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Nicolas Tribovillard

Nicolas Tribovillard

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Earth Science

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11728
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Overview

Nicolas Tribovillard is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has contributed significantly to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Paleontology, Mechanics of Materials, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The primary themes of Nicolas Tribovillard's work involve Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Clay Minerals and Soil Interactions, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological Formations and Processes, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Recent publications highlight their involvement in geochemical proxies and paleoenvironmental studies. These papers include:

  • Trace elements in methane-seep carbonates: Potentials, limitations, and perspectives (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Arsenic in marine sediments: how robust a redox proxy? (2020), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Re-assessing copper and nickel enrichments as paleo-productivity proxies (2021), published in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • The contrasting origins of glauconite in the shallow marine environment highlight this mineral as a marker of paleoenvironmental conditions (2022), published in Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Syndepositional glauconite as a paleoenvironmental proxy - the lower Cenomanian Chalk of Cap Blanc Nez (N-France) (2021), published in Chemical Geology

Nicolas Tribovillard frequently publishes in venues such as Comptes Rendus Géoscience, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord, Earth-Science Reviews, and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers in the field, including Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles, Armelle Riboulleau, Sandra Ventalon, François Baudin, and Marion Delattre.

Best Publications

  • Trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies: An update

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Thomas J. Algeo;Timothy W. Lyons;Armelle Riboulleau

  • Environmental analysis of paleoceanographic systems based on molybdenum–uranium covariation

    T.J. Algeo;N. Tribovillard

  • Analysis of marine environmental conditions based onmolybdenum–uranium covariation—Applications to Mesozoic paleoceanography

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Thomas Algeo;François Baudin;A. Riboulleau

  • Enhanced trapping of molybdenum by sulfurized marine organic matter of marine origin in Mesozoic limestones and shales

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Armelle Riboulleau;Timothy Lyons;François Baudin

  • Geochemical study of organic-matter rich cycles from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Yorkshire (UK): productivity versus anoxia

    Nicolas-Pierre Tribovillard;Alain Desprairies;Elisabeth Lallier-Vergès;Philippe Bertrand

  • The Late Frasnian Kellwasser horizons of the Harz Mountains (Germany): Two oxygen-deficient periods resulting from different mechanisms

    Laurent Riquier;Nicolas Tribovillard;Olivier Averbuch;Xavier Devleeschouwer

  • Continental weathering and redox conditions during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the northwestern Tethys: Insight from the Posidonia Shale section in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Karl B. Föllmi;Thierry Adatte;Jorge E. Spangenberg

  • 7200 years of Rhône river flooding activity in Lake Le Bourget, France: a high-resolution sediment record of NW Alps hydrology

    Fabien Arnaud;Michel Revel;Emmanuel Chapron;Marc Desmet

  • Flood and earthquake disturbance of 210Pb geochronology (Lake Anterne, NW Alps)

    Fabien Arnaud;Fabien Arnaud;Vincent Lignier;Vincent Lignier;Michel Revel;Marc Desmet;Marc Desmet

  • Mountain building-enhanced continental weathering and organic carbon burial as major causes for climatic cooling at the Frasnian–Famennian boundary (c. 376 Ma)?

    O. Averbuch;N. Tribovillard;X. Devleeschouwer;L. Riquier

  • Paleodepositional conditions in the Orca Basin as inferred from organic matter and trace metal contents

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles;Thomas Algeo;Timothy W. Lyons

  • Trace elements as palaeoenvironmental markers in strongly mature hydrocarbon source rocks: the Cretaceous La Luna Formation of Venezuela

    Thierry Mongenot;Nicolas-Pierre Tribovillard;Alain Desprairies;Elisabeth Lallier-Vergès

  • Trace elements in methane-seep carbonates: Potentials, limitations, and perspectives

    D. Smrzka;D. Feng;T. Himmler;J. Zwicker

  • Depositional conditions and organic matter preservation pathways in an epicontinental environment: the Upper Jurassic Kashpir Oil Shales (Volga Basin, Russia)

    A Riboulleau;F Baudin;J.-F Deconinck;S Derenne

  • Estimation de la duree de l'evenement anoxique global au passage Cenomanien/Turonien; approche cyclostratigraphique dans la formation Bahloul en Tunisie centrale

    Michele Caron;Francis Robaszynski;Francis Amedro;Francois Baudin

  • Controls on organic accumulation in late Jurassic shales of northwestern Europe as inferred from trace-metal geochemistry

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Alain Trentesaux;Abdelkader Ramdani;François Baudinet

  • Deep‐water anoxia over the Frasnian–Famennian boundary (La Serre, France): a tectonically induced oceanic anoxic event?

    N. Tribovillard;O. Averbuch;X. Devleeschouwer;G. Racki

  • Organic facies variation in the late Kimmeridgian of the Boulonnais area (northernmost France)

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Anne Bialkowski;R. Tyson;Elisabeth Lallier-Vergès

  • A possible capture of molybdenum during early diagenesis of dysoxic sediments

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Timothy W. Lyons;Armelle Riboulleau;Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles

  • Iron availability as a dominant control on the primary composition and diagenetic overprint of organic-matter-rich rocks

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Ebraheem Hatem;Olivier Averbuch;Florent Barbecot

  • Geochemistry of cold seepage-impacted sediments: Per-ascensum or per-descensum trace metal enrichment?

    Nicolas Tribovillard;Eric Armynot du Châtelet;Florent Barbecot

Frequent Co-Authors

Armelle Riboulleau
Armelle Riboulleau University of Lille
Alain Trentesaux
Alain Trentesaux University of Lille
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Elisabeth Lallier-Vergès
Elisabeth Lallier-Vergès Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Emmanuel Chapron
Emmanuel Chapron University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Jean-François Deconinck
Jean-François Deconinck University of Burgundy
François Baudin
François Baudin Sorbonne University
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille

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