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François Guillocheau

François Guillocheau

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
6986
World Ranking
3889
National Ranking
278

Overview

François Guillocheau is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a wide range of subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Paleontology, and Ecology.

Their scientific work covers several main topics such as Geological formations and processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Recent publications by François Guillocheau include:

  • Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Mercury enrichments of the Pyrenean foreland basins sediments support enhanced volcanism during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), 2022, Global and Planetary Change
  • Fjord network in Namibia: A snapshot into the dynamics of the late Paleozoic glaciation, 2021, Geology
  • Constraining Plateau Uplift in Southern Africa by Combining Thermochronology, Sediment Flux, Topography, and Landscape Evolution Modeling, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Guillocheau include Cécile Robin, Guillaume Baby, Jean Braun, Benjamin Campforts, and Thierry Adatte.

Their work has been published in various scientific venues with multiple contributions to Basin Research, Marine Geology, Earth Surface Dynamics, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Best Publications

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic vertical movements in the Atlas system (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia): An overview

    Dominique Frizon de Lamotte;Pascale Leturmy;Yves Missenard;Sami Khomsi

  • Paleo sea levels reconsidered from direct observation of paleoshoreline position during glacial maxima (for the last 500,000 yr)

    Marina Rabineau;Serge Berné;Jean-Louis Olivet;Daniel Aslanian

  • Meso-Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Paris Basin: 3D stratigraphic constraints

    François Guillocheau;Cécile Robin;Pascal Allemand;Sylvie Bourquin

  • Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

    Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Vincent Deblauwe

  • Sedimentary sequences in the Gulf of Lion: A record of 100,000 years climatic cycles

    Marina Rabineau;Serge Berné;Daniel Aslanian;Jean-Louis Olivet

  • From rifting to oceanic spreading in the Gulf of Aden: a synthesis

    Sylvie Leroy;Ph. Razin;J. Autin;F. Bache

  • Paleogeographic evolution of the central segment of the South Atlantic during Early Cretaceous times: Paleotopographic and geodynamic implications

    Anne-Claire Chaboureau;Anne-Claire Chaboureau;François Guillocheau;Cécile Robin;Sébastien Rohais

  • Quantification and causes of the terrigeneous sediment budget at the scale of a continental margin: a new method applied to the Namibia–South Africa margin

    F. Guillocheau;F. Guillocheau;D. Rouby;D. Rouby;C. Robin;C. Robin;C. Helm;C. Helm

  • Stratigraphic architecture of the Plio-Pleistocene infill of the Corinth Rift: Implications for its structural evolution

    Sébastien Rohais;Rémi Eschard;Mary Ford;François Guillocheau

  • Rapid erosion of the Southern African Plateau as it climbs over a mantle superswell

    Jean Braun;François Guillocheau;Cécile Robin;Guillaume Baby

  • Depositional model and stratigraphic architecture of rift climax Gilbert-type fan deltas (Gulf of Corinth, Greece)

    Sébastien Rohais;Rémi Eschard;François Guillocheau

  • Découverte d’un dépôt paralique à bois fossiles, ambre insectifère et restes d’Iguanodontidae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, Sud-Ouest de la France)

    Didier Néraudeau;Ronan Allain;Vincent Perrichot;Blaise Videt

  • A better-ventilated ocean triggered by Late Cretaceous changes in continental configuration.

    Yannick Donnadieu;Emmanuelle Pucéat;Mathieu Moiroud;François Guillocheau

  • Braided rivers within an arid alluvial plain (example from the Lower Triassic, western German Basin): recognition criteria and expression of stratigraphic cycles

    Sylvie Bourquin;François Guillocheau;Samuel Péron

  • Rapid South Atlantic spreading changes and coeval vertical motion in surrounding continents: Evidence for temporal changes of pressure-driven upper mantle flow

    Lorenzo Colli;Ingo Stotz;Ingo Stotz;Ingo Stotz;Hans-Peter Bunge;Mark Smethurst;Mark Smethurst

  • Paleoenvironment reconstructions and climate simulations of the Early Triassic: Impact of the water and sediment supply on the preservation of fluvial systems

    Samuel Péron;Sylvie Bourquin;Frédéric Fluteau;François Guillocheau

  • Large‐scale relief development related to Quaternary tectonic uplift of a Proterozoic‐Paleozoic basement: The Armorican Massif, NW France

    Stéphane Bonnet;François Guillocheau;Jean-Pierre Brun;Jean Van Den Driessche

  • Sediment supply to the Orange sedimentary system over the last 150 My: An evaluation from sedimentation/denudation balance

    Delphine Rouby;Delphine Rouby;Stéphane Bonnet;Stéphane Bonnet;François Guillocheau;François Guillocheau;Kerry Gallagher;Kerry Gallagher

  • Kinematics of a growth fault/raft system on the West African margin using 3-D restoration

    Delphine Rouby;Stéphane Raillard;François Guillocheau;Renaud Bouroullec

  • The role of deformation processes on the geometry of mud-dominated turbiditic systems, Oligocene and Lower–Middle Miocene of the Lower Congo basin (West African Margin)

    O. Broucke;F. Temple;D. Rouby;C. Robin

  • New starting point for the Indian Ocean: Second phase of breakup for Gondwana

    J.O. Thompson;M. Moulin;D. Aslanian;P. de Clarens

  • Planation surfaces as a record of mantle dynamics: The case example of Africa

    François Guillocheau;Brendan Simon;Guillaume Baby;Paul Bessin

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Robin
Cécile Robin University of Rennes
Jean Braun
Jean Braun University of Potsdam
Daniel Aslanian
Daniel Aslanian French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Maarten J. de Wit
Maarten J. de Wit Nelson Mandela University
Gilles Dromart
Gilles Dromart École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Marina Rabineau
Marina Rabineau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Serge Berné
Serge Berné University of Perpignan
Pascal Allemand
Pascal Allemand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Sylvie Leroy
Sylvie Leroy Sorbonne University
Jean-Noël Proust
Jean-Noël Proust Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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