Projects
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- Carbonates as an archive of past global changes (paleoclimate and paleoceanography)
- Comparative sedimentology between modern and ancient carbonates
- Diagenesis and geochemistry of carbonate rocks
- Sedimentology of flysch deposits
- Biostratigraphic dating of sedimentary successions
- Multidisciplinary approach for disentangling the factors controlling different organisms distribution patterns and evolution
- Taxonomic revisions in the systematic of foraminifers

Palaeoceanographic and palaeoclimatic changes inferred on the basis of Late Jurassic benthic foraminifera along a North/South Eurasian to Tethyan transect: a multiproxy analysis China
Clémentine Colpaert

Paleoceanographic reconstruction of the Upper Triassic Panthalassa.
Sandrine Le Houedec
Collaboration: Andrea Fucelli, Giovan Peyrotty, Christian Verard and Rossana Martini

Impact of Cainozoic warm episodes on the East Indian oceanic circulation.
Sandrine Le Houedec and Elias Samankassou
The Upper Triassic atoll-type carbonates of Japan: sedimentology, biostratigraphy and diagenesis.
Rossana Martini
Collaboration: Camille Peybernes and Giovan Peyrotty

Cretaceous and Cenozoic basins in Cameroon: Genesis, infill and reservoir potential
Elias Samankassou

Carboniferous carbonate platforms and reefs: New insights from Northern Spain and Southern China
Elias Samankassou

Coral thermal bleaching thresholds during past interglacial extremes.
Supervisors : Elias Samankassou
Postdocs: Sebastian Flöter and Torin Cannings

Holocene sea-level and climate changes based on Porites microatolls in French Polynesia
Supervisors : Elias Samankassou (in collaboration with the Holoreefs and Holoflats Team)
PhD Student : Nicholas Farley

Bajocian coral reefs of the “Herrenwis Unit” in Northern-Eastern Switzerland
Supervisors : Elias Samankassou
PhD Student : Arnaud Ruchat