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Fred Jourdan is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and focuses on research within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 248 publications contributing to this domain. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Paleontology.

Their research covers a range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Jourdan has published in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Geology, and Lithos.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5 (2021) published in Science
  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data (2020) published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS-REx (2024) published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Formation of the First Bend in the late Eocene gave birth to the modern Yangtze River, China (2020) published in Geology
  • Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc-forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean (2021) published in Geology

Frequent co-authors of Fred Jourdan include:

  • Celia Mayers, with 21 collaborations
  • Hugo K.H. Olierook, with 15 collaborations
  • Nicholas E. Timms, with 14 collaborations
  • Qiang Jiang, with 13 collaborations
  • Renaud Merle, with 13 collaborations

Best Publications

  • Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River.

    Hongbo Zheng;Peter D. Clift;Ping Wang;Ryuji Tada

  • Major and Trace Element and Sr, Nd, Hf, and Pb Isotope Compositions of the Karoo Large Igneous Province, Botswana-Zimbabwe: Lithosphere vs Mantle Plume Contribution

    F. Jourdan;F. Jourdan;F. Jourdan;Hervé Bertrand;U. Schärer;Janne Blichert-Toft

  • Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5.

    Xiaochao Che;Alexander Nemchin;Dunyi Liu;Tao Long

  • Age calibration of the Fish Canyon sanidine 40Ar/39Ar dating standard using primary K–Ar standards

    Fred Jourdan;Fred Jourdan;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • Karoo large igneous province: Brevity, origin, and relation to mass extinction questioned by new 40Ar/39Ar age data

    Fred Jourdan;Gilbert Féraud;Hervé Bertrand;Ali Bashira Kampunzu

  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data

    Allen J. Schaen;Brian R. Jicha;Kip V. Hodges;Pieter Vermeesch

  • Late Oligocene-early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert

    Hongbo Zheng;Hongbo Zheng;Xiaochun Wei;Ryuji Tada;Peter D. Clift

  • Intracontinental eocene-oligocene porphyry Cu mineral systems of Yunnan, Western Yangtze Craton, China: Compositional characteristics, sources, and implications for continental collision metallogeny

    Yong Jun Lu;Robert Kerrich;Robert Kerrich;Anthony I S Kemp;T. Campbell McCuaig

  • Timing and duration of the Central Atlantic magmatic province in the Newark and Culpeper basins, eastern U.S.A.

    Andrea Marzoli;Fred Jourdan;John H. Puffer;Tiberio Cuppone

  • The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): A Review

    Andrea Marzoli;Andrea Marzoli;Sara Callegaro;Jacopo Dal Corso;Joshua H. F. L. Davies

  • Evaluating the temporal link between the Karoo LIP and climatic–biologic events of the Toarcian Stage with high-precision U–Pb geochronology

    Bryan Sell;Maria Ovtcharova;Jean Guex;Annachiara Bartolini

  • Global warming of the mantle beneath continents back to the Archaean

    Nicolas Coltice;Hervé Bertrand;Patrice Rey;Fred Jourdan

  • Paleogene post-collisional lamprophyres in western Yunnan, western Yangtze Craton: Mantle source and tectonic implications

    Yong-Jun Lu;T. Campbell McCuaig;Zheng-Xiang Li;Fred Jourdan

  • An appraisal of the ages of terrestrial impact structures

    F. Jourdan;P.R. Renne;P.R. Renne;W.U. Reimold

  • The Karoo triple junction questioned: evidence from Jurassic and Proterozoic 40Ar/39Ar ages and geochemistry of the giant Okavango dyke swarm (Botswana)

    F. Jourdan;G. Féraud;H. Bertrand;A.B. Kampunzu

  • Dating Terrestrial Impact Structures

    Fred Jourdan;W. Reimold;A. Deutsch

  • From flood basalts to the inception of oceanization: Example from the 40Ar/39Ar high‐resolution picture of the Karoo large igneous province

    Fred Jourdan;Fred Jourdan;G. Féraud;Hervé Bertrand;M.K Watkeys

  • Basement control on dyke distribution in Large Igneous Provinces: Case study of the Karoo triple junction.

    Fred Jourdan;G. Féraud;Hervé Bertrand;M.K. Watkeys

  • Closure of the Clymene Ocean and formation of West Gondwana in the Cambrian: Evidence from the Sierras Australes of the southernmost Rio de la Plata craton, Argentina

    Eric Tohver;P. A. Cawood;P. A. Cawood;E. A. Rossello;Fred Jourdan

  • Distinct brief major events in the Karoo large igneous province clarified by new 40Ar/39Ar ages on the Lesotho basalts

    F. Jourdan;F. Jourdan;G. Féraud;Hervé Bertrand;M.K Watkeys

  • Pre-Miocene Birth of the Yangtze River

    Hongbo Zheng;Peter Clift;Ping Wang;Ryuji Tada

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Hervé Bertrand
Hervé Bertrand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Eric Tohver
Eric Tohver Universidade de São Paulo
Gilbert Féraud
Gilbert Féraud Université Côte d'Azur
Andrea Marzoli
Andrea Marzoli University of Padua
Nicholas E. Timms
Nicholas E. Timms Curtin University
Massimo Chiaradia
Massimo Chiaradia University of Geneva
Noreen J. Evans
Noreen J. Evans Curtin University
Steven M. Reddy
Steven M. Reddy Curtin University
Martin Danišík
Martin Danišík Curtin University

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