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Jean-Paul Liégeois is affiliated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of Liégeois's work include geological and geochemical analysis, global geological and geophysical studies, earthquake and tectonic research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, karst systems and hydrogeology, and geology and paleoclimatology.

Frequent publication venues for Liégeois include the Journal of African Earth Sciences, Earth-Science Reviews, Applied Geochemistry, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Precambrian Research.

Among recent scientific papers authored, the following stand out:

  • The Stavelot-Venn Massif (Ardenne, Belgium), a rift shoulder basin ripped off the West African craton: Cartography, stratigraphy, sedimentology, new U-Pb on zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd isotopes evidence (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t paths, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopes (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Syn-kinematic emplacement of granitic batholith and leucogranite along the extensional detachment shear zone system of the Tin Begane area, Laouni terrane (LATEA metacraton, Central Hoggar, Algeria) (2021, Precambrian Research)
  • Central Hoggar groundwaters and the role of shear zones: 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ2H and 14C isotopes, geochemistry and water-rock interactions (2021, Applied Geochemistry)
  • Late Pan-African Murzuq event in the Central Hoggar: Sinistral displacement along the Ounane major shear zone (Gour Oumelalen, Algeria) shown by the magnetic fabric of the Tisselliline pluton (2021, Journal of African Earth Sciences)

Collaborations have been notable with several repeated coauthors, including Andreas Gärtner, Khadidja Ouzegane, Sidali Doukkari, Amar Arab, and Zakaria Hamimi.

Liégeois has contributed to scholarly books published by Springer International Publishing, including "The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield" (2021) and "The Geology of the Egyptian Nubian Shield" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Contrasting origin of post-collisional high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic versus alkaline and peralkaline granitoids. The use of sliding normalization

    Jean-Paul Liégeois;Jacques Navez;Jan Hertogen;Russell Black

  • The Saharan metacraton

    Mohamed G. Abdelsalam;Jean Paul Liégeois;Robert J. Stern

  • Cratons, mobile belts, alkaline rocks and continental lithospheric mantle : the Pan-African testimony

    Russell Black;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • Some words on the post-collisional magmatism

    Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • Pan-African displaced terranes in the Tuareg shield (central Sahara)

    R. Black;L. Latouche;Jean-Paul Liégeois;R. Caby

  • Metacraton: Nature, genesis and behavior

    Jean-Paul Liégeois;Mohamed G. Abdelsalam;Nasser Ennih;Aziouz Ouabadi

  • Early Neoproterozoic magmatism (1000-910 Ma) of the Zadinian and Mayumbian Groups (Bas-Congo): onset of Rodinia rifting at the western edge of the Congo craton

    L. Tack;M.T.D Wingate;Jean-Paul Liégeois;María Carmen Fernández-Alonso

  • The LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg shield, Algeria): behaviour of an old passive margin during the Pan-African orogeny

    Jean Paul Liégeois;Louis Latouche;Mustapha Boughrara;Jacques Navez

  • A new lithostratigraphic framework for the Anti-Atlas Orogen, Morocco

    Robert James Thomas;A. Fekkak;N. Ennih;E. Errami

  • The boundaries of the West African craton, with special reference to the basement of the Moroccan metacratonic Anti-Atlas belt

    Nasser Ennih;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • The Moroccan Anti-Atlas: the West African craton passive margin with limited Pan-African activity. Implications for the northern limit of the craton

    Nasser Ennih;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • Alkaline magmatism subsequent to collision in the Pan-African belt of the Adrar des Iforas (Mali)

    J. P. Liégeois;R. Black

  • Early and late Pan-African orogenies in the Aïr assembly of terranes (Tuareg shield, Niger)

    Jean-Paul Liégeois;Russell Black;Jacques Navez;L. Latouche

  • Timing of continental building in the Sveconorwegian orogen, SW Scandinavia

    Bernard Bingen;O. Skar;M. Marker;E.M.O Sigmond

  • Short-lived Eburnian orogeny in southern Mali: Geology, tectonics, U-Pb and Rb-Sr geochronology

    Jean-Paul Liégeois;W. Claessens;D. Camara;Jean Klerkx

  • The Palaeoproterozoic Ubendian shear belt in Tanzania: geochronology and structure

    J.L Lenoir;Jean-Paul Liégeois;K Theunissen;Jean Klerkx

  • The Pan-African Belt

    Dominique Gasquet;N. Ennih;Jean-Paul Liegeois;A. Soulaimani

  • The Hoggar swell and volcanism: Reactivation of the Precambrian Tuareg shield during Alpine convergence and West African Cenozoic volcanism

    Jean-Paul Liégeois;Amel Benhallou;Abla Azzouni-Sekkal;Rachid Yahiaoui

  • Zircon geochronology and Sr, Nd, Pb isotope geochemistry of granitoids from Bayuda Desert and Sabaloka (Sudan): Evidence for a Bayudian event (920–900 Ma) preceding the Pan-African orogenic cycle (860–590 Ma) at the eastern boundary of the Saharan Metacraton

    Dirk Küster;Dirk Küster;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Dmitry Matukov;Sergei Sergeev

  • Distribution and significance of pre-Neoproterozoic zircons in juvenile Neoproterozoic igneous rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    R. J. Stern;K. A. Ali;J. P. Liégeois;P. R. Johnson

  • The Moroccan Anti-Atlas: the West African craton passive margin with limited Pan-African activity. Implications for the northern limit of the craton: reply to comments by E.H. Bouougri

    Nasser Ennih;Jean-Paul Liégeois

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Demaiffe
Daniel Demaiffe Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jean-Clair Duchesne
Jean-Clair Duchesne University of Liège
Jacqueline Vander Auwera
Jacqueline Vander Auwera University of Liège
Olivier Bruguier
Olivier Bruguier University of Montpellier
Bernard Charlier
Bernard Charlier University of Liège
Bernard Bingen
Bernard Bingen Université Libre de Bruxelles
Renaud Caby
Renaud Caby University of Montpellier
Dominique Weis
Dominique Weis University of British Columbia
André Michard
André Michard University of Paris-Saclay
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas

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