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Marc Sosson is affiliated with Université Côte d'Azur in France and has contributed to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Pollution.

Their research covers a range of topics such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Marc Sosson has co-authored publications with several researchers, notably:

  • Yevgeniya Korniyenko-Sheremet
  • Aline Saintot
  • Antoneta Seghedi
  • Tom McCann
  • Taniel Danelian

The researcher's publications appear in various venues including:

  • Journal of Geodynamics
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Marc Sosson are:

  • New structural analysis in North Dobrogea - a key region to unravel the tectonics of the Black Sea back-arc basin during the Mesozoic, 2023, Journal of Geodynamics
  • Palaeo-stress regimes and structural framework during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Crimean Mountains (the northern margin of the Black Sea), 2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Synthesis of micropaleontological age constraints for the reconstruction of the Tethyan realm in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Karabagh), 2023, Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Plastic debris in the Ecuadorian shoreline, coastal and deep-water zones of the Eastern Pacific Margin, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Subductions, obduction and collision in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), new insights

    M. Sosson;Y. Rolland;C. Müller;T. Danelian

  • Jurassic back-arc and Cretaceous hot-spot series In the Armenian ophiolites — Implications for the obduction process

    Yann Rolland;Ghazar Galoyan;Ghazar Galoyan;Delphine Bosch;Marc Sosson

  • Back arc extension, tectonic inheritance, and volcanism in the Ligurian Sea, Western Mediterranean

    Nadège Rollet;Jacques Déverchère;Marie-Odile Beslier;Pol Guennoc

  • Evidence for ∼80–75 Ma subduction jump during Anatolide–Tauride–Armenian block accretion and ∼48 Ma Arabia–Eurasia collision in Lesser Caucasus–East Anatolia

    Yann Rolland;Dogan Perincek;Nuretdin Kaymakci;Marc Sosson

  • From Oblique Subduction to Intra-Continental Transpression: Structures of the Southern Kermadec-Hikurangi Margin from Multibeam Bathymetry, Side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Reflection

    Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil;Keith B. Lewis;Bryan Davy

  • Blueschists of the Amassia-Stepanavan Suture Zone (Armenia): linking Tethys subduction history from E-Turkey to W-Iran

    Yann Rolland;Sandra Billo;Michel Corsini;Marc Sosson

  • Cenozoic-Recent tectonics and uplift in the Greater Caucasus: a perspective from Azerbaijan

    Jon Mosar;Talat Kangarli;Martin Bochud;Ulrich A. Glasmacher

  • Development of the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador) during the Quaternary as an effect of the North Andean block tectonic escape

    César Witt;Jacques Bourgois;François Michaud;Martha Ordoñez

  • Oceanic-ridge subduction vs. slab break off: Plate tectonic evolution along the Baja California Sur continental margin since 15 Ma

    F. Michaud;Jean-Yves Royer;Jacques Bourgois;J. Dyment

  • The Armenian Ophiolite: insights for Jurassic back-arc formation, Lower Cretaceous hot spot magmatism and Upper Cretaceous obduction over the South Armenian Block

    Yan Rolland;Gh. Galoyan;Gh. Galoyan;M. Sosson;R. Melkonyan

  • Geology, geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar dating of Sevan ophiolites (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia): Evidence for Jurassic Back-arc opening and hot spot event between the South Armenian Block and Eurasia

    Ghazar Galoyan;Ghazar Galoyan;Yann Rolland;Marc Sosson;Michel Corsini

  • Prolonged Variscan to Alpine history of an active Eurasian margin (Georgia, Armenia) revealed by 40Ar/39Ar dating

    Y. Rolland;M. Sosson;Sh. Adamia;N. Sadradze

  • The Oligocene-Miocene Pacific-Australia plate boundary, south of New Zealand: Evolution from oceanic spreading to strike-slip faulting

    Geoffroy Lamarche;Jean-Yves Collot;Ray A. Wood;Marc Sosson

  • Recent tectonic stress evolution in the Lesser Caucasus and adjacent regions

    Ara Avagyan;Marc Sosson;Arkadi Karakhanian;Hervé Philip

  • Seismic model of the crust and upper mantle in the Scythian Platform: the DOBRE-5 profile across the north western Black Sea and the Crimean Peninsula

    V. Starostenko;T. Janik;T. Yegorova;L. Farfuliak

  • The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution

    Marc Sosson;Randell Stephenson;Yevgeniya Sheremet;Yann Rolland

  • Late exhumation stages of the Alpujarride Complex (western Betic Cordilleras, Spain): new thermochronological and structural data on Los Reales and Ojen nappes

    Marc Sosson;Anne-Claire Morrillon;Jacques Bourgois;Gilbert Féraud

  • Palaeotectonic maps of the Middle East : Tectono-Sedimentary-Palinspastic maps from Late Norian to Pliocene

    Eric Barrier;Bruno Vrielynck;Françoise Bergerat;Marie-Françoise Brunet

  • Evidence for superposed MORB, oceanic plateau and volcanic arc series in the Lesser Caucasus (Stepanavan, Armenia)

    Ghazar Galoyan;Ghazar Galoyan;Yann Rolland;Marc Sosson;Michel Corsini

  • Sedimentary Basin Tectonics from the Black Sea and Caucasus to the Arabian Platform

    M. Sosson;N. Kaymakci;R. A. Stephenson;F. Bergerat

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Rolland
Yann Rolland Université Savoie Mont Blanc
François Michaud
François Michaud Université de Sherbrooke
Jacques Bourgois
Jacques Bourgois Sorbonne University
Jean-Yves Collot
Jean-Yves Collot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Yves Royer
Jean-Yves Royer Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes
Geoffroy Lamarche
Geoffroy Lamarche National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Jérôme Dyment
Jérôme Dyment Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Randell Stephenson
Randell Stephenson University of Aberdeen

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