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Pierre Giresse is affiliated with the University of Perpignan in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Archeology, Geophysics, and Biomaterials. Their research sits at the intersection of geology, paleoclimatology, and environmental studies.

Their work frequently investigates geological formations, clay minerals and soil interactions, geochemistry, and elemental analysis, alongside paleoenvironmental reconstructions and archaeological contexts related to Pleistocene-era hominins and rock art studies.

Key publication venues for Pierre Giresse include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Minerals
  • Interpretation
  • Open Journal of Geology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jean Maley, Germain Bayon, Lies Loncke, Alex Chepstow-Lusty, and Cédric Tallobre.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Pierre Giresse include:

  • Understanding the 2500 yr BP rainforest crisis in West and Central Africa in the framework of the Late Holocene: Pluridisciplinary analysis and multi-archive reconstruction, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Glauconitization on Gulf of Guinea, Glauconite Factory: Overview of and New Data on Tropical Atlantic Continental Shelves and Deep Slopes, 2022, Minerals
  • A focus on the last 1000 years of natural environmental changes in the tropical rainforests of West and Central Africa. Can we detect anthropogenic disturbances?, 2022, Global and Planetary Change

Other relevant papers connected through co-authors include:

  • The Behavior of Rare Earth Elements during Green Clay Authigenesis on the Congo Continental Shelf, 2023, Minerals
  • Reconstruction of the holocene climate and environmental changes of Niayes peat bog in northern coast of Senegal (NW Africa) based on stable isotopes and charcoals analysis, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the Lake Barombi Mbo (West Cameroon) deduced from pollen and carbon isotopes of organic matter

    P. Giresse;J. Maley;P. Brenac

  • Particulate matter and organic carbon budgets for the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)

    Xavier Durrieu De Madron;Abderrazzak Abassi;Serge Heussner;André Monaco

  • Mesozoic-Cenozoic history of the Congo Basin

    Pierre Giresse

  • Carbon isotope composition and geochemistry of particulate organic matter in the Congo River (Central Africa): Application to the study of Quaternary sediments off the mouth of the river

    André Mariotti;François Gadel;Pierre Giresse;Kinga-Mouzeo

  • Sedimentation and palaeoenvironment in crater lake Barombi Mbo, Cameroon, during the last 25,000 years

    Pierre Giresse;Jean Maley;Kerry Kelts

  • Historical environmental changes at phalasarna harbor, West Crete

    P. A. Pirazzoli;J. Ausseil-Badie;P. Giresse;E. Hadjidaki

  • Glauconitic sediments on the continental shelf off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

    Brian D. Bornhold;Pierre Giresse

  • Comment on "Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa"

    K. Neumann;M.K.H. Eggert;Richard Oslisly;B. Clist

  • Lithostratigraphic, geophysical and morpho-tectonic studies of the South Cameroon shelf

    Jean Benkhelil;Pierre Giresse;Claude Poumot;Gabriel Ngueutchoua

  • Effect of forest and savanna vegetation on the carbon-isotope composition of sediments from the Sanaga River, Cameroon

    M. I. Bird;P. Giresse;A. R. Chivas

  • Comment on “Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa”

    Jean Maley;Pierre Giresse;Charles Doumenge;Charly Favier

  • Holocene tectonic uplift deduced from elevated shorelines, eastern Coastal Range of Taiwan

    P.M. Liew;P.A. Pirazzoli;M.L. Hsieh;M. Arnold

  • Late Holocene forest contraction and fragmentation in central Africa

    Jean Maley;Charles Doumenge;Pierre Giresse;Gil Mahé

  • A seasonal cycle in the carbon‐isotope composition of organic carbon in the Sanaga River, Cameroon

    Michael I. Bird;Pierre Giresse;Simon Ngos

  • Modern pollen deposition in the Rhone delta area (Lagoonal and marine sediments), France

    Genevieve Cambon;Jean‐Pierre Suc;Jean‐Claude Aloisi;Pierre Giresse

  • Lithostratigraphy, volcanism, paleomagnetism and palynology of Quaternary lacustrine deposits from Barombi Mbo (West Cameroon): Preliminary results

    Jean Maley;D.A. Livingstone;P. Giresse;N. Thouveny

  • La lithostratigraphie des sediments hemipelagiques du delta profond du fleuve Congo et ses indications sur les paleoclimats de la fin du Quaternaire

    Pierre Giresse;Gabriel Bongo-Passi;G. Delibrias;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • Stratigraphic condensed deposition and diagenetic evolution of green clay minerals in deep water sediments on the Ivory Coast–Ghana Ridge

    P Giresse;A Wiewióra

  • The nature and chronostratigraphy of Quaternary pyroclastic accumulations from lake Barombi Mbo (West-Cameroon)

    G. Cornen;Y. Bande;P. Giresse;J. Maley

  • Present-Day Rhythmic Deposition in the Grand Rhone Prodelta (NW Mediterranean) According to High-Resolution Pollen Analyses

    Célia Beaudouin;Jean-Pierre Suc;Geneviève Cambon;Abdelali Touzani

Frequent Co-Authors

Germain Bayon
Germain Bayon French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Roselyne Buscail
Roselyne Buscail University of Perpignan
Jacques Déverchère
Jacques Déverchère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Serge Berné
Serge Berné University of Perpignan
David Williamson
David Williamson Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Laurence Droz
Laurence Droz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gwenael Jouet
Gwenael Jouet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Gil Mahé
Gil Mahé University of Montpellier
George W. Kling
George W. Kling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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