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Pierre Rochette is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, and Paleontology.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Rochette has published a number of papers in well-known scientific journals. Selected notable papers include:

  • Water and heat: New constraints on the evolution of the CV chondrite parent body, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Micrometeorite collections: a review and their current status, 2024, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Caleta el Cobre 022 Martian meteorite: Increasing nakhlite diversity, 2020, Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Crystalline inliers near Lake Iro (SE Chad): Post-collisional Ediacaran A2-type granitic magmatism at the southern margin of the Saharan Metacraton, 2020, Journal of African Earth Sciences

Frequent co-authors of Rochette include:

  • J. Gattacceca
  • Bertrand Devouard
  • Y. Quesnel
  • Valérie Andrieu-Ponel
  • Vinciane Debaille

Rochette's contributions are often published in specific venues that recurrently feature their work. These publication venues include:

  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Geosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Rock magnetism and the interpretation of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

    Pierre Rochette;Mike Jackson;Charles Aubourg

  • Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change

    C. Hofmann;V. Courtillot;G. Féraud;P. Rochette

  • Magnetic susceptibility of the rock matrix related to magnetic fabric studies

    Pierre Rochette

  • Magnetic transition at 30-34 Kelvin in pyrrhotite: insight into a widespread occurrence of this mineral in rocks

    Pierre Rochette;Gérard Fillion;Jean-Luc Mattéi;Marinus J. Dekkers

  • Is this magnetic fabric normal? A review and case studies in volcanic formations

    Pierre Rochette;Charles Aubourg;Mireille Perrin

  • Microstructure and magnetic susceptibility applied to emplacement kinematics of granites: the example of the foix pluton (French pyrenees)

    Jean Luc Bouchez;Gérard Gleizes;Toufik Djouadi;Pierre Rochette

  • Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous Chondrite Regolith Breccia

    Peter Jenniskens;Peter Jenniskens;Marc D. Fries;Qing-Zhu Yin;Michael Zolensky

  • The Paris meteorite, the least altered CM chondrite so far

    Roger H. Hewins;Roger H. Hewins;Michèle Bourot-Denise;Brigitte Zanda;Hugues Leroux

  • Inverse magnetic fabric in carbonate-bearing rocks

    Pierre Rochette

  • Magnetic classification of stony meteorites: 2. Non-ordinary chondrites

    Pierre Rochette;Jérôme Gattacceca;Lydie Bonal;Michèle Bourot-Denise

  • Paleomagnetic Records of Meteorites and Early Planetesimal Differentiation

    Benjamin P. Weiss;Jérôme Gattacceca;Sabine Stanley;Pierre Rochette

  • Magnetostratigraphy and timing of the Oligocene Ethiopian traps

    P. Rochette;E. Tamrat;G. Féraud;R. Pik

  • The effect of hydrostatic pressure up to 1.61 GPa on the Morin transition of hematite‐bearing rocks: Implications for planetary crustal magnetization

    Natalia S. Bezaeva;Natalia S. Bezaeva;Natalia S. Bezaeva;François Demory;Pierre Rochette;Ravil A. Sadykov

  • Dating the Homo erectus bearing travertine from Kocabaş (Denizli, Turkey) at at least 1.1 Ma

    Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard;M. Cihat Alçiçek;Pierre Rochette;Samir Khatib

  • Toward a robust normalized magnetic paleointensity method applied to meteorites

    J. Gattacceca;P. Rochette

  • Grain‐size dependence of the magnetic behavior of pyrrhotite during its low‐temperature transition at 34 K

    M. J. Dekkers;J.-L. Mattéi;G. Fillion;P. Rochette

  • Relationship between heavy metals and magnetic properties in a large polluted catchment: The Etang de Berre (south of France)

    V.M. Georgeaud;P. Rochette;J.P. Ambrosi;D. Vandamme

  • MAGNETIC SIGNATURE OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION OF STREAM SEDIMENTS AND CORRELATION WITH HEAVY METALS: CASE STUDY FROM SOUTH FRANCE

    Fabrice Desenfant;Eduard Petrovský;Pierre Rochette

  • Distribution of crustal magnetic fields on Mars: Shock effects of basin-forming impacts

    L. L. Hood;N. C. Richmond;E. Pierazzo;P. Rochette

  • Magnetic susceptibility of the Mont‐Louis andorra ilmenite‐type granite (Pyrenees): A new tool for the petrographic characterization and regional mapping of zoned granite plutons

    Gérard Gleizes;Anne Nédélec;Jean-Luc Bouchez;Albert Autran

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Gattacceca
Jérôme Gattacceca Aix-Marseille University
Luigi Folco
Luigi Folco University of Pisa
Massimo D'Orazio
Massimo D'Orazio University of Pisa
Pierre Beck
Pierre Beck Grenoble Alpes University
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Gordon R. Osinski
Gordon R. Osinski University of Western Ontario
Joshua M. Feinberg
Joshua M. Feinberg University of Minnesota
Matthieu Gounelle
Matthieu Gounelle French National Museum of Natural History

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