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Philippe Steemans

Philippe Steemans

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Earth Science

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4386
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National Ranking
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Overview

Philippe Steemans is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

Within these fields, Steemans has contributed extensively to several key scientific topics, including:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions

Their publication history spans numerous venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Geologica Belgica
  • Palaeoworld
  • Botany Letters
  • Palynology

Significant recent papers by Steemans include:

  • Palynology and geochemistry of the Frasnian global transgression in the Parnaíba Basin, Brazil, 2020, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Updating Frasnian miospore zonation from the Boulonnais (Northern France) and comparison with new data from the Upper Palaeozoic cover on the Brabant Massif (Western Belgium), 2021, Geologica Belgica
  • Palynological analysis of the lower member of the Hongguleleng Formation and discussion of the Frasnian/Famennian boundary in Western Junggar, NW China, 2021, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • A Late Devonian plant assemblage from New South Wales, Australia: Diversity and specificity, 2021, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Virgatasporites and Attritasporites: the oldest land plant derived spores, cryptospores or acritarchs?, 2022, Botany Letters

Steemans collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas Servais
  • Borja Cascales-Miñana
  • Yiming Gong
  • Ruiwen Zong
  • Maurice Streel

Best Publications

  • Spore stratigraphy and correlation with faunas and floras in the type marine devonian of the Ardenne-Rhenish regions

    Maurice Streel;Kenneth Higgs;Stanislas Loboziak;Walter Riegel

  • Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

    C. V. Rubinstein;Philippe Gerrienne;G. S. de la Puente;R. A. Astini

  • Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

    Philippe Steemans;Alain Le Hérissé;John Melvin;Merrell A. Miller

  • Etude palynostratigraphique du Dévonien inférieur dans l'Ouest de l'Europe

    Philippe Steemans

  • Ordovician and Silurian cryptospores and miospores from southeastern Turkey

    Philippe Steemans;A Le Hérissé;N Bozdogan

  • Runcaria, a Middle Devonian Seed Plant Precursor

    Philippe Gerrienne;B. Meyer-Berthaud;Muriel Fairon-Demaret;Maurice Streel

  • A Simple Type of Wood in Two Early Devonian Plants

    Philippe Gerrienne;Patricia G. Gensel;Christine Strullu-Derrien;Hubert Lardeux

  • Miospore evolution from the Ordovician to the Silurian.

    Philippe Steemans

  • Les formations du Dévonien moyen de la Belgique

    P. Bultynck;M. Coen-Aubert;L. Dejonghe;J. Godefroid

  • An Early Devonian flora, including Cooksonia, from the Paraná Basin (Brazil)

    Philippe Gerrienne;Sergio Bergamaschi;Egberto Pereira;Maria-Antonieta C Rodrigues

  • Chapter 29 Palaeophytogeography of Ordovician–Silurian land plants

    Charles H. Wellman;Philippe Steemans;Marco Vecoli;Marco Vecoli

  • FTIR characterisation of the chemical composition of Silurian miospores (cryptospores and trilete spores) from Gotland, Sweden

    Philippe Steemans;Kevin Lepot;Craig P. Marshall;Alain Le Hérissé

  • Lochkovian (earliest Devonian) miospores from the Solimões Basin, northwestern Brazil

    Claudia Rubinstein;José Henrique G. Melo;Philippe Steemans

  • Early to Middle Devonian miospores from northern Saudi Arabia

    Pierre Breuer;Abdullah Al-Ghazi;Abdullah Al-Ghazi;Mansour Al-Ruwaili;Kenneth T. Higgs

  • Les Formations du Dévonien inférieur du Massif de la Vesdre, de la Fenêtre de Theux et du Synclinorium de Dinant (Belgique, France)

    Jacques Godefroid;Alain Blieck;Pierre Bultynck;Léon Dejonghe

  • Miospore assemblages from the Silurian-Devonian boundary, in borehole A1-61, Ghadamis Basin, Libya

    Claudia Rubinstein;Philippe Steemans

  • Siluro-Devonian miospore biostratigraphy of the Urubu River area, western Amazon Basin, northern Brazil

    Philippe Steemans;Claudia Rubinstein;José Henrique G. de Melo

  • Cryptospores and trilete spores from the Llandovery, Nuayyim-2 Borehole, Saudi Arabia

    Philippe Steemans;Ken T. Higgs;Charles H. Wellman

  • Lower Devonian Palynomorphs from the Talacasto Formation, Cerro del Fuerte Section, San Juan Precordillera, Argentina

    A Le Hérissé;CR Rubinstein;Philippe Steemans

  • Silurian and Lower Emsian spores in Saudi Arabia

    Philippe Steemans

  • Putative Late Ordovician land plants.

    Mariusz A. Salamon;Philippe Gerrienne;Philippe Steemans;Przemysław Gorzelak

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Wellman
Charles H. Wellman University of Sheffield
Maurice Streel
Maurice Streel University of Liège
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Marco Vecoli
Marco Vecoli Saudi Aramco (United States)
Ricardo A. Astini
Ricardo A. Astini National University of Córdoba
Florentin Paris
Florentin Paris University of Rennes
Vivi Vajda
Vivi Vajda Swedish Museum of Natural History
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Rudy Swennen
Rudy Swennen KU Leuven
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station

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