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Thierry Adatte is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output includes 228 publications in this field, with extensive contributions to subfields such as Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The research topics covered by Thierry Adatte extend across various domains including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Geological Formations and Processes.

Thierry Adatte's work has been published frequently in several scientific venues. Some of the prominent journals and publication platforms include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Climate of the past
  • Geology

The scientist has authored and coauthored several recent papers of note, reflecting a focus on geochemical proxies, volcanism-related studies, and paleoenvironmental changes. Selected recent publications include:

  • Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (2020), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • U-Pb zircon age constraints on the earliest eruptions of the Deccan Large Igneous Province, Malwa Plateau, India (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Effect of Intense Weathering and Postdepositional Degradation of Organic Matter on Hg/TOC Proxy in Organic-rich Sediments and its Implications for Deep-Time Investigations (2020), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin (2022), published in Nature
  • Mercury enrichments of the Pyrenean foreland basins sediments support enhanced volcanism during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) (2022), published in Global and Planetary Change

Thierry Adatte has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with numerous joint publications documented. Frequent collaborators include Jorge E. Spangenberg, Gerta Keller, Sébastien Castelltort, Nicolas Thibault, and Torsten Vennemann.

Best Publications

  • U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Blair Schoene;Kyle M. Samperton;Michael P. Eddy;Gerta Keller

  • U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Blair Schoene;Michael P. Eddy;Kyle M. Samperton;C. Brenhin Keller

  • Phosphorus and the roles of productivity and nutrient recycling during oceanic anoxic event 2

    Haydon P. Mort;Thierry Adatte;Karl B. Föllmi;Gerta Keller

  • Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene climate and sea-level fluctuations: the Tunisian record

    Thierry Adatte;Gerta Keller;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • The Cenomanian/Turonian anoxic event at the Bonarelli Level in Italy and Spain: enhanced productivity and/or better preservation?

    Haydon Mort;Olivier Jacquat;Thierry Adatte;Philip Steinmann

  • Main Deccan volcanism phase ends near the K-T boundary: Evidence from the Krishna-Godavari Basin, SE India

    G. Keller;T. Adatte;S. Gardin;A. Bartolini

  • Palaeoenvironment of the Cenomanian–Turonian transition at Eastbourne, England

    Gerta Keller;Qi Han;Thierry Adatte;Stephen J. Burns

  • Polar record of Early Jurassic massive carbon injection

    Guillaume Suan;Guillaume Suan;Boris L. Nikitenko;Mikhail A. Rogov;François Baudin

  • Yucatán subsurface stratigraphy: Implications and constraints for the Chicxulub impact

    W. C. Ward;Gerta Keller;W. Stinnesbeck;T. Adatte

  • Erosion by an Alpine glacier.

    Frédéric Herman;Olivier Beyssac;Mattia Brughelli;Stuart N. Lane

  • Multiple impacts across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

    G. Keller;W. Stinnesbeck;T. Adatte;D. Stüben

  • Continental weathering and redox conditions during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the northwestern Tethys: Insight from the Posidonia Shale section in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Karl B. Föllmi;Thierry Adatte;Jorge E. Spangenberg

  • Late Cretaceous sea‐level changes in Tunisia: a multi‐disciplinary approach

    Liangquan Li;Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

  • K-T transition in Deccan traps of central India marks major marine seaway across India

    G. Keller;T. Adatte;S. Bajpai;D.M. Mohabey

  • Mercury anomaly, Deccan volcanism, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Eric Font;Thierry Adatte;Alcides Nobrega Sial;Luiz Drude de Lacerda

  • Maastrichtian to Paleocene depositional environment of the Dakhla Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: sedimentology, mineralogy, and integrated micro- and macrofossil biostratigraphies

    A.A. Tantawy;G. Keller;T. Adatte;W. Stinnesbeck

  • Lithostratigraphic and mineralogic correlations of near K/T boundary clastic sediments in northeastern Mexico: Implications for origin and nature of deposition

    Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Gerta Keller

  • Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction

    Gerta Keller;Thierry Adatte;Wolfgang Stinnesbeck;Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra

  • Investigating the history of East Asian monsoon and climate during the last glacial-interglacial period (0-140 000 years): Mineralogy and geochemistry of ODP Sites 1143 and 1144, South China Sea

    F. Tamburini;T. Adatte;K. Föllmi;S.M. Bernasconi

  • Palaeocene-early Eocene climatic evolution in the Tethyan realm: clay mineral evidence

    M.-P. Bolle;T. Adatte

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerta Keller
Gerta Keller Princeton University
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Karl B. Föllmi
Karl B. Föllmi University of Lausanne
Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
Wolfgang Stinnesbeck Heidelberg University
Zsolt Berner
Zsolt Berner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Blair Schoene
Blair Schoene Princeton University
Doris Stüben
Doris Stüben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Emanuela Mattioli
Emanuela Mattioli Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michel Magny
Michel Magny Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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