Comptes Rendus

Issue no. 1 Table of Contents

Editorial Board - Francais
p. CO2
Geomaterials (Sedimentology)
Does a strong pycnocline impact organic-matter preservation and accumulation in an anoxic setting? The case of the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico
p. 1-9
Geochemistry (Isotopic Geochemistry)
Trace element variations in an archeological carbonate deposit from the antique city of Ostia: Environmental and archeological implications
p. 10-20
Surface geosciences (hydrology-hydrogeology)
Seawater intrusion and associated processes: Case of the Korba aquifer (Cap-Bon, Tunisia)

Presented by: Ghislain de Marsily

Lamia Kouzana; Abdallah Ben Mammou; Mennoubi Sfar Felfoul
p. 21-35
Oceanography
Formation and evolution of paleo-valleys linked to a subsiding canyon, North Aquitaine shelf (France)

Presented by: Xavier le Pichon

Valérie Karin Bellec; Pierre Cirac; Jean-Claude Faugères
p. 36-48
Stratigraphie
Analyse biostratigraphique et sédimentologique des séries éo-oligocènes et miocènes de la Tunisie septentrionale : implications stratigraphiques et géodynamiques
[Biostratigraphical and sedimentological analyses of the Eo-Oligocene and Miocene deposits of northern Tunisia: Stratigraphic and geodynamic implications]
p. 49-62
Stratigraphy
The Lochkovian–Pragian boundary in Podolia (Lower Devonian, Ukraine) based upon placoderm vertebrates

Presented by: Jean Dercourt

Vincent Dupret; Alain Blieck
p. 63-70
Tectonics
Vertical movements at the fringe of the West African Craton: First zircon fission track datings from the Anti-Atlas Precambrian basement, Morocco
p. 71-77
Geodynamics
Late Cretaceous synsedimentary diapirism of Bazina–Sidi Bou Krime Triassic evaporites (northern Tunisia): Geodynamic implications

Presented by: Jacques Angelier

Fahmi Ben Mehrez; Jamel Kacem; Mahmoud Dlala
p. 78-84
Geodynamics
Late Permian lamprophyric magmatism in North-East of Isfahan Province, Iran: A mark of rifting in the Gondwanaland

Presented by: Jacques Angelier

Ghodrat Torabi
p. 85-94
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 2-3 Table of Contents

Mécanique de l'orogénie varisque : Une vision moderne de le recherche dans le domaine de l'orogénie
[Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: A modern view on orogenic research]

Editorial Board - Francais
p. CO2
Homage to Philippe Matte
p. 95-96
Tectonics
Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: A modern view on orogenic research
[Mécanique de l’orogénie varisque : une vision moderne de la recherche dans le domaine de l’orogénie]
p. 97-102
Tectonics
Tectonic relationships of Southwest Iberia with the allochthons of Northwest Iberia and the Moroccan Variscides
p. 103-113
Tectonics
A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia
p. 114-126
Tectonics
Mechanics of thick-skinned Variscan overprinting of Cadomian basement (Iberian Variscides)
p. 127-139
Tectonics
The Rhenohercynian passive margin of SW England: Development, inversion and extensional reactivation

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Robin K. Shail; Brian E. Leveridge
p. 140-155
Tectonics
Early Palaeozoic orogenic events north of the Rheic suture (Brabant, Ardenne): A review

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Manuel Sintubin; Timothy Nick Debacker; Hervé Van Baelen
p. 156-173
Tectonics
Palaeozoic history of the Armorican Massif: Models for the tectonic evolution of the suture zones

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Michel Ballèvre; Valérie Bosse; Céline Ducassou; Pavel Pitra
p. 174-201
Tectonics
A review of the pre-Permian geology of the Variscan French Massif Central

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Michel Faure; Jean-Marc Lardeaux; Patrick Ledru
p. 202-213
Tectonics
Late evolution of the southern European Variscan belt: Exhumation of the lower crust in a context of oblique convergence

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Michel Corsini; Yann Rolland
p. 214-223
Tectonics
A restored section of the “southern Variscan realm” across the Corsica–Sardinia microcontinent

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Philippe Rossi; Giacomo Oggiano; Alain Cocherie
p. 224-238
Tectonics
The Variscan evolution in the External massifs of the Alps and place in their Variscan framework

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Jürgen F. von Raumer; François Bussy; Gérard M. Stampfli
p. 239-252
Tectonics
Paleozoic evolution of the External Crystalline Massifs of the Western Alps

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Stéphane Guillot; René-Pierre Ménot
p. 253-265
Tectonics
An Andean type Palaeozoic convergence in the Bohemian Massif
p. 266-286
Tectonics
Structural evolution of the Ural–Tian Shan junction: A view from Karatau ridge, South Kazakhstan
[Évolution structurale à la jonction Oural–Tien Chan sur l’exemple de la crête de Karatau, Sud Kazakhstan]

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Dmitriy V. Alexeiev; Harry E. Cook; Vasiliy M. Buvtyshkin; Lyudmila Y. Golub
p. 287-297
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 4 Table of Contents

Editorial Board - Francais
p. CO2
Internal geophysics
Seismicity and volcanism in the rifted zone of western Syria

Presented by: Claude Jaupart

Ahmad Bilal
p. 299-305
Géophysique interne
Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001
[Refutation of the seismo-acoustic hypothesis for the double bang of the 21st September 2001, Toulouse (France) catastrophe]

Presented by: Jean-Louis Le Mouël

Alain Joets
p. 306-309
Geomaterials (Petrology)
Genesis of adakite-like lavas of Licancabur volcano (Chile—Bolivia, Central Andes)

Presented by: Claude Jaupart

Oscar Figueroa; Bernard Déruelle; Daniel Demaiffe
p. 310-318
Géochimie
Données nouvelles sur le contenu organique des dépôts phosphatés du gisement de Ras-Draâ (Tunisie)
[New data on the organic matter associated to phosphatic ores of the Ras-Draâ deposit (Tunisia)]
p. 319-326
Surface geosciences (hydrology-hydrogeology)
Equivalent block transmissivity in an irregular 2D polygonal grid for one-phase flow: A sensitivity analysis

Presented by: Ghislain de Marsily

Marco De Lucia; Chantal de Fouquet; Vincent Lagneau; Roberto Bruno
p. 327-338
Surface geosciences (hydrology–hydrogeology)
Tsunami-induced groundwater salinization in southeastern India

Presented by: Ghislain de Marsily

Sophie Violette; Gilles Boulicot; Steven M. Gorelick
p. 339-346
Tectonics
New insights on the structural style of the subsurface of the Tell units in north-western Tunisia issued from seismic imaging: Geodynamic implications
p. 347-356
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 5 Table of Contents

Transition Océan-Continent
[Ocean-continent transition]

Editorial Board - Francais
p. CO2
Oceanography
Ocean-continent transition
p. 357-362
Oceanography
Ophiolites in ocean–continent transitions: From the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Daniel Bernoulli; Hugh C. Jenkyns
p. 363-381
Oceanography
Geophysical characterisation of the ocean–continent transition at magma-poor rifted margins

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Timothy A. Minshull
p. 382-393
Geodynamics
Melt initiation and mantle exhumation at the Iberian rifted margin: Comparison of pure–shear and upwelling-divergent flow models of continental breakup

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Rosie Fletcher; Nick Kusznir; Mike Cheadle
p. 394-405
Tectonics
Assessing the conditions of continental breakup at magma-poor rifted margins: What can we learn from slow spreading mid-ocean ridges?

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Mathilde Cannat; Gianreto Manatschal; Daniel Sauter; Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic
p. 406-427
Oceanography
Initiation of transform faults at rifted continental margins

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Brian Taylor; Andrew Goodliffe; Fernando Martinez
p. 428-438
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 6 Table of Contents

Editorial Board - Francais
p. CO2
Internal geophysics
Inner core structure: Constraints from frequency dependent seismic anisotropy

Presented by: Annie Cazenave

Annie Souriau
p. 439-445
Internal geophysics (Geodesy)
Wavelet application to the time series analysis of DORIS station coordinates

Presented by: Michel Petit

Zahia Bessissi; Mekki Terbeche; Boualem Ghezali
p. 446-461
Surface geosciences (Hydrology – Hydrogeology)
Effects of rock fragments on water movement and solute transport in a Loess Plateau soil

Presented by: Ghislain de Marsily

Zhou Beibei; Shao Ming’an; Shao Hongbo
p. 462-472
Surface geosciences (Hydrology–Hydrogeology)
Monitoring of water and heat transfer in the vadose zone of a carbonate formation: An example of an underground quarry in Gironde, France

Presented by: Ghislain de Marsily

Adrian Cerepi; Corinne Loisy; René Burlot
p. 473-485
Surface geosciences (Pedology)
3D representation of soil distribution: An approach for understanding pedogenesis
p. 486-494
Oceanography (Marine geophysics)
Crustal structure of the NW Moroccan margin from deep seismic data (SISMAR Cruise)
p. 495-503
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 7 Table of Contents

Editorial Board
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External geophysics, climate and environment (Physical and chemical oceanography)
Simulation of the turbidity maximum in the Seine estuary with a two-phase flow model

Presented by: Xavier le Pichon

Julien Chauchat; Sylvain Guillou; Nathaly Barbry; Kim Dan Nguyen
p. 505-512
Internal geophysics
Grain structure of the Earth's inner core
[Structure de grains de la graine terrestre]

Presented by: Jean Aubouin

Lucile Venet; Thierry Duffar; Renaud Deguen
p. 513-516
Geomaterials (Ore deposits)
Ni-Co sulphide segregation in the Mamb pyroxenite intrusion, Cameroon
p. 517-525
Surface geosciences
Post-cropping change and dynamics in soil and vegetation properties after forest clearing: Example of the semi-arid Mikea Region (southwestern Madagascar)
p. 526-537
Surface geosciences (Hydrology–Hydrogeology)
1896–2006 Sahelian annual rainfall variability and runoff increase of Sahelian Rivers

Presented by: Georges Pédro

Gil Mahé; Jean-Emmanuel Paturel
p. 538-546
Tectonics
Albian extrusion evidences of the Triassic salt and clues of the beginning of the Eocene atlasic phase from the example of the Chitana-Ed Djebs structure (N.Tunisia): Implication in the North African Tethyan margin recorded events, comparisons
p. 547-556
Tectonics
C-axis fabrics of quartz-ribbons during high-temperature deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy)

Presented by: Jacques Angelier

Vincenzo Festa
p. 557-567
Editorial Board
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Issue no. 8-9 Table of Contents

Histoire climatique des déserts d'Afrique et d'Arabie
[Climatic history of the African and Arabian deserts]

Guest editor: Anne-Marie Lézine

Editorial Board
p. CO2
External geophysics, climate and environment
Climatic history of the African and Arabian deserts
p. 569-574
External geophysics, climate and environment (climate)
A comparison of Indian and African monsoon variability at different time scales

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Serge Janicot
p. 575-590
Surface geosciences (Palaeoclimatology)
Neogene desertification of Africa

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Brigitte Senut; Martin Pickford; Loïc Ségalen
p. 591-602
Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene
p. 603-611
External geophysics, climate and environment
Modelling the impact of tectonics, surface conditions and sea surface temperatures on Saharan and sub-Saharan climate evolution

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Pierre Sepulchre; Gilles Ramstein; Mathieu Schuster
p. 612-620
Surface geosciences
Chronology of the impact of Quaternary climate change on continental environments in the Arabian Peninsula

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Frank Preusser
p. 621-632
External geophysics, climate and environment
The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Dominik Fleitmann; Albert Matter
p. 633-642
External geophysics, climate and environment
The role of the ocean feedback on Asian and African monsoon variations at 6 kyr and 9.5 kyr BP

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Charline Marzin; Pascale Braconnot
p. 643-655
External geophysics, climate and environment
Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Julie Watrin; Anne-Marie Lézine; Christelle Hély; Contributors
p. 656-670
Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
Climate and vegetation: Simulating the African humid period

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Christelle Hély; Pascale Braconnot; Julie Watrin; Weipeng Zheng
p. 671-688
Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
Early to Middle Holocene landscape exploitation in a drying environment: Two case studies compared from the central Sahara (SW Fezzan, Libya)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Mauro Cremaschi; Andrea Zerboni
p. 689-702
Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Augustin F.C. Holl
p. 703-712
Surfaces geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
Modalities and characteristics of human occupations in Yemen during the Early/Mid-Holocene

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Rémy Crassard
p. 713-725
External geophysics, climate and environment
Extracting wealth from a land of starvation by creating social complexity: A dialogue between archaeology and climate?
[La complexité sociale comme moyen de produire de la richesse dans une terre de pénurie : un dialogue entre archéologie et climat ?]

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Serge Cleuziou
p. 726-738
Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)
The evolution of settlement patterns in the eastern Oman from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (6000–2000 BC)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Jessica Giraud
p. 739-749
External geophysics, climate and environment
Timing of vegetation changes at the end of the Holocene Humid Period in desert areas at the northern edge of the Atlantic and Indian monsoon systems

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Anne-Marie Lézine
p. 750-759
External geophysics, climate and environment
Climate and environmental change at the end of the Holocene Humid Period: A pollen record off Pakistan

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Sarah J. Ivory; Anne-Marie Lézine
p. 760-769
Surface geosciences (Hydrology – Hydrogeology)
Assessment of Holocene surface hydrological connections for the Ounianga lake catchment zone (Chad)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Christophe Grenier; Philippe Paillou; Pascal Maugis
p. 770-782
External geophysics, climate and environment
Hydrogeological modeling as a tool supporting the interpretation of pollen proxies for palaeoclimate reconstitution: The Senegalese “niayes” case-study

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Pascal Maugis; Lazar Aguiar; Christophe Grenier
p. 783-793
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 10-11 Table of Contents

Hydrogéophysique
[Hydrogeophysics]

Editorial Board
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Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Hydrogeophysics
p. 795-799
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Contribution of geophysical surveys to groundwater modelling of a porous aquifer in semiarid Niger: An overview
p. 800-809
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Geophysical characterisation of karstic networks – Application to the Ouysse system (Poumeyssen, France)
p. 810-817
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Characterizing the vadose zone and a perched aquifer near the Vosges ridge at the La Soutte experimental site, Obernai, France
p. 818-830
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
New in situ techniques for the estimation of the dielectric properties and moisture content of soils

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Jean-Pierre Frangi; Daniel-Christian Richard; Xavier Chavanne; Idris Bexi; Florence Sagnard; Vincent Guilbert
p. 831-845
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Ground penetrating radar imaging and time-domain modelling of the infiltration of diesel fuel in a sandbox experiment

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Maksim Bano; Olivier Loeffler; Jean-François Girard
p. 846-858
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
From spatial-continuous electrical resistivity measurements to the soil hydraulic functioning at the field scale

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Isabelle Cousin; Arlène Besson; Hocine Bourennane; Catherine Pasquier; Bernard Nicoullaud; Dominique King; Guy Richard
p. 859-867
Internal geophysics (Applied Geophysics)
Monitoring hydraulic processes with automated time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ALERT)
p. 868-885
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Influence of shallow infiltration on time-lapse ERT: Experience of advanced interpretation

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Rémi Clément; Marc Descloitres; Thomas Günther; Olivier Ribolzi; Anatoli Legchenko
p. 886-898
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
An integrated study of the hydrogeology of volcanic islands using helicopter borne transient electromagnetic: Application in the Galápagos Archipelago
p. 899-907
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Joint use of TEM and MRS methods in a complex geological setting

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Anatoly Legchenko; Michael Ezersky; Christian Camerlynck; Abdallah Al-Zoubi; Konstantinos Chalikakis
p. 908-917
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Investigation of sedimentary aquifers in Denmark using the magnetic resonance sounding method (MRS)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Konstantinos Chalikakis; Mette Ryom Nielsen; Anatoli Legchenko; Tom Feldberg Hagensen
p. 918-927
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Review of self-potential methods in hydrogeophysics

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Laurence Jouniaux; Alexis Maineult; Véronique Naudet; Marc Pessel; Pascal Sailhac
p. 928-936
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Monitoring water flow in a clay-shale hillslope from geophysical data fusion based on a fuzzy logic approach

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Gilles Grandjean; Clément Hibert; François Mathieu; Emilie Garel; Jean-Philippe Malet
p. 937-948
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
Pluri-annual recharge assessment using vertical soil temperature profiles: Example of the Seine river basin (1984–2001)

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Alain Tabbagh; Roger Guérin; Hocine Bendjoudi; Bruno Cheviron; Mohamed-Amine Bechkit
p. 949-956
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
MuSET: A multiparameter and high precision sensor for downhole spontaneous electrical potential measurements
p. 957-964
Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)
CoFIS and TELog: New downhole tools for characterizing dispersion processes in aquifers by single-well injection-withdrawal tracer tests

Presented by: Written on invitation of the Editorial Board.

Philippe Gouze; Richard Leprovost; Thierry Poidras; Tanguy Le Borgne; Gérard Lods; Philippe A. Pezard
p. 965-975
Editorial Board - English
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Issue no. 12 Table of Contents

Editorial Board
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Internal geophysics
Microseismicity, meteorology and the solar cycle
p. 977-981
Geomaterials (Petrology)
Chromitite potential in mantle peridotites of the Jandaq ophiolite (central Iran)

Presented by: Jacques Angelier

Ghodrat Torabi
p. 982-992
Surface geosciences (Hydrology–hydrogeology)
The fresh water-seawater contact in coastal aquifers supporting intensive pumped seawater extractions: A case study
p. 993-1002
Tectonics
The Cuaró Mesozoic doleritic dyke swarm, southern Paraná basin, Uruguay: Examples of superimposed magnetic fabrics?
p. 1003-1015
Tectonics
Significance of Nain-Baft ophiolitic belt (Iran): Short-lived, transtensional Cretaceous back-arc oceanic basins over the Tethyan subduction zone
p. 1016-1028
Tectonics
Structural context of the paleogeography of the Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event in the eastern Atlas basins of the Maghreb
p. 1029-1037
Commentaire à la note intitulée Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001 de A. Joets [C. R. Geoscience 341 (2009) 306–309]
p. 1038-1040
Réponse au commentaire de M. Cara, A. Schlupp, C. Sira et M. Granet à propos de la note de A. Joets (2009) : Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001, [C. R. Geoscience. 341 (2009) 306–309]
p. 1041-1042
Commentaire sur la note intitulée Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001 de A. Joets [C. R. Geoscience 341 (2009) 306–309]
p. 1043-1045
Réponse au commentaire de A. Souriau, A. Rigo et M. Sylvander à propos de la note de A. Joets (2009) : Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001, [C. R. Geosci. 341 (2009) 306–309]
p. 1046-1048
Comment on Palaeolatitude of glacial deposits and palaeogeography of Neoproterozoic ice ages by Ricardo I.F. Trindade and Mélina Macouin [C. R. Geoscience 339 (2007) 200–211]
p. 1049-1050
Sommaire
p. 1052-1056
Index des auteurs
p. 1057-1059
Index des mots cles
p. 1060-1064
Keyword Index
p. 1065-1069
Editorial Board
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