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Pierre Cartigny is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Cartigny's work engages with several main topics: Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Astro and Planetary Science, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Frequent publication venues for Cartigny include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Chemical Geology
  • Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Cartigny are:

  • Deep carbon through time: Earth's diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Carbon and Nitrogen in Mantle-Derived Diamonds, 2022, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • Early oxidation of the martian crust triggered by impacts, 2020, Science Advances
  • Northwest Africa 8694, a ferroan chassignite: Bridging the gap between nakhlites and chassignites, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Multiple sulfur isotope fractionation in hydrothermal systems in the presence of radical ions and molecular sulfur, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Cartigny has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Nelly Assayag
  • Guillaume Barré
  • Jabrane Labidi
  • Émilie Thomassot
  • Frédéric Moynier

Best Publications

  • Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

    Steven B. Shirey;Pierre Cartigny;Daniel J. Frost;Shantanu Keshav

  • Stable Isotopes and the Origin of Diamond

    Pierre Cartigny

  • Mass-Independent Sulfur of Inclusions in Diamond and Sulfur Recycling on Early Earth

    J. Farquhar;B. A. Wing;K. D. McKeegan;J. W. Harris

  • Non-chondritic sulphur isotope composition of the terrestrial mantle.

    J. Labidi;P. Cartigny;M. Moreira

  • Diamond genesis, mantle fractionations and mantle nitrogen content: a study of δ13C–N concentrations in diamonds

    Pierre Cartigny;Jeff W Harris;Marc Javoy

  • Towards a consistent mantle carbon flux estimate: Insights from volatile systematics (H2O/Ce, δD, CO2/Nb) in the North Atlantic mantle (14° N and 34° N)

    Pierre Cartigny;Françoise Pineau;Cyril Aubaud;Marc Javoy

  • 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

  • Eclogitic Diamond Formation at Jwaneng: No Room for a Recycled Component

    Pierre Cartigny;Jeffrey W. Harris;Jeffrey W. Harris;Marc Javoy;Marc Javoy

  • Nitrogen Isotopes and Mantle Geodynamics: The Emergence of Life and the Atmosphere–Crust–Mantle Connection

    Pierre Cartigny;Bernard Marty

  • Volatile (C, N, Ar) variability in MORB and the respective roles of mantle source heterogeneity and degassing: the case of the Southwest Indian Ridge

    P. Cartigny;N. Jendrzejewski;F. Pineau;E. Petit

  • Diamond Genesis, Seismic Structure, and Evolution of the Kaapvaal-Zimbabwe Craton

    Steven B. Shirey;Jeffrey W. Harris;Stephen H. Richardson;Matthew J. Fouch

  • Interpretation of the Nitrogen isotopic composition of Precambrian sedimentary rocks: assumptions and perspectives

    Magalie Ader;C. Thomazo;Pierre Sansjofre;Vincent Busigny

  • Determination of multiple sulfur isotopes in glasses: A reappraisal of the MORB δ34S

    J. Labidi;P. Cartigny;J.L. Birck;N. Assayag

  • Subduction-related diamonds? — The evidence for a mantle-derived origin from coupled δ13C–δ15N determinations

    Pierre Cartigny;Jeff W Harris;David Phillips;Michel Girard

  • Diamond Formation: A Stable Isotope Perspective

    Pierre Cartigny;Médéric Palot;Emilie Thomassot;Jeff W. Harris

  • Methane-related diamond crystallization in the Earth's mantle: Stable isotope evidences from a single diamond-bearing xenolith

    E. Thomassot;E. Thomassot;P. Cartigny;J.W. Harris;K.S. (Fanus) Viljoen

  • Nitrogen isotopes in peridotitic diamonds from Fuxian, China: the mantle signature

    Pierre Cartigny;Stuart Boyd;Jeff. Harris;Marc Javoy

  • Metasomatic diamond growth: A multi-isotope study (13C, 15N, 33S, 34S) of sulphide inclusions and their host diamonds from Jwaneng (Botswana)

    E. Thomassot;E. Thomassot;P. Cartigny;J.W. Harris;J.P. Lorand

  • Evidence of fluid inclusions in metamorphic microdiamonds from the Kokchetav massif, northern Kazakhstan

    K De Corte;K De Corte;P Cartigny;V.S Shatsky;N.V Sobolev

  • Sulfur isotope budget (32S, 33S, 34S and 36S) in Pacific-Antarctic ridge basalts: A record of mantle source heterogeneity and hydrothermal sulfide assimilation

    J. Labidi;P. Cartigny;C. Hamelin;M. Moreira

  • The origin and formation of metamorphic microdiamonds from the Kokchetav massif, Kazakhstan: a nitrogen and carbon isotopic study

    Pierre Cartigny;Pierre Cartigny;Katrien De Corte;Katrien De Corte;Vladislav S Shatsky;Magali Ader

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff W. Harris
Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow
Vincent Busigny
Vincent Busigny Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Marc Javoy
Marc Javoy Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Magali Ader
Magali Ader Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Steven B. Shirey
Steven B. Shirey Carnegie Institution for Science
Thomas Stachel
Thomas Stachel University of Alberta
James Farquhar
James Farquhar University of Maryland, College Park
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day University of California, San Diego
Manuel Moreira
Manuel Moreira University of Orléans
Slimane Bekki
Slimane Bekki Sorbonne University

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