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Contribution of statistical modeling to the understanding of the mass balance of a small arctic glacier
2016
International audience
Exhibiting life history at the Paris Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (nineteenth-twenty-first centuries).
2018
14 pages; International audience; The notion of a history of life has been the subject of extensive debates in France, from the turn of the nineteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century and beyond. In this paper, I analyze how the organization of buildings and collections within the Paris National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), and their successive transformations up to the present, have reflected concepts and controversies over this history. After a brief overview of the constitution of the Museum, this chapter studies the organization of the Museum’s paleontological, zoological, and comparative anatomy collections, and the devices through which scientific ideas and debates ab…
Vu du côté des bases : le recueil des données par Trans'Tyfipal®.
2014
2 pages; National audience
Service des collections du laboratoire Biogéosciences-Dijon.
2010
6 pages
Single crystal EXAFS at high pressure
2000
Abstract We present a new technique for structure characterization under high pressure conditions. The use of an undulator beam of the third-generation ESRF source of synchrotron radiation has enabled the first single crystal EXAFS experiments at high pressure using a diamond anvil cell as pressure generator. Taking advantage of the linear polarization of X-rays the technique becomes an orientation-selective probe of the local structure of materials. We describe the principle of the technique and some applications.
An integrated modelling and remote sensing approach for hydrological study in arid and semi-arid regions: the SUDMED Program
2008
International audience; Recent efforts have been concentrated in the development of models to understand and predict the impact of environmental changes on hydrological cycle and water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. In this context, remote sensing data have been widely used to initialize, to force, or to control the simulations of these models. However, for several reasons, including the difficulty in establishing relationships between observational and model variables, the potential offered by satellite data has not been fully used. As a matter of fact, a few hydrological studies that use remote sensing data emanating from different sources (sensors, platforms) have been performe…
Distribution and sources of bulk organic matter (OM) on a tropical intertidal mud bank in French Guiana from elemental and isotopic proxies
2014
International audience; The mobile French Guiana coast is a shoreface region downdrift of the Amazon River, where enormous quantities of inorganic and organic materials are exchanged with the Atlantic Ocean. The rapid accumulation of these materials forms highly unstable shore-attached mud banks, which can be temporally emerged and then rapidly colonized and stabilized by microphytobenthos and opportunistic mangroves (i.e. Avicennia germinans). Mud banks are preferential sites for the accumulation and significant remineralization of organic matter (OM) due to intense erosion/deposition cycles and potential biological colonization. The distribution and sources of bulk sedimentary OM were cha…
Le stratotype Autunien du bassin d'Autun (Bourgogne-France) : évolution de la stratigraphie et des âges.
2017
18 pages; National audience
Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques du Lias portugais III a) Domérien (Ammonites).
2007
45 pages; International audience; Ce fascicule est le troisième de l'Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques du Lias portugais; il fait suite au fascicule I consacré aux faunes du Lias Inférieur (Hettangien-Sinémurien) et au fascicule II dédié aux faunes de la première partie du Lias Moyen (Carixien). Le fascicule III est consacré à la deuxième partie du Lias Moyen, le sous-étage Domérien. Contrairement aux publications précédentes, le présent travail se restreint aux seules ammonites. Une cinquantaine d'espèces sont brièvement décrites et figurées. Les autres taxons (nautiles, bélemnites, brachiopodes, lamellibranches...) feront l'objet d'un prochain fascicule. Le but de l'Atlas des fossiles c…
Sinemurian to lowermost Toarcian ammonites of the Brescian Prealps (Southern Alps, Italy): preliminary biostratigraphical framework and correlations.
2009
10 pages; International audience; A set of 28 ammonite biohorizons or faunal assemblages is proposed for the Sinemurian, the Pliensbachian and the lowermost Toarcian of the Brescian Prealps, in part based on the published data of the authors of this contribution and partly on new results, derived both from recent field investigations and from the study of the historical collection of Lower Jurassic ammonites preserved in the Museum of Natural Sciences of Brescia (Northern Italy). The biohorizons are present in the Liassic carbonate succession of the Brescian Prealps, cropping out between the eastern surroundings of Brescia (Botticino), to the east, and Lake Iseo, to the west. Since the Hett…