welcome to nicolas coltice web page

assistant professor in earth sciences
habilitation
director of iCAP AMUE conference podcast here
laboratoire de sciences de la terre UMR5570 universite de lyon ecole normale superieure de lyon - bat geode - 43bd du 11 novembre 1918 - 69100 villeurbanne - france
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research - i try to understand how the interiors of the earth and planets work using dynamic modeling, geochemistry and geophysics. i am focused on mantle evolution, continental growth and core formation.
teaching - 2004 to 2007: in charge of the first year for geosciences (800 students per year) spiral website ; geophysics ; geochemistry ; plate tectonics ; agregation (BGSTU) ; open university uo - invited to teach geodynamics at the graduate school of the chinese academy of sciences
- working on the serious game Climatus
phd advising - 2006 - nicolas flament w/ patrice rey ; 2005 - julien monteux w/ yanick ricard ; 2003 - 2007 guillaume duclaux w/ r-p menot, p. rey, s. guillot
papers :
Coltice, N., and Y. Ricard (1999), Geochemical observations and one-layer mantle convection, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 174, 125-137- pdf
Coltice, N., S. Ferrachat, and Y. Ricard (2000), Box modeling the chemical evolution of geophysical systems : Case study of the Earth s mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1579-1582.- pdf
Coltice, N., F. Albarede and Ph. Gillet (2000), 40K-40Ar constraints on recycling of continental crust into the mantle , Science, 288, 845-847- pdf
Coltice, N., and Y. Ricard (2002), On the origin of noble gases in mantle plumes, Philos.Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 360, 2633-2648.- pdf
Coltice, N., L. Simon, and C. Lecuyer (2004), Carbon isotope cycle and mantle structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L05603, doi :10.1029/2003GL018873.- pdf
Ricard, N., and N. Coltice (2005), Geophysical and geochemical models of mantle convection: successes and future challenges, in The State of the Planet : Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics, Robert Stephen John Sparks and Christopher Johns Hawkesworth, Editors, AGU Monograph.- pdf
Coltice, N. (2005), The role of convective mixing in degassing the Earth's mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 234, 15-25.- pdf
Simon, L., C. Lecuyer, C. Marechal, N. Coltice (2006), Modelling the geochemical cycle of boron : implication for the long term 11B evolution of seawater and oceanic crust, Chem. Geol. 225, 61-76. - pdf
Coltice, N., J. Schmalzl (2006), Mixing times in the mantle of the early Earth derived from 2-D and 3-D numerical simulations of convection, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L23304, doi:10.1029/2006GL027707. - pdf
Coltice, N., B.R. Phillips, H. Bertrand, Y. Ricard, P. Rey (2007), Global warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents, Geology 35, 391-394. - pdf - in the news - mantleplumes.org
Monteux, J., N. Coltice, F. Dubuffet, Y. Ricard (2007), Thermo-mechanical adjustment after impacts during planetary growth, Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L24201, doi:10.1029/2007GL031635.- pdf
Labrosse, S., J.W. Hernlund, N. Coltice (2007), A Crystallising dense magma ocean at the base of the Earth's mantle, Nature 450, 866-868. - pdf
Rey, P., N. Coltice (2008), Neoarchean lithospheric strengthening and the coupling of the Earth's geochemical reservoirs, Geology 36, 635-638.- pdf - nature highlight
Flament, N., N. Coltice, P. Rey, A case for late-Archaean continental emergence from thermal evolution models and hypsometry, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in press. - pdf
Coltice, N., B. Marty, R. Yokochi, Xenon isotope constraints on the thermal evolution of the early Earth, submitted to Chemical Geology (Noble gases special issue).
Coltice, N., H. Bertrand, P. Rey, F. Jourdan, B.R. Philipps, Y. Ricard, Global warming of the mantle beneath continents back to the Archean, Gondwana Research (Supercontinent special issue), in press.
organizations earthbyte group agu myres
organizing commitee - Goldschmidt 2008 (Vancouver), 10th workshop of mantle convection and lithospheric modeling (2007) visit the website, egu session on mantle structure and composition (2007), goldschmidt session : hidden reservoirs in the mantle: required, desired, or superfluous? (2007)
projects funded - cnrs pnp (2003) - universite de lyon bqr (2004) - cnrs dyeti (2004-2006) - supercomputer (2005) - cnrs pnp (2006) - anr ether (2006-2008) - sedit-cnrs (2007-2008)
awards - PhD prize of Comite National Francais de Geologie (2002)
- teaching award for the course website trophees Spiral (2007)
some collegues alexandre fournier dimitri lague pierre beck thierry huck thorsten becker richard allen stephane labrosse craig o'neill john hernlund bernard marty francis albarede
some friends ian tong florent marcie et philomene bon nacim brahimi yes is a pleasant country frederic bobin yves dalbiez sab's blog sarro brother dams coline a la ferme leclubdes5 letepee (2002-2006)