Eric Claude Font

(Em Ciências até Agosto de 2018)

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Interesses Científicos

Large igneous Province, Global Changes and Mass Extinction: the Deccan Traps and the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary;

Magnetism of Speleothem for high-resolution reconstruction of Earth’s magnetic field and climate.

Plate-tectonics and kinematic evolution of the Iberian plate during Meso- and Cenozoic.

Identification of Tsunami-induced deposit in the geological record.

Neoproterozoic Glaciation (the so-called snowball Earth hypothesis).


Scientific Interests

Large igneous Province, Global Changes and Mass Extinction: the Deccan Traps and the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary;

Magnetism of Speleothem for high-resolution reconstruction of Earth’s magnetic field and climate.

Plate-tectonics and kinematic evolution of the Iberian plate during Meso- and Cenozoic.

Identification of Tsunami-induced deposit in the geological record.

Neoproterozoic Glaciation (the so-called snowball Earth hypothesis).


Publicações selecionadas
  • Font, E., Adatte, T. Andrade*, M., Keller, G., Mhabi Bitchong, A., Carvallo, C. Ferreira*, F., Diogo*, Z. and J. Mirão (2018). Deccan volcanism induced high-stress environment during the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition at Zumaia, Spain: Evidence from magnetic, mineralogical and biostratigraphic records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484, 53-66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.055
  • Font, E., Carlut, J., Rémazeilles, C. Mather, T.A, Nédélec, A., Mirão, J. and S. Casale (2017). End-Cretaceous akaganéite and its potential as a mineral marker of Deccan volcanism in the global sedimentary record, Nature Scientific Reports, 7, doi. 10.1038/s41598-017-11954-y.
  • Font, E., Adatte, T., Sial, A. N., Drude de Lacerda, L., Keller, G. and J. Punekar (2016). Mercury anomaly, Deccan Traps and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Geology. 44 (2), 171-174. doi.10.1130/G37451.1
  • Font, E., Veiga-Pires, C., Carvallo, C., Pozo, M., Neto*, A., Camps, P., Fabre, S. and J. Mirão (2014). Magnetic fingerprint of Southern Portuguese speleothems and implications for paleo- and environmental magnetism. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119 (11), 7993-8020 doi.10.1002/2014JB011381.
  • Font E., Nédélec A., Trindade R.I.F., Macouin, M. and A. Charrière (2006). Chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Mirassol d'Oeste cap dolostones (Mato Grosso, Brazil): implications for the Snowball Earth aftermath. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 250, 89-103. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.047

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