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Renaud Caby is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans 31 publications in this main field, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Earth-Surface Processes, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, notably Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies worldwide, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological formations and processes, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Recent publications include:

  • Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A case study of in situ analyses (major and trace elements, U-Pb geochronology and Hf-O isotopes) of a zircon megacryst: Implication for the evolution of the Egéré terrane (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria), 2020, Precambrian Research
  • The Variscan belts of North-West Africa: An African legacy to the Wilson Cycle concept, 2023, Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Fast exhumation of Earth's earliest ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the West Gondwana orogen, Mali, 2023, Geology
  • Passive continental margin subducted to mantle depths: Coesite-bearing metasedimentary rocks from the Neoproterozoic Brasília Orogen, West Gondwana margin, 2024, Precambrian Research

Frequent co-authors in Renaud Caby's research include Olivier Bruguier, Delphine Bosch, Abderrahmane Bendaoud, Mário da Costa Campos Neto, and Carlos E. Ganade. Their collaboration has contributed to multiple publications addressing various geological and geophysical phenomena.

Renaud Caby's research outputs have appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Geology
  • Geochemistry

Best Publications

  • The Borborema shear zone system, NE Brazil

    A. Vauchez;S. Neves;S. Neves;R. Caby;M. Corsini

  • Pan-African displaced terranes in the Tuareg shield (central Sahara)

    R. Black;L. Latouche;Jean-Paul Liégeois;R. Caby

  • Evidence for late Precambrian plate tectonics in West Africa

    R. Black;R. Caby;A. Moussine-Pouchkine;R. Bayer

  • Terrane assembly and geodynamic evolution of central–western Hoggar: a synthesis

    Renaud Caby

  • Precambrian terranes of Benin-Nigeria and northeast Brazil and the Late Proterozoic south Atlantic fit

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  • Obliquely convergent tectonics and granite emplacement in the Trans-Saharan belt of Eastern Nigeria: a synthesis

    Eric Ferré;Gérard Gleizes;Renaud Caby

  • Ediacaran 2,500-km-long synchronous deep continental subduction in the West Gondwana Orogen

    Carlos Ganade de Araujo;Daniela Rubatto;Joerg Hermann;Umberto Cordani

  • Geology of the northern Borborema Province, NE Brazil and its correlation with Nigeria, NW Africa

    M. H. Arthaud;R. Caby;R. A. Fuck;E. L. Dantas

  • The oldest UHP eclogites of the World: age of UHP metamorphism, nature of protoliths and tectonic implications

    Bor-ming Jahn;Renaud Caby;Patrick Monie

  • Crustal Evolution and the Brasiliano Orogeny in Northeast Brazil

    R. Caby;A. N. Sial;M. Arthaud;A. Vauchez

  • Chapter 16 Pan-African Ocean Closure and Continental Collision in the Hoggar-Iforas Segment, Central Sahara

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  • Pan-African, post-collisional, ferro-potassic granite and quartz–monzonite plutons of Eastern Nigeria

    E.C. Ferré;R. Caby;J.J. Peucat;R. Capdevila

  • Geodynamic evolution of the Pan-African orogenic belt: A new interpretation of the Hoggar shield (Algerian Sahara)

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  • Neoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism and tectonic constraint from the nappe system south of the São Francisco Craton, southeast Brazil

    Mario da Costa Campos Neto;Renaud Caby

  • Precambrian coesite from northern Mali; first record and implications for plate tectonics in the trans-Saharan segment of the Pan-African belt

    Renaud Caby

  • Terrane accretion and upward extrusion of high-pressure granulites in the Neoproterozoic nappes of Southeast Brazil: petrologic and structural constraints

    Mario da Costa Campos Neto;Renaud Caby

  • Late Proterozoic arc–continent and continent–continent collision in the pan-African trans-Saharan belt of Mali

    Renaud Caby;Uranie Andreopoulos-Renaud;Christian Pin

  • Geochronology of sedimentary and metasedimentary Precambrian rocks of the West African craton

    Norbert Clauer;Renaud Caby;Daniel Jeannette;Roland Trompette

  • Geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Tilemsi belt of Iforas (Mali, Sahara): a crustal section of an oceanic island arc

    J. Dostal;C. Dupuy;R. Caby

  • Amphibolite facies conditions in the oceanic crust: example of amphibolitized flaser-gabbro and amphibolites from the Chenaillet ophiolite massif (Hautes Alpes, France)

    Catherine Mevel;Renaud Caby;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • Alpine and late-hercynian geochronological constraints in the Argentera Massif (Western Alps)

    Michel Corsini;Gilles Ruffet;Renaud Caby

  • Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian–Nubian Shield: Petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel)

    M.A Cosca;A Shimron;R Caby

  • Pan-African nappe system in southwest Nigeria: the Ife-Ilesha schist belt

    R. Caby;J.M. Boessé

  • Geology of Western Gondwana (2000-500 Ma). Pan-African-Brasiliano aggregation of South America and Africa: Roland Trompette. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1994, 350 pp., Dfl. 185.50, ISBN 90-54-10-1652

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Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Bruguier
Olivier Bruguier University of Montpellier
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Patrick Monié
Patrick Monié University of Montpellier
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
J. Dostal
J. Dostal Saint Mary's University
Joerg Hermann
Joerg Hermann University of Bern
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Jean-Paul Liégeois
Jean-Paul Liégeois Royal Museum for Central Africa
Alain Vauchez
Alain Vauchez University of Montpellier
Roberto F. Weinberg
Roberto F. Weinberg Monash University

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