Participant of COCARDE Network

University of Liège

For more than 15 years, our laboratory works on the Frasnian (Devonian) mud mound and carbonate platform from Belgium. Furthermore, we also studied the Devonian of Morocco, Nepal, Canada and Australia. Our works concerns: facies, architecture and sequence stratigraphy, oceanic parameters, paleoecology, diagenesis, stromatactis, microbial communities, magnetic susceptibility, etc.

Projects

• FRFC (National Belgian Science Foundation): Belgian Devonian carbonate factories

• FRFC (National Belgian Science Foundation): microbial influence on sedimentation

• IGCP-580 UNESCO: Application of magnetic susceptibility on Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks (paleoenvironments and correlations).

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2009

DA SILVA, A-C, POTMA, K., WEISSENBERGER, J.A.W., WHALEN, M.T., HUMBLET, M., MABILLE, C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2009. Magnetic susceptibility evolution and sedimentary environments on carbonate platform sediments and atolls, comparison of the Frasnian from Belgium and Alberta, Canada. Sedimentary Geology, 214, 3-18.

DA SILVA, A-C., MABILLE, C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2009. Influence of sedimentary setting on the use of magnetic susceptibility : examples from the Devonian of Belgium. Sedimentology, 56, 1292-1306.

2008

BAELE, JM., BOULVAIN, F., DE JONG, J., MATIELLI, N., PAPIER, S., PREAT, A., 2008. Iron microbial mats in Modern and Phanerozoic environments. In : R. B. Hoover, G. V. Levin, A. Yu. Rozanov, P. C.W. Davies Eds., Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7097, 12 pp.

BOULVAIN, F & DA SILVA, A-C., 2008. Frasnian reefs, mounds and atolls from Belgium: sedimentology and palaeogeography. Fieldtrip PRE-5, 26th Regional Meeting of the International Association of Sedimentologists- SEPM-CES Sediment 2008 Meeting Bochum, août 2008. Excursion guidebook, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 237, 21-34.

DA SILVA, A-C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2008. Carbon isotope lateral variability in a Middle Frasnian carbonate platform (Belgium): significance of facies, diagenesis and sea-level history. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269, 189-204.

2007

ÁLVARO J.J, ARETZ M, BOULVAIN F., MUNNECKE A., VACHARD D. & VENNIN E., 2007. Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 275, 285 pp.

BOULVAIN, F., 2007. Emsian-Givetian stromatactis-coral hydrothermal mud mounds, Tafilalt-Maider, Morocco. In: VENNIN, E., ARETZ, M., BOULVAIN, F. & MUNNECKE, 2007. Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mém. Museum national Histoire naturelle, Paris, T. 195, 183-185.

BOULVAIN, F., 2007. Frasnian coral- stromatoporoid-microbial atolls, Belgium. In: VENNIN, E., ARETZ, M., BOULVAIN, F. & MUNNECKE, 2007. Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mém. Museum national Histoire naturelle, Paris, T. 195, 209-211.

BOULVAIN, F., 2007. Late Frasnian stromatactis-coral-microbial carbonate mounds, Belgium. In: VENNIN, E., ARETZ, M., BOULVAIN, F. & MUNNECKE, 2007. Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mém. Museum national Histoire naturelle, Paris, T. 195, 213-215.

BOULVAIN, F. & WOOD, R., 2007. Devonian. In: VENNIN, E., ARETZ, M., BOULVAIN, F. & MUNNECKE, 2007. Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mém. Museum national Histoire naturelle, Paris, T. 195, 171-223.

VENNIN, E., ARETZ, M., BOULVAIN, F. & MUNNECKE, 2007. Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mém. Museum national Histoire naturelle, Paris, T. 195, 341 pp.

2006

DA SILVA, A-C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2006. Upper Devonian carbonate platform correlations and sea level variations recorded in magnetic susceptibility. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 240, 373-388.

2004

DA SILVA, A-C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2004. From palaeosols to carbonate mounds: facies and environments of the Middle Frasnian platform in Belgium. Geological Quarterly, 48, 253-266.

BOULVAIN, F., CORNET, P., da SILVA, A-C., DELAITE, G., DEMANY, B., HUMBLET, M., RENARD, M. & COEN-AUBERT, M., 2004. Reconstructing atoll-like mounds from the Frasnian of Belgium. Facies, 50 (2), 313 - 326.

BOULVAIN, F., 2004. Frasnian carbonate mounds of the Frasnes area, Belgium. Super Sedimentological Exposures, IAS Newsletter 191, 5-10.

2002

DA SILVA, A-C. & BOULVAIN, F., 2002. Sedimentology, magnetic susceptibility and isotopes of a Middle Frasnian carbonate platform: Tailfer section, Belgium. Facies, 46, 89-102.

2001

PREAT, A., MAMET, B., DE RIDDER, C., BOULVAIN, F. & GILLAN, D., 2001. Iron bacterial and fungal mats, Bajocian stratotype (Mid-Jurassic, northern Normandy, France). Sedimentary Geology, 137, 107-126.

BOULVAIN, F., DE RIDDER, C., MAMET, B., PREAT, A., & GILLAN, D., 2001. Iron microbial communities in Belgian Frasnian carbonate mounds. Facies, 44, 47-60.

BOULVAIN, F., 2001. Facies architecture and diagenesis of Belgian Late Frasnian carbonate mounds (Petit-Mont Member). Sedimentary Geology, 145/3-4, 269-294.

NEUWEILER, F., BOURQUE, P-A. & BOULVAIN, F., 2001. Why is stromatactis so rare in Mesozoic carbonate mud mounds ? Terra Nova, 13, 338-346.

2000

GILLAN, D.C., WARNAU, M., DE VRIND-DE JONG, E.W., BOULVAIN, F., PRÉAT, A. DE RIDDER, C., 2000. Iron Oxidation and Deposition in the Biofilm Covering Montacuta ferruginosa (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Geomicrobiology Journal, 17/2,141-150.

1997

CHAMLEY, H., PROUST, J-N., MANSY, J-L. & BOULVAIN, F., 1997. Diagenetic and paleogeographic significance of clay and other sedimentary components in the middle Devonian limestones of Western Ardennes, France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 129, 369-385.

1996

BOULVAIN, F. & HERBOSCH, A., 1996. Anatomie des monticules micritiques du Frasnien belge et contexte eustatique. Bull. Soc. Géol. France, 167 (3), pp. 391-398.