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Bernard Pittet is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant portion of their work contributing to the fields of Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics. The scientist's interests also extend to Oceanography and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Pittet has collaborated frequently with several researchers, among them:

  • Farid Saleh
  • Bertrand Lefèbvre
  • Allison C. Daley
  • Khadija El Hariri
  • Pierre Sansjofre

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with notable recurrent publications in:

  • Sedimentology
  • Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • BioEssays
  • Geobios

Recent papers authored by Bernard Pittet include the following titles and publication details:

  • "Ocean acidification during the early Toarcian extinction event: Evidence from boron isotopes in brachiopods," 2020, Geology
  • "Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Biogenic Iron Preserves Structures during Fossilization: A Hypothesis," 2020, BioEssays
  • "Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Ordovician of Morocco," 2020, Geobios
  • "A novel tool to untangle the ecology and fossil preservation knot in exceptionally preserved biotas," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • Depositional sequences in shallow carbonate-dominated sedimentary systems: concepts for a high-resolution analysis

    André Strasser;Bernard Pittet;Heiko Hillgärtner;Jean-Bruno Pasquier

  • Secular environmental precursors to Early Toarcian (Jurassic) extreme climate changes

    Guillaume Suan;Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;Christophe Lécuyer

  • Duration of the Early Toarcian carbon isotope excursion deduced from spectral analysis: consequence for its possible causes

    Guillaume Suan;Bernard Pittet;Ivan Bour;Emanuela Mattioli

  • Evidence for major environmental perturbation prior to and during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal

    Guillaume Suan;Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;Samuel Mailliot

  • Polar record of Early Jurassic massive carbon injection

    Guillaume Suan;Guillaume Suan;Boris L. Nikitenko;Mikhail A. Rogov;François Baudin

  • Dramatic decrease of pelagic carbonate production by nannoplankton across the Early Toarcian anoxic event (T-OAE)

    Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;Laurent Petitpierre;Samuel Mailliot

  • Ecological succession, palaeoenvironmental change, and depositional sequences of Barremian–Aptian shallow‐water carbonates in northern Oman

    Bernard Pittet;Frans S. P. Van Buchem;Heiko Hillgärtner;Philippe Razin

  • Calcareous nannoplankton changes across the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in the western Tethys

    Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;Guillaume Suan;Samuel Mailliot

  • Carbon isotope evidence for sedimentary discontinuities in the lower Toarcian of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): Sea level change at the onset of the Oceanic Anoxic Event

    Bernard Pittet;Guillaume Suan;Fabien Lenoir;Luis Vitor Duarte

  • Late Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) environmental changes in an epicontinental basin of NW Europe (Causses area, central France): A micropaleontological and geochemical approach

    Samuel Mailliot;Emanuela Mattioli;Annachiara Bartolini;François Baudin

  • Phytoplankton evidence for the timing and correlation of palaeoceanographical changes during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Early Jurassic)

    Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;Raffaella Bucefalo Palliani;Hans-Joachim Röhl

  • Third-order depositional sequences reflecting Milankovitch cyclicity

    André Strasser;Heiko Hillgärtner;Wolfgang Hug;Bernard Pittet

  • The Barremian-Aptian Evolution of The Eastern Arabian Carbonate Platform Margin (Northern Oman)

    Heiko Hillgärtner;Frans S.P. van Buchem;Fabrice Gaumet;Philippe Razin

  • High-resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of Barremian/Aptian Carbonate Systems in Northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates (Kharaib and Shu’aiba Formations)

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  • The carbonate signal and calcareous nannofossil distribution in an Upper Jurassic section (Balingen-Tieringen, Late Oxfordian, southern Germany)

    Bernard Pittet;Emanuela Mattioli

  • The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives

    Emmanuel L.O. Martin;Bernard Pittet;Juan-Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco;Jean Vannier

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of calcareous nannofossils along a proximal–distal transect in the Lower Jurassic of the Umbria–Marche Basin (central Italy)

    Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet

  • Contribution of calcareous nannoplankton to carbonate deposition: a new approach applied to the Lower Jurassic of central Italy

    Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet

  • Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in a mixed carbonate‐siliciclastic platform environment: Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura Mountains

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  • Depositional Sequences in Deep-Shelf Environments: A Response to Sea-Level Changes and Shallow-Platform Carbonate Productivity (Oxfordian, Germany and Spain)

    Bernard Pittet;André Strasser;Emanuela Mattioli

  • Ammonoid and nannoplankton abundance in Valanginian (early Cretaceous) limestone-marl successions from the southeast France Basin: carbonate dilution or productivity?

    Stéphane Reboulet;Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet;François Baudin

  • Nannofacies analysis as a tool to reconstruct paleoenvironmental changes during the Early Toarcian anoxic event

    Ivan Bour;Emanuela Mattioli;Bernard Pittet

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuela Mattioli
Emanuela Mattioli Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Guillaume Suan
Guillaume Suan University of Lyon System
Luís V. Duarte
Luís V. Duarte University of Coimbra
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
François Baudin
François Baudin Sorbonne University
André Strasser
André Strasser University of Fribourg
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Jean Vannier
Jean Vannier Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Pascal Allemand
Pascal Allemand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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