Camille Clerc

TS Tectonics and Structural Geology

The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Camille Clerc for the poster/PICO entitled:

From crustal thinning to mantle exhumation: what the Pyrenean breccia formations tell us (Camille, C.; Lagabrielle, Y.; Reynaud, J.-Y.; Boulvais, P.; Bousquet, R.; Lahfid, A.; Vauchez, A.; Mahé, S.)

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Camille Clerc is a PhD student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and at the Géosciences Montpellier Laboratory under supervision of Yves Lagabrielle and Christian Chopin. As a young geologist I study the structural and thermal evolution of the Cretaceous hyper-extended domain inverted in the Pyrenean Orogen. My approach implies fieldwork, petrography and geochemistry to determine the sedimentary, structural and metamorphic evolution of the North Pyrenean basins. Paleo-thermometry by Raman spectroscopy of the carbonaceous mater allows for a precise characterization of the high temperature metamorphism accompanying the exhumation of sub-continental mantle.

Publication resulting from the award

Clerc, C., Lahfid, A., Monié, P., Lagabrielle, Y., Chopin, C., Poujol, M., Boulvais, P., Ringenbach, J.-C., Masini, E., and de St Blanquat, M.: High-temperature metamorphism during extreme thinning of the continental crust: a reappraisal of the North Pyrenean passive paleomargin, Solid Earth, 6, 643–668, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-643-2015, 2015.