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Charles Aubourg is a researcher affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their work spans several aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering, contributing significantly to subfields such as Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers a broad range of topics, including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide. Other areas of focus include earthquake and tectonic studies, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Drilling and Well Engineering.

Aubourg has published extensively with frequent contributions in notable scientific venues. The prominent publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geoenergy

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Aubourg highlight the diversity and depth of their research. Examples of these publications are:

  • Combination of Δ47 and U-Pb dating in tectonic calcite veins unravel the last pulses related to the Pyrenean Shortening (Spain), 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Preorogenic Folds and Syn-Orogenic Basement Tilts in an Inverted Hyperextended Margin: The Northern Pyrenees Case Study, 2020, Tectonics
  • Diagenesis and alteration of subsurface volcanic ash beds of the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Hydrogen generation and heterogeneity of the serpentinization process at all scales: Turon de Técouère lherzolite case study, Pyrenees (France), 2024, Geoenergy
  • The clay fabric of shales is a strain gauge, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology

Aubourg frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Rainer Zahn, M. C. Comas, Adam Klaus, Paul E. Belanger, and Stefano M. Bernasconi. These collaborations have contributed to a consistent publication record in their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Rock magnetism and the interpretation of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

    Pierre Rochette;Mike Jackson;Charles Aubourg

  • Is this magnetic fabric normal? A review and case studies in volcanic formations

    Pierre Rochette;Charles Aubourg;Mireille Perrin

  • Magnetic fabric: methods and applications

    F. Martín-Hernández;C. M. Lüneburg;C. Aubourg;M. Jackson

  • Magma flow directions of shallow dykes from the East Greenland volcanic margin inferred from magnetic fabric studies

    J.-P Callot;L Geoffroy;C Aubourg;J.P Pozzi

  • Magnetic and plagioclase linear fabric discrepancy in dykes: a new way to define the flow vector using magnetic foliation

    L. Geoffroy;J. P. Callot;C. Aubourg;M. Moreira

  • Strain localization during crustal-scale boudinage to form extensional metamorphic domes in the Aegean Sea

    Laurent Jolivet;Vincent Famin;Caroline Mehl;Teddy Parra

  • Analysis of tectonic structures and excavation induced fractures in the Opalinus Clay, Mont Terri underground rock laboratory (Switzerland)

    Christophe Nussbaum;Paul Bossart;Florian Amann;Charles Aubourg

  • Magma flow in dyke swarms of the Karoo LIP: Implications for the mantle plume hypothesis

    Warwick W. Hastie;Michael K. Watkeys;Charles Aubourg

  • Magnetic fabric and petrographic investigation of hematite-bearing sandstones within ramp-related folds : Examples from the South Atlas Front (Morocco)

    B. Saint-Bezar;R.L. Hebert;C. Aubourg;P. Robion

  • Thick- and thin-skinned deformation rates in the central Zagros simple folded zone (Iran) indicated by displacement of geomorphic surfaces

    Behnam Oveisi;Jérôme Lavé;Peter Van Der Beek;Julien Carcaillet

  • The transition between Makran subduction and the Zagros collision: recent advances in its structure and Active deformation

    Vincent Regard;Denis Hatzfeld;Matteo Molinaro;Charles Aubourg

  • Magnetic fabric: methods and applications — an introduction

    F. Martín-Hernández;C. M. Lüneburg;C. Aubourg;M. Jackson

  • MAGNETIC FABRICS OF TERTIARY SANDSTONES FROM THE ARC OF FARS (EASTERN ZAGROS, IRAN)

    Hamid Reza Bakhtari;Dominique Frizon de Lamotte;Charles Aubourg;Jamshid Hassanzadeh

  • The Okavango giant mafic dyke swarm (NE Botswana): its structural significance within the Karoo Large Igneous Province

    Bernard Le Gall;Gomotsang Tshoso;Jérôme Dyment;Ali Basira Kampunzu

  • Toward a new < 250 °C pyrrhotite-magnetite geothermometer for claystones

    Charles Aubourg;Charles Aubourg;Jean-Pierre Pozzi

  • Post-Miocene shortening pictured by magnetic fabric across the Zagros-Makran syntaxis (Iran)

    C Aubourg;B Smith;H Bakhtari;N Guya

  • Subtle stretching lineation revealed by magnetic fabric of Callovian-Oxfordian black shales (French Alps)

    Charles Aubourg;Pierre Rochette;Pierre Vialon

  • Reconstruction of low temperature (<100 °C) burial in sedimentary basins: A comparison of geothermometer in the intracontinental Paris Basin

    Thomas Blaise;Jocelyn Barbarand;Myriam Kars;Florian Ploquin

  • Composite magnetic fabric in weakly deformed black shales

    Charles Aubourg;Pierre Rochette;Felix Bergmüller

  • The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin

    M. Ducoux;L. Jolivet;J.-P. Callot;C. Aubourg

  • Magma flow in sub-aqueous rhyolitic dikes inferred from magnetic fabric analysis (Ponza Island, W. Italy)

    Charles Aubourg;Guido Giordano;Massimo Mattei;Fabio Speranza

  • Burial, claystones remagnetization and some consequences for magnetostratigraphy

    Charles Aubourg;Jean-Pierre Pozzi;Myriam Kars;Myriam Kars

  • New magnetic fabric data and their comparison with palaeostress markers in the Western Fars Arc (Zagros, Iran): tectonic implications

    Charles Aubourg;Brigitte Smith;Ali Eshraghi;Olivier Lacombe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Callot
Jean-Paul Callot University of Pau and the Adour Region
Jean-Pierre Pozzi
Jean-Pierre Pozzi École Normale Supérieure
Pierre Labaume
Pierre Labaume Joseph Fourier University
Pierre Rochette
Pierre Rochette Aix-Marseille University
Sheng-Rong Song
Sheng-Rong Song National Taiwan University
Jean-Jacques Tiercelin
Jean-Jacques Tiercelin Géosciences Rennes
Isabel Suárez-Ruiz
Isabel Suárez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
Michael J Jackson
Michael J Jackson University of Minnesota
Dominique Frizon de Lamotte
Dominique Frizon de Lamotte CY Cergy Paris University

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