Dr. Archana Das (Scientist - C)

Ph. D Details

Thesis Title: Fluvial Response to Climate, Tectonics and Sea Level Changes during Late Quaternary period on the Southern Kachchh mainland, Western India

SUBJECTS OF INTEREST

Paleoclimate- Sea level change, Sedimentology, Morphometry, OSL Chronology, Quaternary Geology

FELLOWSHIPS

1. Awarded Gujarat Science Congress – M. P. Patel best Ph. D Thesis award in Geology, 2018-2019.

2. Awarded Post Graduate Grant Scheme of 1000 euro from International Association of Sedimentologist (2014) for perusing Ph.D.

3. Awarded Best Oral presentation award at Regional Science Congress held on M. S. University of Baroda at 15th and 16th September 2012.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Designation : Principal Investigator

Project title : Human Response to Landscape Dynamics during the last 20,000 years and Future Implications

Funding agency : Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat

Project duration : 3 years (Ongoing)

SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS

• Archana Das, Joseph, J.K., Tarun Solanki, Nisarg Makwana, Gaurav Chauhan, M G Thakkar (2020). Climate-tectonic interplay from the dryland fluvial landscape of the Southern Kachchh Mainland, Western India: Insights from new OSL and sedimentological datasets. Geological Journal, DOI: 10.1002/gj.3861

• Archana Das, Siddharth Prizomwala, Tarun Solanki, Gaurav Chauhan, M G Thakkar, Nilesh P Bhatt (2019). Relative Assessment of Tectonic Activity along the seismically active Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Geological Society of India 94, 179 – 187

• Archana Das, S. P. Prizomwala, Nisarg Makwana, M. G. Thakkar (2017). Early to Late‐Holocene climate and sea level changes inferred based on the tidal terrace sequences, Kachchh, western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 473, 82 ‐93.

• Archana Das, Gaurav Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016). Geomorphic Evidence and Tectonic Variability along the South Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India: Insights from Geomorphic Indices. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 60, 209‐218.

• Archana Das, Falguni Bhattacharya, B.K. Rastogi, Gaurav Chauhan, Mamata Ngangom, M.G. Thakkar (2016). Response of a dryland fluvial system to climate‐ tectonic perturbations during the Late Quaternary: Evidence from Rukmawati River basin, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Earth System Science125, 1119‐ 1138.

• S. P. Prizomwala,Archana Das, G. Chauhan, T. Solanki, N. Basavaiah, Nilesh Bhatt, M.G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016). Late Pleistocene‐Holocene terrace formation and uplift driven valley incision in Eastern Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Asian Earth Science 124, 55 ‐ 67.

• Siddharth P. Prizomwala, U. Pandey, A. Tandon, N. Makwana and A. Das (2024), Characterization of paleotsunami deposits along the western coast of India. PAGES (Accepted).

• Archana Das*, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, Abhijit Ambekar, S. P. Prizomwala (2022). Assessment of Geoheritage and Geotoursim potential of the geoarchaeosites from the Gujarat Alluvial Plains, Western India. Geoheritage Journal (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-022-00768-8).

• Archana Das*, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, S. P. Prizomwala, Rajesh Agnihorti, Nisarg Makwana, Jaquilin Joseph, Nikhil Patel, Sumer Chopra and M. Ravi Kumar (2022). Evidence for seawater retreat with advent of Meghalayan era (∼ 4200 a BP) in a coastal Harappan settlement. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 23(6), 10.1029/2021GC010264.

• Aashima Sodhi, Archana Das*, S. P. Prizomwala, Chintan Vedpathak, Nisarg Makwana (2022). Centennial – scale linkages between the Indian Summer Monsoon and the solar irradiation from the Gulf of Khambhat (Western India). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.05.01.

• S. P. Prizomwala, Chintan Vedpathak, Aashna Tandon, Archana Das, Nisarg Makwana, Neha Joshi (2022). Geological footprints of the 1945 Makran tsunami from the west coast of India. Marine Geology, 446, 1066773.

• Nisarg Makwana, S. P. Prizomwala, Archana Das*, Binita Phartiyal, Gaurav Chauhan, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, M. G. Thakkar (2021). Reconstructing the climatic variability during the last 5000 years from the Banni Plains, Kachchh, Western India. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.679689.

• Archana Das and Tarun Solanki (2020). Signatures of tectonic instability along the North Cambay basin during the Late Holocene period, North Gujarat, India. Journal of Geological Society of India 96 (6), 584-590.