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Jean-Jacques Tiercelin

Jean-Jacques Tiercelin

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4790
World Ranking
6922
National Ranking
532

Overview

Jean-Jacques Tiercelin is affiliated with Géosciences Rennes in France, with a primary research focus in the field of Engineering. Their work predominantly contributes to subfields such as Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics of research covered by Tiercelin include Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis. These areas reflect a concentration on subsurface fluid flow, well operations, and reservoir management techniques.

Tiercelin has multiple recent publications centered around well logging data collected during the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 116. These papers are published in the venue "Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)" and include the following:

  • ODP Leg 116, Hole 718C - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 116, Hole 718E - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 116, Hole 718E - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 116, Hole 719B - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 116, Hole 719B - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborate with Tiercelin on their research projects. These co-authors include:

  • Dorrik A. V. Stow
  • James R. Cochran
  • Christian Auroux
  • Kazuo Amano
  • Peter S. Balson

Their research dissemination is primarily through the "Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)" platform, which accounts for the majority of their recent publications.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic Uplift and Eastern Africa Aridification

    Pierre Sepulchre;Gilles Ramstein;Frédéric Fluteau;Mathieu Schuster

  • East African mid-Holocene wet–dry transition recorded in palaeo-shorelines of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya Rift

    Yannick Garcin;Daniel Melnick;Manfred R. Strecker;Daniel Olago

  • The Ziway–Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

    Caroline Le Turdu;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Elisabeth Gibert;Yves Travi

  • New palaeogeographic and lake-level reconstructions of Lake Tanganyika: implications for tectonic, climatic and biological evolution in a rift lake

    A. S. Cohen;K.-E. Lezzar;J.-J. Tiercelin;M. Soreghan

  • Rapid in situ silicification of microbes at Loburu hot springs, Lake Bogoria, Kenya Rift Valley

    R. W. Renaut;B. Jones;J.-J. Tiercelin

  • 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

  • New seismic stratigraphy and Late Tertiary history of the North Tanganyika Basin, East African Rift system, deduced from multichannel and high‐resolution reflection seismic data and piston core evidence

    K. E. Lezzar;J.-J. Tiercelin;M. De Batist;A. S. Cohen

  • East African rift system: offset, age and tectonic significance of the Tanganyika-Rukwa-Malawi intracontinental transcurrent fault zone

    J.J. Tiercelin;J. Chorowicz;H. Bellon;J.P. Richert

  • Strontium isotopes and rare-earth element geochemistry of hydrothermal carbonate deposits from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

    J.A Barrat;J Boulègue;J.J Tiercelin;M Lesourd

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    M. Umer;H.-F. Lamb;Raymonde Bonnefille;A.-M. Lézine

  • Effects of Landscape Disturbance on Animal Communities in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

    Simone R. Alin;Andrew S. Cohen;Roger Bills;Masta Mukwaya Gashagaza

  • Control of normal fault interaction on the distribution of major Neogene sedimentary depocenters, Lake Tanganyika, East African rift

    Kiram E. Lezzar;Jean Jacques Tiercelin;Caroline Le Turdu;Andrew S. Cohen

  • Pollen-Derived Rainfall and Temperature Estimates from Lake Tanganyika and Their Implication for Late Pleistocene Water Levels

    Annie Vincens;Françoise Chalié;Raymonde Bonnefille;Joel Guiot

  • Lake Bogoria, Kenya Rift Valley — A Sedimentological Overview

    Robin W. Renaut;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin

  • Impact of lake-level changes on the formation of thermogene travertine in continental rifts: Evidence from Lake Bogoria, Kenya Rift Valley

    Robin W. Renaut;R Bernhart Owen;Brian Jones;Jean Jacques Tiercelin

  • Hydrothermal vents in Lake Tanganyika, East African, Rift system

    Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Catherine Pflumio;Maryse Castrec;Jacques Boulégue

  • Paleolimnological evidence for the onset and termination of glacial aridity from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa

    Anna A. Felton;James M. Russell;Andrew S. Cohen;Mark E. Baker

  • Sublacustrine precipitation of hydrothermal silica in rift lakes: evidence from Lake Baringo, central Kenya Rift Valley

    R.W Renaut;B Jones;J.-J Tiercelin;C Tarits

  • New geochronologic and palaeomagnetic data for the hominid-bearing Hadar Formation of Ethiopia

    J. L. Aronson;T. J. Schmitt;R. C. Walter;M. Taieb

  • 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology and structural data from the giant Okavango and related mafic dyke swarms, Karoo igneous province, northern Botswana

    B. Le Gall;G. Tshoso;F. Jourdan;G. Féraud

  • 5. SEDIMENTOLOGY AND ISOTOPIC CHEMISTRY OF THE BENGAL FAN SEDIMENTS: THE DENUDATION OF THE HIMALAYA1,5

    Anne Bouquillon;Christian France-Lanord;Annie Michard;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin

  • First occurrence of early Homo in the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya) at 2.3-2.4 Myr.

    Sandrine Prat;Jean-Philip Brugal;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Jean-Alix Barrat

  • Interpreting pachyderm single carcass sites in the African Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene record: A multidisciplinary approach to the site of Nadung’a 4 (Kenya)

    Anne Delagnes;Arnaud Lenoble;Sonia Harmand;Jean-Philip Brugal

  • Deep structure of the Baringo Rift Basin (central Kenya) from three‐dimensional magnetotelluric imaging: Implications for rift evolution

    Sophie Hautot;Pascal Tarits;Kathy Whaler;Bernard Le Gall

  • Lake Ohrid, Albania, provides an exceptional multi-proxy record of environmental changes during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

    A.-M. Lézine;U. von Grafenstein;N. Andersen;S. Belmecheri

  • Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana

    P. Huntsman-Mapila;P. Huntsman-Mapila;S. Ringrose;A.W. Mackay;W.S. Downey

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin W. Renaut
Robin W. Renaut University of Saskatchewan
Gilbert Féraud
Gilbert Féraud Université Côte d'Azur
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Fred Jourdan
Fred Jourdan Curtin University
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Craig S. Feibel
Craig S. Feibel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Anne-Marie Lézine
Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University
Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
A.B. Kampunzu
A.B. Kampunzu University of Botswana

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