Guillaume Baby, PhD

Research Scientists

Research Scientist

Current

Research Interests

Characterization of long-term lithospheric deformation (×1-×10 Myr) through the sedimentary record in various geodynamic settings, including passive margins (Southern African margins), convergent margins (NW Tibetan margin - Western Kunlun foothills), intracratonic domains (Paris Basin) and rifts (Red Sea).

Selected Publications

Kinematics of Cenozoic shortening of the Hotan anticline along the northwestern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (Western Kunlun, China)
G. Baby, M. Simoes, L. Barrier, C. Guilbaud, H. Li, J. Van der Woerd
Submitted to Tectonics

Constraining plateau uplift in southern Africa by combining thermochronology, sediment flux, topography, and landscape evolution modeling
J.R. Stanley, J. Braun, G. Baby, F. Guillocheau, C. Robin, R. Flowers, R. Brown, M. Wildman, R. Beucher
Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, e2020JB021243, (2021)

Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma
 F. Poblete, G. Dupont-Nivet, A. Licht, D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, P. Roperch, M.G. Mihalynuk, S.T. Johnston, F. Guillocheau, G., Baby, F. Fluteau, C. Robin, T.J.M. van der Linden, D. Ruiz, M.L.J. Baatsen
Earth-Science Reviews, 214, 103508, (2021)

Pliocene uplift of the Massif Central (France) constrained by the palaeoelevation quantified from the pollen record of sediments preserved along the Cantal Stratovolcano (Murat area)
S. Fauquette, J.-P. Suc, S.-M. Popescu, F. Guillocheau, S. Violette, A. Jost, C. Robin, J. Briais, G. Baby
Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (5), 923–938, (2020)

Solid sedimentation rates history of the Southern African continental margins: Implications for the uplift history of the South African Plateau
G. Baby, F. Guillocheau, J. Braun, C. Robin, M. Dall’Asta
Terra Nova, 32 (1), 53-65, (2020)

Post-rift stratigraphic evolution of the Atlantic margin of Namibia and South Africa: Implications for the vertical movements of the margin and the uplift history of the South African Plateau
G. Baby, F. Guillocheau, J. Morin, J. Ressouche, C. Robin, O. Broucke, M. Dall’Asta
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 97, 169-191, (2018)

Seismic stratigraphy of Cretaceous eastern Central Atlantic Ocean: Basin evolution and palaeoceanographic implications
Y. Mourlot, G. Calvès, P.D. Clift, G. Baby, A.-C. Chaboureau, F. Raisson
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499, 107-121, (2018)

Uplift history of a transform continental margin revealed by the stratigraphic record: The case of the Agulhas transform margin along the Southern African Plateau
G. Baby, F. Guillocheau, C. Boulogne, C. Robin, M. Dall’Asta
Tectonophysics, 737-732, 104-130, (2018)

Planation surfaces as a record of mantle dynamics: the case example of Africa
F. Guillocheau, B. Simon, G. Baby, P. Bessin, C. Robin, O. Dauteuil 
Gondwana Research, 53, 82-98, (2018)

Rapid erosion of the Southern African Plateau as it climbs over a mantle superswell
J. Braun, F. Guillocheau, C. Robin, G. Baby, H. Jelsma
Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 119, 6093-6112, (2014)

Education

Pd.D., Earth Sciences, Rennes 1 University, France, 2017

Professional Profile

2021- : Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2019-2021: Postdoctoral fellow, IPGP, Paris, France

2017-2019: Postdoctoral fellow, Rennes 1 University, France

Research Interests Keywords

Stratigraphy Tectonic Evolution