Publications

24. Mohanty, S., Sahoo, H., Chatterjee, C., Mundra, K. L., Viladkar, S., and Ghatak, A., Insights to Pyrocholore and Apatite Evolutionary Trends: Constraints from Mineral and Bulk Chemistry of Saidivasan Sovites, Gujarat, India, Geological Journal, Accepted, 2025. 

23. Mohanty, S., Ghatak, A., Chiranjeeb, C., and Zaitzev, V., Apatite and Whole Rock Chemistry of Matrix in Volcanic Carbonatite Breccia from Outer Breccia of Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, India, Geological Journal, Accepted, 2025.

22. Irshad, S., Mohanty, S., Pdah, D. S. M., and Ghatak, A., A Mineralogical-Geochemical-Petrological Study of Deformed Carbonatites from Padu-Nongryngkoh Jaintia and East-Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, Northeastern India, Geological Society of London Special Publications in Alkaline Rocks: Economic and Geodynamic Significance through Geological Time, v551, 2025.

21. Mohanty, S., Ravy, D. T., Zaitsev, V., Ghatak, A., Decoding Apatite in Volcanic Carbonatitic breccia from Mongra, Northwest of Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, India: Insights to Genesis and Rare Earth Element Budgets, Geological Society of London Special Publications in Alkaline Rocks: Economic and Geodynamic Significance through Geological Time, v551, 2025.

20. Kumari, V., Tandon, S., K., Ghatak, A., Srivastava, P., Bera, M. K., Chakrabarti, R., A Deccan LIP related Maastrichtian regolith of Lameta Formation, Central India: Insights into the genesis and development of calcrete profiles and implications for palaeoclimate variability, Sedimentology, v72 (3), 2025.

19. Kumari, V., Tandon, S. K., Tomson, J. K., and Ghatak, A., Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of the Upper Vindhyan sequence from the Bhander sandstone of the Bhopal Inlier in Central India and its Implications for Provenance of the Vindhyan Basin, Journal of the Paleontological Society of India, v69 (2), 187-208, v72, 2024. 

18. Mohanty, S., González–Álvarez, I., Viladkar S., D'Andres, J, and A Ghatak., Sourcing Critical Minerals: REE and HFSE in the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, India. CSIRO, Discovery Student Internship Program (DISIPA-India), Indian–Australian Scholar Program, NPP India Critical Minerals Discovery Project, Internship Report, EP2024–5675 CSIRO, Australia, 86 pp, 2024.  

17. Mohanty, S., Nareda, V., and Ghatak, A., Geochemistry of Alirajpur Granitoids (Gujarat, India) and their Genetic Relationship to the   Precambrian Basement Underlying the Deccan Traps, Geochemistry International, v62 (7), 2024.

16. Kumari, V., Tandon, S. K., Kumar, N., and Ghatak, A., Implications of a geochemical approach to reconstruct the Maastrichtian-Danian seaways of central India: The planktic foraminifera-bearing Jhilmili intertrappean revisited, Cretaceous Research, v151, 2023.

15. Majumdar, D., Gogoi, A., Ghatak, A. Saikia, A., Bhuyan, N., Sundarraju, P.V., Geochemistry and magnetite mineral properties in a porphyry copper prospect in A-type granitoids: a case study from the Karbi Hills of northeast India, Geological Journal, DOI 10.1002/gj.4577, 2022.

14. Sorokhtina N.V., Belyatsky B.V., Zaitsev V.А., Viladkar S., Kononkova N.N., Ghatak A., New data on the geochemistry and genesis of the Newania carbonatite complex, Rajasthan (India), Geochemistry International, Vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1237–1261, 2022.

13. Majumdar, D., Gogoi, Abhijit., and Ghatak, A., An investigation of Fe-Ti, V in the northeast Karbi Hills, Shillong Plateau, northeast India, Geological Journal, DOI: 10.1002/gj.4312, 2021.

12. Kumari, V., Tandon, S. K., Kumar, N., Ghatak, A., Epicontinental Permian-Cretaceous seaways in central India: The debate for the Narmada versus Godavari rifts for the K-T Incursion, Earth Science Reviews, v221, 2020.

11. Viladkar, S., Ghatak, A., and Duraiswamy, R., Report on the Field Training Workshop entitled “Amba Dongar Carbonatite-Alkaline Rocks and Associated Mineral Deposits”, Journal of the Geological Society of India, v93, p727-728, 2019.

10. Saxena, R., Dhakan, D. B., Mittal, P., Waiker, P., Chowdhury, A., Ghatak, A., Sharma, V. K., Metagenomic Analysis of Hot Springs in Central India Reveals Hydrocarbon Degrading Thermophiles and Pathways Essential for Survival in Extreme Environments, Frontiers in Microbiology, v7, p2123-2140, 2017.

9. Ghosh, N., Basu, A. R., Bhargava, O. N., Shukla, U. K. Ghatak, A., Garzione, C. N., Ahluwalia, A. D., Catastrophic environmental transition at the Permian-Triassic Neo-Tethyan margin of Gondwanaland: Geochemical, isotopic and sedimentological evidence in the Spiti Valley, India, Gondwana Research, v34, p324-345, 2016.

8. Ghatak, A., Basu, A. R. and Wakabayashi, J., Implications of Franciscan Complex graywacke geochemistry for sediment transport, provenance determination, burial-exposure duration, and exchange with co-subducted metabasites, Tectonics, v23, 5, p1480-1492, 2013.

7. Ghatak, A. and Basu, A. R., Isotopic and trace element geochemistry of alkalic-mafic-ultramafic-carbonatitic complexes and flood basalts in NE India: Origin in a heterogeneous Kerguelen plume, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v115, p46-72, 2013.

6. Ghatak, A., and Basu, A. R., Vestiges of the Kerguelen plume in the Sylhet Traps, Northeastern India, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v308, 1-2, p52-64, 2011.

5. Ghatak, A., Basu, A. R. and Wakabayashi, J., Elemental mobility in subduction metamorphism: insight from metamorphic rocks of the Franciscan Complex and the Feather River ultramafic belt, California, International Geology Reviews, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2011.567087, 2011.

4. Chakrabarti, R., Basu, A. R., and Ghatak, A., Chemical geodynamics of western Anatolia, International Geology Reviews, 10.1080/00206814.2010.543787, 2011.

3. Wakabayashi, J., Ghatak A., and Basu, A. R., Supra-subduction zone ophiolite generation, emplacement, and initiation of subduction: A perspective from geochemistry, metamorphism, geochronology, and regional geology, Bulletin Geological Society of America, v. 122(9/10), p. 1548-1568, 2010.

2. Chakrabarti, R., Basu, A. R. and Ghatak, A., Reply to: Comments on “Trace Element and Isotopic Evidence for Archean Basement in the Lonar Crater Impact Breccia, Deccan Volcanic Province” by Ramananda Chakrabarti and Asish R. Basu, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 250, p. 669-670, 2006.

1. Ghatak, A., Sahay, A., and Srivastava, D. C., Application of Bezier curves for analysis of symmetrical fold shapes, Himalayan Geology, v. 26(1), p. 205-209, 2005.