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Nicolas Coltice

NC

50

Publications

4.2K

Citations

33

H-Index

1999

Active since

Affiliations

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(Current)

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement

The University of Sydney

Nicolas Coltice is an author at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique specializing in engineering, earth science, and tectonics.

Top concepts

EngineeringEarth ScienceTectonicsGeologyGeophysicsGeochemistryGeographyPlate TectonicsEarth System ScienceVolcanology

Publications per year

1999–2024

50

Publications

50

A crystallizing dense magma ocean at the base of the Earth’s mantle

S. Labrosse, J. W. Hernlund, Nicolas Coltice · Nature · 2007 · 849 citations

Magmatic Process, Marine Geology, Volcanology +10

Global warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents

Nicolas Coltice, Benjamin Phillips, Hélène Bertrand et al. · Geology · 2007 · 261 citations

Geophysics, Volcanology, Engineering +14

A case for late-Archaean continental emergence from thermal evolution models and hypsometry

Nicolas Flament, Nicolas Coltice, Patrice Rey · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2008 · 222 citations

Biosignature, Evolutionary Biology, Archaea +3

Global warming of the mantle beneath continents back to the Archaean

Nicolas Coltice, Hervé Bertrand, Patrice Rey et al. · Gondwana Research · 2008 · 158 citations · Full text

Engineering, Mantle Dynamic, Global Warming +7

Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

Patrice Rey, Nicolas Coltice, Nicolas Flament · Nature · 2014 · 146 citations · Full text

Plate Tectonics, Engineering, Plate Boundary +4

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