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Samuel Toucanne is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing significantly to the understanding of geological and climatic processes.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Geophysics
  • Ecology

Toucanne's work explores several key topics, such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

The scientist has published multiple papers in a variety of journals, demonstrating a focus on paleoclimate, sedimentology, and oceanographic processes. Notable publications include:

  • "The North Atlantic Glacial Eastern Boundary Current as a Key Driver for Ice-Sheet-AMOC Interactions and Climate Instability," 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Heinrich summers," 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33-17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "From platform top to adjacent deep sea: New source-to-sink insights into carbonate sediment production and transfer in the SW Indian Ocean (Glorieuses archipelago)," 2020, Marine Geology

Frequent collaborators with whom Toucanne has coauthored numerous papers include:

  • Filipa Naughton
  • María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi
  • Natalia Vázquez Riveiros
  • Teresa Rodrigues
  • Liviu Giosan

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Marine Geology

Best Publications

  • An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

    L. Bruce Railsback;Philip L. Gibbard;Martin J. Head;Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in world river sediments revisited

    Germain Bayon;Germain Bayon;Samuel Toucanne;Charlotte Skonieczny;L. Andre

  • Timing of massive ‘Fleuve Manche’ discharges over the last 350 kyr: insights into the European ice-sheet oscillations and the European drainage network from MIS 10 to 2

    Samuel Toucanne;Sébastien Zaragosi;J.-F. Bourillet;Michel Cremer

  • Position of the Polar Front along the western Iberian margin during key cold episodes of the last 45 ka

    Frédérique Eynaud;Lucia de Abreu;Antje H. L. Voelker;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa

    Germain Bayon;Bernard Dennielou;Joël Etoubleau;Emmanuel Ponzevera

  • Millennial-scale fluctuations of the European Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial, and their potential impact on global climate

    Samuel Toucanne;Guillaume Soulet;Nicolas Freslon;Ricardo Silva Jacinto

  • Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in sedimentary organic matter

    Nicolas Freslon;Nicolas Freslon;Germain Bayon;Samuel Toucanne;Sylvain Bermell

  • Contourites of the Gulf of Cadiz: A high-resolution record of the paleocirculation of the Mediterranean outflow water during the last 50,000 years

    S. Toucanne;T. Mulder;Joachim Schönfeld;V. Hanquiez

  • Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of weathering and erosion in southwest China

    Shiming Wan;Samuel Toucanne;Peter D. Clift;Debo Zhao

  • A 1.2 Ma record of glaciation and fluvial discharge from the West European Atlantic margin

    Samuel Toucanne;Samuel Toucanne;S. Zaragosi;Jean-Francois Bourillet;P. L. Gibbard

  • The first estimation of Fleuve Manche palaeoriver discharge during the last deglaciation: Evidence for Fennoscandian ice sheet meltwater flow in the English Channel ca 20–18 ka ago

    Samuel Toucanne;Sébastien Zaragosi;Jean-François Bourillet;Vincent Marieu

  • A 130,000-year record of Levantine Intermediate Water flow variability in the Corsica Trough, western Mediterranean Sea

    Samuel Toucanne;Gwenaël Jouet;Emmanuelle Ducassou;Maria-Angela Bassetti

  • The impact of the last European deglaciation on the deep-sea turbidite systems of the Celtic-Armorican margin (Bay of Biscay)

    Sébastien Zaragosi;Jean-François Bourillet;Frédérique Eynaud;Samuel Toucanne

  • Tracking rainfall in the northern Mediterranean borderlands during sapropel deposition

    Samuel Toucanne;Charlie Morelle Angue Minto'o;Christophe Fontanier;Maria-Angela Bassetti

  • Activity of the turbidite levees of the Celtic-Armorican margin (Bay of Biscay) during the last 30,000 years: Imprints of the last European deglaciation and Heinrich events

    Samuel Toucanne;S Zaragosi;Jean-Francois Bourillet;F Naughton

  • Land-ocean changes on orbital and millennial time scales and the penultimate glaciation

    Vasiliki Margari;Luke C. Skinner;David A. Hodell;Belen Martrat

  • Abrupt drainage cycles of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet

    Guillaume Soulet;Guillemette Ménot;Germain Bayon;Frauke Rostek

  • Contourites in the Gulf of Cadiz: a cautionary note on potentially ambiguous indicators of bottom current velocity

    Thierry Mulder;Rim Hassan;Emmanuelle Ducassou;Sébastien Zaragosi

  • High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346

    Ryuji Tada;Tomohisa Irino;Ken Ikehara;Akinori Karasuda

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • A 130,000-year record of Levantine Intermediate Water flow variability in the Corsica Trough, western Mediterranean Sea

    S. Toucanne;G. Jouet;E. Ducassou;M.-A. Bassetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Bruno Malaizé
Bruno Malaizé University of Bordeaux
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Bernard Dennielou
Bernard Dennielou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Joachim Schönfeld
Joachim Schönfeld GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin Ziegler
Martin Ziegler Utrecht University
Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge

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