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Nicolas Thibault is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research has contributed extensively to the fields of paleontology, atmospheric science, geophysics, mechanics of materials, and geochemistry and petrology. The body of work encompasses a total of 165 publications within the main field of study.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics related to paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology, geological and geochemical analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological formations and processes, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • Astronomically forced climate change in the late Cambrian (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Unravelling Middle to Late Jurassic palaeoceanographic and palaeoclimatic signals in the Hebrides Basin using belemnite clumped isotope thermometry (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Cold spells in the Nordic Seas during the early Eocene Greenhouse (2020, Nature Communications)

Nicolas Thibault frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Coauthors who have worked extensively alongside them include Clemens V. Ullmann, Niels J. de Winter, Philippe Claeys, Thierry Adatte, and Inigo A. Müller.

The scientist's published work is commonly found in several scientific venues, such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Journal of Nannoplankton Research
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Best Publications

  • Jurassic climate mode governed by ocean gateway

    Christoph Korte;Stephen P. Hesselbo;Clemens V. Ullmann;Clemens V. Ullmann;Gerd Dietl

  • A new correlation of Triassic-Jurassic boundary successions in NW Europe, Nevada and Peru, and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province : A time-line for the end-Triassic mass extinction

    Sofie Lindström;Bas van de Schootbrugge;Katrine H. Hansen;Gunver K. Pedersen

  • Astronomical calibration of upper Campanian–Maastrichtian carbon isotope events and calcareous plankton biostratigraphy in the Indian Ocean (ODP Hole 762C): Implication for the age of the Campanian–Maastrichtian boundary

    Nicolas Thibault;Dorothée Husson;Rikke Harlou;Silvia Gardin

  • Astronomical calibration of the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)

    Dorothée Husson;Bruno Galbrun;Jacques Laskar;Linda A. Hinnov

  • Maastrichtian calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoecology in the Equatorial Atlantic (Demerara Rise, ODP Leg 207 Hole 1258A)

    Nicolas Thibault;Silvia Gardin

  • Upper Campanian–Maastrichtian nannofossil biostratigraphy and high-resolution carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Danish Basin: Towards a standard δ13C curve for the Boreal Realm

    Nicolas Thibault;Rikke Harlou;Niels Schovsbo;Poul Schiøler

  • Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Gerta Keller;Paula Mateo;Johannes Monkenbusch;Nicolas Thibault

  • Effect of a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event on belemnite ecology and evolution.

    Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann;Nicolas Thibault;Micha Ruhl;Micha Ruhl;Stephen P. Hesselbo

  • The late Maastrichtian nannofossil record of climate change in the South Atlantic DSDP Hole 525A

    Nicolas Thibault;Silvia Gardin

  • The calcareous nannofossil response to the end-Cretaceous warm event in the Tropical Pacific

    Nicolas Thibault;Silvia Gardin

  • Upper Campanian–Maastrichtian holostratigraphy of the eastern Danish Basin

    Finn Surlyk;Susanne Lil Rasmussen;Myriam Boussaha;Poul Schiøler

  • Late Cretaceous (late Campanian–Maastrichtian) sea-surface temperature record of the Boreal Chalk Sea

    Nicolas Thibault;Rikke Harlou;Niels H. Schovsbo;Lars Stemmerik

  • The wider context of the Lower Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK

    Nicolas Thibault;Micha Ruhl;Clemens V. Ullmann;Christoph Korte

  • Holocene centennial to millennial shifts in North-Atlantic storminess and ocean dynamics

    Jérôme Goslin;Mikkel Fruergaard;Lasse Sander;Mariusz Gałka

  • The Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project (CIP): consistency, merits and pitfalls

    Matthias Sinnesael;Matthias Sinnesael;David De Vleeschouwer;Christian Zeeden;Sietske J. Batenburg

  • Climatic and palaeoceanographic changes during the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) inferred from clay mineralogy and stable isotope (C-O) geochemistry (NW Europe)

    Cédric Bougeault;Pierre Pellenard;Jean-François Deconinck;Stephen P. Hesselbo

  • Bio-magnetochronology for the upper Campanian – Maastrichtian from the Gubbio area, Italy: new results from the Contessa Highway and Bottaccione sections

    Silvia Gardin;Bruno Galbrun;Nicolas Thibault;Rodolfo Coccioni

  • Astronomical calibration and global correlation of the Santonian (Cretaceous) based on the marine carbon isotope record

    N. Thibault;I. Jarvis;S. Voigt;A. S. Gale

  • Climatic fluctuations and sea-surface water circulation patterns at the end of the Cretaceous era: Calcareous nannofossil evidence

    Nicolas Thibault;Dorothée Husson

  • An astronomical time scale for the Maastrichtian based on the Zumaia and Sopelana sections (Basque country, northern Spain)

    Sietske J. Batenburg;Sietske J. Batenburg;Andrew S. Gale;Mario Sprovieri;Frederik J. Hilgen

Frequent Co-Authors

Clemens V. Ullmann
Clemens V. Ullmann University of Exeter
Christoph Korte
Christoph Korte University of Copenhagen
Silvia Gardin
Silvia Gardin Sorbonne University
Lars Stemmerik
Lars Stemmerik University of Copenhagen
Bruno Galbrun
Bruno Galbrun Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris
Finn Surlyk
Finn Surlyk University of Copenhagen
Micha Ruhl
Micha Ruhl Trinity College Dublin
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Stephen P. Hesselbo
Stephen P. Hesselbo University of Exeter

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