Team “Geology”

    Staff members
    Research projects
    Areas of interest
    Teaching
    Experimental facilities
    Modelling
    Publications

    Mines ParisTech geologists study both past and present to investigate the dynamics of continental and marine geological systems. Our studies thus combine complementary spatial and  time scales.

    We follow an integrated approach including field data acquisition focussed on several areas of interest, analytical work in laboratory and conceptuel and analogical model achievements. Process-based numerical modelling is developped in collaboration with the other teams of the Center of Geosciences.

    Our team develops several research axes linked to the dynamics of continental systems. These axes are organized with respect to a "source to sink" and pluridisciplinary approach. Research projects focus societal questions of first interest: climate change, natural hazards, ressources, energy transition:

    • - Rock deformation and tectonics/sedimentation relationships
    • - Fluvial dynamics and reservoir architecture
    • - Paleo-climates and climate/sedimentation relationships
    • - Sediment budgets and associated pollutions

    Our researchers are part of teaching programs at MINES ParisTech (UE 14 : "Terre et Société") and  Master Geosciences - Earth system sciences at PSL University .

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    PhD and postdoctoral studies

    Ongoing:

    Morgan DELAPORTE – Étude des problématiques érosives en Territoire Hauts de France : Compréhension des mécanismes de mise en place des coulées boueuses et de leur rôle sur la qualité des cours d’eau. Descriptif

    Diana CHOURIO – Dynamique d’érosion fini-quaternaire dans le Bassin parisien par restitution de la géométrie 3D du mur des alluvions de fond des vallées de la Seine. Descriptif

    Alexandre HAMON – Brèche basale Oligocène : caractérisation, origine et signification géodynamique (Baronnies orientales, Bassin du Sud-Est)

    Dylan LAURENCE – Source tracing of industrial and urban pollution in the Scarpe River catchment: from field work to mass balanced mixing modeling. Descriptif

    Loïc MARLOT – What climate variability to come? Teaching sedimentary archives of the Middle Eocene of the Paris Basin

    Recent post-docs and PhDs

    Recent Post-docs:

    Thomas GILLOT(2018-2020): Programme SediBric, valorisation de sédiments en briques et tuiles

    Recent PhD defenses:

    Léo SZEWCZYK, 2020.  Sedimentary fills of abandoned channels

    Arezki CHABANI, 2019. Analyse méthodologique et caractérisation multi-échelle des systèmes de fractures à l’interface socle / couverture sédimentaire – application à la géothermie (bassin de Valence, SE France), Ph.D. thesis, PSL Research University, MINES ParisTech – Centre de Géosciences. https://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02466297

    Martin LEMAY, 2018. Transposition à l’environnement turbidique chenalisé d’un modèle de systèmes fluviatiles méandriformes pour la modélisation de réservoirs, Ph.D. thesis, PSL Research University, MINES ParisTech – Centre de Géosciences.

    Edouard PATAULT, 2018. Analyse multi-échelle des processus d’érosion hydrique et de transferts sédimentaires en territoire agricole : exemple du bassin versant de la Canche (France), joint Ph.D. thesis 2016, IMT Lille-Douai – Département Génie Civil et Environnemental, & MINES ParisTech – Centre de Géosciences. http://theses.fr/2018MTLD0003

    HAL Publications