 |
PhD student:
Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans – Université Jean Monnet (France) Stellenbosch University (South Africa) People: Geochemistry |
– Research Activities: Differentiation and stabilization of the Archean continental crust.
– Study area: High-grade granulite facies terrane: northern edge of the Archean Kaapvaal craton (Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Complex, South Africa)
– Tools: Petrography – Majors and traces element geochemistry – Zircons and monazites U-Pb geochronology – Phase equilibrium modelling (Perple_X)2013 – 2016 Ph.D. Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (Saint–Etienne, France) & Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa). Joint-degree. Thesis title: Differentiation and stabilization of the Archean continental crust, example of the northern edge of the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa.
2012 – 2013 M.Sc.
Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG, Nancy, France). Thesis title: 146,147Sm/142,143Nd isotope signature of Eoarchean supracrustal lithologies, Hebron-Saglek (Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada).
2010 – 2012 Geological engineering school
École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG, Nancy, France), specialization in Mineral Raw Material. Project: Setting up of a digestion apparatus for extracting inorganic sulphur from Archean banded iron formations.
2008 – 2010 Classe Préparatoire – French Intensive Foundation
Majors in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Earth Sciences, Ozenne High School (Toulouse, France).
172h of teaching spread on the three years of PhD: – Third year students: Structural geology, 18h each years (tutorials and practical works).
– Second year students: Macroscopic and microscopic characterization of usual minerals, 8h each year (practical works only).
– First year students: Topographical and geological cartography principles – hydrogeology – introduction to numerical geology (ImageJ / Surfer softwares), 36h each years (tutorials only).
Publications : - Vezinet, A., Moyen, J. F., Stevens, G., Nicoli, G., Laurent, O., Couzinié, S., and Frei, D., 2018, Half-billion years of continental crust evolution at the northern edge of the Kaapvaal craton (South Africa) and consequences on Archean geodynamics: Precambrian research, vol. 305, p. 310-326, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.11.019.
- Couzinié, S., Laurent, O., Poujol, M., Mintrone, M., Chelle-Michou, C., Moyen, J-F., Bouilhol, P., Vezinet, A., Marko, L., Mayne, M.J., Nicoli, N., 2017. Cadomian S-type granites as basement rocks of the Variscan belt (Massif Central, France): Implications for the crustal evolution of the north Gondwana margin: Lithos, v. 286-287, p. 16-34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.06.001.
- Nicoli, G., Thomassot, E., Schannor, M., Vezinet, A., and Jovovic, I., 2017, Constraining a Precambrian Wilson Cycle lifespan: An example from the ca. 1.8 Ga Nagssugtoqidian Orogen, Southeastern Greenland: Lithos, v.296-299, p. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.10.017.
- Nicoli, G., Stevens. G., Moyen, J. F., Vezinet, A., Mayne, M., 2016, Insights into the complexity of crustal differentiation: K2O‐poor leucosomes within metasedimentary migmatites from the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 35(9), p.999-1022, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12265.
- Laurent, O., Nicoli, G., Zeh, A., Stevens, G., Moyen, J. F., and Vezinet, A., 2014, Comment on “Ultrahigh temperature granulites and magnesian charnockites: Evidence for the Neoarchean accretion along the northern margin of the Kaapvaal craton” by Rajesh et al: Precambrian Research, v. 255, p. 455-458, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.07.010.
