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Overview

Olivier Rouxel is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

Their scholarly work spans several key topics, including:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Olivier Rouxel has published extensively, contributing notably to journals and conference proceedings such as Chemical Geology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, and Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research.

Recent papers include:

  • "Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean," 2021, Biogeosciences
  • "Large nickel isotope fractionation caused by surface complexation reactions with hexagonal birnessite," 2020, Chemical Geology
  • "Triple iron isotope constraints on the role of ocean iron sinks in early atmospheric oxygenation," 2020, Science
  • "A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep-sea, low-temperature, iron-oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA," 2021, Geobiology
  • "The Nickel isotope composition of the authigenic sink and the diagenetic flux in modern oceans," 2021, Chemical Geology

They frequently collaborate with co-authors including Yoan Germain, Wolfgang Bach, Cécile Cathalot, Andrey Bekker, and Katrina J. Edwards. These collaborations reflect a broad network across geochemistry and earth sciences research fields.

Best Publications

  • Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

    A. Bekker;B. Krapež;J. F. Slack;N. Planavsky

  • Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

    Noah J. Planavsky;Dan Asael;Axel Hofmann;Christopher T. Reinhard

  • Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state.

    Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Andrey Bekker;Katrina J. Edwards;Katrina J. Edwards

  • Rare Earth Element and yttrium compositions of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe formations revisited: New perspectives on the significance and mechanisms of deposition

    Noah Planavsky;Noah Planavsky;Andrey Bekker;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Balz S. Kamber

  • The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

    Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Stefan V. Lalonde

  • Metal Stable Isotopes in Paleoceanography

    Ariel D. Anbar;Olivier Rouxel

  • Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Ernesto Pecoits

  • Mass spectrometry and natural variations of iron isotopes

    Nicolas Dauphas;Olivier Rouxel

  • Iron Isotope Systematics

    Nicolas Dauphas;Seth G. John;Olivier J. Rouxel

  • Suboxic deep seawater in the late Paleoproterozoic: Evidence from hematitic chert and iron formation related to seafloor-hydrothermal sulfide deposits, central Arizona, USA

    J. F. Slack;Tor Grenne;A. Bekker;O.J. Rouxel

  • Integrated Fe- and S-isotope study of seafloor hydrothermal vents at East Pacific Rise 9–10°N

    Olivier J Rouxel;Wayne C Shanks;Wolfgang Bach;Wolfgang Bach;Katrina J Edwards;Katrina J Edwards

  • Iron isotope fractionation during oceanic crust alteration

    Olivier Rouxel;Nicolas Dobbek;John Ludden;Yves Fouquet

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

    Paul J. Tréguer;Jill N. Sutton;Mark Brzezinski;Matthew A. Charette

  • Subsurface processes at the lucky strike hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic ridge: evidence from sulfur, selenium, and iron isotopes

    Olivier Rouxel;Yves Fouquet;John N Ludden

  • Iron Formations: Their Origins and Implications for Ancient Seawater Chemistry

    A. Bekker;N. Planavsky;Birger Rasmussen;Bryan Krapez

  • Preservation of iron(II) by carbon-rich matrices in a hydrothermal plume

    Brandy M. Toner;Brandy M. Toner;Sirine C. Fakra;Steven J. Manganini;Cara M. Santelli

  • Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

    Mark A Lever;Mark A Lever;Olivier J Rouxel;Olivier J Rouxel;Jeffrey C Alt;Nobumichi Shimizu

  • Copper Isotope Systematics of the Lucky Strike, Rainbow, and Logatchev Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Olivier Rouxel;Yves Fouquet;John N. Ludden

  • S-33 constraints on the seawater sulfate contribution in modern seafloor hydrothermal vent sulfides

    Shuhei Ono;Wayne C. Shanks;Olivier J. Rouxel;Douglas Rumble

  • Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans

    Noah Planavsky;Noah Planavsky;Olivier Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Russell Shapiro

  • Atmospheric Sulfur in Archean Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Deposits

    Andrey Bekker;Andrey Bekker;Mark E. Barley;Marco L. Fiorentini;Olivier J. Rouxel

  • Sulfur isotope measurement of sulfate and sulfide by high-resolution MC-ICP-MS

    Paul R. Craddock;Olivier J. Rouxel;Lary A. Ball;Wolfgang Bach

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey Bekker
Andrey Bekker University of California, Riverside
Katrina J. Edwards
Katrina J. Edwards University of Southern California
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Yves Fouquet
Yves Fouquet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Brandy M. Toner
Brandy M. Toner University of Minnesota
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Stefan V. Lalonde
Stefan V. Lalonde European Institute
Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann University of Johannesburg
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser University of Alberta

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