Asia

Mongolia

Industrial project: Biostratigraphic correlations and paleoenvironment dynamics based on palynological analysis (Cretaceous), Zuunbayan & Uneget Basins.

China

Academic  project: Insight into Tian Shan topography prior to the onset of the Himalayan orogenic cycle: tectonics and climate inferences.

Academic project : Cathaya: past and present-day distribution and paleoecology.

Cathaya is the Chinese emblematic tree, represented today by only one species, Cathaya argyrophylla Chun & Kuang, restricted in a ten of scattered altitudinal localities (900-1,700 m) in the subtropical China. During the whole Tertiary, the genus was largely distributed in Eurasia and North America with probably several species.

Myanmar

Industrial project: High-resolution multi-proxy biostratigraphy (Paleocene – Quaternary) paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic reconstructions, Myanmar. 

Multi-proxy analyses (analyses of calcareous nannoplankton, foraminifera, pollen grains, dinoflagellate cysts, palynofacies and organic geochemistry were performed on samples from a Myanmar onshorre block, in order to provide high-resolution biostratigraphy, geological and paleogeographical detailed maps, and organic matter characterization. The studied samples cover the following sedimentological regional formations: Kanbala, Taunggale, Pondaung and Yaw covering the Eocene; Shezetaw, Padaung, and Okhmitaung corresponding to the Oligocene; Pyawbwe, Kyaukkok and Obogon representative of late – middle Miocene; and the Irrawaddy Group (middle Miocene-late Quaternary).

The proposed ages by the regional stratigraphy have been seriously questioned for 30% of the samples. Six paleogeographical maps, running from the Paleocene to mid-Miocene are proposed, based on biostratigraphical and paleoenvironmental results.