FRANCUS Pierre

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Francus, P., von Suchodoletz, H., Dietze, M., Donner, R.V., Bouchard, F., Roy, A.-J., Fagot, M., Verschuren, D., Kröpelin, S. 2013, Varved sediments of Lake Yoa (Ounianga Kebir, Chad) reveal progressive drying of the Sahara during the last 6100 years, Sedimentology

Zolitschka, B., Anselmetti, F., Ariztegui, D., Corbella, H., Francus, P., Lücke, A., Maidana, N., Ohlendorf, C., Schäbitz, F., Wastegård, S. 2013, Environment and climate of the last 51,000 years - new insights from the Potrok Aike maar lake Sediment Archive Drilling prOject (PASADO), Quaternary Science Reviews, ISSN 0277-3791, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.024 .pdf

Nuttin, L., Francus, P., Preda, M., Ghaleb, B., Hillaire-Marcel, C. In press. Authigenic, detrital and diagenetic minerals in the laguna potrok aike sediment sequence. Quaternary Science Reviews. pdf

Fortin, D., Francus, P., Gebhardt, A. C., Hahn, A., Kliem, P., Lisé-Pronovost, A., St-Onge, G. In press. Destructive and non-destructive density determination: Method comparison and evaluation from the laguna potrok aike sedimentary record. Quaternary Science Reviews,

Bouchard, F., Pienitz, R., Ortiz, J. D., Francus, P., Laurion, I. In press. Palaeolimnological conditions inferred from fossil diatom assemblages and derivative spectral properties of sediments in thermokarst ponds of subarctic quebec, canada. Boreas. pdf

Lapointe, F., Francus, P., Lamoureaux, S.F., Saïd, M., Cuven, S. 2012. 1750 years of large rainfall events inferred from particle size at East Lake, Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Canada. Journal of Paleolomnology, 48 (1), 159-173. pdf

Jouve, G., Francus, P., Lamoureux, S., Provencher-Nolet, L., Hahn, A., Haberzettl, T., Fortin, D., Nuttin, L. In Press. Microsedimentological characterization using image analysis and μ-XRF as indicators of sedimentary processes and climate changes during Lateglacial at Laguna Potrok Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Quaternary Science Reviews

Ojala, A.E.K., Francus, P., Zolitschka, B., Besonen, M., Lamoureux, S.F. In press. Characteristics of sedimentary varve chronologies - A review. Quaternary Science Reviews, 43, 45-60.

Giguet-Covex, C., Arnaud, F., Enters, D., Poulenard, J., Millet, L., Francus, P., David, F., Rey, P.-J., Wilhelm, B., Delannoy, J.-J. 2012. Frequency and intensity of high-altitude floods over the last 3.5 ka in northwestern French Alps (Lake Anterne), Quaternary Research, 77 (1) 12-22.

Antoniades, D., Francus, P., Pienitz, R., St-Onge, G., Vincent, W.F., 2011. Holocene dynamics of the Arctic’s largest ice shelf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(47), 18899-18904. pdf

Guyard, H., St-Onge, G., Pienitz, R., Francus, P., Zolitschka, B., Clarke, G.K., Hausmann, S., Salonen, V-.P., Lajeunesse, P., Ledoux, G., Lamothe, M., 2011. New insight into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from the Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(27-28), 3892-3907. pdf

Bouchard, F., Francus, P., Pienitz, R., Laurion, I., 2011. Sedimentology and geochemistry of thermokarst ponds in discontinuous permafrost, subarctic Quebec, Canada, Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences, 116(3), G00M04. pdf

Cuven, S., Francus, P., Lamoureux, S., 2011. Mid to Late Holocene hydroclimatic and geochemical records from the varved sediments of East Lake, Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(19-20), 2651-2665. pdf

Giguet-Covex, C., Arnaud, F., Poulenard, J., Disnar, J.-R., Delhon, C., Francus, P., David, F., Enters, D., Rey, P.-J., Delannoy, J.-J. 2011. Changes in erosion patterns during the Holocene in a currently treeless subalpine catchment inferred from lake sediment geochemistry (Lake Anterne, 2063 m a.s.l., NW French Alps): The role of climate and human activities, The Holocene, 21(4), 651-665. pdf

Jenning, A.E., Sheldon, C., Cronin, T.M., Francus, P., Stoner, J., Andrews, J., 2011. The Holocene History of Nares Strait, Oceanography, 24(3), 26-41. pdf

Cuven, S., Francus, P., Lamoureux, S.F., 2010. Estimation of grain size variability with micro X-ray fluorescence in laminated lacustrine sediments, Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic, Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(3), 803-817. pdf

Laurion, I., Vincent, W.F., MacIntyre, S., Retamal, L., Dupont, C., Francus, P., Pienitz, R., 2010. Variability in greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost thaw ponds. Limnology & Oceanography 55(1), 115–133. pdf

Lewis, T., Francus, P., Bradley, R.S., Kanamaru, K., 2010. An automated system for the statistical analysis of sediment texture and structure at the micro scale, Computers & Geosciences, 36, 1374-1383. pdf

Cook, T.L., Bradley, R.S., Stoner, J.S., Francus, P., 2009. Five thousand years of sediment transfer in a high arctic watershed recorded in annually laminated sediments from Lower Murray Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, Journal of Paleolimnology, 41 (1), 77-94. pdf

Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D. P., McKay, N. P., Ammann, C. M., Bradley, R. S., Briffa, K. R., Miller, G. H., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Overpeck, J. T., Vinther, B. M., Abbott, M. , Axford, Y. , Bird, B., Birks, H. J. B., Bjune, A. E., Briner, J., Cook, T., Chipman, M. , Francus, P., Gajewski, K. , Geirsdóttir, K. , Hu, F. S. , Kutchko, B., Lamoureux, S., Loso, M. , MacDonald, G. , Peros, M. , Porinchu, D. , Schiff, C., Seppä, H. , Thomas, E., 2009. Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling, Science, 325 (5945), 1236-1239.  pdf

Lewis, T., Francus, P., Bradley, R.S., 2009. Recent occurrence of large jökulhlaups at Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Journal of Paleolimnology, 41, 491-506. pdf

Rolland, N., Larocque, I., Francus, P., Pienitz, R., Laperrière, L., 2009. Evidence for a warmer period during the 12th and 13th centuries AD from chironomid assemblages in Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada, Quaternary Research, 72 (1), 27-37, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.03.001. pdf

Besonen, M., Bradley, R., Mudelsee,M., Abbott, M., Francus, P., 2008. A thousand year record of hurricane from Boston, Massachusetts, Geophysical Research Letters, (14), art. no. L14705. pdf

Besonen, M.R., Patridge, W., Bradley, R.S., Francus, P., Stoner, J.S., Abbott, M.B., 2008. A record of climate over the last millennium based on varved lake sediments from the Canadian High Arctic, The Holocene, 18 (1), 169-180. pdf

Francus, P., Bradley, R.S., Lewis, T., Abbott, M., Retelle, M., Stoner, J.S., 2008. Limnological and sedimentary processes at Sawtooth Lake, Canadian High Arctic, and their influence on varve formation, Journal of Paleolimnology, 40(3), 963-985, DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9210-x. pdf

Koç, N., Francus, P., Amman, C., Anderson, D., Bradley, R., Kaufman, D., Korhola, A., Miller, G., 2008. Generating and synthesizing paleoclimate data to assess Arctic climate change, Eos, 89, 27: 244-245. pdf

Kröpelin, S., Verschuren, D., Lézine, A.-M., Eggermont, H., Cocquyt, C., Francus,  P., Cazet, J.-P., Fagot, M., Rumes, B., Russell, J. M., Darius, F., Conley, D. J., Schuster, M., von Suchodoletz, H., Engstrom, D. R., 2008. Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years, Science, 320, 765-768. doi: 10.1126/science.1154913. pdf

Rolland, N., Larocque, I., Francus, P., Pienitz, R., Laperrière, L., 2008. Holocene climate inferred from biological (Diptera : Chironomidae) analyses in a Southampton island (Nunavut, Canada) lake, The Holocene, 18(2), 229-241. pdf

Asikainen, C., Francus, P., Brigham-Grette, J., 2007. Sedimentology, clay mineralogy and grain-size as indicators of 65 ka of climate change from El’gygytgyn Crater Lake, Northeastern Siberia, Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-006-9026-5. pdf

Brigham-Grette, J., Haug, G., Baker, P., Cohen, A., Colman, S., Francus, P., Fritz, S., Lamoureux, S., Nielsen, D., Peck, J., Powers, L., Russel, J., Stein, M., Verschuren, D., Vogel, S., Zolitschka, B., 2007. Climate dynamics and global environments: a community vision for the next decade in ICDP. In: Harms, U., Koeberl, C., Zoback, M. (Eds), Continental Scientific Drilling, a decade of progress, and challnges for the future. Springer, Berlin, pp. 53-94.

Guyard, H., St-Onge, G., Chapron, E., Anselmetti, F., Francus, P., 2007. The AD 1881 earthquake-triggered slump and late Holocene exceptional flood-induced turbidites from proglacial Lake Bramant, Western French Alps. In V. Lykousis, D. Sakellariou and J. Locat (Eds.), Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, 279-286. GEOTOP publication n° 2007-0017. pdf

Guyard, H., Chapron, E., St-Onge, G., Anselmetti, F.S., Arnaud, F., Magand, O., Francus, P., Mélières, M.-A., 2007. High-altitude varve records of abrupt environmental changes and mining activity over the last 4000 years in the Western French Alps (Lake Bramant, Grandes Rousses Massif), Quaternary Science Reviews, 26 (19-21), 2644-2660. pdf

Lewis, T., Francus, P., Bradley, R., 2007. Limnology, sedimentology, and hydrology of a jökulhlaup into a meromictic high arctic lake, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44 (6), 791-806. GEOTOP Publication n° 2007-0032  pdf

St-Onge, G., Mulder, T., Francus, P., Long., B., 2007. Chapter two: Continuous physical properties of cored marine sediments, In C. Hillaire-Marcel and A. de Vernal (Eds.), Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography, Developments in Marine Geology , Elsevier, 63-98.  GEOTOP publication n° 2007-0015. pdf

Debret, M., Desmet, M., Balsam, W., Copard, Y., Francus, P., Laj, C., 2006. Spectrocolorimeter analysis of Holocene sediments from an anoxic fjord: Saanich Inlet, Bristish Columbia, Canada, Marine Geology, 229, 15-28. pdf

Francus, P., Lamoureux, S., 2006. Microfacies characterization using image analysis, physical and chemical properties for understanding sedimentary processes and reconstructing climate at high-resolution at Laguna Potrok Aike, Terra Nostra, 2006 (01), 60-61.

St-Onge, G., Francus P., 2006. CT-scan image analysis and magnetic properties at Laguna Potrok Aike, Terra Nostra, 2006 (01), 66.

Lewis, T., Braun, C., Hardy, D., Francus, P., Bradley, R., 2005. An extreme sediment transfer event in a Canadian High Arctic Stream, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 37, 4, 477-482. pdf

Vologina, E., Granin, N., Vorobyeva, S., Francus, P., Lomonosova, T., Kalashnikova, I. & Granina, L., 2005. Ice transportation of sand- silt material in southern lake Baikal, Geologiya i Geofizika (Geology and Geophisics), 46, 4, 186-192. pdf

Pilcher, J., Bradley, R., Francus, P., Anderson, L., 2005. A Holocene tephra record from the Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway, Boreas, 34 ,1-21. pdf

Francus, P., Bradley, R., Thurow, J., 2004. An introduction to image analysis, sediments and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. In: Image analysis, sediments and paleoenvironments, edited by Francus, P., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 1-7.

Francus, P., Pirard, E., 2004. Testing for sources of errors in quantitative image analysis. In: Image analysis, sediments and paleoenvironments, edited by Francus, P., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 87-102.

Francus, P. (editor), 2004. Image analysis, sediments, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Kluwer academic publishers, Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Series.

Nederbragt, A., Francus, P., Bollmann, J., Soreghan, M., 2004. Image calibration, filtering and processing. In: Image analysis, sediments and paleoenvironments, edited by Francus, P., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 35-58.

Soreghan, M., Francus, P., 2004. Processing backscattered electron digital images of thin section. In: Image analysis, sediments and paleoenvironments, edited by Francus, P., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 223.

Perren, B., Bradley, R., Francus, P., 2003. Rapid lacustrine response to recent High Arctic warming: a diatom record from Sawtooth Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res, 35 (3), 271-278. pdf

Francus, P., Keimig, F.,  Besonen, M., 2002. An algorithm to aid varves counting and measurement from thin-sections, J. Paleolimnol., 28 (2), 283-286. pdf

Francus, P., Bradley, R., Abbott, M.B., Patridge, W., Keiming, F., 2002. Paleoclimate studies of minerogenic sediments using annually resolved textural parameters, Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 20, 1998, doi:10.1029/2002GL015082. pdf

Francus, P., Bradley, R.S., Finney, B.P., Lewis, T., Patridge, W., Perren, B., Stoner, J., 2002. High-Resolution Lake Sediment Studies from Sawtooth Lake, Nunavut. Proceedings of the ARCSS All-Hands Workshop, 90. pdf

Ojala, A., Francus, P., 2002. Comparing X-ray densitometry and BSE-image analysis of thin section in varved sediments, Boreas, 31, 57-64. pdf

Francus, P., Asikainen, C., 2001. Sub-sampling unconsolidated sediments: a solution for the preparation of undisturbed thin-sections from clay-rich sediments, J. Paleolimnol., 26, 323-326. pdf

Francus, P., Cosby, C.A., 2001. Sub-sampling unconsolidated sediments: A solution for the preparation of undisturbed thin-sections from clay-rich sediments, Journal of Paleolimnology, 26 (3), 323-326. pdf

Klerkx, J., Plisnier, P., Lambin, E., Serneels, S., Seret, G., Francus, P., Vyverman, W., Cocquyt, C., 2001. ENSO and Paleo-ENSO during the last 1000 years at Lake Tanganyika, Rapport final SSTC, Bruxelles, 136p.

Francus, P., 2001. Quantification of bioturbation in hemipelagic sediments via thin-sections image analysis, J. Sediment. Res., 71 (3), 501-507. pdf

Francus, P., Patridge, W., Abbott, M., Bradley, R., Finney, B., Hardy, D., Lewis, T., Perren, B., Stoner, J., 2001. Current Research from Three Lakes From Ellesmere Island Nunavut: Sawtooth, Tuborg, and Murray, PaleoTimes, 29-30. pdf

Francus, P., Patridge, W., Hardy, D., Abbott, M., Bradley, R., Finney, B., Lewis, T., Perren, B., Stoner, J., 2001. Preliminary Results from Three Lakes From Ellesmere Island, Nunavut: Sawtooth, Tuborg and Murray, Arctic Forum 2001, The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), Fairbanks, AK: 32-33.

Francus, P., Karabanov, E., 2000. A computer-assisted thin-section study of lake Baikal sediments: a tool for understanding sedimentary processes and deciphering their climatic signal, Int. J. Earth Sciences, Geologische Rundschau, 89 (2), 260-267. pdf