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Marc Fournier

Marc Fournier

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
6830
World Ranking
5242
National Ranking
376

Overview

Marc Fournier is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed to multiple research fields, primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Medicine. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Geophysics, Emergency Medicine, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

The main areas of study covered in Fournier's work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, trauma and emergency care studies, trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, as well as microplastics and plastic pollution.

Marc Fournier has published in several scientific venues with the following recurrent publication outlets:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Gondwana Research
  • Frontiers in Sustainability

Their recent scientific articles include:

  • Prehospital Lyophilized Plasma Transfusion for Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy in Patients at Risk for Hemorrhagic Shock, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Seismic hazard of the western Makran subduction zone: Insight from mechanical modelling and inferred frictional properties, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Late Cretaceous calc-alkaline and adakitic magmatism in the Sistan suture zone (Eastern Iran): Implications for subduction polarity and regional tectonics, 2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • The North Sistan orogen (Eastern Iran): Tectono-metamorphic evolution and significance within the Tethyan realm, 2022, Gondwana Research
  • Plastic pollution on Durance riverbank: First quantification and possible environmental measures to reduce it, 2022, Frontiers in Sustainability

Frequent collaborators in Fournier's research include:

  • Philippe Agard
  • René Bihannic
  • Mohammad Mahdi Khatib
  • Michaël Jentzer
  • Hubert Whitechurch

Marc Fournier's interdisciplinary work covers both geosciences aspects-such as tectonic processes, seismic hazards, and magmatism-as well as medical topics related to trauma care and emergency medicine. This reflects a diverse research portfolio addressing both fundamental earth sciences and applied clinical studies.

Best Publications

  • Japan Sea, opening history and mechanism: A synthesis

    Laurent Jolivet;Kensaku Tamaki;Marc Fournier

  • Kinematics, topography, shortening, and extrusion in the India‐Eurasia collision

    Xavier Le Pichon;Marc Fournier;Laurent Jolivet

  • The last 50,000 years in the Neotropics (Southern Brazil): evolution of vegetation and climate

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Pedro Ivo Soares Braga;François Soubiès;Marc Fournier

  • Lake-Level Chronology on the Southern Bolivian Altiplano (18°-23°S) during Late-Glacial Time and the Early Holocene

    Florence Sylvestre;Michel Servant;Simone Servant-Vildary;Christiane Causse

  • Mise en évidence de quatre phases d'ouverture de la forêt dense dans le Sud-Est de l'Amazonie au cours des 60 000 dernières années : première comparaison avec d'autres régions tropicales

    M.L. Absy;A. Cleef;Marc Fournier;Louis Martin

  • Southern Oscillation Signal in South American Palaeoclimatic Data of the Last 7000 Years

    Louis Martin;Marc Fournier;Philippe Mourguiart;Abdelfatah Sifeddine

  • Arc-continent collision in Taiwan: New marine observations and tectonic evolution

    Jacques Malavieille;Serge E. Lallemand;Stephane Dominguez;Anne Deschamps

  • Ductile extension in alpine Corsica

    Laurent Jolivet;Roland Dubois;Marc Fournier;Bruno Goffé

  • Neogene strike-slip faulting in Sakhalin and the Japan Sea opening

    Marc Fournier;Laurent Jolivet;Philippe Huchon;Konstantin F. Sergeyev

  • Tropical forest changes during the late quaternary in African and South American lowlands

    Michel Servant;Jean Maley;Bruno Turcq;Maria-Lucia Absy

  • Early Middle Paleozoic Intraplate Orogeny in the Ogcheon Belt (South Korea): A new insight on the Paleozoic buildup of east Asia

    Dominique Cluzel;Laurent Jolivet;Jean-Paul Cadet

  • Arabia-Somalia plate kinematics, evolution of the Aden-Owen-Carlsberg triple junction, and opening of the Gulf of Aden

    Marc Fournier;Marc Fournier;Marc Fournier;Nicolas Chamot-Rooke;Carole Petit;Carole Petit;Philippe Huchon;Philippe Huchon

  • How old is the Baikal Rift Zone? Insight from apatite fission track thermochronology

    M. Jolivet;T. De Boisgrollier;C. Petit;M. Fournier

  • Alpine Corsica Metamorphic Core Complex

    Marc Fournier;Laurent Jolivet;Bruno Goffé;Roland Dubois

  • Geometry and kinematics of extension in Alpine Corsica

    Laurent Jolivet;Jean-Marc Daniel;Marc Fournier

  • Paleomagnetic rotations and the Japan Sea opening

    Laurent Jolivet;Hidetoshi Shibuya;Marc Fournier

  • Structure and evolution of the eastern Gulf of Aden conjugate margins from seismic reflection data

    Elia d'Acremont;Sylvie Leroy;Marie-Odile Beslier;Nicolas Bellahsen

  • Fault reactivation and rift localization: Northeastern Gulf of Aden margin

    Nicolas Bellahsen;Nicolas Bellahsen;Marc Fournier;Elia d'Acremont;Sylvie Leroy

  • From rifting to spreading in the eastern Gulf of Aden: a geophysical survey of a young oceanic basin from margin to margin

    Sylvie Leroy;Pascal Gente;Marc Fournier;Elia d'Acremont

  • Late Cretaceous to Paleogene post-obduction extension and subsequent Neogene compression in the Oman Mountains

    Marc Fournier;Claude Lepvrier;Philippe Razin;Laurent Jolivet

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Huchon
Philippe Huchon Sorbonne University
Nicolas Chamot-Rooke
Nicolas Chamot-Rooke École Normale Supérieure
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
Philippe Agard
Philippe Agard Sorbonne University
Bruno Turcq
Bruno Turcq Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
Louis Martin
Louis Martin Federal University of Bahia
Claude Lepvrier
Claude Lepvrier Sorbonne University
Kenitiro Suguio
Kenitiro Suguio Universidade de São Paulo
Nicolas Bellahsen
Nicolas Bellahsen Sorbonne University
Sébastien Zaragosi
Sébastien Zaragosi University of Bordeaux

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