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Overview

Thierry Mulder is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science. Their body of work spans various specialized domains, including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

Their research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

A selection of Thierry Mulder's recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their work:

  • On the architecture of intra-formational Mass-Transport Deposits: Insights from the carbonate slopes of Great Bahama Bank and the Apulian Carbonate Platform, 2020, Marine Geology
  • Modern relationships between microscopic charcoal in marine sediments and fire regimes on adjacent landmasses to refine the interpretation of marine paleofire records: An Iberian case study, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology of a modern carbonate slope system and associated sedimentary processes: Example of the giant Great Abaco Canyon, Bahamas, 2020, Sedimentology
  • Linking carbonate sediment transfer to seafloor morphology: Insights from Exuma Valley, the Bahamas, 2020, Sedimentology
  • Submarine landslides on a carbonate platform slope: forward numerical modelling of mechanical stratigraphy and scenarios of failure precondition, 2020, Landslides

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Vincent Hanquiez
  • Emmanuelle Ducassou
  • Audrey Recouvreur
  • Thibault Cavailhès
  • John J. G. Reijmer

Thierry Mulder's publications often appear in journals specialized in geological and environmental sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine Geology
  • Sedimentology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Landslides
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Best Publications

  • The physical character of subaqueous sedimentary density flows and their deposits

    Thierry Mulder;Jan Alexander

  • Marine hyperpycnal flows: initiation, behavior and related deposits. A review

    Thierry Mulder;James P.M. Syvitski;Sébastien Migeon;Jean-Claude Faugères

  • Turbidity Currents Generated at River Mouths during Exceptional Discharges to the World Oceans

    Thierry Mulder;James P. M. Syvitski

  • Classification of offshore mass movements

    T. Mulder;P. Cochonat

  • Predicting the terrestrial flux of sediment to the global ocean: a planetary perspective

    James P.M Syvitski;Scott D Peckham;Rachael Hilberman;Thierry Mulder

  • Estimating fluvial sediment transport: The rating parameters

    James P. Syvitski;Mark D. Morehead;David B. Bahr;Thierry Mulder

  • The quest for the Africa–Eurasia plate boundary west of the Strait of Gibraltar

    N Zitellini;E Gracia;L Matias;P Terrinha

  • Inversely graded turbidite sequences in the deep Mediterranean: a record of deposits from flood-generated turbidity currents?

    T. Mulder;S. Migeon;B. Savoye;J.-C. Faugères

  • High-resolution stratigraphy of the Mediterranean outflow contourite system in the Gulf of Cadiz during the late Pleistocene: The impact of Heinrich events

    E. Llave;Joachim Schönfeld;F.J. Hernández-Molina;T. Mulder

  • Detailed seismic-reflection and sedimentary study of turbidite sediment waves on the Var Sedimentary Ridge (SE France): significance for sediment transport and deposition and for the mechanisms of sediment-wave construction

    S. Migeon;S. Migeon;B. Savoye;E. Zanella;T. Mulder

  • Modeling of Erosion and Deposition by Turbidity Currents Generated at River Mouths

    Thierry Mulder;James P. M. Syvitski;Kenneth I. Skene

  • Numerical modelling of a mid‐sized gravity flow: the 1979 Nice turbidity current (dynamics, processes, sediment budget and seafloor impact)

    T. Mulder;B. Savoye;J. P. M. Syvitski

  • Earthquake and flood-induced turbidites in the Saguenay Fjord (Québec): a Holocene paleoseismicity record

    Guillaume St-Onge;Thierry Mulder;David J.W. Piper;Claude Hillaire-Marcel

  • Climatic and Morphologic Relationships of Rivers: Implications of Sea-Level Fluctuations on River Loads

    Thierry Mulder;J. P. M. Syvitski

  • Sandy modern turbidite lobes: A new insight from high resolution seismic data

    Anne Gervais;Bruno Savoye;Thierry Mulder;Eliane Gonthier

  • Evolution of the Nile deep‐sea turbidite system during the Late Quaternary: influence of climate change on fan sedimentation

    Emmanuelle Ducassou;Sébastien Migeon;Thierry Mulder;Anne Murat

  • 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

  • Deep-water sediment wave fields, bottom current sand channels and gravity flow channel-lobe systems: Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic

    Edward L. Habgood;Neil H. Kenyon;Douglas G. Masson;Andrey Akhmetzhanov

  • Twentieth century floods recorded in the deep Mediterranean sediments

    T. Mulder;S. Migeon;B. Savoye;J.-M. Jouanneau

  • Gravity Processes and Deposits on Continental Slope, Rise and Abyssal Plains

    Thierry Mulder

  • The Quest for the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary West of the Strait of Gibraltar

    N. Zitellini;E. Gràcia;L. Matias;P. Terrinha

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Savoye
Bruno Savoye French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jean-Claude Faugères
Jean-Claude Faugères University of Bordeaux
John J. G. Reijmer
John J. G. Reijmer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michel Cremer
Michel Cremer University of Bordeaux
James P. M. Syvitski
James P. M. Syvitski University of Colorado Boulder
Sébastien Zaragosi
Sébastien Zaragosi University of Bordeaux
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
David J.W. Piper
David J.W. Piper Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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