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Michel Pichavant

Michel Pichavant

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Earth Science

D-Index
71
Citations
15022
World Ranking
932
National Ranking
48

Overview

Michel Pichavant is a researcher affiliated with the University of Orléans in France, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on geophysics. Their scholarly output includes work across subfields such as artificial intelligence, environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, and mechanics of materials.

Their research topics encompass a broad range of geological and geochemical analyses, focusing on earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, as well as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Michel Pichavant has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • Journal of Petrology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • European Journal of Mineralogy

Recent publications by Michel Pichavant include:

  • Experimental Crystallization of the Beauvoir Granite as a Model for the Evolution of Variscan Rare Metal Magmas, 2022, Journal of Petrology
  • Rare elements enrichment in crustal peraluminous magmas: insights from partial melting experiments, 2021, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Other notable papers from their collaborators provide context for related research interests:

  • Orange hydrogen is the new green, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Magmatic fractionation and the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in rare metal granites: Evidence from Argemela (Central Portugal), 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Effect of redox on Fe-Mg-Mn exchange between olivine and melt and an oxybarometer for basalts, 2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Michel Pichavant has coauthored with several researchers including Florian Osselin, Julie Michaud, Antonio Paonita, Caroline Martel, and Bruno Scaillet, reflecting a collaborative approach within their research community.

In addition to journal articles, Michel Pichavant has contributed to book publications such as:

  • Volcanic Islands - A Challenge for Volcanology, published by Frontiers Media in 2022

Best Publications

  • Evidence for mantle metasomatism by hydrous silicic melts derived from subducted oceanic crust

    Gaelle Prouteau;Gaelle Prouteau;Bruno Scaillet;Michel Pichavant;René Maury

  • Fluid immiscibility in natural processes: Use and misuse of fluid inclusion data: II. Interpretation of fluid inclusion data in terms of immiscibility

    Claire Ramboz;Michel Pichavant;Alain Weisbrod

  • Experimental Crystallization of Leucogranite Magmas

    Bruno Scaillet;Michel Pichavant;Jacques Roux

  • Carbonatite Melts and Electrical Conductivity in the Asthenosphere

    Fabrice Gaillard;Mohammed Malki;Mohammed Malki;Giada Iacono-Marziano;Giada Iacono-Marziano;Michel Pichavant

  • An Experimental Study of a Lower Proterozoic A-type Granite from theEastern Amazonian Craton, Brazil

    R. Dall'agnol;B. Scaillet;M. Pichavant

  • An experimental study of the effect of boron on a water saturated haplogranite at 1 Kbar vapour pressure

    Michel Pichavant

  • Determination of Hydrogen–Water Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure in Sandstone: Application to Underground Hydrogen Injection in Sedimentary Formations

    Alizera Yekta;Jean-Charles Manceau;Stéphane Gaboreau;Michel Pichavant

  • Apatite solubility in peraluminous liquids: Experimental data and an extension of the Harrison-Watson model

    Michel Pichavant;Jean-Marc Montel;Linda R. Richard;Linda R. Richard

  • Physical conditions, structure, and dynamics of a zoned magma chamber: Mount Pelée (Martinique, Lesser Antilles Arc)

    Michel Pichavant;Caroline Martel;Jean-Louis Bourdier;Bruno Scaillet

  • The combined effects of fO2 and melt composition on SnO2 solubility and tin diffusivity in haplogranitic melts

    Robert L. Linnen;Michel Pichavant;François Holtz

  • Amphibole as an archivist of magmatic crystallization conditions: problems, potential, and implications for inferring magma storage prior to the paroxysmal 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi, Indonesia

    Saskia Erdmann;Caroline Martel;Michel Pichavant;Alexandra Roma Larisa Kushnir

  • Fluid immiscibility in natural processes: Use and misuse of fluid inclusion data

    Michel Pichavant;Claire Ramboz;Alain Weisbrod

  • Crystallization of primitive basaltic magmas at crustal pressures and genesis of the calc-alkaline igneous suite: experimental evidence from St Vincent, Lesser Antilles arc

    Michel Pichavant;Ray Macdonald

  • Effects of H 2 O on liquidus phase relations in the haplogranite system at 2 and 5 kbar

    Francois Holtz;Michel Pichavant;Pierre Barbey;Wilhelm Johannes

  • Petrological and Experimental Constraints on the Pre-eruption Conditions of Holocene Dacite from Volcan San Pedro (36 S, Chilean Andes) and the Importance of Sulphur in Silicic Subduction-related Magmas

    Fidel Costa;Bruno Scaillet;Michel Pichavant

  • Redox control of sulfur degassing in silicic magmas

    Bruno Scaillet;Béatrice Clemente;Bernard W. Evans;Michel Pichavant

  • Effects of f O2 and H2O on andesite phase relations between 2 and 4 kbar

    Caroline Martel;Michel Pichavant;Francois Holtz;Bruno Scaillet

  • Effects of B and H 2 O on liquidus phase relations in the haplogranite system at l kbar

    Michel Pichavant

  • Evaluation of geochemical reactivity of hydrogen in sandstone: Application to geological storage

    Alireza E. Yekta;Michel Pichavant;Pascal Audigane

  • Petrogenesis of tourmaline granites and topaz granites ; the contribution of experimental data

    Michel Pichavant;David Manning

  • Phase equilibrium constraints on the viscosity of silicic magmas: 1. Volcanic‐plutonic comparison

    Bruno Scaillet;François Holtz;Michel Pichavant

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Scaillet
Bruno Scaillet University of Orléans
Francois Holtz
Francois Holtz University of Hannover
Fabrice Gaillard
Fabrice Gaillard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Laurent Arbaret
Laurent Arbaret University of Orléans
Raffaello Cioni
Raffaello Cioni University of Florence
Antonio Paonita
Antonio Paonita University of Palermo
Ray Macdonald
Ray Macdonald Lancaster University
Donald B. Dingwell
Donald B. Dingwell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Pierre Barbey
Pierre Barbey University of Lorraine
Andrea Luca Rizzo
Andrea Luca Rizzo University of Milano-Bicocca

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