Relief and paleoenvironmental conditions during the mid-late Miocene in the French Western Alps (Dévoluy Massif) revealed by Obiou Cave deposits.

Conference publication: Congr. Intern. Spéléologie – UIS2022, Le Bourget du Lac, présentaion orale , publiée.    Authors : Marianna Jagercikova, François Lemot, Pierre Valla, Speranta-Maria Popescu,  Séverine Fauquette, Jean – Pierre Suc, Amandine Sartégou...

Le surcreusement messinien à Lyon : tracé, amplitude, et remplissage.

  Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.10, présentation orale, p. 640.     Authors : Gilles Dromart, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Emmanuel Egal, Lucie Perino, Jean-Loup Rubino, Philippe Sorrel    ...

Soulèvement pliocène du Massif Central (France) mis en évidence par la quantification des paléoaltitudes du Stratovolcan du Cantal et du site de Murat.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T1.3, poster, p. 48.     Authors : Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, François Guillocheau, Sophie Violette, Anne Jost, Cécile Robin, Justine Briais,...

Implication des reconstructions palinspatiques dans l’évolution des seuils centraux méditerranéens durant la crise de Salinité Messinienne.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.10, présentation orale, p. 646.     Authors : Romain Pellen, Christian Gorini, Daniel Aslanian, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Laurent Jolivet, Marina Rabineau, Jean-Loup...

Evidences of pre-Zanclean marine reflooding of the Mediterranean Basin.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.10, présentation orale, p. 648.     Authors : Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, William Cavazza, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, Christian Gorini.    ...

Le paradoxe de l’Ebre messinien.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.10, présentation orale, p. 644.   Authors : Romain Pellen, Daniel Aslanian, Marina Rabineau, Jean-Pierre Suc, Christian Gorini, Estelle Leroux, Carmine Silenziario, Speranta-Maria...

Climat en Arctique du Paléocène à l’Eocène supérieur (58-40 Ma) d’après les pollens du site IODP 302 (ACEX).

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.3, présentation orale, p. 589.   Authors : Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Cécile Robin.     Abstract: Les forages IODP 302, réalisés au centre de...

Extension septentrionale des mangroves lors de quatre maxima thermiques (56 Ma, 54-59 Ma, 17-14 Ma , aujourd’hui.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.4, présentation orale, p. 610.   Authors : Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Mostefa Bessedik, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Cécile Robin, Loïc Labrousse...

Les épisodes Lago Mare associés à la Crise messinienne.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T1.3, présentation orale, p. 647.     Authors : Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhou, Damien Do Couto, Romain Pellen, Marina...

Upstream prolongation of Messinian canyon in the Rhone system and its tributaries

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.10, présentation orale, p. 649.     Authors : Jean-Loup Rubino, Jean-Pierre Su, Gilles Dromart, Bastien Huet, Marina Rabineau, Frédéric Ricciard, Estelle Leroux, Speranta-Maria...

Mise en place et évolution du système fluviatile de l’Ebre au regard de l’évolution des budgets sédimentaires néogènes des bassins de Valence et Minorque.

Conference publication: 27ème Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, session T11.3, poster, p. 645.   Authors : Romain Pellen, Estelle Leroux, Marina Rabineau, Daniel Aslanian, Jean- Pierre Suc, Christian Gorini, Carmine Silenziario, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Loup...

Mangrove distribution and diversity during three Cenozoic thermal maxima in the Northern hemisphere (pollen records from the Arctic – North Atlantic – Mediterranean regions).

Research Article: Journal of Biogeography, 2021, Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 2771-2784.     Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Mostefa Bessedik, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Cécile Robin, Loïc Labrousse     Abstract:...

Pre-Zanclean end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: new evidence from Central Mediterraneran reference sections.

Research Article: Journal of the Geological Society, volume 178, February 202.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, William Cavazza, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, Christian Gorini   Abstract: The concept of a geologically...

Late Quaternary vegetation and climate of SE Europe – NW Asia according to pollen record of three offshore cores from the Black and Marmara seas.

Research Article:  Palaeodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Volume 101, January 2021, Pages 197-212.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Stephan Klotz, , Gilles Lericolais, François Guichard, M. Namik Çagatay, Liviu Giosan, Michel Calleja,...

Subtropical mangrove and evergreen forest reveal Paleogene terrestrial climate and physiography at the North Pole.

Research Article:  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 551, 109755,  19 April 2020.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Cécile Robin   Abstract: Sedimentological, micropaleontological and geochemical...

Pliocene uplift of the Massif Central (France) constrained by the palaeoelevation quantified from the pollen record of sediments preserved alonf the Cantal Stratovolcano (Murat area).

Research Article Journal of the Geological Society, Vol 177, PP 923-938   Authors : Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, François Guillocheau, Sophie Violette, Anne Jost, Cécile Robin, Justine Briais, Guillaume Baby Abstract: The French...

Multidisciplinary study of Marine archives: reconstruc- tion of Sea-level, Sediment yields, Sediment sources, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography and vertical movement on margins: examples from the Western Mediterranean Sea

Authors : M. Rabineau, R. Pellen, V. Pasquier, M. Belucci, S. Badhani,  S. Molliex, M. Garcia-Garcia, E.Leroux, M. Arab, D. Do Couto, G.Jouet, F. Bache,  E. Miramontes, J. Lofi, M. Moulin, P. Schnurle, J. Poort, B. Dennielou, A. Afilhado, S.-M.Popescu, M.-A. Bassetti,...

Evolution des environnements marins et continentaux depuis 23 Ma.

Article: Géochronique,  Seprmbre, 2019, Dossier ‘Méditerranée’, Invited papier.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Jean-Paul Saint Martin, Simona Saint Martin, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Séverine Fauquette.   Abstract: Le domaine méditerranéen s.l., espace marin...

The Messinian Ebro River incision

Article: Global and Planetary Change, Volume 18 : 102988, July, 2019 Authors: R. Pellen, D. Aslanian, M. Rabineau, J.-P. Suc, C. Gorini, E. Leroux, C. Blanpied, C. Silenziario, S.-M. Popescu, J.L. Rubino   Abstract: Morphological sills condition sedimentary,...

The Zambezi delta (Mozambique Channel, East Africa): High resolution dating combining bio-orbital and seismic stratigraphies to determine climate (palaeoprecipitation) and tectonic controls on a passive margin.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2019, vol 105: 293-312   Authors: Ponte Jean-Pierre, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Speranta Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Massimo Dall’Asta, Mihaela C. Melinte-Dobrinescu, Miroslav Bubik, Gérard Dupont, Jéremie Gaillot....

Neogene evolution and demise of the Amapá carbonate platform, Amazon Continental Margin, Brazil.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105 (2019), 185 -203   Authors: A.M. Cruz, A.T. Reis, J.P. Suc, C.G. Silva, D.B. Praeg, D. Granjeon, M.Rabineau, S.-M. Popescu, C.Gorini.   Abstract: The Amazon continental shelf hosted one of the world’s...

Palynostratigraphie vs. climatostratigrpahie du Cénozoïque à partir de vingt-trois forages.

Conference: Séance Spécialisée Soc. géol. France, ‘Forages profonds en France : 30 ans de résultats’, 13-14 Février 2019, Paris. Authors : Jean- Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Séverine Fauquette   Abstract: Depuis 40 années, des analyses polliniques sont...

Climatic context for the last 35 Myr

Article:   In “Atlas of the stratigraphic markers in the Western Mediterranean – Focus on the Messinian and Plio-Quaternary of the Gulf of Lion”, Leroux et al., Commission for the Geological map of the World edit., p. 13/77 + DVD,    doi :...

Regional climatic context according to pollen records.

Article: In “Atlas of the stratigraphic markers in the Western Mediterranean – Focus on the Messinian and Plio-Quaternary of the Gulf of Lion”, Leroux et al., Commission for the Geological map of the World edit., p. 15 + CD, sous presse....

La Crise de salinité messinienne.

Article: Géochronique,   vol 151 , 18-23, September, 2019, Dossier ‘Méditerranée’, Invited papier.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Jean-Paul Saint Martin, Simona Saint Martin, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Séverine Fauquette.   Abstract: Le domaine méditerranéen s.l.,...

Climatic context for the last 5 Myr.

Article: In “Atlas of the stratigraphic markers in the Western Mediterranean – Focus on the Messinian and Plio-Quaternary of the Gulf of Lion”, Leroux et al., Commission for the Geological map of the World edit., p. 14 + CD, In press.   Authors: Estelle...

Evidence for Subtropical warmth in Canadian Arctic (Beaufort-Mackenzie, NW Terrirories, Canada) during the early Eocene.

Article: in Piepjohn, K., Strauss, J.V., Reinhardt, L., and McClelland, W.C., eds., Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens: Geological Society of America Special Paper 541, p. 1–28,...

Pollen records and Mediterranean flora, vegetation and climate of the last 23 millions years.

Article: Ecologia mediterranea, 44, 2, 53-85.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Séverine Fauquette, Moustafa Bessedik, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Naima Bachiri Taoufiq, Zhuo Zeng, Fédéric Médail.   Abstract: In the last 46 years extensive...

Changements climatiques en région arctique durant l’Eocène : transition d’un « greenhouse climate » à un « icehouse climate »

Conference:Journées scientifiques d’Orsay, 2018. Session ‘Variabilités climatiques du Cénozoïque au Quaternaire’, Orsay, France.https://www.galeacysta.com/wp-content/uploads/Fauquette-et-al.-2018-Journées-sci.-orsay-poster.pdf Authors:Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre...

The pioneering contributions and legacy of Waldo H. Zagwijn (1928–2018).

Article: Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 31 (1), 2018, iii – viii.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Adele Bertini, Martin J. Head, Philip L. Gibbard, Filomena Diniz.   Abstract: Professor Dr. Waldo H. Zagwijn passed away on 26...

Late Cretaceous – Palaeogene topography of the Chinese Tian Shan: New insights from geomorphology and sedimentology.

Article: Earth Planetary and Science Letters, Volume 491. October 2018, pages 95-106   Authors: Marc Jolivet, Laurie Barrier, Olivier Dauteuil, Amandine Laborde, Qian Li, Bettina Reichenbacher, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jingeng Sha, Zhaojie Guo.   Abstract:...

The Alps: A geological, climatic and human perspective on vegetation history and modern plant diversity.

Article: In “Mountains, climate, and biodiversity”, Hoorn C., Perrigo A. & Antonelli A. (Eds.), Wiley, 2018, Volume 27, Pages 413-428.   Authors: Séverine Fauquette,  Jean-Pierre Suc, Frédéric Médail, Serge D. Muller, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Adele Bertini,...

The Appenine foredeep (Italy): a perched isolated basin during the Messinian Salinty Crisis (5.97 – 5.32 Ma).

Poster: AAPG – Granda, Spain, 5-18 March 2018. Session 4 : Extension and Hyper-extension in the Mediterranean.   Authors: Romain Pellen, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Marina Rabineau, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Daniel Aslanian, Jean-Loup...

Ceratolithus acutus Gartner and Bukry 1974 (= C. armatus Müller 1974), calcareous nannofossil marker of the marine reflooding that terminated the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Article: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 485, 1 November 2017, pages 986-989.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Damien Do Couto.   Abstract: The calcareous nannofossil ...

The Zambezi sedimentary system: a record of the vertical movements of the Mozambican margin since Cretaceous time.

Conference: International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, 10-12 October 2017, Page 212. https://ims2017.sciencesconf.org   Authors: Jean-Pierre Ponte, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Massimo Dall’Asta, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Laurence Droz, Marina...

Pollen records and climatostratigraphy: A powerful tool for short- to long-distance correlations of Cenozoic deposits.

Poster: International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, 10-12 October 2017, Page. 853.  https://ims2017.sciencesconf.org   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mostefa Bessedik, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Zhuo Zheng, Jean-Loup Rubino, Chloé le Gouche,...

The micropaleontological signature of the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the central Mediterranean basins: Paleogeographic inferences.

Conference: International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, 10-12 October 2017, Page 212. https://ims2017.sciencesconf.org   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Nadia Barhoun, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Maria Angela Bassetti, Martin J....

The Apennine foredeep (Italy): a perched isolated basin during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Conference: International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, 10-12 October 2017, Page 212. https://ims2017.sciencesconf.org   Authors: Romain Pellen, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Marina Rabineau, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Daniel...

The end of a Tropical Carbonate Platform: The case of the Amazon River adjacent shelf (Brazilian Equatorial Margin).

Conference: International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, 10-12 October 2017, Page 212. https://ims2017.sciencesconf.org   Authors: Alberto Cruz,  Jean-Pierre Suc, Tadeu dos Reis, Cleverson Guizan Silva, Didier Granjeon, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Christian...

The Apennine foredeep (Italy) during the latest Messinian: Lago Mare reflects competing brackish and marine conditions based on calcareous nannofossils and dinoflagellate cysts.

Article: Geobios, Volume 50, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 237-257.   Authors: Romain Pellen, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Jean-Loup Rubino, Marina Rabineau, Stefano Marabini, Nicolas Loget, Pierro Casero, William...

Subtropical climate conditions and mangrove growth in Arctic Siberia during the early Eocene.

Article: Geology, Volume 45, Issue 6, pages 539 – 542.   Authors: Guillaume Suan, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Johann Schnyder, Séverine Fauquette, François Baudin, Daichi Yoon, Karsten Piepjohn, Nikolay N. Sobolev, Loïc Labrousse.  ...

Investigation of the nature and origin of the geological matrices rich in selenium within the Hydrogeological Experimental Site of Poitiers, France.

Article: Comptes Rendus Geosciences, Volume 348, Issue 8, November- December 2016, Pages 598-608.   Authors: Joseph Bassil, Aude Naveau, Claude Fontaine, Laurent Grasset, Jacques Bodin, Gilles Porel, Moumtaz Razack, Véronique Kazpard, Speranta-Maria Popescu...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis – Dictionnaire de la Méditerranée.

Article:The Messinian Salinity Crisis, « Dictionnaire de la Méditerranée », Actes Sud, 28 July 2016. Authors:Jean-Piere Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:No abstract is available for this article. ABSTRACT FULL...

The Zambezi sedimentary system (coastal plain- deep sea fan): a record of the vertical movements of the Mozambican margin since Cretaceous times.

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2016, 17-22 April 2016, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-6928-1, 2016. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-6928-1.pdf   Authors: Jean Pierre Ponte, Cecile Robin, Francois Guillocheau, Guillaume...

Objective utilisation of data from DSDP Site 380 (Black Sea) – Coment on the paper by van Back et al., 2015.

Article:Terra Nova, Volume 28 , Issue 3, 6 March 2016, Pages 228-229. Authors:Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Jean-Pierre Suc. Abstract:No abstract is available for this article. ABSTRACT FULL...

New key elements of Erskine sandstones stratigraphy and Triassic geodynamical evolution of North Canning Basin provided by uranium exploration (Western Australia).

Conference: 15ème Congrès Français de Sédimentologie, 13-15 October 2015, Chambery, France, Pages 228-229.   Authors: Hemon V., Parize O., Franklin H., Freeman D., Martin-Even M., Poquet T., Popescu S.-M., Thomas M.C., Vajda V.    Abstract: Located in the...

L’impact de la dernière déglaciation sur l’éventail turbiditique du Rhône.

Conference: 15ème Congrès Français de Sédimentologie,  13-15 October 2015, Chambery, France, p.320.   Authors: Virgil Pasquier, Marina Rabineau, Pierre Sans Jofre, Sidonie Revillon, Laurence Droz, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Christophe Fontainer, Massinissa...

New key elements of Barremian – Aptian trangression in the Norheastern Australia provided by uranium exploration in the Carpentaria Basin (Queensland, Australia)

Conference: 15ème Congrès Français de Sédimentologie, 13-15 October 2015, Chambery, France, Page 318. Authors: Olivier Parize, Stephanie Fleurance, Gregoire André, Delphine Desmares, Franklin H., Kern G., Mantle D., Edwige Masure, Emmanuela Mattiolli, T....

The Roussillon Basin (S. France): A case-study to distinguish local and regional events between 6 and 3 Ma.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66, Issue 3, 6 March 2015, Pages 18-40. Authors: Georges Clauzon, Paul Le Strat, Cédric Duvail, Damien Do Couto, Jean-Pierre Suc, Stéphane Molliex, François Bache, David Besson, Everett H. Lindsay, Neil D....

Marine gateway vs. fluvial stream within the Balkans from 6 to 5 Ma.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66 , Part 1, September 2015, Pages 231-245.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Damien Do Couto, Georges Clauzon, Jean-Loup Rubino, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Frédéric Quillévéré, Jean-Pierre...