Renaud Merle
Researcher at Department of Earth Sciences; Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- E-mail:
- renaud.merle@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala
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Short presentation
My research is focused on U-Pb geochronology (by isotopic dilution-TIMS and in-situ by SIMS) and Ar-Ar dating of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial materials (terrestrial and lunar basalts, chondrules, lunar breccias). I am also interested in deciphering the petrogenesis of terrestrial Continental Flood Basalts and alkaline rocks as well as lunar basalts. I am specifically interested in the chemical characterisation of magma sources using isotopes systematics (Sr-Nd-Pb-Os-Hf).
Keywords
- alkaline rocks
- geochronology
- geology of the moon
- isotope geochemistry
- isotopic micro-analysis
- large igneous provinces (lips)
Publications
Recent publications
- Dynamic Evolution of the Transcrustal Plumbing System in Large Igneous Provinces (2024)
- Earth's longest preserved linear volcanic ridge generated by a moving Kerguelen hotspot (2024)
- Pb Isotope Signature of a Low-Ό (238U/204Pb) Lunar Mantle Component (2024)
- The origin of platinum group minerals in oceanic crust (2023)
- An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Dynamic Evolution of the Transcrustal Plumbing System in Large Igneous Provinces (2024)
- Earth's longest preserved linear volcanic ridge generated by a moving Kerguelen hotspot (2024)
- Pb Isotope Signature of a Low-Ό (238U/204Pb) Lunar Mantle Component (2024)
- The origin of platinum group minerals in oceanic crust (2023)
- An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces (2023)
- Calibrating volatile loss from the Moon using the U-Pb system (2022)
- A micrometeorite from a stony asteroid identified in Luna 16 soil (2022)
- Volume and rate of volcanic CO2 emissions governed the severity of past environmental crises (2022)
- Activity standardization of two enriched 40K solutions for the determination of decay scheme parameters and the half-life (2022)
- The age and origin of the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces, Ross Sea, Antarctica (2022)
- U-Pb isotope systematics and impact ages recorded by a chemically diverse population of glasses from an Apollo 14 lunar soil (2022)
- Isotopic analysis of potassium by total evaporation and incipient emission thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (2021)
- Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of basaltic rocks and the pitfalls of plagioclase alteration (2021)
- Longest continuously erupting large igneous province driven by plume-ridge interaction (2021)
- Origin of geochemically heterogeneous mid-ocean ridge basalts from the Macquarie Ridge Complex, SW Pacific (2021)
- Timing of Seafloor Spreading Cessation at the Macquarie Ridge Complex (SW Pacific) and Implications for Upper Mantle Heterogeneity (2021)
- Evidence of multi-phase Cretaceous to Quaternary alkaline magmatism on Tore–Madeira Rise and neighbouring seamounts from 40Ar/39Ar ages (2009)
- Cretaceous seamounts along the continent–ocean transition of the Iberian margin (2006)
- Segregation vesicles, cylinders, and sheets in vapor-differentiated pillow lavas: examples from Tore-Madeira Rise and Chile Triple Junction (2005)
