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Olivier Beyssac

Olivier Beyssac

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
12968
World Ranking
2013
National Ranking
130

Overview

Olivier Beyssac is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, particularly Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The primary focus of their research lies within topics related to Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Space Exploration and Technology, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Laser-induced Spectroscopy and Plasma.

Beyssac has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators including R. C. Wiens, S. Maurice, O. Forni, O. Gasnault, and Sylvain Bernard.

Their work has been published across numerous scientific venues, most prominently in the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, followed by Science Advances, Science, Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy, and Space Science Reviews.

Some of the more recent papers they have been involved with include:

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests (2020), published in Space Science Reviews
  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description (2021), published in Space Science Reviews
  • Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars (2021), published in Science
  • Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars (2022), published in Science
  • Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars-implications for organic geochemistry (2022), published in Science

Best Publications

  • Raman spectra of carbonaceous material in metasediments: a new geothermometer

    O. Beyssac;B. Goffé;C. Chopin;J. N. Rouzaud

  • On the characterization of disordered and heterogeneous carbonaceous materials by Raman spectroscopy.

    Olivier Beyssac;Bruno Goffé;Jean-Pierre Petitet;Emmanuel Froigneux

  • Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system.

    Valier Galy;Valier Galy;Christian France-Lanord;Olivier Beyssac;Pierre Faure

  • Evolution of the Raman spectrum of carbonaceous material in low‐grade metasediments of the Glarus Alps (Switzerland)

    A. Lahfid;O. Beyssac;O. Beyssac;E. Deville;F. Negro

  • Graphitization in a high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphic gradient: a Raman microspectroscopy and HRTEM study

    Olivier Beyssac;Jean-Noël Rouzaud;Bruno Goffé;Fabrice Brunet

  • Recycling of Graphite During Himalayan Erosion: A Geological Stabilization of Carbon in the Crust

    Valier Galy;Valier Galy;Olivier Beyssac;Christian France-Lanord;Timothy Eglinton

  • From Organic Matter to Graphite: Graphitization

    Peter R. Buseck;Olivier Beyssac

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

    Roger C. Wiens;Sylvestre Maurice;Scott H. Robinson;Anthony E. Nelson

  • Thermal structure and exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya in central Nepal

    Laurent Bollinger;Laurent Bollinger;J. P. Avouac;J. P. Avouac;O. Beyssac;Elizabeth Jacqueline Catlos

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description

    Sylvestre Maurice;R. Wiens;P. Bernardi;P. Caïs

  • Late Cenozoic metamorphic evolution and exhumation of Taiwan

    Olivier Beyssac;Olivier Beyssac;Martine Simoes;Martine Simoes;Martine Simoes;Jean Philippe Avouac;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Thermal metamorphism in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal determined from Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material

    Olivier Beyssac;Laurent Bollinger;Jean Philippe Avouac;Bruno Goffé

  • A new chlorite geothermometer for diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic conditions

    Franck Bourdelle;Franck Bourdelle;Franck Bourdelle;Teddy Parra;Christian Chopin;Olivier Beyssac

  • The Zermatt‐Saas ophiolite: the largest (60‐km wide) and deepest (c. 70–80 km) continuous slice of oceanic lithosphere detached from a subduction zone?

    Samuel Angiboust;Philippe Agard;Laurent Jolivet;O. Beyssac

  • Erosion by an Alpine glacier.

    Frédéric Herman;Olivier Beyssac;Mattia Brughelli;Stuart N. Lane

  • Graphite formation by carbonate reduction during subduction

    Matthieu E. Galvez;Matthieu E. Galvez;Matthieu E. Galvez;Olivier Beyssac;Isabelle Martinez;Karim Benzerara

  • Ar–Ar and fission-track ages in the Song Chay Massif: Early Triassic and Cenozoic tectonics in northern Vietnam

    H. Maluski;C. Lepvrier;L. Jolivet;Andrew Carter

  • Oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in the Amazon floodplain as a source of atmospheric CO2

    Julien Bouchez;Julien Bouchez;Olivier Beyssac;Valier Galy;Jérôme Gaillardet;Jérôme Gaillardet

  • Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars.

    N. Mangold;S. Gupta;O. Gasnault;G. Dromart

  • Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

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  • Oligo‐Miocene midcrustal subhorizontal shear zone in Indochina

    Laurent Jolivet;Olivier Beyssac;Bruno Goffé;Dov Avigad

  • Exceptional preservation of fossil plant spores in high-pressure metamorphic rocks

    Sylvain Bernard;Karim Benzerara;Olivier Beyssac;Nicolas Menguy

  • Experimental study of the microtextural and structural transformations of carbonaceous materials under pressure and temperature

    Olivier Beyssac;Fabrice Brunet;Jean-Pierre Petitet;Bruno Goffé

Frequent Co-Authors

Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Bruno Goffé
Bruno Goffé Aix-Marseille University
Roger C. Wiens
Roger C. Wiens Los Alamos National Laboratory
Olivier Gasnault
Olivier Gasnault Paul Sabatier University
Christian Chopin
Christian Chopin École Normale Supérieure
Gordon E. Brown
Gordon E. Brown Stanford University
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne
Jean Philippe Avouac
Jean Philippe Avouac California Institute of Technology
Samuel M. Clegg
Samuel M. Clegg Los Alamos National Laboratory

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