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Jean Besse is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France, where their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses various subfields including Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Geology.

The scientist's research topics include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and broader Geological and Geophysical Studies.

Besse has published several research papers in notable venues, among them:

  • Subduction-Related Volcanic Activity as a Proxy for Global Subduction Flux Over the Past Billion Years, and Its Correlation With Geomagnetic Superchrons (2025) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • East European Sedimentary Basins Long Heated by a Fading Mantle Upwelling (2024) in Nature Communications
  • Paleomagnetism of the Mesoproterozoic Duguan Formation in Luonan, North China, and Its Geologic and Paleogeographic Implications (2025) in Precambrian Research
  • Continental Hotspots Tracks From an Analysis of GOCE Gravity Gradients Data (2024) in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Besse include Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Anne Davaille, Yuri Volozh, Yves Gallet, and Vincent Courtillot. Their partnership reflects interdisciplinary collaboration across aspects of geophysics and earth sciences.

The distribution of publications indicates active involvement in specialized venues like Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Precambrian Research, and Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.

Best Publications

  • Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth's mantle

    Vincent Courtillot;Anne Davaille;Jean Besse;Joann Stock

  • Apparent and true polar wander and the geometry of the geomagnetic field over the last 200 Myr

    Jean Besse;Vincent Courtillot

  • On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup

    Vincent Courtillot;Claude Jaupart;Isabelle Manighetti;Paul Tapponnier

  • Revised and synthetic apparent polar wander paths of the African, Eurasian, North American and Indian Plates, and true polar wander since 200 Ma

    Jean Besse;Vincent Courtillot

  • Deccan flood basalts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary?

    Vincent Courtillot;Jean Besse;Didier Vandamme;Raymond Montigny

  • Effect of orogeny, plate motion and land-sea distribution on Eurasian climate change over the past 30 million years

    Gilles Ramstein;Frédéric Fluteau;Frédéric Fluteau;Jean Besse;Sylvie Joussaume;Sylvie Joussaume

  • Deccan flood basalts and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

    V. Courtillot;G. Féraud;H. Maluski;D. Vandamme

  • Paleogeographic maps of the continents bordering the Indian Ocean since the Early Jurassic

    Jean Besse;Vincent Courtillot

  • Palaeomagnetic estimates of crustal shortening in the Himalayan thrusts and Zangbo suture

    J. Besse;V. Courtillot;J. P. Pozzi;M. Westphal

  • 4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography

    Anne Replumaz;Hrafnkell Karason;Rob Dyan van der Hilst;Jean Besse

  • Magnetic field reversals, polar wander, and core-mantle coupling.

    Vincent Courtillot;Jean Besse

  • Paleomagnetism and age determinations of the Deccan Traps (India): Results of a Nagpur-Bombay Traverse and review of earlier work

    Didier Vandamme;Vincent Courtillot;Jean Besse;Raymond Montigny

  • Late Permian to Late Triassic palaeomagnetic data from Iran: constraints on the migration of the Iranian block through the Tethyan Ocean and initial destruction of Pangaea

    J. Besse;F. Torcq;Y. Gallet;L. E. Ricou

  • Paleomagnetic study of Permian and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks from Northern Thailand supports the extrusion model for Indochina

    Zhenyu Yang;Jean Besse

  • Simulating the evolution of the Asian and African monsoons during the past 30 Myr using an atmospheric general circulation model

    Frédéric Fluteau;Gilles Ramstein;Jean Besse

  • The configuration of Asia prior to the collision of India: Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints

    Yan Chen;Vincent Courtillot;Jean-Pascal Cogné;Jean Besse

  • The Late Permian climate. What can be inferred from climate modelling concerning Pangea scenarios and Hercynian range altitude

    F Fluteau;J Besse;J Broutin;G Ramstein

  • New Mesozoic apparent polar wander path for south China: Tectonic consequences

    Zhenyu Yang;Jean Besse

  • Convective patterns under the Indo-Atlantic « box »

    Anne Davaille;Eléonore Stutzmann;Graça Silveira;Jean Besse

  • A multilayered water column in the Ediacaran Yangtze platform? Insights from carbonate and organic matter paired δ13C

    M. Ader;M. Macouin;R. I. F. Trindade;M. H. Hadrien

  • Correction to “Apparent and true polar wander and the geometry of the geomagnetic field over the last 200 Myr”

    Jean Besse;Vincent Courtillot

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Courtillot
Vincent Courtillot Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Yves Gallet
Yves Gallet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Leopold Krystyn
Leopold Krystyn University of Vienna
Jean Marcoux
Jean Marcoux Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Frédéric Fluteau
Frédéric Fluteau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jean-Pierre Valet
Jean-Pierre Valet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Zhenyu Yang
Zhenyu Yang Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Gilles Ramstein
Gilles Ramstein University of Paris-Saclay
Eléonore Stutzmann
Eléonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jean-Pierre Pozzi
Jean-Pierre Pozzi École Normale Supérieure

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