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Julien Carcaillet is affiliated with the Institut des Sciences de la Terre in France. Their research primarily engages with Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Earth-Surface Processes. The scholar has also contributed to research in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology, and related applied subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America

Julien Carcaillet has published multiple papers across a variety of notable scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Quaternary Geochronology
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has contributed to the following recent publications:

  • "Climatic and structural controls on Late-glacial and Holocene rockfall occurrence in high-elevated rock walls of the Mont Blanc massif (Western Alps)" (2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
  • "Alpine rock glacier activity over Holocene to modern timescales (western French Alps)" (2022, Earth Surface Dynamics)
  • "Post-LGM glacial and geomorphic evolution of the Dora Baltea valley (western Italian Alps)" (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Javanese Homo erectus on the move in SE Asia circa 1.8 Ma" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating" (2022, Quaternary Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Julien Carcaillet include:

  • Swann Zérathe
  • Pierre G. Valla
  • Georges Aumaître
  • Ludovic Ravanel
  • Philip Deline

Best Publications

  • Slope instability in relation to glacial debuttressing in alpine areas (Upper Durance catchment, southeastern France): Evidence from field data and 10Be cosmic ray exposure ages

    Etienne Cossart;Regis Braucher;Monique Fort;D.L. Bourles

  • Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad.

    Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard;Didier L. Bourlès;Philippe Duringer;Marc Jolivet

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene glaciation in the Pyrenees: a critical review and new evidence from 10Be exposure ages, south-central Pyrenees

    Raimon Pallàs;Ángel Rodés;Régis Braucher;Julien Carcaillet

  • Geomagnetic moment variation and paleomagnetic excursions since 400 kyr BP: a stacked record from sedimentary sequences of the Portuguese margin

    Nicolas Thouveny;Julien Carcaillet;Eva Moreno;Guillaume Leduc

  • Frost-cracking control on catchment denudation rates: Insights from in situ produced 10Be concentrations in stream sediments (Ecrins-Pelvoux massif, French Western Alps)

    Romain Delunel;Peter A. van der Beek;Julien Carcaillet;Didier L. Bourlès

  • Spatial distribution of denudation in Eastern Tibet and regressive erosion of plateau margins

    Vincent Godard;J. Lavé;J. Carcaillet;R. Cattin

  • A high resolution authigenic 10Be/9Be record of geomagnetic moment variations over the last 300 ka from sedimentary cores of the Portuguese margin.

    Julien Carcaillet;Didier L. Bourlès;Nicolas Thouveny;Maurice Arnold

  • Thick- and thin-skinned deformation rates in the central Zagros simple folded zone (Iran) indicated by displacement of geomorphic surfaces

    Behnam Oveisi;Jérôme Lavé;Peter Van Der Beek;Julien Carcaillet

  • Cosmogenic 10Be dating of a sackung and its faulted rock glaciers, in the Alps of Savoy (France)

    Jean-Claude Hippolyte;Didier Bourlès;Regis Braucher;Julien Carcaillet

  • Application of the authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method to continental sediments: Reconstruction of the Mio-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence in the early hominid fossiliferous areas of the northern Chad Basin

    Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard;Didier L. Bourlès;Regis Braucher;Maurice Arnold

  • CRE dating on the head scarp of a major landslide (Séchilienne, French Alps), age constraints on Holocene kinematics

    Olivier Le Roux;Stéphane Schwartz;Jean François Gamond;Denis Jongmans

  • Distribution of the Late-Quaternary deformation in Northwestern Himalaya

    R. Vassallo;R. Vassallo;J.-L. Mugnier;J.-L. Mugnier;V. Vignon;V. Vignon;M.A. Malik

  • Paleoclimatic context of geomagnetic dipole lows and excursions in the Brunhes, clue for an orbital influence on the geodynamo?

    Nicolas Thouveny;Didier Bourlès;Ginette Saracco;Julien Carcaillet

  • Geomagnetic dipole moment and 10Be production rate intercalibration from authigenic 10Be/9Be for the last 1.3 Ma

    Julien T. Carcaillet;Didier L. Bourlès;Nicolas Thouveny

  • 10 Be exposure dating of the timing of Neoglacial glacier advances in the Ecrins-Pelvoux massif, southern French Alps

    Melaine Le Roy;Philip Deline;Julien Carcaillet;Irene Schimmelpfennig

  • Uplift and active tectonics of southern Albania inferred from incision of alluvial terraces

    Julien Carcaillet;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Jean-Louis Mugnier;R. Koçi;François Jouanne

  • Geomagnetic moment instability between 0.6 and 1.3 Ma from cosmonuclide evidence

    Julien T. Carcaillet;Nicolas Thouveny;Didier L. Bourlès

  • Deciphering the driving forces of erosion rates on millennial to million-year timescales in glacially impacted landscapes: An example from the Western Alps

    C. Glotzbach;P. van der Beek;J. Carcaillet;Romain Delunel

  • 10 Be systematics in the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra catchment: the cosmogenic nuclide legacy of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

    Maarten Lupker;Jérôme Lavé;Christian France-Lanord;Marcus Christl

  • Dating bedrock gorge incision in the French Western Alps (Ecrins-Pelvoux massif) using cosmogenic 10Be

    Pierre G. Valla;Peter A. van der Beek;Julien Carcaillet

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Stéphane Schwartz
Stéphane Schwartz Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Louis Mugnier
Jean-Louis Mugnier Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Nicolas Thouveny
Nicolas Thouveny Aix-Marseille University
Pradeep Srivastava
Pradeep Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Denis Jongmans
Denis Jongmans Grenoble Alpes University
Laurence Audin
Laurence Audin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jean Braun
Jean Braun University of Potsdam

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