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Bernard Dennielou is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research contributions span primarily the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work engages several main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Recent notable papers by Bernard Dennielou include:

  • The North Atlantic Glacial Eastern Boundary Current as a Key Driver for Ice-Sheet-AMOC Interactions and Climate Instability, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Upstream migrating knickpoints and related sedimentary processes in a submarine canyon from a rare 20-year morphobathymetric time-lapse (Capbreton submarine canyon, Bay of Biscay, France), 2020, Marine Geology
  • Carbon and sediment fluxes inhibited in the submarine Congo Canyon by landslide-damming, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Initiation and evolution of knickpoints and their role in cut-and-fill processes in active submarine channels, 2020, Geology
  • Routing of terrestrial organic matter from the Congo River to the ultimate sink in the abyss: a mass balance approach (André Dumont medallist lecture 2017), 2020, Geologica Belgica

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Marine Geology, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Geological Society London Special Publications, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, and Nature Geoscience. Among these, Marine Geology stands out as a recurrent publication venue.

Collaborative work features several frequent co-authors, including Germain Bayon, Ricardo Silva Jacinto, Gwénaël Jouet, Vincent Hanquiez, and Marina Rabineau. The number of joint publications ranges from four to seven per co-author, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach

    Nabil Sultan;Pierre Cochonat;M Canals;Antonio Cattaneo

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Direct observation of intense turbidity current activity in the Zaire submarine valley at 4000 m water depth

    Alexis Khripounoff;Annick Vangriesheim;Nathalie Babonneau;Philippe Crassous

  • Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in world river sediments revisited

    Germain Bayon;Germain Bayon;Samuel Toucanne;Charlotte Skonieczny;L. Andre

  • Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa

    Germain Bayon;Bernard Dennielou;Joël Etoubleau;Emmanuel Ponzevera

  • Millennial-scale fluctuations of the European Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial, and their potential impact on global climate

    Samuel Toucanne;Guillaume Soulet;Nicolas Freslon;Ricardo Silva Jacinto

  • Geological overview of the Angola-Congo Margin, the Congo deep-sea fan and its submarine valleys

    Bruno Savoye;Nathalie Babonneau;Bernard Dennielou;Martine Bez

  • Hf and Nd isotopes in marine sediments: Constraints on global silicate weathering

    Germain Bayon;K. W. Burton;K. W. Burton;Guillaume Soulet;Guillaume Soulet;N. Vigier

  • A walk down the Cap de Creus canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: Recent processes inferred from morphology and sediment bedforms

    G. Lastras;G. Lastras;M. Canals;R. Urgeles;D. Amblas

  • A 130,000-year record of Levantine Intermediate Water flow variability in the Corsica Trough, western Mediterranean Sea

    Samuel Toucanne;Gwenaël Jouet;Emmanuelle Ducassou;Maria-Angela Bassetti

  • ROV study of a giant pockmark on the Gabon continental margin

    H. Ondréas;K. Olu;Y. Fouquet;J. L. Charlou

  • Controls on turbidite sedimentation: Insights from a quantitative approach of submarine channel and lobe architecture (Late Quaternary Congo Fan)

    M. Picot;L. Droz;Tania Marsset;Bernard Dennielou

  • Pockmark formation and evolution in deep water Nigeria: Rapid hydrate growth versus slow hydrate dissolution

    N. Sultan;G. Bohrmann;L. Ruffine;T. Pape

  • Shoreface migrations at the shelf edge and sea-level changes around the Last Glacial Maximum (Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean)

    Gwenael Jouet;Gwenael Jouet;Serge Berne;Marina Rabineau;Maria-Angela Bassetti

  • Phase relationship between sea level and abrupt climate change

    Francisco Javier Sierro;Nils Andersen;Maria A. Bassetti;Serge Berné;Serge Berné

  • Late Glacial to Preboreal sea-level rise recorded by the Rhône deltaic system (NW Mediterranean)

    Serge Berne;Gwenael Jouet;Gwenael Jouet;Maria-Angela Bassetti;Bernard Dennielou

  • Activity of the turbidite levees of the Celtic-Armorican margin (Bay of Biscay) during the last 30,000 years: Imprints of the last European deglaciation and Heinrich events

    Samuel Toucanne;S Zaragosi;Jean-Francois Bourillet;F Naughton

  • Distribution of the organic matter in the channel-levees systems of the Congo mud-rich deep-sea fan (West Africa). Implication for deep offshore petroleum source rocks and global carbon cycle

    François Baudin;Jean-Robert Disnar;Philippe Martinez;Bernard Dennielou

  • Impact of open-ocean convection on particle fluxes and sediment dynamics in the deep margin of the Gulf of Lions

    M. Stabholz;M. Stabholz;X. Durrieu De Madron;M. Canals;Alexis Khripounoff

  • Different types of sediment gravity flows detected in the Var submarine canyon (northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

    A. Khripounoff;P. Crassous;N. Lo Bue;B. Dennielou

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • A 130,000-year record of Levantine Intermediate Water flow variability in the Corsica Trough, western Mediterranean Sea

    S. Toucanne;G. Jouet;E. Ducassou;M.-A. Bassetti

  • Hf and Nd isotopes in marine sediments: Constraints on global silicate weathering

    G. Bayon;K. W. Burton;N. Vigier;B. Dennielou

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Gesine Mollenhauer
Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
David Van Rooij
David Van Rooij Ghent University
Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University

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