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Olivier Bruguier is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several key subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology. Their research work spans a wide range of topics, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Tracking geothermal anomalies along a crustal fault using (U − Th)∕He apatite thermochronology and rare-earth element (REE) analyses: the example of the Têt fault (Pyrenees, France), 2020, published in Solid Earth
  • Rare earth elements plus yttrium (REY) in phosphorites from the Tébessa region (Eastern Algeria): Abundance, geochemical distribution through grain size fractions, and economic significance, 2022, published in Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Magma-Mush Interactions in the Lower Oceanic Crust: Insights From Atlantis Bank Layered Series (Southwest Indian Ridge), 2021, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Evidence for Early Tonian (Ca. 1000-940 Ma) continental rifting in southern Borborema Province (NE Brazil): tectonic inheritance and shear zone nucleation during assembly of West Gondwana, 2020, published in International Geology Review
  • LA-ICP-MS dating of detrital zircon grains from the Cretaceous allochthonous bauxites of Languedoc (south of France): Provenance and geodynamic consequences, 2020, published in Basin Research

Olivier Bruguier frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Delphine Bosch
  • Rabah Laouar
  • Rabah Kechiched
  • Hugo Moreira
  • Renaud Caby

Their research has appeared regularly in a variety of publication venues, indicating a broad engagement with the scientific community. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • U–Pb dating on single detrital zircon grains from the Triassic Songpan–Ganze flysch (Central China): provenance and tectonic correlations

    O. Bruguier;J.R. Lancelot;J. Malavieille

  • Polyorogenic evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Trans-North China Belt, new insights from the in Lüliangshan-Hengshan-Wutaishan and Fuping massifs

    Michel Faure;Pierre Trap;Wei Lin;Patrick Monié

  • Calcification rate influence on trace element concentrations in aragonitic bivalve shells: Evidences and mechanisms

    Matthieu Carré;Ilhem Bentaleb;Olivier Bruguier;Elmer Ordinola

  • Palaeoproterozoic arc magmatism and collision in Liaodong Peninsula (north‐east China)

    Michel Faure;Wei Lin;Wei Lin;Patrick Monié;Olivier Bruguier

  • Origin of Pyroxenite–Peridotite Veined Mantle by Refertilization Reactions: Evidence from the Ronda Peridotite (Southern Spain)

    Jean-Louis Bodinier;Carlos J. Garrido;Ingrid Chanefo;Olivier Bruguier

  • Timing of crust formation, deposition of supracrustal sequences, and Transamazonian and Brasiliano metamorphism in the East Pernambuco belt (Borborema Province, NE Brazil): Implications for western Gondwana assembly

    Sérgio P. Neves;Olivier Bruguier;Alain Vauchez;Delphine Bosch

  • Contrasted tectonic styles for the Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton. Evidence for a ~2.1 Ga thermal and tectonic event in the Fuping Massif

    M. Faure;W. Lin;O. Bruguier

  • Geochemical and petrographic evidence for magmatic impregnation in the oceanic lithosphere at Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (IODP Hole U1309D, 30°N)

    Marion Drouin;Marguerite Godard;Benoit Ildefonse;Olivier Bruguier

  • Multistage evolution of the Jijal ultramafic-mafic complex (Kohistan, N Pakistan): Implications for building the roots of island arcs

    B. Dhuime;Delphine Bosch;Jean-Louis Bodinier;C. J. Garrido

  • Inherited zircon and titanite UPb systems in an Archaean syenite from southwestern Australia: implications for UPb stability of titanite

    R.T. Pidgeon;D. Bosch;O. Bruguier

  • Geochemical Architecture of the Lower- to Middle-crustal Section of a Paleo-island Arc (Kohistan Complex, Jijal-Kamila Area, Northern Pakistan): Implications for the Evolution of an Oceanic Subduction Zone

    Bruno Dhuime;Delphine Bosch;Carlos J. Garrido;Jean-Louis Bodinier

  • Origin of the island arc Moho transition zone via melt-rock reaction and its implications for intracrustal differentiation of island arcs: Evidence from the Jijal complex (Kohistan complex, northern Pakistan)

    Carlos J. Garrido;Jean-Louis Bodinier;Bruno Dhuime;Delphine Bosch

  • Late Ediacaran geological evolution (575–555 Ma) of the Djanet Terrane, Eastern Hoggar, Algeria, evidence for a Murzukian intracontinental episode

    Nassima Fezaa;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Nachida Abdallah;El Hadi Cherfouh

  • Early Archaean component ( > 3.5 Ga) within a 3.05 Ga orthogneiss from northern Nigeria: UPb zircon evidence

    O. Bruguier;S. Dada;J.R. Lancelot

  • Repeated granitoid intrusions during the Neoproterozoic along the western boundary of the Saharan metacraton, Eastern Hoggar, Tuareg shield, Algeria: An AMS and U-Pb zircon age study

    Benoît Henry;Jean-Paul Liégeois;O. Nouar;M.E.M Derder

  • The Pan-African Kekem gabbro-norite (West-Cameroon), U-Pb zircon age, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopes: Geodynamical implication for the evolution of the Central African fold belt

    Maurice Kwékam;Pascal Affaton;Olivier Bruguier;Jean-Paul Liégeois

  • Lower crust exhumation during Paleoproterozoic (Eburnean) orogeny, NW Ghana, West African Craton: interplay of coeval contractional deformation and extensional gravitational collapse

    Sylvain Block;Mark Jessell;Laurent Ailleres;Lenka Baratoux

  • U-Pb chronology of the Northampton Complex, Western Australia - evidence for Grenvillian sedimentation, metamorphism and deformation and geodynamic implications

    O. Bruguier;D. Bosch;R. T. Pidgeon;D. I. Byrne

  • New occurrence of UHP eclogites in Limousin (French Massif Central): age, tectonic setting and fluid-rock interactions

    Julien Berger;Olivier Féménias;Daniel Ohnenstetter;Olivier Bruguier

  • The age distributions of detrital zircons in metasedimentary sequences in eastern Borborema Province (NE Brazil): Evidence for intracontinental sedimentation and orogenesis?

    Sérgio P. Neves;Olivier Bruguier;José Maurício Rangel da Silva;Delphine Bosch

  • Building an island-arc crustal section: Time constraints from a LA-ICP-MS zircon study

    Delphine Bosch;Carlos J. Garrido;Carlos J. Garrido;Olivier Bruguier;Bruno Dhuime

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Monié
Patrick Monié University of Montpellier
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Renaud Caby
Renaud Caby University of Montpellier
Carlos J. Garrido
Carlos J. Garrido Spanish National Research Council
Benoit Ildefonse
Benoit Ildefonse University of Montpellier
Jean-Paul Liégeois
Jean-Paul Liégeois Royal Museum for Central Africa
Wei Lin
Wei Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yann Rolland
Yann Rolland Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Bruno Dhuime
Bruno Dhuime University of Bristol
Alain Vauchez
Alain Vauchez University of Montpellier

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