Maurasse, Florentin

Maurasse, Florentin

Positions

Professor, Earth and Environment , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

maurrass@fiu.edu

overview

Florentin Maurasse is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, specializing in Sedimentology and Statigraphy.

PhD Columbia University, 1973
Diplome d'Etudes Supérieures (Stratigraphy-Paleontology), Marseilles, 1967
Licence des Sciences, Marseilles, 1966

research interests

Stratigraphy, paleoceanography, and paleogeography of the Caribbean. Radiolarian and smaller foraminiferal biostratigraphy. Litho- and biostratigraphy of deep sea sequences in the Caribbean Sea and exposed deep sea sequences on land. Climate changes as recorded in pelagic sequences. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in southern Haiti and other Caribbean sites.

Other interests include carbonate facies development and distribution in the Plio-Pleistocene carbonates of South Florida and their relation to the region's hydrogeology.

selected publications

Article
- 2022
  
  Chemostratigraphic characteristics of trace elements, biomarkers and clay mineralogy indicating environmental conditions within Aptian sediments of the Organya Basin, North-east Spain, prior to the onset of OAE 1a
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dep2.186 Web of Science: 000788194600001
- 2022
  
  Demise of Organic Matter-Rich Facies and Changing Paleoenvironmental Conditions Associated with the End of Carbon Isotope Segment C5 of Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the North and Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/718834 Web of Science: 000790342500001
- 2020
  
  Regional palaeoenvironmental influence on organic matter sequestration and characteristics of carbon isotope segment C5 in a hemipelagic sequence, Organya Basin, northeast Spain
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dep2.111 Web of Science: 000543201000001
- 2019
  
  Lithologic controls on hydrologic and geochemical processes in constructed Everglades tree islands
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.001 Web of Science: 000501718200012
- 2019
  
  A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817407116 Web of Science: 000465363700023
- 2019
  
  Continuous accumulation of organic matter-rich sediments associated with Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the El Pujal section, Organya Basin, Catalunya Spain and its relation to episodic dysoxia
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.11.009 Web of Science: 000458940600017
- 2017
  
  Characterization of the negative carbon isotope shift in segment C2, its global implications as a harbinger of OAE1a
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11430-016-0092-5 Web of Science: 000392207400004
- 2016
  
  The influence of regional factors in the expression of oceanic anoxic event 1a (OAE1a) in the semi-restricted Organya Basin, south-central Pyrenees, Spain
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.031 Web of Science: 000367113800013
- 2016
  
  WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS AND SEASONAL HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES IN CONSTRUCTED EVERGLADES TREE ISLANDS
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016am-285895
- 2014
  
  Assessing the factors controlling high sedimentation rates from the latest Barremian-earliest Aptian in the hemipelagic setting of the restricted Organya Basin, NE Spain
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.05.010 Web of Science: 000343336800001
- 2014
  
  Geochemical characterization and redox signals from the latest Barremian to the earliest Aptian in a restricted marine basin: El Pui section, Organya Basin, south-central Pyrenees
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.02.011 Web of Science: 000333404100002
- 2014
  
  Endocranial morphology of the extinct Antillean shrew Nesophontes (Lipotyphla: Nesophontidae) from natural and digital endocasts of Cuban taxa
  Web of Science: 000345392800004
- 2014
  
  Petrographic evidence of structures of algal/bacterial origin in the Agua Nueva Formation carbonates (Cenomanian/Turonian: Upper Cretaceous) in Xilitla, S.L.P. Central Mexico
- 2014
  
  Petrographic evidences of structures of algal/bacterial origin in carbonates of the Agua Nueva Formation (Cenomanian/Turonian: Upper Cretaceous) in Xilitla, SLP central Mexico
  Full Text via DOI: 10.18268/BSGM2014v66n2a13 Web of Science: 000341641300013
- 2013
  
  Stable carbon-isotope stratigraphy and ammonite biochronology at Madotz, Navarra, northern Spain: implications for the timing and duration of oxygen depletion during OAE-1a
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.06.005 Web of Science: 000312685200013
- 2013
  
  Geochemistry, palaeoenvironments and timing of Aptian organic-rich beds of the Paja Formation (Curiti, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1144/SP382.6 Web of Science: 000343322600003
- 2012
  
  Lower Aptian ammonite and carbon isotope stratigraphy in the eastern Prebetic Domain (Betic Cordillera, southeastern Spain)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001752 Web of Science: 000312690700002
- 2010
  
  Lower Aptian ammonite biostratigraphy in the Maestrat Basin (Eastern Iberian Chain, Eastern Spain). A Tethyan transgressive record enhanced by synrift subsidence
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1344/105.000001534 Web of Science: 000281024900004
- 2008
  
  Role of cyanobacteria in C-org-rich deposits: an example from the Indidura Formation (Cenomanian-Turonian), northeastern Mexico
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.05.015 Web of Science: 000260761400020
- 2008
  
  Lower aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonites from the basal strata of the La Pena Formation of Nuevo Leon state, northeast Mexico: biochronostratigraphic implications
  Web of Science: 000254871100009
- 2004
  
  Haq receives 2004 Ocean Sciences Award
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1029/2004eo160006
- 2003
  
  Microbiological reduction of chromium(VI) in presence of pyrolusite-coated sand by Shewanella alga Simidu ATCC 55627 in laboratory column experiments
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00104-8 Web of Science: 000182897100018
- 2001
  
  Kinetics of chromium (VI) reduction by a type strain Shewanella alga under different growth conditions
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00108-7 Web of Science: 000171915200007
- 1993
  
  Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and paleoecologic significance of calcareous-siliceous fades of the Neogene Montpelier Formation, northeastern Jamaica
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/MEM182-p255
- 1992
  
  COEVAL AR-40/AR-39 AGES OF 65.0 MILLION YEARS AGO FROM CHICXULUB CRATER MELT ROCK AND CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY TEKTITES
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.257.5072.954 Web of Science: A1992JH82700032
- 1991
  
  IMPACTS, TSUNAMIS, AND THE HAITIAN CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY-LAYER
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.252.5013.1690 Web of Science: A1991FT11400041
- 1988
  
  Geochemistry of basalts from the Dumisseau Formation, southern Haiti: implications for the origin of the Caribbean Sea crust
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(88)90006-4
- 1983
  
  Pleistocene sea levels from raised coral reefs of Haiti
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.219.4591.1423
Conference
- 2021
  
  Geochemical Response to Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in Lower Aptian Pelagic Sediments of the Subbetic Basin, Spain
  Full Text via DOI: 10.7185/gold2021.6308
- 2020
  
  PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE RECORDED IN LOWER APTIAN SEDIMENTS CORRELATIVE WITH CHANGES RELATED TO OAE1A IN THE SUBBETIC BASIN, SOUTHERN SPAIN
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020am-358729
- 2019
  
  GEOCHEMICAL AND LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHANGING PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE END OF CARBON ISOTOPE SEGMENT C5 OF OAE 1A IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL SPANISH PYRENEES
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2019am-340572
- 2019
  
  GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH OAE1A IN THE LOWER APTIAN SUCCESSION OF THE BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN, NORTHERN SPAIN
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2019am-340278
- 2018
  
  MAJOR AND REDOX SENSITIVE TRACE ELEMENTS AS INDICATORS OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN APTIAN SEDIMENTS DURING OAE1A OF THE CUCHIA SECTION, CANTABRIA, NORTHERN SPAIN
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2018am-323798
- 2018
  
  REGIONAL FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND SHALLOWING EVENT IN THE NORTH AND NORTHEASTERN IBERIAN PENINSULA DURING THE END OF CARBON ISOTOPE SEGMENT C5: ORGANYÀ BASIN, CATALUNYÀ, SPAIN
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2018am-321523
- 2016
  
  A CONSISTENT CARBON ISOTOPE TREND AS A POTENTIAL TOOL TO REDUCE BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNCERTAINTIES AT THE BARREMIAN – APTIAN BOUNDARY
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016am-278391
- 2016
  
  CONTINUOUS EPISODIC DYSOXIA RELATED TO OAE1A, ORGANYÀ BASIN, EL PUJAL SECTION, CATALUNYA, NE SPAIN
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016am-284447
- 2016
  
  PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE UPPERMOST BARREMIAN - LOWEST APTIAN OF THE EASTERN PRADA QUARRY SECTION OF THE RESTRICTED ORGANYÀ BASIN, SOUTH-CENTRAL PYRENEES
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016am-285934
- 2009
  
  MICROSPHEROID ACCUMULATIONS AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN ANOXIC BASIN: THE RECORD OF THE INDIDURA FORMATION, NE MEXICO. 171-+.
  Web of Science: 000276449500012
- 2007
  
  Geochemical, lithologic and biotic variations of the K/P boundary record, implications for seiche-like movements as causal factors in the observed mix-up. A640-A640.
  Web of Science: 000248789901496
- 2005
  
  Paleobiotic changes in earth history and their causes. 1-5.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.019
- 1977
  
  PALEOTECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF SUBAQUEOUS FLOW STRUCTURES IN MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC CARIBBEAN DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS. 811-811.
  Web of Science: A1977DL33400186
- 1976
  
  PALEOGENE RADIOLARIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY - IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATIC CYCLES. 695-695.
  Web of Science: A1976BQ68300177
Note
- 1981
  
  Comment on 'Tertiary δ¹⁸O record and glacio-eustatic sea-level fluctuations'. 194.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1981)9<194a:CAROTO>2.0.CO;2
Review
- 1979
  
  CENOZOIC RADIOLARIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY - IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATIC CYCLES. 253-&.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(79)90151-2 Web of Science: A1979GS96100003

chaired theses and dissertations

Llaguno, Jose R, Paleoenvironments, origin, and relative maturity of organic matter in Barremian-Aptian limestones of the eastern Prada Quarry, Organyà Basin, NE Spain 2017
Hernandez, Yosmel Sanchez, Paleoenvironments and Geochemical Signals from the Late Barremian to the Middle Aptian in a Tethyan Marginal Basin, Northeast Spain: Implications for Carbon Sequestration in Restricted Basins 2014
Narvaez, Tatiana Gaona, Lower Aptian Comparative Stratigraphy of the Basco-Cantabrian Region (Spain) and Eastern Cordillera (Colombia): implications for local factors in the depositional record of Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE-1a) 2013
Barragan, Ricardo, Ammonite biostratigraphy, lithofacies variations, and paleoceanographic implications for barremian-aptian sequences of northeastern Mexico 2000
Cuevas, Elba Dayton, The radiolarian biostratigraphy of the oceanic formation, Conset Bay, Barbados, West Indies 1994

principal investigator on

Laboratory and Post-doctoral Support for Core and Seismic Reflection Analyses and Magnetostratigraphy. awarded by U.S. Geological Survey 2008 - 2009

co-principal investigator on

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer for Department of Earth & Enviroment at Florida International University awarded by National Science Foundation 2011 - 2013
Get Educators in Mathematics and Science (GEMS). awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2013

full name

Florentin Maurasse

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2383-1969 (confirmed)

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