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  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience

Overview

Laurent Gernigon is affiliated with the Norwegian Geological Survey in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on the subfields of Geology, Geophysics, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their areas of study include geological studies and exploration, geological and geophysical studies, geological and geochemical analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Laurent Gernigon has contributed to several publications across a range of scientific journals and venues. Recent papers include:

  • Regional structure and polyphased Cretaceous-Paleocene rift and basin development of the mid-Norwegian volcanic passive margin, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • New interpretation of the spreading evolution of the Knipovich Ridge derived from aeromagnetic data, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • A digital compilation of structural and magmatic elements of the Mid-Norwegian continental margin (version 1.0), 2021, Norwegian Journal of Geology
  • The extent of continental material in oceans: C-Blocks and the Laxmi Basin example, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • Rifted margin with localized detachment and polyphase magmatism: A new model of the northern South China Sea, 2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their frequent coauthors include Odleiv Olesen, Sverre Planke, Marco Brönner, Dmitry Zastrozhnov, and Reidun Myklebust.

Laurent Gernigon's work has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as Marine and Petroleum Geology, Geophysical Journal International, Geological Society London Special Publications, Tectonophysics, and Norwegian Journal of Geology.

Laurent Gernigon is recognized as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for contributions in geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Palaeocene–Recent plate boundaries in the NE Atlantic and the formation of the Jan Mayen microcontinent

    C. Gaina;L. Gernigon;P. Ball

  • Deep structures and breakup along volcanic rifted margins: insights from integrated studies along the outer Vøring Basin (Norway)

    Laurent Gernigon;Laurent Gernigon;Jean-Claude Ringenbach;Sverre Planke;Bernard Le Gall

  • Crustal and basin evolution of the southwestern Barents Sea: From Caledonian orogeny to continental breakup

    L. Gernigon;M. Brönner;D. Roberts;O. Olesen

  • New aeromagnetic and gravity compilations from Norway and adjacent areas: methods and applications

    O. Olesen;M. Brönner;J. Ebbing;J. Gellein

  • Extension, crustal structure and magmatism at the outer Vøring Basin, Norwegian margin

    L. Gernigon;J.C. Ringenbach;S. Planke;B.Le Gall

  • Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic

    Christian Schiffer;Christian Schiffer;Anthony G. Doré;Gillian R. Foulger;Dieter Franke

  • The North Atlantic Igneous Province: A review of models for its formation

    Romain Meyer;Jolante van Wijk;Laurent Gernigon

  • The Norway Basin revisited: From continental breakup to spreading ridge extinction

    L. Gernigon;C. Gaina;O. Olesen;P.J. Ball

  • A moderate melting model for the Voring margin (Norway) based on structural observations and a thermo-kinematical modelling: Implication for the meaning of the lower crustal bodies

    Laurent Gernigon;Francis Lucazeau;Frederic Brigaud;Jean-Claude Ringenbach

  • Crustal fragmentation, magmatism, and the diachronous opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

    Laurent Gernigon;Dieter Franke;Laurent Geoffroy;Christian Schiffer;Christian Schiffer

  • Conjugate volcanic rifted margins, seafloor spreading, and microcontinent: Insights from new high‐resolution aeromagnetic surveys in the Norway Basin

    Laurent Gernigon;Anett Blischke;Aziz Nasuti;Morten Sand

  • Offshore prolongation of Caledonian structures and basement characterisation in the western Barents Sea from geophysical modelling

    C. Barrère;J. Ebbing;L. Gernigon

  • Late Palaeozoic architecture and evolution of the southwestern Barents Sea: insights from a new generation of aeromagnetic data

    Laurent Gernigon;Marco Brönner

  • The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge

    Gillian Foulger;Tony Doré;C. Henry Emeleus;Dieter Franke

  • Geophysical insights and early spreading history in the vicinity of the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone, Norwegian–Greenland Sea

    Laurent Gernigon;Odleiv Olesen;Jörg Ebbing;Susann Wienecke

  • Insights from the Jan Mayen system in the Norwegian–Greenland sea—I. Mapping of a microcontinent

    Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic;Laurent Gernigon;Carmen Gaina;Philip Ball

  • Regional structure and polyphased Cretaceous-Paleocene rift and basin development of the mid-Norwegian volcanic passive margin

    Dmitry Zastrozhnov;Laurent Gernigon;Iakov Gogin;Sverre Planke

  • Neogene-Holocene rift propagation in central Tanzania: Morphostructural and aeromagnetic evidence from the Kilombero area

    Bernard Le Gall;Laurent Gernigon;Joel Rolet;Cinthya Ebinger

  • The T-Reflection and the Deep Crustal Structure of the Vøring Margin, Offshore mid-Norway

    Mohamed Mansour Abdelmalak;Jan Inge Faleide;Sverre Planke;Laurent Gernigon

  • Pre-breakup magmatism on the Vøring Margin: Insight from new sub-basalt imaging and results from Ocean Drilling Program Hole 642E

    M. M. Abdelmalak;R. Meyer;S. Planke;J.I. Faleide

  • Basement inhomogeneities and crustal setting in the Barents Sea from a combined 3D gravity and magnetic model

    L. Marello;J. Ebbing;L. Gernigon

Frequent Co-Authors

Sverre Planke
Sverre Planke University of Oslo
Odleiv Olesen
Odleiv Olesen Norwegian Geological Survey
Gillian R. Foulger
Gillian R. Foulger Durham University
Jan Inge Faleide
Jan Inge Faleide University of Oslo
Dieter Franke
Dieter Franke Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Martyn S. Stoker
Martyn S. Stoker University of Adelaide
Carmen Gaina
Carmen Gaina University of Oslo
Jörg Ebbing
Jörg Ebbing Kiel University
Nick Kusznir
Nick Kusznir University of Liverpool
Randell Stephenson
Randell Stephenson University of Aberdeen

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