Publications Scientifiques

2008 :

Olivier, N., Pittet, B., Werner, W., Gaillard, C., Hantzpergue, P., (sous presse). Facies distribution and coral-microbialite reef development on a low-energy carbonate ramp (Chay Peninsula, Kimmeridgian, western France). Sedimentary Geology.

Suan, G., Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Mailliot, S., Lécuyer, C., 2008. Evidence for major environmental perturbation prior to and during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event from the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Paleoceanography 23, PA1202, doi:10.1029/2007PA001459.

Suan, G., Pittet, B., Bour, I., Mattioli, E., Duarte L.V., Mailliot, S., 2008. Duration of the Early Toarcian carbon isotope excursion deduced from spectral analysis : Consequence for its possible causes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 267, 666–679.

2007 :

Bour, I., Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., 2007. Nannofacies analysis as a tool to reconstruct paleoenvironmental changes during the Early Toarcian anoxic event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249, 58–79.

Courtinat, B., Pittet, B., Mattioli, E., Rio, M., 2007. Marine microplankton and calcareous nannofossil palaeoecology of the Toarcian stratotype. Geobios 40, 785-800.

Olivier, N., Pittet, B., Gaillard, C., Hantzpergue, P., 2007. High-frequency palaeoenvironmental fluctuations recorded in coral- and sponge-microbialite bioconstructions. C. R. Palevol 6, 21-36. General Palaeontology (Palaeoecology).

2006 :

Mailliot, S., Mattioli, E., Guex, J. & Pittet, B., 2006 : The Early Toarcian anoxia, a synchronous event in the Western Tethys ? An approach by quantitative biochronology (Unitary Associations), applied on calcareous nannofossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562-586.

Giraud, F., Pittet, B., Mattioli, E. & Audoin, V. Paleoenvironmental controls on morphology and abundance of the coccolith Watznaueria britannica (Late Jurassic, southern Germany). Marine Micropaleontology 60, 205-225.

2005 :

Gréselle, B., & Pittet, B., 2005. Fringing carbonate platforms at the Arabian Plate margin in northern Oman during the Late Aptian-Middle Albian : evidence for high-amplitude sea-level changes. Sedimentary Geology 175, 367-390.

2004 :

Mattioli, E., & Pittet, B., 2004. Spatial and temporal distribution of calcareous nannofossils along a proximal-distal transect in the Lower Toarcian of the Umbria-Marche basin.(central Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205, 295-316.

Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Bucefalo Palliani, R., Röhl, H.-J., Schmid-Röhl, A., & Morettini, E., 2004. Phytoplankton evidence for the timing and correlation of palaeoceanographical changes during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Early Jurassic). Journal of the Geological Society of London 161, 685-693.

Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Young, J.R., & Bown, P.R., 2004. Biometric analysis of Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) coccoliths of the family Biscutaceae : intra- and interspecific variability versus palaeoenvironmental influence. Marine Micropaleontology 51, 5-27.

Olivier, N., Pittet, B., & Mattioli, E., 2004. Palaeoenvironmental control on sponge-microbialite reefs and contemporaneous deep-shelf marl-limestone deposition (Late Oxfordian, southern Germany). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 212, 233-263.

2003 :

Bartolini, A., Pittet, B., Mattioli, E. & Hunziker, J.C., 2003. Shallow-platform palaeoenvironmental conditions recorded in deep-shelf sediments : C and O stable isotopes in Upper Jurassic sections of southern Germany (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian). Sedimentary Geology 160. 107-130.

Giraud, F., Olivero, D., Baudin, F., Reboulet, S., Pittet, B. & Proux, O., 2003. Minor changes in surface water fertility accross the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d (latest Albian, SE France) evidenced by calcareous nannofossils. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundsch.) 92, 267-284.

Hillgärtner, H., Van Buchem, F.S.P., Gaumet, F., Razin, P., Pittet, B., Grötsch, J. & Droste, H., 2003. The Barremian-Aptian evolution of the eastern Arabian carbonate platform margin (northern Oman) : sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and environmental change. Journal of Sedimentary Research 73, 756-773.

Olivier, N., Hantzpergue, P., Gaillard, C., Pittet, B., Leinfelder, R.R., Schmid, D.U. & Werner, W., 2003. Microbialite morphology, structure and growth : a model of the Upper Jurassic reefs of the Chay Peninsula (Western France). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 193, 383-404.

Reboulet S., Mattioli E., Pittet B., Baudin F., Olivero D. & Proux O., 2003. Ammonoid and nannoplankton abundance in Valanginian (early Cretaceous) limestone-marl successions from the southeast France Basin : carbonate dilution or productivity ? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201, 113-139.

2002 :

Mattioli, E. & Pittet, B. 2002. Contribution of calcareous nannoplankton to carbonate deposition : a new approach applied to the Early Jurassic of central Italy. Marine Micropalaeontology 45, 175-190.

Pittet, B. & Mattioli, E. 2002. The carbonate signal and calcareous nannofossil distribution in an Upper Jurassic section (Balingen-Tieringen, Late Oxfordian, southern Germany). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 179, 73-98.

Pittet, B., Van Buchem, F.S.P., Hillgärtner, H., Razin, P., Grötsch, J., & Droste, H. 2002. Ecological succession, palaeoenvironmental change, and depositional sequences of Barremian-Aptian shallow-water carbonates in northern Oman. Sedimentology 49, 555-581.

Van Buchem, F.S.P., Pittet, B., Hillgärtner, H., Grötsch, J., Al Mansouri, A.I., Billing, I.M., Droste, H.H.J., Oterdomm ; W.H., & Van Steenwinkel, M. 2002. High-resolution sequence stratigraphic architecture of Barremian/Aptian carbonate systems in northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates (Kharaib and Shu’aiba Formations). GeoArabia 7, 461-500.

2000 :

Pittet, B., Strasser, A., & Mattioli, E. 2000 : Depositional sequences in deep-shelf environments : a response to sea-level changes and shallow-platform carbonate productivity (Oxfordian, Germany and Spain). Journal of Sedimentary Research 70, 306-321.

Strasser, A., Hillgärtner, H., Hug. W., & Pittet, B. 2000 : Third-order depositional sequences reflecting Milankovitch cyclicity. Terra Nova 12, 303-311.

1999 :

Strasser, A., Pittet, B., Hillgärtner, H., & Pasquier, J.-B. 1999 : Depositional sequences in shallow carbonate-dominated sedimentary systems : concepts for a high-resolution analysis. Sedimentary Geology 128, 201-221.

1998 :

Pittet, B. & Strasser, A. 1998 : Depositional sequences in deep-shelf environments formed through carbonate-mud import from the shallow platform (Late Oxfordian, German Swabian Alb and eastern Swiss Jura). Eclogae geol. Helv. 91, 149-169.

Pittet, B. & Strasser, A. 1998 : Long-distance correlations by sequence stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy : examples and implications (Oxfordian from the Swiss Jura, Spain, and Normandy). Geol. Rundsch. 86, 852-874.

1997 :

Pittet, B. & Gorin, G.E. 1997 : Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in a carbonate-siliciclastic platform environment : Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura mountains. Sedimentology 44, 915-937.

1994 : Pittet, B. 1994 : Modèle d’estimation de la subsidence et des variations du niveau marin : Un exemple de l’Oxfordien du Jura suisse. Eclogae geol. Helv. 87, 513-543.