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Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

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63
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12315
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1622
National Ranking
95

Overview

Guillaume Dupont-Nivet is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio includes 134 publications primarily focused on understanding geological and paleoclimatic processes.

The scientist's subfields of study encompass Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics. Research topics frequently addressed involve Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, as well as Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

Recent publications by Guillaume Dupont-Nivet include:

  • "Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift", 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Revised chronology of central Tibet uplift (Lunpola Basin)", 2020, Science Advances
  • "Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia", 2020, Science Advances
  • "Quantifying the Effect of the Drake Passage Opening on the Eocene Ocean", 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective", 2020, Climate of the past

The venues where Guillaume Dupont-Nivet has frequently published include:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Science Advances
  • Climate of the past

Collaboration is an integral part of Dupont-Nivet's work, with frequent co-authors including Alexis Licht, Niels Meijer, Carina Hoorn, Zaw Win, and Day Wa Aung. The co-authorship network reflects a multidisciplinary approach integrating various expertise within earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

    Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Peter C. Lippert;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Nadine McQuarrie

  • Tibetan plateau aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene–Oligocene transition

    Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Wout Krijgsman;Cor G. Langereis;Hemmo A. Abels

  • Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

    A. Licht;A. Licht;A. Licht;M. van Cappelle;M. van Cappelle;H. A. Abels;H. A. Abels;J.-B. Ladant

  • Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India

    Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Paul Kapp;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Peter C. Lippert;Peter C. Lippert

  • A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia

    Scott W. Simpson;Jay Quade;Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Robert Butler

  • Late Eocene sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China) and concomitant Asian paleoenvironmental change

    Roderic E. Bosboom;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Alexander J.P. Houben;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Tibetan uplift prior to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: Evidence from pollen analysis of the Xining Basin

    G. Dupont-Nivet;C. Hoorn;M. Konert

  • Palaeolatitude and age of the Indo–Asia collision: palaeomagnetic constraints

    Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Peter C. Lippert;Douwe J.J. Van Hinsbergen;Maud J.M. Meijers

  • Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift

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  • Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan Arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data.

    Jan Westerweel;Pierrick Roperch;Alexis Licht;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

  • Magnetostratigraphy of Cenozoic sediments from the Xining Basin: Tectonic implications for the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Shuang Dai;Shuang Dai;Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Chunhui Song

  • Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the Xining-Minhe and Dangchang basins, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic results

    B. K. Horton;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;J. Zhou;G. L. Waanders

  • Paleogene clockwise tectonic rotation of the Xining‐Lanzhou region, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;B. K. Horton;Robert F. Butler;J. Wang

  • Timing, cause and impact of the late Eocene stepwise sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China)

    Roderic Bosboom;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Arjen Grothe;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Aridification in continental Asia after the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO)

    Roderic E. Bosboom;Hemmo A. Abels;Carina Hoorn;Bas C.J. van den Berg

  • Early Cretaceous to present latitude of the central proto-Tibetan Plateau: A paleomagnetic synthesis with implications for Cenozoic tectonics, paleogeography, and climate of Asia

    Peter C. Lippert;Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

  • Source to sink relations between the Tian Shan and Junggar Basin (northwest China) from Late Palaeozoic to Quaternary: evidence from detrital U-Pb zircon geochronology

    Wei Yang;Marc Jolivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Zhaojie Guo

  • Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity

    David R. Braun;David R. Braun;Vera Aldeias;William Benjamin Dean Sipho Archer;J Ramon Arrowsmith

  • Linking Tarim Basin sea retreat (west China) and Asian aridification in the late Eocene

    R. Bosboom;G. Dupont-Nivet;G. Dupont-Nivet;G. Dupont-Nivet;A. Grothe;H. Brinkhuis

  • Step-wise change of Asian interior climate preceding the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT)

    Hemmo A. Abels;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guoqiao Xiao;Roderic Bosboom

  • A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China)

    Carina Hoorn;Julia Straathof;Hemmo A. Abels;Yadong Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierrick Roperch
Pierrick Roperch University of Rennes
Zhaojie Guo
Zhaojie Guo Peking University
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Utrecht University
Carina Hoorn
Carina Hoorn University of Amsterdam
Hemmo A. Abels
Hemmo A. Abels Delft University of Technology
Yannick Donnadieu
Yannick Donnadieu Aix-Marseille University
Paul Kapp
Paul Kapp University of Arizona
Pascale Huyghe
Pascale Huyghe Grenoble Alpes University
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Ian L. Millar
Ian L. Millar British Geological Survey

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