Overview
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Florentin Maurasse is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, specializing in Sedimentology and Statigraphy.
PhD Columbia University, 1973
Diplome d'Etudes Supérieures (Stratigraphy-Paleontology), Marseilles, 1967
Licence des Sciences, Marseilles, 1966
research interests
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Stratigraphy, paleoceanography, and paleogeography of the Caribbean. Radiolarian and smaller foraminiferal biostratigraphy. Litho- and biostratigraphy of deep sea sequences in the Caribbean Sea and exposed deep sea sequences on land. Climate changes as recorded in pelagic sequences. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in southern Haiti and other Caribbean sites.
Other interests include carbonate facies development and distribution in the Plio-Pleistocene carbonates of South Florida and their relation to the region's hydrogeology.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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2025Characterization of the Weissert oceanic anoxic event in lower Cretaceous limestones of the Guaniguanico terrain, Sierra de los Órganos, Western Cuba. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/feart.2025.1549274 Web of Science: 001478715800001
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2025Geochemical response of Aptian sediments before, during and after Oceanic Anoxic Event 1A: insight from the La Frontera section Subbetic Basin, southern Spain. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/feart.2025.1547237 Web of Science: 001473126100001
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2022Demise of Organic Matter-Rich Facies and Changing Paleoenvironmental Conditions Associated with the End of Carbon Isotope Segment C5 of Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the North and Northeastern Iberian Peninsula. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 130:133-170.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/718834 Web of Science: 000790342500001
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2019Lithologic controls on hydrologic and geochemical processes in constructed Everglades tree islands. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY. 527.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.001 Web of Science: 000501718200012
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2019A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 116:8190-8199.Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817407116 Web of Science: 000465363700023
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2019Continuous accumulation of organic matter-rich sediments associated with Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the El Pujal section, Organya Basin, Catalunya Spain and its relation to episodic dysoxia. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 95:225-251.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.11.009 Web of Science: 000458940600017
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2017Characterization of the negative carbon isotope shift in segment C2, its global implications as a harbinger of OAE1a. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES. 60:30-43.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11430-016-0092-5 Web of Science: 000392207400004
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2016The influence of regional factors in the expression of oceanic anoxic event 1a (OAE1a) in the semi-restricted Organya Basin, south-central Pyrenees, Spain. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY. 441:582-598.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.031 Web of Science: 000367113800013
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2014Assessing the factors controlling high sedimentation rates from the latest Barremian-earliest Aptian in the hemipelagic setting of the restricted Organya Basin, NE Spain. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 51:1-21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.05.010 Web of Science: 000343336800001
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2014Geochemical characterization and redox signals from the latest Barremian to the earliest Aptian in a restricted marine basin: El Pui section, Organya Basin, south-central Pyrenees. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY. 372:12-31.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.02.011 Web of Science: 000333404100002
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2014Endocranial morphology of the extinct Antillean shrew Nesophontes (Lipotyphla: Nesophontidae) from natural and digital endocasts of Cuban taxa. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA. 17.Web of Science: 000345392800004
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2014Petrographic evidence of structures of algal/bacterial origin in the Agua Nueva Formation carbonates (Cenomanian/Turonian: Upper Cretaceous) in Xilitla, S.L.P. Central Mexico. BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD GEOLOGICA MEXICANA. 66:669.
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2014Petrographic evidences of structures of algal/bacterial origin in carbonates of the Agua Nueva Formation (Cenomanian/Turonian: Upper Cretaceous) in Xilitla, SLP central Mexico. BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD GEOLOGICA MEXICANA. 66:397-412.Full Text via DOI: 10.18268/BSGM2014v66n2a13 Web of Science: 000341641300013
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2013Stable carbon-isotope stratigraphy and ammonite biochronology at Madotz, Navarra, northern Spain: implications for the timing and duration of oxygen depletion during OAE-1a. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 40:143-157.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.06.005 Web of Science: 000312685200013
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2013Geochemistry, palaeoenvironments and timing of Aptian organic-rich beds of the Paja Formation (Curiti, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia). ISOTOPIC STUDIES IN CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 382:31-48.Full Text via DOI: 10.1144/SP382.6 Web of Science: 000343322600003
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2012Lower Aptian ammonite and carbon isotope stratigraphy in the eastern Prebetic Domain (Betic Cordillera, southeastern Spain). GEOLOGICA ACTA. 10:333-350.Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001752 Web of Science: 000312690700002
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2010Lower Aptian ammonite biostratigraphy in the Maestrat Basin (Eastern Iberian Chain, Eastern Spain). A Tethyan transgressive record enhanced by synrift subsidence. GEOLOGICA ACTA. 8:281-299.Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001534 Web of Science: 000281024900004
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2008Lower aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonites from the basal strata of the La Pena Formation of Nuevo Leon state, northeast Mexico: biochronostratigraphic implications. REVISTA MEXICANA DE CIENCIAS GEOLOGICAS. 25:145-157.Web of Science: 000254871100009
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2003Microbiological reduction of chromium(VI) in presence of pyrolusite-coated sand by Shewanella alga Simidu ATCC 55627 in laboratory column experiments. CHEMOSPHERE. 52:175-183.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00104-8 Web of Science: 000182897100018
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2001Kinetics of chromium (VI) reduction by a type strain Shewanella alga under different growth conditions. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. 115:209-218.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00108-7 Web of Science: 000171915200007
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1992COEVAL 40AR/39AR AGES OF 65.0 MILLION YEARS AGO FROM CHICXULUB CRATER MELT ROCK AND CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY TEKTITES. SCIENCE. 257:954-958.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.257.5072.954 Web of Science: A1992JH82700032
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1991IMPACTS, TSUNAMIS, AND THE HAITIAN CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY-LAYER. SCIENCE. 252:1690-1693.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.252.5013.1690 Web of Science: A1991FT11400041
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1988Geochemistry of basalts from the Dumisseau Formation, southern Haiti: implications for the origin of the Caribbean Sea crust. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 87:423-437.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(88)90006-4
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1983Pleistocene sea levels from raised coral reefs of Haiti. SCIENCE. 219:1423-1425.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.219.4591.1423
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Role of cyanobacteria in Corg-rich deposits: an example from the Indidura Formation (Cenomanian-Turonian), northeastern Mexico. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 29:957-964.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.05.015 Web of Science: 000260761400020
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2007Geochemical, lithologic and biotic variations of the K/P boundary record, implications for seiche-like movements as causal factors in the observed mix-up. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA. A640-A640.Web of Science: 000248789901496
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2005Paleobiotic changes in earth history and their causes. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY. 1-5.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.019
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1977PALEOTECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF SUBAQUEOUS FLOW STRUCTURES IN MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC CARIBBEAN DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS. AAPG BULLETIN. 811-811.Web of Science: A1977DL33400186
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1976PALEOGENE RADIOLARIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY - IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATIC CYCLES. AAPG BULLETIN. 695-695.Web of Science: A1976BQ68300177
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1981Comment on 'Tertiary δ18O record and glacio-eustatic sea-level fluctuations'. GEOLOGY. 194.Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1981)9<194a:CAROTO>2.0.CO;2
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1979CENOZOIC RADIOLARIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY - IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATIC CYCLES. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY. 253-&.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(79)90151-2 Web of Science: A1979GS96100003
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