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Christophe Colin is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily spans atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, geochemistry and petrology, oceanography, and geology, with a strong focus on geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, and geochemical and elemental analysis.

The scientist has authored numerous papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Climate-Driven Weathering Shifts Between Highlands and Floodplains" (2020) published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "A global palaeoclimatic reconstruction for the Valanginian based on clay mineralogical and geochemical data" (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Expansion of C4 plants in South China and evolution of East Asian monsoon since 35 Ma: Black carbon records in the northern South China Sea" (2023) in Global and Planetary Change
  • "Paleoenvironmental evolution of South Asia and its link to Himalayan uplift and climatic change since the late Eocene" (2021) in Global and Planetary Change
  • "Past African dust inputs in the western Mediterranean area controlled by the complex interaction between the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and total solar irradiance" (2020) in Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christophe Colin include:

  • Shiming Wan
  • Zhaojie Yu
  • Arnaud Dapoigny
  • Zhifei Liu
  • Franck Bassinot

Their work has been published repeatedly in specific venues, indicating areas of focus and contribution. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Marine Geology

Christophe Colin's research interests and topics cover a range of scientific areas related to Earth sciences and environmental studies:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and environmental studies

Best Publications

  • Source-to-sink transport processes of fluvial sediments in the South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Yulong Zhao;Christophe Colin;Karl Stattegger

  • Climatic and tectonic controls on weathering in south China and Indochina Peninsula: Clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the Pearl, Red, and Mekong drainage basins

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Wei Huang;Khanh Phon Le

  • Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the northeastern South China Sea and surrounding fluvial drainage basins: Source and transport

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Xiajing Li;Yulong Zhao;Yulong Zhao

  • Erosional history of the Himalayan and Burman ranges during the last two glacial–interglacial cycles

    C. Colin;L. Turpin;Jacques Bertaux;A. Desprairies

  • Clay mineral assemblages in the northern South China Sea: implications for East Asian monsoon evolution over the past 2 million years

    Zhifei Liu;Alain Trentesaux;Steven C Clemens;Christophe Colin

  • Detrital fine-grained sediment contribution from Taiwan to the northern South China Sea and its relation to regional ocean circulation

    Zhifei Liu;Shouting Tuo;Christophe Colin;James T. Liu

  • Chemical weathering in Luzon, Philippines from clay mineralogy and major-element geochemistry of river sediments.

    Zhifei Liu;Yulong Zhao;Christophe Colin;Fernando P. Siringan

  • MINERALOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (ODP SITE 1144)

    Pleistocene Sediment;S. Boulay

  • 7000 years of paleostorm activity in the NW Mediterranean Sea in response to Holocene climate events

    Pierre Sabatier;Pierre Sabatier;Laurent Dezileau;Christophe Colin;Louis Briqueu

  • Sediment sources and East Asian monsoon intensity over the last 450 ky. Mineralogical and geochemical investigations on South China Sea sediments

    S. Boulay;Christophe Colin;A. Trentesaux;N. Frank

  • Erosional history of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since 190 kyr ago: clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the southwestern South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Dominique Blamart

  • Climatic and tectonic controls on chemical weathering in tropical Southeast Asia (Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra)

    Zhifei Liu;Hao Wang;Wahyoe S. Hantoro;Edlic Sathiamurthy

  • Evolution of weathering patterns in the Indo‐Burman Ranges over the last 280 kyr: Effects of sediment provenance on 87Sr/86Sr ratios tracer

    C. Colin;L. Turpin;D. Blamart;N. Frank

  • Magnetic properties of sediments in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea: impact of rapid North Atlantic Ocean climatic events on the strength of the Indian monsoon

    C Colin;C Kissel;D Blamart;L Turpin

  • Late Quaternary climatic control on erosion and weathering in the eastern Tibetan Plateau and the Mekong Basin

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Giuseppe Siani

  • Northeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and climate

    Norbert Frank;André Freiwald;Matthias López Correa;Claudia Wienberg

  • Sedimentary responses to the Pleistocene climatic variations recorded in the South China Sea

    Sébastien Boulay;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Stéphane Clain

  • Clay minerals in surface sediments of the Pearl River drainage basin and their contribution to the South China Sea

    ZhiFei Liu;Christophe Colin;Wei Huang;Zhong Chen

  • GEOTRACES intercalibration of neodymium isotopes and rare earth element concentrations in seawater and suspended particles. Part 1: reproducibility of results for the international intercomparison

    Tina van de Flierdt;Katharina Pahnke;Katharina Pahnke;Hiroshi Amakawa;Hiroshi Amakawa;Per Andersson

  • Impact of the East Asian monsoon rainfall changes on the erosion of the Mekong River basin over the past 25,000 yr

    Christophe Colin;Giuseppe Siani;Marie-Alexandrine Sicre;Zhifei Liu

  • 20,000 years of Nile River dynamics and environmental changes in the Nile catchment area as inferred from Nile upper continental slope sediments

    Marie Revel;E. Ducassou;C. Skonieczny;C. Colin

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhifei Liu
Zhifei Liu Tongji University
Norbert Frank
Norbert Frank Heidelberg University
Eric Douville
Eric Douville Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Shiming Wan
Shiming Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dominique Blamart
Dominique Blamart Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Alain Trentesaux
Alain Trentesaux University of Lille
Giuseppe Siani
Giuseppe Siani Université Paris Cité
Francis Delannay
Francis Delannay Université Catholique de Louvain
Frank Bassinot
Frank Bassinot University of Paris-Saclay
Veerle A.I. Huvenne
Veerle A.I. Huvenne National Oceanography Centre

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