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Laurent Godin

Laurent Godin

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Earth Science

D-Index
30
Citations
5068
World Ranking
9047
National Ranking
456

Overview

Laurent Godin is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on geophysics, artificial intelligence applications in geoscience, geology, earth-surface processes, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law related to geological studies.

The scientist's work covers several topics, including:

  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • geological and geochemical analysis
  • geochemistry and geologic mapping
  • high-pressure geophysics and materials
  • seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • geological and geophysical studies
  • geological formations and processes

Laurent Godin has published extensively in various scientific journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Inquiry Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Basin Research

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • John M. Cottle
  • Renaud Soucy La Roche
  • Michael Duvall
  • John W.F. Waldron
  • Yani Najman

Recent notable publications by Laurent Godin include:

  • "Protolith affiliation and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Gurla Mandhata core complex, NW Nepal Himalaya," 2021, Geosphere
  • "Recent basement fault reactivation and fluvial drainage modification in an intraplate setting, eastern Bundelkhand Craton, Madhya Pradesh, India," 2023, Geomorphology

Other important papers associated with their research coauthors but relevant to their scientific context include:

  • "Active strike-slip faults and an outer frontal thrust in the Himalayan foreland basin," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Indian plate structural inheritance in the Himalayan foreland basin, Nepal," 2021, Basin Research
  • "Protracted (>100 m.y.) deep crustal orogenesis revealed by in situ monazite petrochronology in the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, British Columbia, Canada," 2024, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Timing of India‐Asia collision: Geological, biostratigraphic, and palaeomagnetic constraints

    Yani Najman;Erwin Appel;Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel;Paul Bown

  • Channel flow, ductile extrusion and exhumation in continental collision zones: an introduction

    L. Godin;Djordje Grujic;R. D. Law;M. P. Searle

  • Defining the Himalayan Main Central Thrust in Nepal

    Michael P. Searle;Richard D. Law;Laurent Godin;Kyle P. Larson

  • Crustal thickening leading to exhumation of the Himalayan Metamorphic core of central Nepal: Insight from U‐Pb Geochronology and 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology

    Laurent Godin;Randall R. Parrish;Richard L. Brown;Kip V. Hodges

  • The South Tibetan Detachment and the Manaslu Leucogranite: A Structural Reinterpretation and Restoration of the Annapurna‐Manaslu Himalaya, Nepal

    Michael P. Searle;Laurent Godin

  • The Tethyan Himalayan detrital record shows that India–Asia terminal collision occurred by 54 Ma in the Western Himalaya

    Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Daniel Jenks;Laurent Godin;Marcelle BouDagher‐Fadel

  • Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin

    Yani Najman;Yani Najman;Malcolm Pringle;Laurent Godin;Laurent Godin;Grahame Oliver

  • The role of geologic structure and stress in triggering remote seismicity in Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Canada

    Paige E. Snelling;Laurent Godin;Stephen D. McKinnon

  • Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones

    R. D. Law;M. P. Searle;L. Godin

  • Structural evolution of the Tethyan sedimentary sequence in the Annapurna area, central Nepal Himalaya

    Laurent Godin

  • Relationships between displacement and distortion in orogens: Linking the Himalayan foreland and hinterland in central Nepal

    Kyle P. Larson;Laurent Godin;Raymond A. Price

  • Tracking basement cross-strike discontinuities in the Indian crust beneath the Himalayan orogen using gravity data – relationship to upper crustal faults

    Laurent Godin;Lyal B. Harris

  • Kinematics of the Greater Himalayan sequence, Dhaulagiri Himal: implications for the structural framework of central Nepal

    Kyle P. Larson;Laurent Godin

  • Coupled role of deformation and metamorphism in the construction of inverted metamorphic sequences: an example from far-northwest Nepal

    C. Yakymchuk;L. Godin

  • Out-of-sequence deformation and expansion of the Himalayan orogenic wedge: insight from the Changgo culmination, south central Tibet

    Kyle P. Larson;Kyle P. Larson;Laurent Godin;William J. Davis;Don W. Davis

  • Back folds in the core of the Himalayan orogen: An alternative interpretation

    Laurent Godin;Richard L. Brown;Simon Hanmer;Randall Parrish

  • U-Pb ages (3.8–2.7 Ga) and Nd isotope data from the newly identified Eoarchean Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, Superior Craton, Canada

    Jean David;Laurent Godin;Ross K. Stevenson;Jonathan O'Neil

  • High strain zone in the hanging wall of the Annapurna detachment, central Nepal Himalaya

    Laurent Godin;Richard L. Brown;Simon Hanmer

  • Locking of southward extrusion in favour of rapid crustal-scale buckling of the Greater Himalayan sequence, Nar valley, central Nepal

    L Godin;T Gleeson;MP Searle;TD Ullrich

  • Pre-Miocene deformation of the Himalayan superstructure, Hidden valley, central Nepal

    Dawn A. Kellett;Dawn A. Kellett;Laurent Godin

  • Petrochronologic record of metamorphism and melting in the upper Greater Himalayan sequence, Manaslu-Himal Chuli Himalaya, west-central Nepal

    Kyle P. Larson;John M. Cottle;Laurent Godin

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Cottle
John M. Cottle University of California, Santa Barbara
Yani Najman
Yani Najman Lancaster University
Lyal B. Harris
Lyal B. Harris Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel
Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel University College London
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford
Paul R. Bown
Paul R. Bown University College London
Matthew S.A. Horstwood
Matthew S.A. Horstwood British Geological Survey
Randall R. Parrish
Randall R. Parrish University of Portsmouth

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