Dr. Suchana Taral
About
Research Area
My specialisation is in stratigraphy, sedimentology, ichnology and basin analysis. I am interested in using the field-based techniques of physical sedimentology to understand the large-scale variation in the stratigraphic architecture and palaeogeography in a sedimentary basin. I believe a sedimentary basin develops through interaction among tectonics, climate, sea-level changes and surface processes. Reconstructing these interacting factors from the study of the rock record is a challenging task and requires a multiproxy approach. My work on the eastern Himalayan Foreland Basin reveals a completely different scenario of interacting marine and fluvial processes controlled by global sea level changes and tectonics of the orogen. My recent work extends to the Gondwana Basin of central India, where I explore the animal-sediment interaction in a semi-arid climate setting of a continent interior rift basin. Currently, I am involved, among other things, in exploring the Precambrian earth surface processes through the study of Proterozoic sediments of the Sullavai Group of Pranhita-Godavari Valley.
Notable & Recent Publications
Yu, M., Liu, Z., Zhao, Y., Lin, B., Hossain, H.M.Z., Taral, S., Chakraborty, T., Colin, C., Han, Z., Wang, C., (2025). Low sediment transport efficiency from the Tibetan Plateau to the Indian Ocean through the Yarlung Zangbo–Brahmaputra–Ganges system. GSA Bulletin, DOI: 10.1130/B37912.1. Impact factor 3.9 (2023).
Chakraborty, T. and Taral, S. (2025). Neoproterozoic fluvial succession of Ramgiri Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India: implications for sheet braided versus deep channelised model of pre-vegetation fluvial system. Accepted in Frontiers in Earth Science. Impact Factor 2 (2023).
Taral, S., Mukherjee, D., Ray, S. (2022). Alluvial ichnofacies from Upper Triassic red beds in India: Implications for palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 601, 111087. Journal impact factor: 3.318 (2020).
Large, E., Huyghe, P., Mugnier, J-L, Guillier, B., Taral, S., Gyawali, B.R., Chakraborty, T. (2022). Distribution of active tectonics in the Himalayan piedmont (Darjeeling, eastern India) inferred from Horizontal-to-Vertical spectral ratio analysis of passive seismic records. Terra Nova, DOI: 10.1111/ter.12619.
Taral, S.,Chakraborty, T., Huyghe, P., van der Beek, P., Vögeli, N. and Dupont-Nivet, G. (2019).Shallow marine to fluvial transition in the Siwalik succession of the Kameng River section, Arunachal Himalaya and its implication for foreland basin evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 184, DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.103980. Journal impact factor: 3.449 (2020).
