Luc Bulot (July 23, 1963 – July 27, 2022) was a French paleontologist mainly known for his work on the biostratigraphy of West Africa and on the determination of Lower Cretaceous GSSP.
Luc Bulot | |
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.jpg) Bulot in 2019 | |
| Born | July 23, 1963 Cavaillon, France |
| Died | July 27, 2022 Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostratigraphy, Plate tectonics |
| Institutions | National Museum of Natural History, Aix-Marseille University, University of Manchester |
| Thesis | (1995) |
Personal life
editLuc Georges Bulot was born in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, France on July 23, 1963.
On October 17, 2015, he married Elsa Schnebelen in Saint-Privat-de-Champclos (Gard).[1]
Career
editBulot graduated with a master's degree in geology from the University of Dijon and obtained a PhD at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris in 1995.
Chairman of the "Working group on the Valanginian" within the International Commission on Stratigraphy, he worked for a long time on the definition of the Lower Cretaceous GSSP.[2]
From 2020 to 2022, he held various simultaneous positions: lead biostratigraphy expert within the North Africa Research Group, co-leader of an LCO/IFREMER/CNRS consortium based in Brest and investigating the links between biostratigraphy, sedimentology and plate tectonics, lecturer at the University of Manchester; and editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (AJGS).[3]
Notable areas of work included:
- Reconstruction of the Mesozoic paleogeography of Provence.[4]
- Definition of the marine biostratigraphic framework of West Africa.[5]
- Definition of Cretaceous stage limits (for the International Chronostratigraphic Chart) leading in particular to the definition of the GSSP of the Valanginian-Hauterivian transition at La Charce.[6][7][2]
- Discovery of new species of ammonites.[8]
Death and tributes
editIn July 2022, Luc Bulot died of cancer in Manchester, United Kingdom at the age of 59.[5]
In 2023, many researchers paid tribute, in a special edition of the Journal of African Earth Science, to the extent of his work which redefined a significant part of the stratigraphy of West Africa.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Saint-Privat-de-Champclos : Elsa et Luc ont échangé leurs consentements". Midi Libre. October 18, 2015.
- ^ a b Premoli Silva, Isabella (2007). Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy – Annual Report. Milano: International Commission on Stratigraphy.
- ^ "Luc Georges Bulot". Academia.edu. 2021.
- ^ Philip, Jean (2012). "L'Exploration géologique de la Provence Deux siècles et demi de débats et de controverses". Presses des Mines.
- ^ a b c Charton, Rémi; Brunat, Pierre-Olivier; Redfern, Jonathan; Nahim, Mohamed; Soussi, Mohamed (2023). "Advances in integrated basin and hinterland studies: the Central Atlantic and Atlasic domains of North Africa (A tribute to Luc Bulot)". Journal of African Earth Sciences.
- ^ "Un séminaire de géologues très réussi dans la commune". Midi Libre. 2015.
- ^ Mutterlose, Jörg; Rawson, Peter F.; Reboulet, Stéphane; Baudin, François; Bulot, Luc; Emmanuel, Laurent; Gardin, Silvia; Martinez, Mathieu; Renard, Maurice (June 1, 2021). "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Hauterivian Stage (Lower Cretaceous), La Charce, southeast France". Episodes Journal of International Geoscience. 44 (2): 129–150. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020072. S2CID 225194685.
- ^ Bulot, Luc; Company, Miguel; Thieuloy, Jean-Pierre (January 1, 1990). "Origine, évolution et systématique du genre valanginien Saynoceras (Ammonitina, Olcostephaninae)". Geobios (in French). 23 (4): 399–413. Bibcode:1990Geobi..23..399B. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(06)80269-X. ISSN 0016-6995.
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