Antoine Delaunay, PhD

Research Interests

My research interests are focusing on but not limited to the vertical movements of anorogenic domains. How these movements are recorded in the landscape and landforms (planation surfaces, scape and landforms (planation surfaces, escarpment evolution), and how they affect the drainage pattern evolution. I tried to think of the system as a whole from the onshore “source” domain to the adjacent basins, the “sink” domain. Therefore, I combine geomorphology studies with sedimentary basins analysis and drainage network evolutions. I use available DEM data, satellite imagery, literature data as well as fieldwork. The aim of such studies is to propose an evolution model combining paleotopography and vertical movements with paleogeography (including paleodrainage). My project with KAUST focuses on the vertical movements of the western Arabian margin in relation to the Red Sea opening.

A better knowledge of the timing, amplitude and extent of these movements is needed to better understand the processes at their origin. Such study should help to better understand the evolution stages of the red Sea opening.

Selected Publications

Structure and morphology of the Red Sea, from the mid-ocean ridge to the ocean-continent boundary.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229728 - A. Delaunay, G. Baby, J. Fedorik, A. Afifi, P. Tapponnier, J. Dyment

Article in prep. Antoine Delaunay, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Massimo Dall'Asta, Gérard Dupont, Jérémie Gaillot, Gérôme Calvès;

A Miocene uplift of the Madagascar Plateau: constraints from Cenozoic seismic stratigraphy and paleogeography of the western Morondava Margin.
Article in prep. Antoine Delaunay, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Massimo Dall'Asta, Gérard Dupont, Jérémie Gaillot, Gérôme Calvès;

Balancing uplift and sedimentation history using 1 landscape evolution models: Madagascar since 90 Ma 2
Article in prep - Ruohong Jiao1;2, 3 Jean Braun1, Antoine Delaunay3, Cécile Robin3, François 4 Guillocheau3;

Madagascar vertical movements (90 - 0 Ma): a double approach including onshore geomorphology and Madagascar western margins sedimentary record March 2018
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35631.69283 - Thesis for: PhD - Advisor: François Guillocheau, Cécile Robin, Gérôme Calves, Jean-Noël Ferry Antoine Delaunay;

Mid to Late Miocene Uplift and Doming of Madagascar: Constraints from Topography, Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Paleogeography November 2017
DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.201702430 - Conference: Third EAGE Eastern Africa Petroleum Geoscience Forum Antoine Delaunay, Cécile Robin, François Guillocheau, Massimo Dall'Asta, Gérôme Calvès;

Austral and East African Uplifts and Relief Growths, Paleoclimate Changes: A Tool for Predicting Offshore Sediments Location and Nature November 2017
DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.201702411 - Conference: Third EAGE Eastern Africa Petroleum Geoscience Forum François Guillocheau, Cécile Robin, Guillaume Baby, Antoine Delaunay, Jean-Pierre Ponte, Massimo Dall’Asta, N Buratti, D. Michoux.

Education

PhD Earth Science, University of Rennes.

Research Interests Keywords

Sedimentology