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Personal Details
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| Name | Dr Bhawanisingh Desai |
| Designation | Associate Professor |
| Department | Petroleum Engineering, School of Petroleum Technology |
| Email | Bhawanisingh.Desai@spt.pdpu.ac.in |
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Educational Qualifications
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| B.Sc. (Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda), 1996 |
| M.Sc. (Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda), 1998 |
| Ph.D (Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda), 2003 |
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Professional Affiliation
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| I am actively involved in scientists of following institutes
1) Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
2) Agarkar Research Institute, Pune
3) Wadia College, Pune
4) Birbal Sahani Institute of Paleobotany, Lucknow.
5) KSKV Kachchh University, Kachchh. |
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Awards
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| 1) NET Qualified in Year 2002
2) Awarded CSIR Senior Research Fellowship in Year 2003.
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Publications / Articles / Conference
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| Articles/Chapters Published in the books |
| 'Taphonomic Pathways for the Formation of Bioturbated Cycles in the Early Cretaceous Wave-Dominated Deltaic Environment: Ghuneri Member, Kachchh Basin, India', S. Banerjee and S. Sarkar (eds.), Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India, Society of Earth Scientists Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71370-6_11, ISBN: 978-3-030-71370-6, pp. 311-332, aug 2021 |
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| Published Papers in Journals |
| 'Infaunalization and resource partitioning during the Mesozoic marine revolution', Geology, pp. 786-790, jul 2022 |
| 'Identification of reservoir units and their petrophysical characterization with special reference to Mesozoic formations, Kachchh offshore basin, Western India', Arabian Journal of Geoscience, pp. 1-19, may 2022 |
| 'Terrestrial Martian Analog Heritage of Kachchh Basin, Western India', Geoheritage, pp. 1-26, mar 2022 |
| 'Middle to Late Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the western Great Rann of Kachchh, India: Insights from ichnology, geochemistry, and sedimentology', Geological Journal, pp. 3916 - 3934, sep 2022 |
| 'Evaluating cementation factor for bioturbated sandstones, Bhuj Formation, Kachchh Basin, India: a novel approach using triple‑porosity model', Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, pp. 1-12, feb 2022 |
| 'Pore throat characterization of bioturbated heterogeneous sandstone, Bhuj Formation, Kachchh India: An integrated analysis using NMR and HPMI studies', Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, pp. 1-12, jan 2022 |
| 'Causes and implications of Mid-to Late Holocene relative sea-level change in the Gulf of Kachchh, western India', Quaternary Research, pp. 1-24, jan 2021 |
| 'Quaternary Landform Development in the Central segment of tectonically active Kachchh Mainland Fault zone, Western India', Quaternary Science Advances, pp. 18, jan 2021 |
| 'Opportunistic colonizers in the Kallankurichchi Formation, Cauvery Basin, South India: Implications on Maastrichtian environmental stress', Geological Journal, pp. 12, jan 2021 |
| 'Ichnofabric analysis of bathyal chalks: the Miocene Inglis Formation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India', Journal of Palaeogeography, pp. 494-508, Oct 2021 |
| 'Sequence stratigraphy of a Post Rift sedimentary succession: An Example from Kachchh Basin, India', GeoChronicle, pp. 17-25, Dec 2021 |
| 'Marine and Fluvial Sedimentation Including Erosion and Sediment Flux in Peninsular Indian Phanerozoic Basins', Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, pp. 351-363, feb 2020 |
| 'Response of cephalopod communities on abrupt environmental changes during the early Aptian OAE1a in the Middle Russian Sea', Cretaceous Research, pp. 227-240, jan 2019 |
| 'Dwarf megateuthidid belemnites from the Bathonian of Kachchh (India: Gujarat) and their significance for palaeobiogeography', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, pp. 613-634, mar 2019 |
| 'Selection and Identification of Interwell Tracers for Reservoir Characterization of Clastic Rock: A Case Study from Cretaceous Himmatnagar Sandstones', Petroleum & Petrochemical Engineering Journal, pp. 1-9, Oct 2018 |
| 'Postrift deltaic sedimentation in western Kachchh Basin: Insights from ichnology and sedimentology', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, pp. 104-124, sep 2018 |
| 'The First record of Late Jurassic megateuthidid belemnites-Chuvashiteuthis aenigmatica gen.et sp. nov. from the Upper Kimmeridgian of central Russia', Bulletin of Geosciences, pp. 357-372, Oct 2017 |
| 'Ichnological analysis of the Pleistocene Dwarka Formation, Gulf of Kachchh: tracemaker behaviors and reworked traces', Geodinamica Acta, pp. 1-16, jul 2015 |
| 'Palaeocommunity Dynamics and Behavior Analysis of Conichnus: Bhuj Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Kachchh-India', Ichnos-An international Journal of Animal and Plant Traces, pp. 43-55, jun 2015 |
| 'Biochronostratigraphic implications of the discovery of Late Bathonian Indonesian ammonite Macrocephalites cf. mantataranus Boehm [M] from the core of Jara Dome, Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Palaeontological Society of India, pp. 169-180, Dec 2014 |
| 'Ichnofabric analysis of the Tithonian Shallow marine sediments (Bhadasar Formation) Jaisalmer Basin, India', Journal of Earth System Science, pp. 1413-1431, aug 2014 |
| 'Ichnofabric analysis of the Tithonian Shallow marine sediments (Bhadasar Formation) Jaisalmer Basin, India', Journal of Earth System Science, pp. 1413-1431, aug 2014 |
| 'Ichnological Analysis of Transgressive Marine Tongue in Prograding Deltaic System: Evidences from Ukra Hill Member, Western Kachchh, India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 143, aug 2013 |
| 'Significance of the trace fossil Balanoglossites Magdefrau, 1932 from the Lower Cretaceous Guneri member (Bhuj formation) of the Guneri dome, Kachchh, India', Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, pp. 255, apr 2012 |
| 'TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE KALADONGAR FORMATION EXPOSED IN KUAR BET, PATCHAM ISLAND, KACHCHH BASIN, INDIA', Journal of Palaeontological Society of India, pp. 53, jun 2012 |
| 'Discontunity surface and Event stratigraphy of Okha Shell Limestone Member: Implications for Holocene Sea level changes, Western India', Journal of Earth System Science, pp. 723, jan 2011 |
| 'A Report on Benthic Foraminifera in Intertidal Region of Mandvi Coast, Kachchh, Gujarat', Gondwana Geological Magazine, pp. 45, jun 2011 |
| 'Biogenic Sedimentary structures produced by Architectonica laevigata (Gastropod: Architectonicidae), Mandvi Intertidal zone, Gulf of Kachchh, India', Open access e-Journal Earth Science India,, pp. 242, Oct 2010 |
| 'Ichnology of the Early Cambrian Tal Group, Nigalidhar Syncline, Lesser Himalaya, India', Ichnos-An international journal of palnt and animal traces, pp. 233, jul 2010 |
| 'Upper Callovian-Middle Oxfordian Belemnite assemblage from Jara Dome, Western Kachchh, India.', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 343-356, sep 2009 |
| 'Paleoecological Significance of the Trace fossils of Dhosa Oolite Member (Jumara formation), Jhura Dome, mainland Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 601, Nov 2009 |
| 'Animal-Sediment Relationship of the Crustaceans and Polychaetes in the intertidal zone around Mandvi, Gulf of Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 233, aug 2009 |
| 'Trace Fossil Assemblages (Ichnocoenoses) of the Tectonically Uplifted Holocene Shorelines, Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 527-540 , apr 2008 |
| 'Middle Jurassic Trace Fossils from Habo Dome, Mainland Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 345-362 , mar 2008 |
| 'Asteriacites quinquefolius – Asteroid trace maker from the Bhuj Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Mainland Kachchh, Western India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 129-132, jan 2008 |
| 'Analysis of Ichnoguilds and Their Significance in Interpreting Ichnological Events: A Study from Jhuran Formation (Upper Jurassic), Western Kachchh, India', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 458-466, Oct 2008 |
| 'Activation of Narmada rift during Early Cretaceous: Evidence from soft sediment deformation structures', Gondwana Geological Magazine, pp. 125-130, apr 2005 |
| 'Kachchh earthquake of 2001: Seismically triggered Deformed Structures in intertidal sediments of Mandvi coast in the Gulf of Kachchh Gujarat ', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 637-646, Nov 2004 |
| 'On two interesting marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from Mandvi, Kutch', Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, pp. 184-186, aug 2003 |
| 'Origin of air trap structures in beach-bar complex and their environmental significance. ', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 391-399, Oct 2002 |
| 'The Republic day Kachchh Earthquake of 2001: Trauma in Oratosquilla striata', Journal of Geological Society of India, pp. 215-216, sep 2001 |
| 'Neotectonic evolution of the coastal landforms between Jakhau and Mundra, Gulf of Kachchh, Western India', Bulletein of Indian Geologist's Association, pp. 221-232, sep 2001 |
| 'Animal- sediment relationship in a modern tidal flats environment on Mundra coast, Gulf of Kachchh', Gondwana Geological Magazine, pp. 315-320, may 1999 |
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| Full Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| 'Characterization of Organic Potential of Jhural Shale Formation', Association of Petroleum Geologist (APG) India, pp. ST497, 1-5, sep 2018 |
| 'Assessing porosity-permeability heterogeneity in bioturbated sedimetns: Implicaiton for clastic reservoir characterization', Association of Petroleum Geologist (APG) India, pp. 1-4, sep 2018 |
| 'Trace fossils and Ichnofabric analysis of the Aalenian (?)-Lower Bajocian strata of Volgograd region (south of Russian platform)', V.A. Zakharov, M.A. Rogov, E.V.Shchepetova (eds.)., pp. 263-266, sep 2017 |
| 'First find of Parabelemnopsis, the alien belemnite from the southern hemisphere in the Upper Berriasian of Central Crimea', Baraboshkin, E. Yu and Bykov, D. E., pp. 52-59, sep 2015 |
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| Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia |
| 'Ichnofabric analysis of transgressive shoreface deposits on the Russian Platform: insight from the Bathonian-Callovian Lukoyanov Formation sands', International Ichnofabric Workshop 16A (virtual), The University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama, Organizers: Andrew K. Rindsberg and David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Nov 2021 |
| 'Aptian anoxic basin of the Russia Platform: recognizing a responses to global and regional controls', 35th International Association of Sedimentologist, IAS, Prague, jun 2021 |
| 'Petrophysical Characterization of Jhuran Formation, Kachchh Basin', International Conference on Unconventional Energy Resources, RGIPT, feb 2019 |
| 'Trace fossils and Ichnofabric analysis in Early-Middle Miocene Inglis Formation: Insights from Ichnology of forearc basin, Andaman Subduction zone, Andaman and Nicobar island', National Seminar on Effects of Paleo and Anthropogenic events on Earth System and Annual General meeting (AGM) 2018 of Geological Society of India, Geological Society of India and Periyar University, sep 2018 |
| 'Ichnoassemblage and Tiering in Cretacous Giumal Formation, Spiti Himalaya, Implications for understanding colonization of turbidite sequence in deep Sea', National Seminar on Effects of Paleo and Anthropogenic events on Earth System and Annual General meeting (AGM) 2018 of Geological Society of India, Geological Society of India and Periyar University, sep 2018 |
| 'Training prospect in the Kachchh basin for understanding the petroleum System. ', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'Mid-Holocene Sea level changes along the gulf of Kachchh and its implication towards Human Civilization. ', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'Enumerating the effect of bioturbation Induced heterogeneity on Petrophysical Properties of Clastic rocks using Routine Core analysis (RCA) and Special Core Analysis (SCAL) techniques', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'New data on belemnites from the Ukra Hill Member (Lower Cretaceous of Kachchh) ', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'Kimmeridgian-Lowermost Tithonian Belemnites from Kachchh and Jaisalmer basins, Western India: Diversity and biogeography. ', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| ') Correlation of the depositional conditions of the Ypresian layer of kutch and Northern Tunesia based on Planktonic foraminifera and Biozonation.', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'Ichnology and Sedimentology of Early Cretaceous wave-dominated, river-influenced Guneri member (Bhuj Formation), Kachchh basin, Western India. ', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'The significance of Trace fossils for understanding Evolution of the bet zone during Holocene in great rann of Kachchh, India.', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
| 'Mesozoic delta sedimentation Vis-à-vis Ichnology of Kachchh basin, Western India', 2nd National Conference on and Field workshop on Recent Studies of Geology of Kachchh, KSKV Kachchh University, DST, MOES ONGC, INSA, GUJCOST, Dec 2018 |
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