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Anthropogenic travertine between History, Archaeology and Environment: a geoarchaeological study of the Roman site of Jebel Oust, Tunisia.
2013
Travertine, known as lapis tiburtinus during Roman times, are continental limestones precipitated in calcareous environments from thermal waters of hot springs (travertine) or cool waters of karstic springs (calcareous tufa). This phenomenon is well-known during Classical Antiquity and had been described by several ancient authors (Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius) who depicted a stone that forms extremely rapidly, a stone that outlines the landscape and which is largely used for construction (e.g. The Colosseum in Roma, the Greek temple at Segesta in Sicily). These deposits are widespread on Earth’s surface showing various morphologies and are great sedimentary records of climatic and hy…
Fossil echinoid (Echinoidea, Echinodermata) diversity of the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) in the Paris Basin (France).
2013
11 pages; International audience; This dataset inventories occurrence records of fossil echinoid specimens collected in the Calcaires à Spatangues Formation (CSF) that crops out in the southeast of the Paris Basin (France), and is dated from the Acanthodiscus radiatus chronozone (ca. 132 Ma, early Hauterivian, Early Cretaceous). Fossil richness and abundance of the CSF has attracted the attention of palaeontologists since the middle of the nineteenth century. This dataset compiles occurrence data (referenced by locality names and geographic coordinates with decimal numbers) of fossil echinoids both collated from the literature published over a century and a half, and completed by data from …
Réponses du d13C au forçage astronomique dans divers contextes de production carbonatée : le cas du Valanginien du Sud-Est de la France
2018
International audience; Le d13C est un outil fréquemment utilisé pour établir des échelles de temps astronomiques en milieu (hémi-) pélagique. Pourtant le lien entre d13C et forçage astronomique n’est pas toujours clair, tant les sources de carbone sont multiples. Nous avons comparé le d13C à la susceptibilité magnétique (SM) et aux cortèges argileux dans les séries marno-calcaires du Valanginien du Bassin Vocontien (SE France). Ces deux signaux sont fréquemment utilisés pour détecter un forçage astronomique dans les alternances marno-calcaires. Deux intervalles de 400 ka (correspondant à un cycle de grande excentricité) ont été ciblés, l’un avant la crise des producteurs carbonatés associé…