Publications

Peer-reviewed articles (Published) [Google Scholar Citation: 1483, h-index: 20, i10-index: 43] *as on 14-01-2025

73. Singh, Y.K., Mojumder, S., Behera, P., Biswal, S., Chatterjee, A., Bishoyi, S.S. and Biswal, T.K. (2024). Vorticity Estimation of the Terrane Boundary Shear Zone of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, and its Tectonic Significance. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 100(12), 1677-1684.

72. Giri, Y., Radhakrishna, M., Betts, P., Biswal, T.K., Armit, R., Sathapathy, S.K. and Naveen, P.U. (2024). Evidence of a Proterozoic suture along the southern part of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: Implications for the Nuna supercontinent. Journal of Earth System Science, 133(4), 1-18.

71. Saraswati, R., Sharma, N. K. and Biswal T. K. (2024). Kinematic and strain analysis of the terrane boundary shear zones of the Ambaji granulite, South Delhi terrane, NW India: implications for understanding towards the dynamic of emplacement of the lower middle crustal rocks. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 100 (8), 1085–1100.

70. Sathapathy, S.K., Radhakrishna, M., Biswal, T.K. and Giri, Y. (2023). Structure and geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere below Northwest Indian Shield: Constraints from geological, geochronological and multi-scale potential field modelling. Precambrian Research, 397, p.107173.

69. Y. Giri, Betts, P. G., Radhakrishna, M., McLean, M. A., Biswal T. K. and Armit, R. J. (2023). A geophysically constrained crustal element map of East Antarctica between Enderby Land and Princess Elizabeth Land. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2023.2169957

68. Sharma, N., Biswal T. K., Chinnasamy, S.C. (2023). Structural implications of paleofluid pressure and paleostress estimates of the quartz veins from sulfide deposits of the Ambaji-Deri region, Neoproterozoic South Delhi Terrane, Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt, North-West India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, p.105552

67. Behera B.M., Tripathy A. and Biswal T. K. (2022). Strength enhanced by pseudotachylite melt in fault zone rocks during post-seismic melting: a case study from the Gangavalli fault zone, Southern India. Journal of Earth System Science, 131(4), 1-15.

66. Pradhan, R.M., Singh, A. Ojha, A.K. and Biswal T. K. (2022). Structural controls on bedrock weathering and its implications on groundwater resources. Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-22.

65. Y, Giri., M, Radhakrishna., Betts, P.G., Biswal T. K. Armit, R.J and Sathapathy, S.K. (2022). Crustal architecture of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and Tectonic Implications: Constraints from Aeromagnetic and Gravity Data. Tectonophysics, 835, 229386.

64. Mishra, R.L., Sahoo, S., Dash, C. and Biswal T. K. (2022). Preliminary observations on a paleo-fluviatile deposition and uplift-driven migration of the Mahanadi River in the Gondwana basin of Odisha, eastern India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 15, 808.

63. Sharma, N.K. Chinnasamy, S. S. and Biswal T. K. (2022). Pressure temperature conditions of base hydrothermal mineralization in Ambaji Deri, NW India, South Delhi Terrane and its relationship with regional deformations. Geological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4464.

62. Biswal T. K., Pradhan, R.M., Sharma, N.K., et al. (2022). A review on deformation structures of different terranes in the Precambrian Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India: Tectonic implications and global correlation. Earth-Science Reviews, 230, 104037.

61. Tiwari, S.K., Beniest, A., Rai, P., Chatterjee, S., Dhaple, R., Biswal T. K., Yadav, A. K. and Kundu, S. (2022). Implication of Dynamic Recrystallization Mechanism for the Exhumation of Lower Crustal Rocks: A Case Study in the Shear Zones of the Ambaji Granulite, NW India. Lithosphere, 6593243, 1-15.

60. Pradhan, R.M. Behera, A.K., Kumar, Sudhir, Kumar, Pankaj and Biswal T. K. (2022). Recharge and geochemical evolution of groundwater in fractured basement aquifers (NW India): insights from environmental isotopes (δ18O, δ2H, and 3H) and hydrogeochemical studies. Water 14(3), 315.

59. Biswal T. K., * Jadhav, G.N., Chakrabarti, K., Pradhan, A.K., Roy, D., Sinha, D.K., Saravanan, B., Verma, M.B., Sivalingam, B., Sharma, N.K. (2021). Basin inversion and back thrust tectonics: Implication on uranium mineralisation in Gogi-Ukinal areas of Proterozoic Bhima basin, Karnataka, India. Exploration and Research for Atomic Minerals 29, 127-137. ISSN-09709231

58. Pradhan, R.M., Balamurugan, G., Pradhan, B. and Biswal T. K. (2021). Integrated multi-criteria analysis for groundwater potential mapping in Precambrian hard rock terranes (North Gujarat), India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 66 (6), 961-978. 

57. Singh, S., De Waele, B., Shukla, A., Umasankar, B.H. and 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, 1-35. 

56. Tiwari, S.K. and Biswal T. K. (2020). Bookshelf and shear band boudinage of a feldspar clast in a shear zone of the Ambaji Granulite, NW India. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109(5), 1869-1870. 

55. Sharma, N.K. and 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. 

54. Tiwari, S.K., Beniest, A. and 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.

53. Meher, B., Behera, B.M. and 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. 

52. Tiwari, S.K., Beniest, A. and 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. 

51. Tiwari, S.K. and 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. 

50. Tiwari, S.K. and 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, 128 (6), 1-13. 

49. 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 Research, 324, 32-61.

48. Chandrasekhar, E, Ramesh, D. and 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. 

47. Sundaralingam, K., Biswal T. K., and Thirukumaran, V. (2017). Strain Analysis of the Salem-Attur Shear Zone of Southern Granulite Terrane Around Salem, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 89, 5-11.

46. Behera, B.M., Thirukumaran, V., Soni, A., Mishra, P.K. and Biswal T. K. (2017). Size distribution and roundness of clasts within pseudotachylytes of the Gangavalli Shear Zone, Salem, Tamil Nadu: An insight into its origin and tectonic significance. Journal of Earth System Science, 126(4), 1-14.

45. Singh, V.K., Chandra, Ram, Basu, A.R., Verma, S.P. and Biswal T. K. (2015). Precambrian crustal growth and tectonics, International Geology Review http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tigr20. 

44. 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. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 85, 139-152. 

43. 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. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 42(4), 789-800. 

42. Chandrasekhar, E., Ramesh, D, Gurav, T. and Biswal T. K. (2014). Assessment of Groundwater Salinity in Nellore District Using Multi-electrode Resistivity Imaging Technique, Journal of Earth System Science, 123(8), 1809-1817.

41. 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, 174, 125 – 143.

40. 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 of the Geological Society of India, 80, 505-514. 

39. Ratre, K., Waele, Bert De and Biswal T. K., Sinha, S. (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, 42, 1437-1439.

38. 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.

37. 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, 32(10), 1417-1429. 

36. 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. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 75, 128-136.

35. 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, 39(6), 565-577.

34. 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, 39(6), 608-619. 

33. 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, 183(4), 669-688. 

32. 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), 175-186.

31. 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, 96, 1-4.

30. 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, 6, TC4006.

29. Anbazhagan S., Biswal T. K. Roy T. and Kusuma K.N. (2006). Remote sensing study of granulitic terrain in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 34, 331-341. 

28. 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. Gondwana Research, 8 (2), 277-282.

27. 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. Gondwana Research, 7, 43-56. 

26. 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.), 113, 785-793.

25. Biswal T. K., Sarkar, S., Pal, A. and Chakraborty, U. (2004). Pseudotachylites of the Kui-Chitraseni shear zones of the Precambrian Aravalli Mountain, Rajasthan. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 64, 325-335. 

24. Biswal T. K. and Sinha, S. (2003). Deformation history of the NW salient of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 22, 157-169.

23. 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 Research, 6, 321-325.

22. 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), 641-646.

21. 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, 7, 101-108.

20. 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 Research, 51, 45-52. 

19. 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. Gondwana Research, 4, 579-581.

18. Gyani, K.C., Biswal T. K., Yoshida, M. (2001). Neoproterozoic Magmatism and Metamorphism in Northwestern Indian Shield: Implications of Rodinia-Gondwana Tectonics. Gondwana Research, 4 (4), 625-626.

17. 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), 25-33. 

16. 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. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 55, 367-380. 

15. 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), 149-163.

14. 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 Research, 2, 657-660. 

13. Biswal, T. K., Sajeevan, G. and Nayak, B. P. (1998). Deformational history of eastern Ghat Mobile Belt around Lathore, Balangir District, Orissa. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 51, 219-225.

12. 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. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 52, 721-732.

11. 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 Science, 75, 846-850. 

10. 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 Research, 87, 75-85.

9. 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, 1, 410-412.

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 Science, 73, 701-703.

7. Biswal, T.K. (1997). Structural contrast across the Main Central Thrust in Bhutan Himalaya. Himalayan Geology, 18, 113-117.

6. Biswal, T. K. (1993). Structural history of Barotia group near, Pali district Rajasthan. Indian Minerals, 47, 123-130.

5. Biswal, T.K. and Shashidharan, K. (1992). Scheelite mineralisation in Bhurkhola area, Sarbhang dist. Bhutan: An example of syngenetic tungsten deposit. Indian Minerals, 46, 47-52.

4. Chande, V.D. and Biswal T. K. (1989). Some salient features of Tungsten mineralization in Rajasthan. Indian Minerals, 43, 31-38.

3. Biswal, T.K. (1988). Polyphase deformation in Delhi rocks, southeast of Amirgard, Banaskhantha Dist. Gujarat. Journal of the Geological Society of India Memoir, 7, 267-277. 

2. Naha, K. Mitra, S.K. and Biswal, T.K. (1987). Structural history of the rocks of the Delhi Group around Todgarh, Central Rajasthan. Indian Journal of Geology, 59, 126-156.

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, 105, 193-206.

Proceedings/Book Chapters

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. Bhardwaj, A. and Biswal, T.K. (2019). Deformation and tectonic history of Punagarh basin in the Trans-Aravalli Terrane of North-Western India. In Geological Evolution of the Precambrian Indian Shield (pp. 159-178). Springer, Cham.

14. Pradhan, R.M. and Biswal, T.K. (2018). Fluoride in groundwater: a case study in Precambrian terranes of Ambaji region, North Gujarat, India. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 379, pp.351-356. 

15. 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.

16. Behera, B.M., Thirukumaran, V., Sharma, N.K. and 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.

17. Singh, S., Shukla, A., Umasankar, B.H. and 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. 

18. Pradhan, R.M., Deshmukh, Ramesh, Chandrasekhar E, Balamurugan G., Biswal T.K. (2022). Geoelectrical studies for groundwater exploration in fractured rock terrane (Ambaji basin, India). pp511-514, Springer Cham Publ. 

Books/Thematic volume Edited

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. and Grasemann, B. eds. (2020). Structural Geometry of Mobile Belts of the Indian Subcontinent. Springer.

3. Vinod K. Singh, Ram Chandra, Asish R. Basu, Surendra P. Verma, Tapas K. Biswal (2015). Precambrian crustal growth and tectonics: Introduction (2015),   International Geology Review, 57:11-12, v-viii, DOI:  10.1080/00206814.2015.1029542 

4. T.K.Biswal, Bor-ming Jahn, M. Radhakrishna (2010). Special issue Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 39, Issue 6.

5. T.K.Biswal, H.S.Pandalai, Kanchan Pande, Shilpa Patil Pillai (2008). International Conference on “Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent (TOIS), 2008, Mumbai, India, 260 pp. IAGR, Conference Series 5.

Abstracts in Conferences/Symposia/Seminars/Meetings

1. 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,   J. African Earth Sciences, (1998) v.27, No.1A, pp. 27-29.

2. 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.

3. Gyani, K.C., Biswal, T.K., Yoshida, M..(2001) -Neoproterozoic Magmatism and Metamorphism in Northwestern Indian Shield: Implications of Rodinia-Gondwana Tectonics Gondwana Research (4), pp. 625-626.

4. 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 , 333-335

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.4th SHRIMP Conf. July, 2008, St Petrburg.

10. 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), Abs. v. pp 61, 24−28 Feb, 2009 Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P , India.

11. 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.

12. 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).

13. 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.  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, 70-71.

14. 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.

15. 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   at Udaipur Volume, 234.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Thirukumaran, V., Kumanan, C.J, Biswal, T. K., and Sundaralingam, K., (2010). An integrated study of airborne study magnetic and resistivity 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.

21. 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. 

22. Biswal, T. K. (2012). Probable influence of Neo-Tectonic activity on climate and supercyclone in east coast of India. Int. Conf. on Earth Science and climate change. August 21-22, Hilton Chicago, USA. OMICS Publication 11-12.

23. Biswal, T K., Thirukumaran, V., Sundaralingam, K. (2013). Thick skinned fold thrust belt in the Salem-Namakkal area of Southern Granulite Terrane and its tectonic implication in Supercontinent assembly. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp. 34-35.

24. Mahadani, T., Gorai, S., Netrabali, Shilpa V., Waele, B. De., Karmakar, S., Biswal, T. K., Bhardwaj, A. (2013). Compression – extension tectonics in the Granulites Core Complex of the Delhi Aravalli Mobile Belt, NW, India. A study of structure, P. T. conditions and monazite geochronology of the shear zones in the granulites of the South Delhi terrane. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp. 94.

25. Mishra, P. K. and Biswal, T. K. (2013). The Cambay basin and its likely formation in a strike slip regime. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp. 107.

26. Narayan, Shruti, Sivalingam, B., Thirukumaran, V. and Biswal, T. K., (2013). Low angle Kusumalai thrust at Salem in Tamil Nadu: implication for sub-horizontal thrust sheets in Southern Granulite Terrane. . Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp.117-118.

27. Saha, G., Biswal., T. K., Sharma, K. K., Purohit, R. (2013). Microstuctural Analysis of the Sirohi Shear Zone, Rajasthan, India: Deformation Mechanism at grain scale. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp.144.

28. Singh, V. K., Biswal, T. K., Slabunov, A., Giri, D.K. (2013). Bundelkhand and Bastar Cratons: correlation main Archaean events and geodynamic consequences. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp.166-167.

29. Sinha, A. and Biswal, T. K. (2013). The Khariar basin an example of foreland deposits of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: A preliminary study. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp.172.

30. Thirukumaran, V., Sundaralingam, K., Gorai, S., Biswal, T. K. (2013). Pseudotachylytes of the Gangavalli Shear Zone, Southern Granulite Terrane, Tamil Nadu. Int. Conf. Precambrian Continental Growth and Tectonism, Jhansi, IAGR Conf. Sers. 16, pp.203-204.

31. Biswal, T. K., Thirukumaran, V., Sundaralingam, K., Narayanan, S., Sivalingam, B., Saha, G., Bhardwaj, A., Singh, N., Gorai, S., Sinha, A. (2014). Compression –extension tectonics in the evolution of granulites of Indian Peninsula: implication for Rodinia-Gondwana supercontinent assembly., Gondwana-15. Int. Conf held at Madrid, Spain. Pp. 17

32. Behera B. M., Sivalingam, B., Biswal, T. K. and Mishra, P. K. (2015).Deformation history of Southern Granulite Terrane: A study of the mylonite and pseudotachylyte of the Salem-Attur area, Tamil Nadu, India. Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual meeting USA.Vol.47.

33. Pradhan, R. M., Pati, P., & Biswal, T. K. (2015, December). Terminal fans and the Ganga plain tectonism of the Indo-Gangetic foreland basin, India. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

34. Behera B. M., Biswal, T. K. and Thirukumaran, V. (2016). Breakneck frictional melt from Gangavalli shear zone, an eastern part of regional Salem-Attur shear zone, Tamil Nadu: an evidence of strike slip brittle deformation. Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of India, 2016. Abstract Volume. p.58-60.

35. Bharadwaj, A. and Biswal, T.K. (2016). Deformation and Tectonic history of Punagarh Basin in Trans-Aravalli Terrain of North Western Rajasthan, India. Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of India, 2016. Abstract Volume. p.74

36. Saha, G. and Biswal, T.K. (2016). Study of Deformation Mechanism of Sirohi Shear Zone, Sirohi, Rajasthan. Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of India, 2016. Abstract Volume. p.36

37. Behera B. M., Thirukumaran, V. and Biswal, T. K. (2016). Brittle deformation in Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT): A study of pseudotachylyte bearing fractures along Gangavalli shear zone (GSZ), Tamil Nadu, India.European Geosciences union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, Europe, Vol.18, EGU2016-18128.

38. Tiwari, S.K., Singh, N., Sivalingam. Balu., Biswal, T.K., 2016. Early ductile thrusting and late stage brittle shearing in the south Delhi terrane of Aravalli Delhi mobile belt, NW India; implication for the exhumation of granulites. In GSA Abstracts with Programs v. 47, No. 7.

39. Sudheer Kumar Tiwari and Tapas  Kumar  Biswal (2016). Microscopic  and  field  study  of  deformation  pattern  in  the  Jogdadi  shear zone of Ambaji area, South Delhi Terrane, Gujarat, NW India; International Conference on Geosciences and Environment & 32nd Annual Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists (ICGENIAS-2015)- Jan 7-10, 2016, 48p.

40. Tiwari, S.K. and Biswal, T.K., 2016, April. Field and Microstructure Study of   Transpressive Jogdadi shear zone near Ambaji, Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt, NW India and its tectonic implication on the exhumation of granulites. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 18, p. 15133).

41. Tiwari, S.K. and Biswal, T.K., 2016. Proterozoic tectono-magmatic processes in Aravalli- Delhi Mobile belt, NW India and its implication to Columbia and Rodinia Supercontinents. In Seminar Abstract volume: Developments in Geosciences in the past decade- Emerging Trends for the future & impact on Society & Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of India 2016, pp 438-439.

42. Pradhan, R.M. and Biswal, T.K. (2018) Fluoride in groundwater -a case study in Precambrian terranes of Ambaji region, North Gujarat, India. 8th International Water Resources Management Conference (IWRM2018-118), Beijing, China

43. Biswal, T. K., Singh, S., Umasankar, B. H., Das, K. C. (2018). Structural correlation between polyphaser folding and ca. 960 Ma granite intrusion in the central Delhi fold belt, near Beawar, Rajasthan, its tectonic implication on Supercontinent assembly, 5th RDS, University of Delhi, Delhi, p.31

44. Tiwari, S. K., Chatterjee, S., Biswal, T. K., Daphale, R. (2018). Analysis of paleopezometry, temperature and strain rate from dynamically recrystallized quartz grains in the different shear zones of Ambaji granulite, NW India, 5th RDS, University of Delhi, Delhi, p.53

45. Behera, B. M. and Biswal, T. K. (2018). Interchangeable stress condition inferred from paleostress analysis of pseudotachylyte vein emplacement from Gangavalli (southern India), 5th RDS, University of Delhi, Delhi, p.74

46. Sharma, N. K. and Biswal, T. K. (2018) Paleostress analysis and fluid pressure measurement of quartz vein intrusion in the mica schist of South Delhi terrane of Ambaji area, Gujarat, NW India, 5th RDS, University of Delhi, Delhi, p.77

47. Saraswati, R. and Biswal, T. K. (2018). Strain analysis of Jogdadi and Balaram Shear zone of South Delhi terrane of Ambaji area, Gujarat, NW India, 5th RDS, University of Delhi, Delhi, p.80

48. RM Pradhan and TK Biswal (2019). Development of structural and geophysical criteria for aquifer mapping in Precambrian basement rocks. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2019, NS41B-0814

49. G Yellalacheruvu, R Munukutla, PG Betts, TK Biswal, RJ Armit (2019). India’s position in supercontinent Rodinia: constraints from geophysical potential field data interpretations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2019, T43I-0540

50. RM Pradhan and TK Biswal (2019). Structural and geophysical study for mapping deep-seated aquifers in Aravalli terrane, India. AGU Chapman Conference on the Quest for Sustainability of Heavily Stressed Aquifers, Valencia, Spain

51. RM Pradhan, KA Weber, D Snow, TK Biswal (2019). Spatio-temporal distribution of uranium concentration in shallow aquifers of Aravalli terrane (north Gujarat), India. GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA-2019

52. RM Pradhan and TK Biswal (2020). Extension and transtension associated with strike-slip faults and its relation with aquifer potentials: a case study in Aravalli terrane (North Gujarat), India, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 18625

53. NK Sharma and TK Biswal (2020). 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), EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 7788

54. R Saraswati and TK Biswal (2020). Non-steady strain in the terrane boundary shear zone of the Ambaji Granulite, NW India: Implications for understanding towards the dynamics of emplacement of the lower-middle …EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2897

55. S Singh and TK Biswal (2020). 870 Ma age of South Delhi Orogeny: A study on Geochronology of the granites and the metasediments, NW India. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 3259

56. SK Tiwari, A Beniest, TK Biswal (2020). The kinematic vorticity analysis of ductile shear zones of Ambaji Granulite, NW India and its tectonic implications. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 7397

57. Pradhan, R.M.; Singh, A; Biswal, T.K. (2021) Characterization of brittle-ductile shear zones for groundwater resources and management: application of 2D electrical resistivity imaging (ERI). AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA

58. Sharma, N.K.; Chinasamy, S.S. and Biswal, T. K. (2021). A study on paleostress and fluid inclusion of quartz vein intruded in low grade rock in Ambaji Deri, South Delhi Terrane, NW India. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA

59. Pradhan, R.M. and Biswal, T.K. (2022) Elevated uranium in shallow fractured granitic aquifers, NW India: a structural and geochemical perspective. Goldschmidt 2022, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA

60. Pradhan, R.M; Singh, A.; Ojha, A.K.; Biswal, T.K. (2022). Role of bedrock weathering on subsurface groundwater storage in a geologically complex crystalline rock terrane: a hydrostructural approach. AGU Chapman Conference, Spain.

61. Pradhan, R.M.*, Singh, A., Ojha, A.K. and Biswal, T.K. (2022). Role of brittle-ductile shear zones on bedrock weathering in fractured basement terranes and its implications on sustainable groundwater resources and management. 9th IGWC 2022, Roorkee, India [ORAL]

62. Pradhan, R.M.*, Biswal, T.K. and Sharna, S.P. (2024). Understanding the complex granitic rock aquifers through lense of structural and geoelectrical studies: weathered-bedrock architecture and groundwater perspectives. IAH Congress, Davos, Switzerland [ORAL]

63. Tiwari, S.K. and Biswal, T.K. (2024). Monazite Geochronology of Deformational Strain Fabric and its Tectonic Implications of the Lower-Middle Crustal Rocks: A Case Study of Ambaji Granulite, NW India (No. EGU24-18091). Copernicus Meetings.