Anbazhagan, S., Biswal, T. K., Kusuma, K. N., (2009) Surface temperature mapping using ETM TIR images in parts of Precambrian Terrain, India. In: Anbazhagan, S.,Venkatachalapathy, R.,Neelakantan, R. (Eds.), Exploration Geology and Geoinformatics. MacmillanPublishers, New Delhi. pp.237-244. [PDF]
    39. Biswal T.K, Thirukumaran.V, Ratre Kamleshwar, Bandyapadhaya Krishanu ,Sundaralingam K, Mondal Amit kumar. (2010). A Study of Mylonites from parts of the Salem-Attur Shear Zone (Tamil Nadu) and its Tectonic Implications . J. Geol. Soc. Ind., (2010). v.75, pp.128-136. [PDF]
    40. Ratre,K., Waele, B. D. Biswal, T. K., Sinha, Suspa, (2010) SHRIMP geochronology for the 1450 Ma Lakhna dyke swarm: Its implication for the presence of Eoarchaean crust in the Bastar Craton and 1450–517 Ma depositional age for Purana basin (Khariar), Eastern Indian Peninsula , Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.04.022. [PDF]
    41. Bastia,R., Radhakrishna, M.,  Srinivas, T., Nayak, S.,  Nathaniel, D. M.,  Biswal, T. K.,  (2010) Structural and tectonic interpretation of geophysical data along the Eastern Continental Margin of India with special reference to the deep water petroliferous basins , Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, doi:10.1016/j. jseaes.2010.04.031. [PDF]
    42. Singh, Y.K., Waele B. D., Karmakar, S., Sarkar, Sunayana, Biswal, T. K., (2010) Tectonic setting of the Balaram-Kui-Surpagla-Kengora granulites of the South Delhi Terrane of the Aravalli Mobile Belt, NW India and its implication on correlation with the East African Orogen in the Gondwana assembly, Precambrian Research, doi:10.1016/j. precamres. 2010.08.005  [PDF]
    43. Sinha, Suspa; Alsop, I. and Biswal T.K. (2010)  The evolution and significance of microfracturing in feldspars in low-grade granitic mylonites: A case study from the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India, Journal of Structural Geology, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.07.006.  [PDF]
    44. Biswal, T. K. , Jahn Bor-ming, J., Radhakrishna, M. (2010). Preface , Special    issue, “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent” Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. doi:10.1016/j. jseaes.2010.04.031. [PDF]
    45. Ratre Kamleshwar, Waele, Bert De, Biswal Tapas Kumar, Sinha Suspa (2011). Evidence of Eoarchaean crust in the Bastar Craton and new zircon U-Pb SHRIMP Geochronology for the 1.4 to 0.51 Ga Purana Basin (Khariar), Eastern Indian Peninsula- Reply. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 42, pp 1437-1439. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.07.00. [PDF]
    46. Mahadani, T., Mukherjee, T and   Biswal T. K. (2011). Tectonic implication of the deformational structures of the Ambaji Basin, Delhi Supergroup, NE Gujarat, in relation to the neighboring high grade terrane. 17th Convention of Indian Geological Congress and International Conference NPESMD 2011, pp. 701-709. [PDF]
    47. Anbazhagan. S., Balamurugan. Guru., Biswal. TK., (2011). Remote sensing and GIS application for delineating the Deep Fractured Aquifer zones in Hard Rock Terrain, Tamil Nadu, India. In: Anbazhagan, S., et al. Geoinformatics in Applied Geomorphology. Pulb. Taylor & Francis. pp.205-230. [PDF]
    48. Sundaralingam K., Bert De Waele, V. Thirukumaran, S. S. Thakur, Tanushree Mahadani, T K Biswal, (2012).  Deformation, Metamorphism and Geochronology of the Palaeoproterozoic Salem-Namakkal Fold Thrust Belt and Implication for the Gondwanaland Continental Assembly. International Journal of Geology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol-2 (2), pp.266-283. [PDF]
    49. Verma, Dhananjai ; Jadhav, G. N., Biswal, T. K., Jena S. K. and Sharma,N. (2012). Characterization of Hydrocarbon-bearing Fluid Inclusion in Sandstones of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan: A Preliminary Approach, Journal Geological Society of India, Vol.80. 505-514.  [PDF]
    50. Mahadani, T. and   Biswal, T. K. (2012). An evidence of volume loss from ductile shear zone: A case study from Kengora shear zone of the South Delhi Fold Belt of Aravalli Delhi Mobile Belt, NW India. Annual International Conference on “Geological & Earth Sciences” (GEOS 2012) at Singapore. Published and Organized by GSTF, pp. 71-77, ISSN: 2251-3353.  [PDF]
    51. Pisarevsky, S.A., Biswal, T.K., Wang, X.-C., De Waele, B., Ernst, R., Söderlund, U.,Tait, J.A., Ratre, K., Singh, Y.K., Cleve, M.,(2013). Palaeomagnetic, geochronological and geochemical study of Mesoproterozoic Lakhna Dykes in the Bastar Craton, India: Implications for the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent. Lithos,volume 174, issue ,   pp. 125 – 143. [PDF]
    52. Mahadani, T., Sundarlingam, K., Biswal T K., (2013). Neo-Proterozoic- Pan-African orogen in the Indian Peninsula and its tectonic significance for the East Gondwana assembly: An example from South Delhi Terrane, Southern Granulite Terrane and Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt. Geospectrum, acb publication, Kolkata. (Eds) S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Ray, A. Kundu, pp. 335-353. [PDF]
    53. Thirukumaran, V., Kumanan, C.J. and Biswal T. K. (2014). Geoinformatic modelling of Groundwater Resource Mapping of Shear Zone Regions- A case study on Attur Valley, Tamil Nadu India. J. of Indian Soc. Remote Sensing. DOI 10, 1007/s 12524-014-0375-7.  [PDF]
    54. Chandrasekhar, E., Ramesh, D, Gurav, T. and Biswal, T. K., 2014, Assessment of Groundwater Salinity in Nellore District Using Multi-electrode Resistivity Imaging Technique, J. Earth Sys. Sci., 123(8), 1809-1817, doi:10.1007/s12040-014-0506-0. [PDF]
    55. Mahadani, Tanushree, Biswal T K., and Mukherjee, Tanmay.,2015. Strain estimation of folds, orbiculites and quartz phenocrysts in the Ambaji Basin of the South Delhi Terrane, ravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt, NW India and its Tectonic implication. Geol. Soc. India v. 85, pp.139-152.[PDF]
    56. Precambrian crustal growth and tectonics, 2015.: Edited by : Vinod K. Singh, Ram Chandra, Ashish R. Basu, Surendra P. Verma & Tapas K. Biswal International Geology Review : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20
    57. Tiwari, S.K; Biswal, T.K. ,Ramesh Deshmukh and Chandrasekhar, E. (2015). The Groundwater modelling and resource management by geological mapping: A case study from Ambaji basin, Gujarat NW India. Proceedings of the India International Science Festival- Young Scientists’ Meet Department of Science and Technology, Government of India – Dec 4-8, 2015 Paper Code: Water 36, pp.1-13 [PDF]
    58. Sundaralingam, K; Biswal, T. K. ,Thirukumaran, V.,2017. Strain Analysis of the Salem-Attur Shear Zone of Southern Granulite Terrane Around Salem, Tamil Nadu, JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, Vol.89,January 2017, pp.5-11 [PDF]
    59. Chandrasekhar, E, Ramesh, D., Biswal, T. K. 2018. Magnetotelluric evidence on the southward extension of the Eastern Ghats mobile belt from Ongole, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 164,23–3297.  [pdf]
    60. Bhardwaj Anamika,  Biswal Tapas Kumar . 2018, Deformation and Tectonic History of Punagarh Basin in the Trans-Aravalli Terrane of North-Western India. M. E. A. Mondal (ed.), Geological Evolution of the Precambrian Indian Shield, Society of Earth Scientists Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89698-4_7; Springer International Publishing AG.[pdf]
    61. Thirukumaran, V., Biswal, T.K., Sundaralingam, K., Sowmya, V., Boopathi, S., Mythili, R., 2019. Strain Pattern Analysis of Mylonites From Sitampundi-Kanjamalai Shear Zone, Thiruchengode, South India. The Intl J Civl, Env, Agri Engg, 26, 25-34. [PDF]
    62. Behera B M, Waele B D, Thirukumaran V, Sundaralingam K, Narayanan S, Sivalingam B and Biswal T K 2019 Kinematics, strain pattern and  geochronology of the Salem-Attur shear zone: Tectonic implications for the multiple sheared Salem-Namakkal blocks of the Southern Granulite terrane, India; Precambrian Res. 324, 32-61. [PDF]
    63. Tiwari, S.K. , Biswal, T.K., 2019. Dynamics, EPMA Th-U-total Pb monazite geochronology and tectonic implications of deformational fabric in the lower-middle crustal rocks, a case study of Ambaji granulite, NW India. Tectonics (DOI:10.1029/2017TC004891) [PDF].
    64. Tiwari, S.K., Biswal, T.K., 2019. Paleostress and magma pressure measurement of granite veins in the Neoproterozoic Ambaji granulite, South Delhi terrane, Aravalli–Delhi mobile belt, NW India: Implication towards extension driven exhumation of middle-lower crustal rocks. Journal of Earth System Science ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-019-1187-5) [PDF].
    65. Tiwari, S.K., Beniest, A., Biswal, T.K., 2019. Variation in vorticity of flow during exhumation of lower crustal rocks (Neoproterozoic Ambaji granulite, NW India). (Accepoted in Journal of Structural Geology).
    66. Sharma, N. K., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Paleostress and Fluid Pressure Analysis of Vein Opening Using 3D Mohr Circle from the Quartz Vein Orientation Data of the South Delhi Terrane, Ambaji Area, NW India. Geotectonics, 54, 97-105.
    67. Tiwari, S. K., Beniest, A., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Variation in vorticity of flow during exhumation of lower crustal rocks (Neoproterozoic Ambaji granulite, NW India). Journal of Structural Geology, 130, 103912.
    68. Tiwari, S. K., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Bookshelf and shearband boudinage of a feldspar clast in a shear zone of the Ambaji Granulite, NW India. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109(5), 1869-1870.
    69. Meher, B., Behera, B. M., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Dynamic recrystallization mechanisms and vorticity estimation of the Terrane Boundary Shear Zone (Lakhna shear zone): Implications on dynamics of juxtaposition of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt with the Bastar Craton, NW Odisha. Journal of Earth System Science, 129(1), 1-13.
    70. Tiwari, S. K., Beniest, A., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Extension driven brittle exhumation of the lower-middle crustal rocks, a paleostress reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic Ambaji Granulite, NW India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 195, 104341.
    71. Singh, S., De Waele, B., Shukla, A., Umasankar, B. H., & Biswal, T. K. (2021). Tectonic Fabric, Geochemistry, and Zircon-Monazite Geochronology as Proxies to Date an Orogeny: Example of South Delhi Orogeny, NW India, and Implications for East Gondwana Tectonics. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 711.
    72. Pradhan, R. M., Guru, B., Pradhan, B., & Biswal, T. K. (2021). Integrated multi-criteria analysis for groundwater potential mapping in Precambrian hard rock terranes (North Gujarat), India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1-18.

• Abstracts:

1. Biswal T K. (1996).Structural and geochemical evidence of a continental arc in granulite-charniockite rocks of the Delhi Supergroup from Balaram-Mawal area, Gujarat, India. International symposium on charnockites and granulites facies rocks, Madras.pp.16-17. [PDF]
2. Biswal, T. K., (1998) Tectonostratigraphy of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: A study from its western margin in Balangir and Nawapara districts of Orissa. Seminar Abstract vol. International Seminar on Precambrian Crust in Eastern and Central India, BBSR pp.214-216.
3. Biswal T K. (1998) Fold-Thrust belt geometry of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: a study from a western terrane-boundary shear zone, Orissa, India. Int. Conf. Gondwana 10 held at Cape Town, SA, 1998 J. African Earth Sciences, (1998) v.27, No.1A, pp. 27-29.
4. Gyani, K.C., Biswal, T.K., Yoshida, M..(2001) -Neoproterozoic Magmatism and Metamorphism in Northwestern Indian Shield: Implications of Rodinia-Gondwana Tectonics Gondwana Research, (2001), 4 (4), pp. 625-626.[PDF]
5. Biswal T K. and   Sinha, S. (2002) Fold-thrust belt structure of the Eastern Ghats Mobile belt,a line of correlation between India and Antarctica in the Gondwanaland. Int. Conf. Gondawana 11 held at Christchurch, New Zealand, 2002. Page 12.
6. Ray, Jyotisankar and Biswal T.K. (2003), International Conference on Gondwana Correlation and Connection, Gondwana 11, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand, August 25-30,2002, Gondwana Research, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2003, Pages 333-335. [PDF]
7. Biswal, T. K.  and   Ahuja, H.(2005) – Structural setting of nepheline syenites in the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India, its implication for correlation with Antarctica. Int. Conf.Gondwana 12 held at Mendoza, Argentina, 2005. Page. S-12. [PDF]
8. Yengkhom, K. S. Biswal T. K. and Sarkar Sunayana (2008)- The Deformational History of the Podiforn Granulitic Terrane of South Delhi Fold Belt, around Balaram and Ambaji, Aravalli Mobile Belt, NW India: An Example of Exhumation of Lower Crustal Rocks by Thrust Tectonics International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), Mumbai, India, Edited by T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai IAGR, Conference Series 5, pp. 109-110. [PDF]
9. Biswal, T. K., Ahuja, Harish., Patil, S., K. Kumarvel and Chandrasekhar, E.(2008) New Neoproterozoic Pole for India: Paleomagnetic and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Studies of the Nepheline Syenite Pluton from the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), Mumbai, India, Edited by T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai IAGR, Conference Series 5, pp 153-154. [PDF]
10. Balamurugan, G. Biswal T. K. and Anbazhagan S. -(2008)Remote Sensing Based Interpretation of Lineaments around Hosur Area, South India and its Tectonic Significance International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), Mumbai, India, Edited by T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai IAGR, Conference Series 5,178 . [PDF]
11. Biswal, T. K. Thirukumaran, V. Bandyopadhyay Krishanu and   Biswal Mary, (2008)The Salem-Attur Shear Zone is a Low Angle Thrust: A New Kinematic Interpretation from East of Salem, Tamil Nadu International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), Mumbai, India, Edited by T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai IAGR, Conference Series 5,179. [PDF]
12. Biswal, T. K. and Waele, De Bert (2008) SHRIMP study of the pelitic granulites, granites, nepheline syenites and dolerites, rhyolites dykes of the Proterozoic mobile belt and adjoining Cratons of the Indian Peninsula, an interesting result on tectonics of the Gondwanaland.4^th SHRIMP Conf. July, 2008, St Petrburg. [PDF]
13. Biswal Tapas Kumar and Ratre Kamleshwar (2009). Tectonic Significance of nepheline Syenite Plutons and Other Dykes in the Eastern Ghats vis-à-vis Bastar Craton. 2nd International Conference on Precambrian Continental Growth & Tectonism (PCGT), Abstract vol., pp 61, 24−28 Feb, 2009 Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P , India. [PDF]
14. Ratre Kamleshwar, Bert De Waele, Biswal Tapas Kumar (2009). Evidence of Eoarchaean crust in the Bastar Craton and new zircon U−Pb SHRIMP geochronology for the 1.4 to 0.51 Ga Purana Basin (Khariar), Eastern Indian Peninsula. International Conference (Fermor Meeting 2009), 6−13 Sep, Edinburgh, UK, Abstract vol., pp 46. [PDF]
15. Tanushree Mahadani, K. S. Yengkhom, T.K.Biswal (2009). Palaeostress analysis for kink bands developed in the podiform granulite terrane of the South Delhi fold belt around Surpagla, Sirohi District, Rajasthan. All India Students Symposium on geology, GEOYOUTH-09. Abstract volume, pp.11 (Best Paper Award). [PDF]
16. Sundaralingam K., Mahadani, Tanushree,  Singh, Y K , Biswal, T K,  Thirukumaran, V. (2010), Tectonic History of South Delhi Fold Belt, A Resemblance with Southern Granulite Terrane and East African Orogen.  7^thInternational Symposium on Gondwana to Asia: Evolution of Asia and its continental margin held in Qingdao, Edited by Santosh M., Guowei Zhang, Sanzhong Li, IAGR, Conference Series 9, 70-71. [PDF]
17. Mahadani, Tanushree,  Singh, Y K,  Biswal, T K,  Gyani, K C (2010), Thrust Tectonics as the Mechanism for the Exhumation of the Granulites, an example from the Podiform Granutlite Terrane of the South Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan and its implication on Gondwana Assembly.  7th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia: Evolution of Asia and its continental margin held in Qingdao, Edited by Santosh M., Guowei Zhang, Sanzhong Li, IAGR, Conference Series 9, 72-73. [PDF]
18. Biswal,T.K., Singh, Y.K. and  Mahadani, Tanushree, (2010)., Shear zones of the Granulites of the Ambaji area, Gujarat and Significance for base metal mineralization, National conference on Geology, Genesis, & Resource Analysis of Metallic, Non-Metallic & Energy Minerals (Coal, Petroleum & Atomic Minerals, National Seminar at Udaipur Volume, 234. [PDF]
19. Ratre Kamleshwar, Bert De Waele, Biswal Tapas Kumar, Sinha Suspa (2010). SHRIMP geochronology for the 1450 Ma Lakhna dyke swarm: its implication for the presence of Eoarchean crust in the Bastar Craton and 1450−517 Ma depositional age of Purana basin (Khariar), Eastern Indian Peninsula. 6th International Dyke Conference, 4−7 Feb BHU, Varanasi, India, Abstract vol., pp 128. [PDF]
20. Pisarevskey Sergei, Biswal Tapas Kumar, Bert De Waele, Jennifer Tait, Ratre Kamleshwar, Singh Yengkhom Kesorijit (2010). New paleomagnetic study of the 1450 Ma Lakhna Dykes Swarm in the Bastar Craton, India: implication for the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent. Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC), Canberra, Australia. Geological Society of Australia, Abstract no. 98, pp 109-110. [PDF]
21. Mahadani Tanushree, Biswal T.K., Singh Y K,. Karmakar S (2010). The deformational Pattern of the Granulites of South Delhi Fold Belt around Surpagla, Sirohi District, Rajasthan. National conference on Rock Deformation & Structures (RDS-1), Abstract volume, pp. 83. [PDF]
22. Biswal, T. K.  Guru Balamurugan, Mahadani Tanushree, Yengkhom K. S., Srivastava Vinee (2010).Tectonic activitites related to landslide studies. National conference on Geomatics in Disaster Management. Abstract volume, pp. 2-3.TISS Mumbai  [PDF]
23. Thirukumaran, V., Kumanan, C.J, Biswal, T. K., and Sundarlingam, K., (2010). An integrated study of airborne study magnetic and resitivity anomalies and visually interpreted remotely sensed data of Salem region, Tamil Nadu, in connection with shear zone and neotectonic zone demarcation. National conference on Geomatics in Disaster Management.TISS Mumbai, Abstract volume, pp. 2-3. [PDF]
24. Ratre Kamleshwar and Biswal Tapas Kumar (2011). Mesoproterozoic Lakhna dyke swarm, Bastar Craton and Its tectonic Implications. National Seminar on Orissa’s Mineral, Environment and Geosciences Assessment – 2011 (OMEGA–2011) and Golden Jubilee of Geological Survey of India, Orissa, Conference Proceeding, Miscellaneous Publication No. 30, pp 11-12. [PDF]
25. Sharma, N. K., & Biswal, T. K. (2020, May). Estimation of paleostress from pore fluid pressure of the quartz veins and its significance in the Cu-Pb-Zn mineralization (Ambaji, Aravalli-Delhi mobile belt, NW India). In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 7788).
26. Singh, S., & Biswal, T. K. (2020, May). 870 Ma age of South Delhi Orogeny: A study on Geochronology of the granites and the metasediments, NW India. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 3259).
27. Tiwari, S. K., Beniest, A., & Biswal, T. K. (2020, May). The kinematic vorticity analysis of ductile shear zones of Ambaji Granulite, NW India and its tectonic implications. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 7397).
28. Mohan Pradhan, R., & Biswal, T. K. (2020, May). Extension and transtension associated with strike-slip faults and its relation with aquifer potentials: a case study in Aravalli terrane (North Gujarat), India. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (p. 18625).

• Book Chapters

1. Pradhan, R.M., Deshmukh, Ramesh, Chandrasekhar, E, Balamurugan, G., Biswal, T.K. (2021). Geoelectrical studies for groundwater exploration in fractured rock terrane (Ambaji basin, India). (Accepted) Springer Cham Publ.
2. Singh, S., Shukla, A., Umasankar, B. H., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). Timing of South Delhi Orogeny: Interpretation from Structural Fabric and Granite Geochronology, Beawar-Rupnagar-Babra Area, Rajasthan, NW India. In Structural Geometry of Mobile Belts of the Indian Subcontinent (pp. 1-22). Springer, Cham.
3. Behera, B. M., Thirukumaran, V., Sharma, N. K., & Biswal, T. K. (2020). A Preliminary Study on Earthquake Source Properties Based on Geochemistry, Shear Resistance and Melt Pressure of Pseudotachylites, Gangavalli Fault, South India. In Structural Geometry of Mobile Belts of the Indian Subcontinent (pp. 175-197). Springer, Cham.

• Books/Special issues

1. Biswal, T.K., Grasemann, B., Sebastian, O. eds. (2021). Meso- and Microscopic Structures: Implications for Tectonics, Frontiers in Earth Science.
2.  Biswal, T. K., Ray, S. K., & Grasemann, B. (Eds.). (2020). Structural Geometry of Mobile Belts of the Indian Subcontinent. Springer.

• Book Edited:

1. International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), (2008), Mumbai, India, Edited by T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai, 260 pp. IAGR, Conference Series 5 [PDF]
2. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, (2010), volume 39, Issue 6, Special issue Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent, Edited by T.K.Biswal, Bor-ming Jahn, M. Radhakrishna. [PDF]

• Conference Organised:

1. International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), 2008, in the Dept of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay.