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Oscar Laurent

Oscar Laurent

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
5202
World Ranking
6858
National Ranking
530

Overview

Oscar Laurent is affiliated with CNRS in France and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing extensively on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology. Their research contributions span multiple interconnected subfields, presenting a multidisciplinary approach to geological sciences.

Laurent's recent publications demonstrate engagement with geological processes involving magmatic systems and crustal evolution. Key papers include:

  • Earth's earliest granitoids are crystal-rich magma reservoirs tapped by silicic eruptions (2020, Nature Geoscience)

Their work relates to geological and geochemical analysis, particularly investigating magma reservoirs and granulitic processes. Although the recent papers list includes other authors' works, Laurent's main contributions link closely to research on granitoids and magmatic processes.

Laurent frequently collaborates with several researchers, suggesting active participation in a collaborative scientific community. These co-authors include:

  • Olivier Bachmann
  • Cyril Chelle-Michou
  • Jean-François Moyen
  • Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw
  • Julia Neukampf

The scientist's work is published in a range of geological and geochemical journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • Lithos
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Chemical Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geology

Research topics covered by Laurent emphasize geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, mineralogy and gemology studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils. This range indicates a broad focus on understanding Earth's processes from geochemical composition to tectonic activity and paleontological records.

Laurent's interdisciplinary interests are also apparent in the engagement with artificial intelligence applications within Earth sciences, suggesting an effort to integrate computational methods in geological research.

Best Publications

  • The diversity and evolution of late-Archean granitoids: Evidence for the onset of “modern-style” plate tectonics between 3.0 and 2.5 Ga

    Oscar Laurent;Hervé Martin;Jean-François Moyen;Régis Doucelance

  • Collision vs. subduction-related magmatism: two contrasting ways of granite formation and implications for crustal growth

    Jean-François Moyen;Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Cyril Chelle-Michou;Simon Couzinié

  • Archaean tectonic systems: A view from igneous rocks

    Jean-François Moyen;Oscar Laurent

  • Depressurization and boiling of a single magmatic fluid as a mechanism for tin-tungsten deposit formation

    Maximilian Korges;Philipp Weis;Volker Lüders;Oscar Laurent

  • Post-collisional magmatism: Crustal growth not identified by zircon Hf–O isotopes

    Simon Couzinié;Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Jean-François Moyen;Armin Zeh;Armin Zeh

  • Earth’s earliest granitoids are crystal-rich magma reservoirs tapped by silicic eruptions

    Oscar Laurent;Jana Bjornsen;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw;Simone Bretscher

  • Geochemistry and petrogenesis of high-K “sanukitoids” from the Bulai pluton, Central Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Implications for geodynamic changes at the Archaean–Proterozoic boundary

    Oscar Laurent;Hervé Martin;Régis Doucelance;Jean-François Moyen

  • Crustal melting vs. fractionation of basaltic magmas: Part 1, granites and paradigms

    Jean-François Moyen;Jean-François Moyen;Vojtěch Janoušek;Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Olivier Bachmann

  • A linear Hf isotope-age array despite different granitoid sources and complex Archean geodynamics: Example from the Pietersburg block (South Africa)

    Oscar Laurent;Armin Zeh

  • Protracted, coeval crust and mantle melting during Variscan late-orogenic evolution: U–Pb dating in the eastern French Massif Central

    Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Simon Couzinié;Armin Zeh;Olivier Vanderhaeghe

  • Contrasting petrogenesis of Mg–K and Fe–K granitoids and implications for post-collisional magmatism: Case study from the Late-Archean Matok pluton (Pietersburg block, South Africa)

    Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Mafusi Rapopo;Gary Stevens;Jean-François Moyen

  • Evaluating the reliability of U???Pb laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) carbonate geochronology: matrix issues and a potential calcite validation reference material

    Marcel Guillong;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw;Nathan Looser;Oscar Laurent

  • How do granitoid magmas mix with each other? Insights from textures, trace element and Sr–Nd isotopic composition of apatite and titanite from the Matok pluton (South Africa)

    Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Oscar Laurent;Armin Zeh;Armin Zeh;Axel Gerdes;Arnaud Villaros

  • Differentiation of the late-Archaean sanukitoid series and some implications for crustal growth: Insights from geochemical modelling on the Bulai pluton, Central Limpopo Belt, South Africa

    Oscar Laurent;Régis Doucelance;Hervé Martin;Jean-François Moyen

  • Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif Central

    Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Oscar Laurent;Véronique Gardien;Jean-François Moyen

  • Tourmaline as a Tracer of Late-Magmatic to Hydrothermal Fluid Evolution: The World-Class San Rafael Tin (-Copper) Deposit, Peru

    Matthieu Harlaux;Matthieu Harlaux;Kalin Kouzmanov;Stefano Gialli;Oscar Laurent

  • Accessory mineral constraints on crustal evolution: elemental fingerprints for magma discrimination

    Emilie Bruand;Mike Fowler;Craig Storey;Oscar Laurent

  • Pre-Cadomian to late-Variscan odyssey of the eastern Massif Central, France: Formation of the West European crust in a nutshell

    Cyril Chelle-Michou;Oscar Laurent;Jean-François Moyen;Sylvain Block

  • Absolute Age and Temperature Constraints on Deformation Along the Basal Décollement of the Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt From Carbonate U-Pb Dating and Clumped Isotopes

    Nathan Looser;Herfried Madritsch;Marcel Guillong;Oscar Laurent

  • LA-ICP-MS dating of zircons from Meso- and Neoarchean granitoids of the Pietersburg block (South Africa): Crustal evolution at the northern margin of the Kaapvaal craton

    Oscar Laurent;Jean-Louis Paquette;Hervé Martin;Régis Doucelance

  • Paleoproterozoic juvenile crust formation and stabilisation in the south-eastern West African Craton (Ghana) ; new insights from U-Pb-Hf zircon data and geochemistry

    Sylvain Block;Lenka Baratoux;Armin Zeh;Oscar Laurent

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Moyen
Jean-François Moyen Jean Monnet University
Armin Zeh
Armin Zeh Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hervé Martin
Hervé Martin University of Clermont Auvergne
Patrick J. O'Brien
Patrick J. O'Brien University of Potsdam
Lluis Fontboté
Lluis Fontboté University of Geneva
Jean-Louis Paquette
Jean-Louis Paquette University of Clermont Auvergne
Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University
Andrea Dini
Andrea Dini National Research Council (CNR)

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