Matthias Bernet, Ph.D.
Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines      

Maison des Géosciences                                                                  

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38041 Grenoble Cedex                                                Fax :    +33 (0)4.76.51.40.58
FRANCE                                                                     Email: matthias.bernetat” ujf-grenoble.fr


 


Principal areas of research interests:

(1) Detrital thermochronology for exhumation and provenance studies
(2)
SEM-CL/optical microscopy quartz provenance analysis
(3)
Diagenesis and sediment petrology

Faculty Positions:

 

2006-          Maître de Conférences (Lecturer), LGCA, Université Joseph Fourier,     
2005           Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY New Paltz,

Education and Postdoctoral Experience:

2009            Habilitation,
LGCA, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
2003-2004   Marie-Curie Postdoc,
LGCA, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
2002-2003   Postdoctoral research fellow,
Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
2002            Ph.D.,
Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

2000            M. Phil., Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
1997            Diplom Geologe, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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Ph.D. students:

François CHIROUZE                       Tectonic and climatic evolution of the central and eastern Himalayas

Sébastien Jourdan                            Multidisciplinary provenance analysis in the Oligocene-Miocene Western Alps foreland basin

 

Post-doc:

Christoph GLOTZBACH                 Thermo-Europe project: Exhumation of the Western Alps

 

 

 

Former Ph.D. students and Post-docs:

Mauricio BERMUDEZ-CELLA        Cenozoic exhumation patterns across the Venezuelan Andes: insights from fission-track thermochronology (2009)

 

 

 

 

Grenoble fission-track laboratory

 


Publications:

Bernet, M.,
Brandon, M., Garver, J., Balestieri, M.L., Ventura, B., and Zattin, M, 2009, Exhuming the Alps through time: clues from detrital zircon fission-track thermochronology. Basin Research, in press.

 

Bernet, M., 2009, A field-based estimate of the zircon fission-track closure temperature. Chemical Geology, v. 259, p. 181-189.

 

Muceku, B., van der Beek, P., Bernet, M., Reiners, P.W., Mascle, G., and Tashko, A., 2008, Thermochronologic evidence for Mio-Pliocene late orogenic extension in the north-eastern Albanides (Albania). Terra Nova, v. 20, p. 180-187.

 

Bernet, M., Kapoutsos, D., and Bassett, K., 2007, Diagenesis and Provenance of Silurian quartz arenites in south-eastern New York State. Sedimentary Geology, v. 201, p. 43-55. [pdf-version]

 

Bernet, M., van der Beek, P., Pik, R., Huyghe, P., Mugnier, J.-L., Labrin, E., and Szulc, A., 2006, Miocene to Recent exhumation of the central Himalaya determined from combined detrital zircon fission-track and U/Pb analysis of Siwalik sediments, western Nepal. Basin Research, v. 18, p. 393-412. [pdf-version]

Van der Beek, P., Robert, X., Mugnier, J.-L., Bernet, M., Huyghe, P., Labrin, E., 2006, Late Miocene – Recent denudation of the central Himalaya and recycling in the foreland basin assessed by detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology of Siwalik sediments, Nepal. Basin Research, v. 18, p.413-434. [pdf-version]

 

Bassett, K., Ettmuller, F., and Bernet, M., 2006, Provenance analysis of the Paparoa and Brunner Coal Measures using integrated SEM-cathodoluminescence – optical microscopy. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 49, p. 241-254. [pdf-version]

 

Bernet, M., and Garver, J.I., 2005, Fission-track analysis of detrital zircon, in Reiners, P., and Ehlers, T. (eds.)  Low-temperature Thermochronology, Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, v. 58., p. 205-238. [pdf-version]

Bernet, M., and Gaupp, R., 2005, Diagenetic history of Triassic sandstone from the Beacon Supergroup in central
Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 48., p. 447-458. [pdf-version]

Bernet, M., and Bassett, K., 2005, Provenance analysis by single-quartz-grain SEM-CL/optical microscopy. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 496-504.
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Bernet, M.,
Brandon, M.T., Garver, J.I., and Molitor, B., 2004, Downstream changes of Alpine zircon fission-track ages in the Rhône and Rhine rivers. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v: 74, p. 82-94. [pdf-version]

Bernet, M., and Spiegel, C., 2004, Introduction: Detrital thermochronology, in Bernet, M., and Spiegel, C., eds., Detrital Thermochronology – Provenance analysis, Exhumation and Landscape Evolution of Mountain Belts, Geological Society of America Special Publication, v. 378, p. 1-8.
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Bernet, M., Brandon, M.T., Garver, J.I., and Molitor, B., 2004, Fundamentals of detrital zircon fission-track analysis for provenance and exhumation studies, in Bernet, M., and Spiegel, C., eds., Detrital Thermochronology – Provenance analysis, Exhumation and Landscape Evolution of Mountain Belts, Geological Society of America Special Publication 378, p. 25-36.
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Balestrieri, M.L., Bernet, M., Brandon, M.T., Picotti, V., Reiners, P., and Zattin, M., 2003, Pliocene and Pleistocene exhumation and uplift of two key areas of the
Northern Apennines. Quaternary International, v. 101-102, p. 67-73. [pdf-version]

Bernet, M., Zattin, M., Garver, J. I., Brandon, M. T., and Vance, J.A., 2001, Steady-state exhumation of the European Alps. Geology, v. 29, p. 35-38.
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Ring, U., Laws, S., and Bernet, M., 1999, Structural analysis of a complex nappe sequence and late-orogenic basins from the Aegean Island of Samos, Greece. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 1575-1601.
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