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Overview

Nicolas Coltice is a researcher affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily addresses the field of geophysics, which makes up the majority of their work, alongside contributions to earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

Their main areas of study focus on geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and earthquake and tectonic studies. Additional research topics include geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Plate tectonics and mantle controls on plume dynamics" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale" (2023), Science
  • "Long-term evolution of a plume-induced subduction in the Neotethys realm" (2021), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Pulsated Global Hydrogen and Methane Flux at Mid-Ocean Ridges Driven by Pangea Breakup" (2020), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Drawing everyday sexism in academia: observations and analysis of a community-based initiative" (2020), Advances in Geosciences

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Coltice include:

  • Maëlis Arnould
  • Nicolas Flament
  • Claire Mallard
  • Patrice Rey
  • Simon Williams

The main publication venues where their work appears are:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Science
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Advances in Geosciences
  • Elements

Best Publications

  • A crystallizing dense magma ocean at the base of the Earth’s mantle

    Stéphane Labrosse;J. W. Hernlund;J. W. Hernlund;Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Coltice

  • Global warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents

    N. Coltice;B.R. Phillips;H. Bertrand;Y. Ricard

  • A case for late-Archaean continental emergence from thermal evolution models and hypsometry

    Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Coltice;Patrice F. Rey

  • Geochemical observations and one layer mantle convection

    Nicolas Coltice;Yanick Ricard

  • Global warming of the mantle beneath continents back to the Archaean

    Nicolas Coltice;Hervé Bertrand;Patrice Rey;Fred Jourdan

  • Neoarchean lithospheric strengthening and the coupling of Earth's geochemical reservoirs

    Patrice F. Rey;Nicolas Coltice

  • Origin of Archean subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Some petrological constraints

    Nicholas Arndt;Nicolas Coltice;H. Helmstaedt;M. Gregoire

  • Vers une typologie des dispositifs hybrides de formation en enseignement supérieur

    R. Burton;S. Borruat;Bernadette Charlier;Nicolas Coltice

  • A mantle convection perspective on global tectonics

    Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Coltice;Mélanie Gérault;Martina Ulvrová

  • What drives tectonic plates

    Nicolas Coltice;Laurent Husson;Claudio Faccenna;Claudio Faccenna;Maëlis Arnould

  • Subduction controls the distribution and fragmentation of Earth’s tectonic plates

    Claire Mallard;Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Coltice;Maria Seton;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

    Patrice F. Rey;Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Flament

  • Linking continental drift, plate tectonics and the thermal state of the Earth's mantle

    T. Rolf;N. Coltice;N. Coltice;P.J. Tackley

  • Crystallization of a basal magma ocean recorded by Helium and Neon

    Nicolas Coltice;Manuel Moreira;Manuel Moreira;John W. Hernlund;Stéphane Labrosse;Stéphane Labrosse

  • Modelling the geochemical cycle of boron: Implications for the long-term δ11B evolution of seawater and oceanic crust

    Laurent Simon;Laurent Simon;Christophe Lécuyer;Chloé Maréchal;Nicolas Coltice

  • The evolution of the 87Sr/86Sr of marine carbonates does not constrain continental growth

    Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Coltice;Patrice F. Rey

  • Dynamic causes of the relation between area and age of the ocean floor

    Nicolas Coltice;Nicolas Coltice;T. Rolf;P. J. Tackley;Stéphane Labrosse;Stéphane Labrosse

  • Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale

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  • Thermo‐mechanical adjustment after impacts during planetary growth

    Julien Monteux;Nicolas Coltice;Fabien Dubuffet;Yanick Ricard

  • A model of metal-silicate separation on growing planets

    J. Monteux;Y. Ricard;N. Coltice;F. Dubuffet

  • Mixing times in the mantle of the early Earth derived from 2-D and 3-D numerical simulations of convection

    Nicolas Coltice;J. Schmalzl

  • Global warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents

    N. Coltice;H. Bertrand;Y. Ricard;P. Rey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Flament
Nicolas Flament University of Sydney
Yanick Ricard
Yanick Ricard École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Hervé Bertrand
Hervé Bertrand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Claudio Faccenna
Claudio Faccenna Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum
Eric Debayle
Eric Debayle École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Muriel Andreani
Muriel Andreani Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Simon Williams
Simon Williams University of Sydney
Gilles Dromart
Gilles Dromart École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Michael Manga
Michael Manga University of California, Berkeley

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