Dr. Harendra Nath Bhattacharya, Professor & Head
B.Sc., with Honours in Geology (Stood first class first), 1975, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
M.Sc., in Applied Geology (Stood first class first), 1978, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Ph.D., in Ore Geology, 1985, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

hnb.geol@presidencycollegekolkata.ac.in, hbaruamu@vsnl.net
Area of Specialisation: Ore geology & Sedimentology

Professional Experience
• Head of the Department : 1999 – present
• Reader – Professor in Geology, Presidency College, Kolkata :   1996 – present
• Lecturer – Assistant Professor – Reader in Geology, Durgapur   Government College : 1983 – 1996
• Junior Geologist, Geological Survey of India : 1982 – 1983
• Research Fellow, Jadavpur University, Kolkata : 1980 – 1982

Teaching Experience
Total twenty one (21) years, both in Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate level

Research Profile
• Students carried out research work for Ph.D degree and awarded is 6 (six)
• Students carrying out research work for Ph.D degree is 4 (four)
• Students carried out dissertation work for M.Sc degree: 35 (thirty-five)

Research interest
• Ore geology, Sedimentology (including sedimentary geochemistry), Ichnology, Environmental science
• Initiated research career as a JRF in the Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, on “Copper Ore Mineralization in a volcanosedimentary succession of the Chitradurga Greenstone Belt (Archean), southern India”.
• Continued research on different aspects of greenstone belt evolution after the submission of Ph.D. thesis. Adopted post-doctoral research projects on Sulphide Ore Minralization in Aravalli Mountain Belt, Rajasthan, North Singhbhum Fold Belt, Jharkhand and Cuddapah Basin in Andhra Prodesh.
• Took special interest in sedimentological research on Paleozoic Glacial Beds of Talchir Formation and glacio-marine interactive system.
• Presently engaged with two international research projects, one is a INDO-SOUTH AFRIKAN collaborative project on origin of BIF hosted iron ores of India and South Afrika, funded by DST, New Delhi and the other is on Pb-Zn sulphide mineralization of Zawar and other deposits of Rajasthan in collaboration with Center for Ore Deposit Research, Tasmania University, funded by CODES.

Membership of Academic/Professional Bodies
• Life Member, Geological Society of India, Bangalore
• Vice-President, Society of Indian Earth Sciences, Calcutta

Honours/Awards
National Mineral Award, 2004, Govt. of India, for significant contribution in the field of Sedimentology.
Prof. N. N. Chatterjee Medal (1987) from THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, Kolkata for contribution to the knowledge of Economic Geology.

Research Projects Carried Out
Major Projects
Genesis of continental rift-related Proterozoic Pb-Zn Deposits
Co-Investigators: Prof. Ross Large(International Collaboration)
Funding Agencies & Linkage: CODES, Tasmania University, Hobart, Australia

Origin Of BIF-Hosted High-Grade Iron Ore Deposits Of India And South Africa: Implications For Exploration And Better Economic Exploitation
Co-Investigators: Dr. Joydip Mukhopadhyay (International Collaboration)
Funding Agencies & Linkage: DST-NRF: Indo-South African:Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa

Talchir Formation in different basins of the Damodar Valley coal fields, Eastern India and its bearing on the palaeogeography
Co-Investigators: None (National level project)
Funding Agencies & Linkage: University Grants Commission, India (Major project)

Publications
Papers published in the International Journals
The Chitradurga Greenstone Succession in South India and evolution of the late Archean basin – Published in Geological Magazine (Printed in Great Britain), vol-125, pp. 507-519, 1988, with P.K. Bhattacharya and A. D. Mukherjee.

Mineralisation related to the Proterozoic rocks of Western India – Published in Symposium Vol. of “International Symposium on Geochemistry and Mineralisation of Proterozoic Mobile Belts” held at Tianjin, China in Sept. 1988, with A. D. Mukherjee.

Sedimentary Copper Sulphide mineralisation in the Proterozoic supracrustals of Western India – a case history: Published in symposium vol. of “International Conference on Mobility and Concentration of base metals in sedimentary cover rocks” held at Paris, France in March, 1988, with A. D. Mukherjee.

Facies mosaic in Fjords: Carboniferous-Permian Talchir Formation, Bihar, India – Published in Journal of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, vol. 72/2, pp. 164, 1988 with P. K. Bose and G. Mukherjee.

Precambrian metasediments around Ghatsila-Galudih, Eastern Singhbhum, India: a reappraisal – Published in Abstract Vol. of 28th International Geological Congress, held at Washington D.C., U.S.A., vol. 1 of 3, pp. 148, 1989, with S. K. Chanda and S. C. Sarkar.

Sulphide ore mineralisation in bimodal volcanic complex, Chitradurga Greenstone Belt, Southern India – Published in Abstract Vol. of 28th International Geological Congress, held at Washington D.C., U.S.A., vol. 1 of 3, pp. 149, 1989, with P. K. Bhattacharya.

Magmatism and evolution of sulphide ore mineralisation in Precambrians of Peninsular India – Published in Abstract Vol. of 28th International Geological Congress, held at Washington D.C., U.S.A., vol. 2 of 3, pp. 476-477, 1989, with A. D. Mukherjee.

Proterozoic Black Shale and related ore deposits in a part of Vindhyan basin of eastern India - Published in Abstract Vol. of 28th International Geological Congress, held at Washington D.C., U.S.A., vol. 2 of 3, pp. 477, 1989, with A. D. Mukherjee.

Basin evolution and metallogeny during Mid-Proterozoic in Peninsular India – Published in Bulletin of International Geological Correlation Programme, No. 255, vol. 3, pp. 51-60, 1990 (published from New Brunswik, Germany), with A. D. Mukherjee.

Glacigenic coarse clastics in a Permo-Carboniferous bedrock trough in India: a sedimentary model – Published in Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam), vol. 76, pp. 79-97, 1992 with P.K. Bose and G. Mukherjee.

Pb-Zn sulphide ore mineralisation by basin dewatering in a Proterozoic intra-continental rift basin, Zawar, India – Published in Abstract Vol. of 29th International Geological Congress held at Tokyo, Japan, 1992, vol. II-16-4, pp. 6, No. 936, 1992 with Amit Kumar Ray.

Petrotectonics of a southern segment of the polymetallic sulphide-bearing Proterozoic Delhi Mobile Belt, Rajasthan, India, and its implication – Published in S.C. Sarkar (Ed.) “Metallogeny related to tectonics of the Proterozoic Mobile belts” – Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., pp. 252-270, 1992, with A. D. Mukherjee and P. K. Bhattacharya. (Collection of papers presented in the “International symposium on metallogeny related to tectonics of the Proterozoic mobile belts”, held at Jadavpur University, 1988).

Rock-water interaction and evolution of sulphide ores in late Archean Chitradurga Greenstone Belt of southern India – Published in Mineralium Deposita (Springer-Verlag), vol. 28, pp. 303-309, 1993, with A. D. Mukherjee and P. K. Bhattacharya.

Facies analysis of glaciomarine sediments of Talchir Formation (Permo-Carboniferous), Dudhi Nala, Bihar, India – published in 9th International Gondwana Symposium Volume – Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. vol. 2, pp. 737-753, 1994 with G. Mukherjee.

Stratabound pyretic copper mineralisation in a fore arc setting in northwestern India – a Proterozoic Besshi type deposit – Published in Journal of International Mining and Metallurgical Transaction (Great Britain), Sec. B.106: B45-B51, 1997 with A. D. Mukherjee.

Seismites in a Proterozoic tidal sequence, Singhbhum, Bihar, India - Published in Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam), vol. 119, pp. 239-252, 1998 with Sandip Bandopadhyay.

Analysis of the sedimentary succession hosting the Paleoprioterozoic Zawar Zinc-Lead sulphide ore deposit, Rajasthan, India –in “Sediment-hosted Lead-Zinc deposits” edited by M. Deb and W. D. Goodfellow, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp. 350-361, 2004.

Sole marks in storm event beds in the Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation, Raniganj Basin, India –Published Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam), vol. 166, pp. 209-222, 2004 with B. Bhattacharya, I. Chakraborty and A. Chakraborty.

Ichnology in pulsating storm deposits – a case study in Talchir Formation of Gondwana Supergroup, Saharjuri Basin, Jharkhand, India – Ichnos, vol. 12 (1), pp. 2005, with A. Chakraborty.

Significance of transition between Talchir Formation and Karharbari Formation in lower Gondwana basin evolution – a study in West Bokaro coal basin, Jharkhand, India – Journal of Earth System Sciences, vol. 114 (3), pp. 275-286, 2005, with A. Chakraborty and B. Bhattacharya.

Storm Event Beds in A Paleoproterozoic Rift Basin, Aravalli Supergroup, Rajasthan, India. Gondwana Research, vol. 8(2), pp. 231-239, 2005, with B. Bhattacharya.

A Permo-Carboniferous Tide-Storm Interactive System: Talchir Formation, Raniganj Basin, India. – Journal of Asian Earth Science, vol. 27(3), pp. 303-311, 2006, with B. Bhattacharya.

Relationship Between Intrusive Dykes And High-Grade Iron Ore Of The Hospet-Donimalai Deposits, South India: Implications For Ore Genesis: 32nd IGC, Florence Italy, Aug-20-28, 2004, with Mukhopadhyay J., Gutzmer J. and Beukes N. J.

BIF-Hosted High-Grade Iron Ore Deposits Of The Sandur Schist Belt, Karnataka, India: 32nd IGC, Florence Italy, Aug-20-28, 2004, with Mukhopadhyay J., Gutzmer J., Beukes N. J.

Archean seismites of the Ventersdorp Supergroup, South Africa with E. A. Schneiderhan, U. Zimmermann And J. Gutzmer.

Trace fossil assemblages indicative of stressed environment from Late Palaeozoic Glaciomarine Talchir Formation, Raniganj Basin, India. – Gondwana Research, (in press), with B. Bhattacharya.

Papers published in Indian Journals
Occurrence of pillow structures and metahyaloclastics breccia in amphibolite of Delhi Supergroup, Rajasthan – Published in Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 25(1), pp. 70-72, 1984 with Tapan Ghosh and A.D. Mukherjee.

Conglomerates of the Chitradurga Greenstone Belt and their geological significance – Published in the Indian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 114-125, 1987 with Subir Sarkar and Akhilesh Mandal.

Hummocky cross-stratification and its hydraulic and climatic implication in Talchir Formation, Dudhi Nala, Hazaribagh, Bihar – Published in the Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 34, pp. 398-404, 1989 with P.K. Bose and G. Mukherjee.

Geology of the Iron Formations of Chitradurga Greenstone Belt, Karnataka, India – Published in “Indian Minerals”, vol. 44, Nos. 2 & 3, pp. 141-150, 1990 with Ajit Prasad Chatterjee.

A reappraisal of the depositional environment of the Precambrian metasediments around Ghatsila-Galudih, Eastern Singhbhum, Bihar – Published in the Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 37, pp. 47-54, 1991.

Submarine pyroclastic rocks in the Chitradurga Greenstone belt, Karnataka, India - Published in “Indian Minerals”, vol. 45, Nos. 3, pp. 171-182, 1991 with Bhabani Prasad Mukhopadhyay.

Silver-bearing sulphosalts from Rampura-Agucha Massive Sulphide Deposit of Rajasthan, India – Published in the Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 37, pp. 132-135, 1991 with A. D. Mukherjee and S. Lahiri.– a study in similarity and contrast – Published in the Memoirs of Geological Society of India, No. 13, pp. 83-95, 1993 with Anindya Bhattacharya.

Fossil Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Upper Talchir Sediments of Dudhi Nala, Hazaribagh, Bihar – Published in the Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 54, pp. 523-527, 1999 with A. Chakraborty and S. Sengupta.

Sedimentary facies analysis of a Permo-Carboniferous terminoglacial succession, Saharjuri Basin, Jharkhand, India – Published in the Journal of Geological Society of India, vol. 60, pp. 401-410, 2002 with A. Goswami and A. Chakraborty.

Environmental assessment and quality rating for domestic wastewater treatment system in a mining colony, Talcher, Orissa. In: Impact of Civilization on Environment. Proc. UGC sponsored State Level Seminar, pp. 61-67, 2004, with S. Chakraborti.

Crustacean burrow fills as obstacles for current crescents in Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation, Raniganj Basin, India - Journal of the Geological Society of India, (in press), with B. Bhattacharya and A. Chakraborty.