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Christian Gorini

Christian Gorini

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
6593
World Ranking
3906
National Ranking
282

Christian Gorini publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Gorini sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 174 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Christian Gorini D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Gorini sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christian Gorini is a researcher affiliated with Sorbonne University in France, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science. Their academic contributions encompass various subfields including Geology and Paleontology. The main topics addressed in their work are geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geological and geochemical analysis, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Gorini's recent published papers reflect a broad engagement with tectonic and geological research. Notable works include:

  • Detailed tectonic reconstructions of the Western Mediterranean region for the last 35 Ma, insights on driving mechanisms (2020, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France)
  • Transfer zones in Mediterranean back-arc regions and tear faults (2021, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France)
  • Astronomical pacing of Late Cretaceous third- and second-order sea-level sequences in the Foz do Amazonas Basin (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • Polyphase Tectonic Evolution of Fore-Arc Basin Related to STEP Fault as Revealed by Seismic Reflection Data From the Alboran Sea (W-Mediterranean) (2020, Tectonics)
  • Structure of the Offshore Obducted Oman Margin: Emplacement of Semail Ophiolite and Role of Tectonic Inheritance (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)

Their research has been disseminated across several publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Marine Geology
  • Tectonics

Christian Gorini collaborates regularly with multiple co-authors, including Damien Do Couto, Marina Rabineau, Antônio Tadeu dos Reis, Cleverson Guizan Silva, and Didier Granjeon. These professional relationships have contributed to the development and dissemination of research findings in their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Ferran Estrada;I. Jimenez-Munt;Christian Gorini;Christian Gorini

  • Erosional processes and paleo-environmental changes in the Western Gulf of Lions (SW France) during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

    Johanna Lofi;Johanna Lofi;Christian Gorini;Serge Berné;Georges Clauzon

  • A two‐step process for the reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    François Bache;François Bache;Speranta-Maria Popescu;Marina Rabineau;Christian Gorini

  • E–W opening of the Algerian Basin (Western Mediterranean)

    A. Mauffret;Florent de Lamotte;Siegfried Lallemant;Christian Gorini

  • Refining our knowledge of the Messinian salinity crisis records in the offshore domain through multi-site seismic analysis

    Johanna Lofi;Françoise Sage;Jacques Déverchère;Lies Loncke

  • Messinian erosional and salinity crises: View from the Provence Basin (Gulf of Lions, Western Mediterranean)

    François Bache;Jean Louis Olivet;Christian Gorini;Marina Rabineau

  • Plio–Quaternary prograding clinoform wedges of the western Gulf of Lion continental margin (NW Mediterranean) after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Johanna Lofi;Marina Rabineau;Christian Gorini;Serge Berne

  • The two-stage Aegean extension, from localized to distributed, a result of slab rollback acceleration

    Jean Pierre Brun;Claudio Faccenna;Frederic Gueydan;Dimitrios Sokoutis;Dimitrios Sokoutis

  • Evolution of rifted continental margins: The case of the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean Basin)

    François Bache;Jean Louis Olivet;Christian Gorini;Daniel Aslanian

  • Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northern Levant Basin (offshore Lebanon)

    Nicolas Hawie;Nicolas Hawie;Nicolas Hawie;Christian Gorini;Christian Gorini;Remy Deschamps;Fadi H. Nader

  • Seismic Atlas of the Messinian Salinity Crisis markers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

    Johanna Lofi;Jacques Déverchère;Virginie Gaullier;Hervé Gillet

  • Significance of bottom currents in deep-sea morphodynamics: An example from the Alboran Sea

    Gemma Ercilla;Carmen Juan;F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Miguel Bruno

  • Tectonics and deep structure of the north-western Mediterranean Basin

    Alain Mauffret;Georges Pascal;Agnès Maillard;Christian Gorini

  • Contribution to the structural and sedimentary history of the Gulf of Lions (western Mediterranean) from the ECORS profiles, industrial seismic profiles and well data

    C. Gorini;A. Le Marrec;A. Mauffret

  • The Gulf of Cadiz: an unstable giant contouritic levee

    T. Mulder;M. Voisset;P. Lecroart;E. Le Drezen

  • Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Western Alboran Sea Basin in the last 25 Myrs

    Damien Do Couto;Christian Gorini;Laurent Jolivet;Noëmie Lebret

  • Detailed tectonic reconstructions of the Western Mediterranean region for the last 35 Ma, insights on driving mechanisms

    Adrien Romagny;Laurent Jolivet;Armel Menant;Eloïse Bessière

  • Continental breakup and the dynamics of rifting in back-arc basins: The Gulf of Lion margin

    Laurent Jolivet;Laurent Jolivet;Christian Gorini;Jeroen Smit;Jeroen Smit;Sylvie Leroy

  • Offshore evidence of polyphase erosion in the Valencia basin (Northwestern Mediterranean): Scenario for the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Agnès Maillard;Christian Gorini;Alain Mauffret;Françoise Sage

  • Structural geometry in the eastern Pyrenees and western Gulf of Lion (Western Mediterranean)

    Alain Mauffret;Bernard Durand de Grossouvre;Antonio Tadeu Dos Reis;Christian Gorini

  • First Deep Seismic Reflection Transect from the Gulf of Lions to Sardinia (Ecors‐Crop Profiles in Western Mediterranean)

    B. De Voogd;R. Nicolich;J. L. Olivet;F. Fanucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Rabineau
Marina Rabineau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel Aslanian
Daniel Aslanian French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bilal U. Haq
Bilal U. Haq Smithsonian Institution
Alain Mauffret
Alain Mauffret Sorbonne University
Gemma Ercilla
Gemma Ercilla Spanish National Research Council
Belén Alonso
Belén Alonso Spanish National Research Council
Elia d'Acremont
Elia d'Acremont Sorbonne University
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar University of Granada
Bruno C. Vendeville
Bruno C. Vendeville University of Lille
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University

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