Thomas FRANÇOIS
Meso-Cenozoic thermal evolution of the western European plate
Supervisor:
Jocelyn Barbarand
Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, GEOPS, Orsay, France
Major Results
Major thermal event during the Mesozoic period (principally at the transition between the Jurassic and Cretaceous period), involving the erosion of a Jurassic sedimentary cover on the French Massif Central. The results suggest a rejuvenation of this thermal event (and its amplitude) from west to the east.
Abstract

Thermal perturbation age is the age of the strongest cooling event as seen in the modeled time-Temperature paths.
Lower Cretaceous inversion of the European Variscan basement: record from the Vendée and Limousin (France).
Lower Cretaceous inversion of the European Variscan basement: record from the Vendée and Limousin (France).
François, T., Barbarand, J. & Wyns, R. Lower Cretaceous inversion of the European Variscan basement: record from the Vendée and Limousin (France). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 109, 1837–1852 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01875-z
keywords: Sediment routing, Geochronology, Low temperature, thermochronology, Corbières region