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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Philippe Claeys is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Environmental Science. The main fields of study for their research include Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 261 publications, followed by Physics and Astronomy with 236 publications, and Environmental Science with 97 publications.

Their research covers several subfields, notably Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ecology, and Paleontology. These specializations frame the broader scope of their work, which also explores diverse main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure.

Philippe Claeys has published extensively in a range of respected venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Science Advances

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure", 2021, Science Advances
  • "Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater", 2020, Science Advances
  • "Negative effects of cattle on soil carbon and nutrient pools reversed by megaherbivores", 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Subdaily-Scale Chemical Variability in a Torreites Sanchezi Rudist Shell: Implications for Rudist Paleobiology and the Cretaceous Day-Night Cycle", 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Muriel Gargaud
  • William M. Irvine
  • Henderson James Cleaves
  • Maryvonne Gérin
  • Stéphane Tirard

In recognition of their scientific involvement, Philippe Claeys has been named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

    David De Vleeschouwer;Anne-Christine Da Silva;Frédéric Boulvain;Philippe Claeys

  • Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites.

    Carl C. Swisher;José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Alessandro Montanari;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico.

    Jan Smit;Alessandro Montanari;Nicola H.M. Swinburne;Walter Alvarez

  • Coarse-grained, clastic sandstone complex at the K/T boundary around the Gulf of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub impact?

    J. Smit;T. B. Roep;W. Alvarez;A. Montanari

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

    Philippe Claeys;Wolfgang Kiessling;Walter Alvarez

  • Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540.

    Walter Alvarez;Jan Smit;William Lowrie;Frank Asaro

  • Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Shocked Quartz from Chicxulub Crater

    Walter Alvarez;Philippe Claeys;Susan W. Kieffer

  • Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields

    José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Esteban Cedillo-Pardo;Carmen Rosales-Domínguez;Dante J. Morán-Zenteno

  • The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

    David De Vleeschouwer;Michał Rakociński;Grzegorz Racki;David P.G. Bond

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • Microtektites and mass extinctions: evidence for a late devonian asteroid impact.

    Philippe Claeys;Jean-Georges Casier;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Reduced plumage and flight ability of a new Jurassic paravian theropod from China

    Pascal Godefroit;Pascal Godefroit;Helena Demuynck;Gareth Dyke;Dongyu Hu;Dongyu Hu

  • Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure.

    Steven Goderis;Honami Sato;Honami Sato;Ludovic Ferrière;Birger Schmitz

  • Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

    Christophe Snoeck;Saskia Ryan;Saskia Ryan;John Pouncett;Maura Pellegrini;Maura Pellegrini

  • An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

    Todd A. Surovell;Vance T. Holliday;Joseph A. M. Gingerich;Caroline Ketron

  • Microtektites, Microkrystites, and Spinels from a Late Pliocene Asteroid Impact in the Southern Ocean

    Stanley V. Margolis;Philippe Claeys;Frank T. Kyte

  • Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity

    David De Vleeschouwer;David De Vleeschouwer;Anne-Christine Da Silva;Matthias Sinnesael;Daizhao Chen

  • The Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project (CSDP)

    Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi;Joanna Morgan;Dieter Stöffler;Philippe Claeys

  • Reevaluation of siderophile element abundances and ratios across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary : implications for the nature of the projectile

    Steven Goderis;Steven Goderis;R Tagle;J Belza;J Smit

  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

    David A. Kring;Sonia M. Tikoo;Martin Schmieder;Ulrich Riller

  • Chicxulub impact ejecta from Albion Island, Belize

    Kevin O Pope;Adriana C Ocampo;Alfred G Fischer;Walter Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Frank Vanhaecke
Frank Vanhaecke Ghent University
David De Vleeschouwer
David De Vleeschouwer Münster University of Applied Sciences
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Alessandro Montanari
Alessandro Montanari Mines ParisTech
Akira Yamaguchi
Akira Yamaguchi National Institute of Polar Research
Nadine Mattielli
Nadine Mattielli Université Libre de Bruxelles

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