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Brazil
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
49
Citations
8442
World Ranking
3627
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Pascal Philippot is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, particularly Paleontology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main research topics include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Pascal Philippot has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Geobiology
  • Chemical Geology
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Pascal Philippot are:

  • Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • In Situ Fe and S isotope analyses in pyrite from the 3.2 Ga Mendon Formation (Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa): Evidence for early microbial iron reduction, 2020, Geobiology
  • The history of Earth's sulfur cycle, 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Geochemical evidence for arsenic cycling in living microbialites of a High Altitude Andean Lake (Laguna Diamante, Argentina), 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Low-phosphorus concentrations and important ferric hydroxide scavenging in Archean seawater, 2023, PNAS Nexus

Pascal Philippot frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Camille Rossignol
  • Eric Siciliano Rêgo
  • Francesco Narduzzi
  • Christophe Thomazo
  • Vincent Busigny

Best Publications

  • Deep fluids in subduction zones

    Marco Scambelluri;Pascal Philippot

  • Trace-element-rich brines in eclogitic veins: implications for fluid composition and transport during subduction

    Pascal Philippot;Jane Selverstone

  • Early Archaean Microorganisms Preferred Elemental Sulfur, Not Sulfate

    Pascal Philippot;Mark Van Zuilen;Kevin Lepot;Christophe Thomazo

  • Bacterial diversity in hydrothermal sediment and epsilonproteobacterial dominance in experimental microcolonizers at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    Purificación López-García;Sébastien Duperron;Pascal Philippot;Julien Foriel

  • Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    Martin J. Van Kranendonk;Pascal Philippot;Kevin Lepot;Simon Bodorkos

  • Massive recycling of nitrogen and other fluid-mobile elements (K, Rb, Cs, H) in a cold slab environment: evidence from HP to UHP oceanic metasediments of the Schistes Lustrés nappe (western Alps, Europe)

    Vincent Busigny;Vincent Busigny;Pierre Cartigny;Pascal Philippot;Magali Ader

  • Nitrogen isotopic composition and density of the Archean atmosphere.

    Bernard Marty;Laurent Zimmermann;Magali Pujol;Ray Burgess

  • High salinity fluid inclusions formed from recycled seawater in deeply subducted alpine serpentinite

    Marco Scambelluri;Giovanni B. Piccardo;Pascal Philippot;Andrea Robbiano

  • RbSr and 40Ar39Ar laser probe dating of high-pressure phengites from the Sesia zone (Western Alps): underscoring of excess argon and new age constraints on the high-pressure metamorphism

    Gilles Ruffet;Gérard Gruau;Michel Ballèvre;Gilbert Féraud

  • Fluid-melt-rock interaction in mafic eclogites and coesite-bearing metasediments: Constraints on volatile recycling during subduction

    Pascal Philippot

  • Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites

    Kevin Lepot;Karim Benzerara;Gordon E. Brown;Pascal Philippot

  • Extreme 15N‐enrichments in 2.72‐Gyr‐old sediments: evidence for a turning point in the nitrogen cycle

    Christophe Thomazo;Magali Ader;Pascal Philippot

  • Fluid composition and evolution in coesite-bearing rocks (Dora-Maira massif, Western Alps): implications for element recycling during subduction

    Pascal Philippot;Pierre Chevallier;Christian Chopin;Jean Dubessy

  • Fluid inclusion and mineral isotopic compositions (HCO) in eclogitic rocks as tracers of local fluid migration during high-pressure metamorphism

    Serge Nadeau;Pascal Philippot;Françoise Pineau

  • An iodine record of Paleoproterozoic surface ocean oxygenation

    Dalton S. Hardisty;Zunli Lu;Noah J. Planavsky;Andrey Bekker

  • Burial and exhumation during Archean sagduction in the East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane

    Camille François;Pascal Philippot;Patrice Rey;Daniella Rubatto

  • Structural characterization by Raman hyperspectral mapping of organic carbon in the 3.46 billion-year-old Apex chert, Western Australia

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  • Chlorine cycling during subduction of altered oceanic crust

    Pascal Philippot;Pierre Agrinier;Marco Scambelluri

  • Strain localization during crustal-scale boudinage to form extensional metamorphic domes in the Aegean Sea

    Laurent Jolivet;Vincent Famin;Caroline Mehl;Teddy Parra

  • Xenon in Archean barite: Weak decay of 130Ba, mass-dependent isotopic fractionation and implication for barite formation

    Magali Pujol;Magali Pujol;Bernard Marty;Pete Burnard;Pascal Philippot

  • Contribution of mantle plumes, crustal thickening and greenstone blanketing to the 2.75-2.65Ga global crisis

    Patrice F Rey;Pascal Philippot;Nicolas Thébaud

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Scambelluri
Marco Scambelluri University of Genoa
Magali Ader
Magali Ader Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Martin J. Van Kranendonk
Martin J. Van Kranendonk Curtin University
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
James Farquhar
James Farquhar University of Maryland, College Park
Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Franco Pirajno
Franco Pirajno University of Western Australia
Bernard Marty
Bernard Marty University of Lorraine
Ray Burgess
Ray Burgess University of Manchester
Françoise Pineau
Françoise Pineau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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