Overview
Work History
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Ph.D. Supervision
PUBLICATIONS
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Prof. Bapi Goswami

Kolkata

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Professor and Head

University of Calcutta
2023 - Current

Associate Professor

University of Calcutta
2011 - 2023
  • (Head of the Department 2013-2015)

Reader

University of Calcutta
2008 - 2011

Reader

J. K. College, Purulia
2008 - 2008

Lecturer

J. K. College, Purulia
Purulia
1999 - 2008

Junior Project Leader

Geological Survey of India
1997 - 1999

Education

Ph.D. -

University of Calcutta
01-2007

M.Phil. in Environmental Science -

University of Calcutta
01-1993

M.Sc. -

University of Calcutta
01-1992

B.Sc. (Hons.) -

Presidency College
01-1990

Skills

  • Petrology
  • Geochemistry

Affiliations

European Association of Geochemistry 2025
EAG

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Petrology and Geochemistry of Phyllites and Amphibolites of thc North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, in and around Balarampur, Purulia district, West Bengal

       Role: Principal Investigator

      Year: 2025 | Amount: 148000

  • Petrologic and geochemsical constraints on the petrogenesis of metamafic rocks from the Daling Group of Lesser Himalayan sequence from Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya

      Role: Mentor

      Year: 2025 | Amount: 3612000

  • Petrological studies of Precambrian alkaline suite of rocks from parts of the North Purulia Shear Zone, Eastern Indian Shield: Implication for tectonomagmatic evolution

      Role: Mentor

     Year: 2020 | Amount: 2098840

  • Petrographic, mineralogic and geochemical proxies for significant climate change in the Permo-Triassic transition of the Pranhita-Godavari basin, south-central India

      Role: Mentor

     Year: 2020 | Amount: 3207200

  • A comparative study on the tectonothermal history of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex and evolution of the granitoid rocks from two selected sectors of Saltora-Santuri and Dumka in Eastern India

      Role: Mentor

     Year: 2019 | Amount: 1936840

  • Lithostructural and Petrological evolution of the north-eastern part of NFB, specially around the intersection junction of the Rudravaram Trust and Venikonba thrust, Palnad sub-basin and its surrounding areas, A.P.

       Role: Principal Investigator

      Year: 2016 | Amount: 3024540

  • Tectonothermal History of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex and Evolution of the Granitoid Rocks

     Role: Principal Investigator

     Year: 2015 | Amount: 1695000

  • Petrological, mineralogical and geochemical studies of Precambrian alkaline suite of rocks from North Purulia Shear Zone, Eastern Indian shield: Implication for tectonomagmatic evolution and REE metallogeny

      Role: Principal Investigator

     Year: 2014 | Amount: 1756000

  • Petrology and Geochemistry of the Precambrian Rocks of Cheliyama-Raghunathpur-Santuri area, Puruliya district, West Bengal.

Role: Principal Investigator    

Year: 2000 | Amount: 150000    

Ph.D. Supervision

  • Awarded: 2
  • Submitted: 1
  • Submitted (Joint Supervision): 1

PUBLICATIONS

1. Basak, A., Goswami, B., Gréau, Y., Das, S. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2025). Tonian shoshonitic to ultrapotassic granitoids from Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern Indian Shield: Age, origin and tectonic implications. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 4(2), 100373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geogeo.2025.100373

2. Roy, P., Goswami, B., Basak, A., & Bhattacharyya, C. (2024). Petrogenesis of post-collisional mesozonal enderbite in the Proterozoic Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India: Implications of slab-break-off. Solid Earth Sciences, 9(4), 100217.

3. Goswami, B., Basak, A., Gréau, Y., & Bhattacharyya, C. (2024). Petrogenesis of Late Stenian Syn-Orogenic A-Type Granites in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex and Eastern Indian Shield. Minerals, 14(11), 1153.

4. Roy, P., Goswami, B., Basak, A., Sen, A., & Bhattacharyya, C. (2023). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Mesoproterozoic mafic granulite and amphibolite dykes from Saltora, Bankura district, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India: Implications for their emplacement in within-plate setting, China Geology, 6, 1-28. doi: 10.31035/cg2023080.

5. Goswami, B., Das, S., Basak, A., and Bhattacharyya, C. (2023). Discovery of Early Tonian Calc‐alkaline and Shoshonitic Metamafic Rocks from the North Purulia Shear Zone, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India: Implications of Proterozoic Sub‐continental Lithospheric Mantle. Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition (Wiley), 97(1), 68-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.15004

6. Bera, M., Basak, S., Khan, M. A., Paruya, D. K., Goswami, B., Acharya, K., and Bera, S. (2023). Occurrence of foliicolous fungus Zygosporium Mont.(Zygosporiaceae) from the Mio-Pliocene of eastern Himalaya. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (Elsevier), 309, 104803. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.revpalbo.2022.104803

7. Bera, M., Khan, M. A., Hazra, T., Acharya, K., Goswami, B., and Bera, S. (2022). A novel fossil-species of Meliolinites Selkirk (fossil Meliolaceae) and its life cycle stages associated with an angiosperm fossil leaf from the Siwalik (Mio-Pliocene) of Bhutan sub-Himalaya. Fungal Biology (Elsevier), 126(9), 576-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2022.07.003

8. Das, S., Goswami, B., Basak, A. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2020): A Grenvillian magmatic almandine garnet-bearing ferroan granite intrusion in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic complex, Eastern India: Petrology, petrochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications. Lithos (Elsevier), v. 376–377, 105749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos. 2020.105749

9. Roy P, Goswami B., Dutta S, and Bhattacharyya C. (2020): Petrogenesis of the postcollisional porphyritic granitoids from Jhalida, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India. Geological Magazine (Cambridge), 1-37, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820000710

10. Basak, A., and Goswami, B. (2020): The physico-chemical conditions of crystallization of the Grenvillian arfvedsonite granite of Dimra Pahar, Hazaribagh, India: constraints on possible source regions. Mineralogy and Petrology (Springer),  v. 114, 329–356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-020-00708-w

11. Das, S., Goswami, B. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2020): Physico-chemical conditions of crystallization and composition of source magma of the Grenvillian post-collisional mafic–ultramafic rocks in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India. Journal of Earth System Science (Springer),  v. 129, 89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-019-1313-4

12. Basak, A., Goswami, B., Sinha, A., Das, S. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2019): Magmatic epidote in the Grenvillian granitoids of North Purulia Shear Zone, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex and its significance. Current Science, v. 117(2), 298-303. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v117/i2/298-303

13. Goswami, B., Roy, P., Basak, A., Das, S., and Bhattacharyya, C. (2018): Physico-Chemical conditions of four calc-alkaline granitoid plutons of Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India: Tectonic implications. Journal of Earth System Science (Springer),  v. 127(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040- 018-1022-4

14. Purkait, B., Goswami, B. and Das Majumdar, D. (2016): The Holocene climate and its impact on marginal seas in Indian Territory: Inferences from seabed sediment off coastal Orissa, Bay of Bengal. Journal of Coastal Sciences, v. 3, p.15-25. ISSN: 2348 – 6740

15. Goswami, B. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2014): Petrogenesis of Shoshonitic Raghunathpur porphyritic granitoids, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India: Implications for the Late Grenvillian post-collisional magmatism. Geoscience Frontiers (Elsevier), v.5(6) p.821-843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2013.09.003

16. Ghosh, D. and Goswami, B. (2014): Grain-size distribution of Beach and Dune sediments of the Digha Beach: Implications for Beach nourishments. Journal of the Centre for creative Learning and Research, v. 4, 5-21. ISSN 2278-5493.

17. Ghosh, S., Das, R. and Goswami, B. (2013): Developing GIS-based techniques for application of knowledge and data-driven methods of landslide susceptibility mapping. Indian Journal of Geosciences, v. 67(3), 249-272.

18. Goswami, B. and Basu, Kumar, S. (2013): Metamorphism of Proterozoic agpaitic nepheline syenite gneiss from North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, eastern India. Mineralogy and Petrology (Springer), v. 107, p.517–538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-012-0243-5

19. Kundu, A., Goswami, B., Eriksson, Patrick G., and Chakraborty, A. (2011): Palaeoseismicity in relation to basin tectonics as revealed from soft-sediment deformation structures of the Lower Triassic Panchet formation, Raniganj basin (Damodar valley), eastern India. Journal Earth System Science (Springer), v. 120(1), p. 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-011-0071-8

20. Goswami, B. and Ghosh, D. (2011): Understanding the transportational and depositional setting of Panchet Formation, Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal, India — Evidence from grain size analysis. Frontiers of Earth Science, 5(2), p 138–149 (Springer). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-011-0169-y

21. Goswami, B. and Bhattacharyya, C (2008) (published in 2010): Tectonothermal evolution of Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex from northeastern part of Puruliya district West Bengal, Eastern India. Indian Journal of Geology, v. 80 (1-4), p.41-54.

22. Goswami, B. and Bhattacharyya, C (2009): Discussion on “Petrology of mafic-ultramafic rocks along North Purulia Shear Zone, West Bengal” by Aditi Mandal and Arijit Ray. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v. 74, 2009; p.108-118.”Journal Geolgical Society of India (Springer), v.74, p.533-534.

23. Bhattacharyya, C. and Goswami, B. (2009): Discussion on the paper “On charnockites” published in Gondwana Research, v. 13, p.30–44 (2008) by B.Ronald Frost and Carol D. Frost; Gondwana Research (Elsevier), v. 15, p.216–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2008.09.004

24. Kundu, A. and Goswami, B. (2008): A note on seismic evidences during the sedimentation of Panchet Formation, Damodor Basin, Eastern India: Banspetali Nullah revisited. Journal of the Geological Society of India (Springer),  v. 72, p. 400-404.

25. Goswami, B. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2008): Metamorphism of Nepheline Syenite Gneisses from Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, Northeastern Puruliya district, Eastern India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, v.71, p. 209-213.

26. Mandal, A., Goswami, B., Mukherjee, S., Das, S., Bhattacharyya, I. and Bhattacharyya, C. (2007): Mantle metasomatism of Ultramafic intrusives in Chhotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex, Puruliya district, West Bengal, Eastern India: Evidence from trace element and REE geochemistry. In: Igneous Petrology: 21st Century Perspective, eds. J. Ray and C. Bhattacharyya, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., p. 122-142.

Certification

PhD Research Advisory Committee 2025
Convenor

Accomplishments

Junior Research Fellowship 1992
Awarded by: CSIR

Timeline

Professor and Head

University of Calcutta
2023 - Current

Associate Professor

University of Calcutta
2011 - 2023

Reader

University of Calcutta
2008 - 2011

Reader

J. K. College, Purulia
2008 - 2008

Lecturer

J. K. College, Purulia
1999 - 2008

Junior Project Leader

Geological Survey of India
1997 - 1999

Ph.D. -

University of Calcutta

M.Phil. in Environmental Science -

University of Calcutta

M.Sc. -

University of Calcutta

B.Sc. (Hons.) -

Presidency College
Prof. Bapi Goswami