Comptes Rendus Géoscience

C. R. Geoscience 345 (2013) 465–467
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Éditorial / Editorial
• A new editorial policy for Comptes rendus Geoscience
Vincent Courtillot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Articles de synthéses / Review articles
• Criteria for the identifi cation of ventifacts in the geological 
record: A review and new insights
Marc Durand, Sylvie Bourquin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
• Mercury biogeochemistry: Paradigm shifts, outstanding 
issues and research needs
Jeroen E. Sonke, Lars-Eric Heimbürger, 
Aurélien Dommergue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Géophysique externe, climat et environnement /
External geophysics, climate and environment
• Spatial and temporal variability in maximum, minimum 
and mean air temperatures at Madhya Pradesh in central 
India
Darshana Duhan, Ashish Pandey, 
Krishan Pratap Singh Gahalaut, 
Rajendra Prasad Pandey  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
• Trend analysis and ARIMA modelling of pre-monsoon 
rainfall data for western India
Priya Narayanan, Ashoke Basistha, Sumana Sarkar, 
Kamna Sachdeva  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
• Investigation of power-law correlations within daily total 
ozone time series and search for a stable node through 
phase portrait
Parthasarathi Chakraborthy, Goutami Chattopadhyay, 
Surajit Chattopadhyay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
• Performance of Multi Model Canonical Correlation Analysis 
(MMCCA) for prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall 
using GCMs output
Ankita Singh, Nachiketa Acharya, Uma Charan 
Mohanty, Gopbandhu Mishra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
• On the recent global mean sea level changes: Trend 
extraction and El Niño’s impact
Mahdi Haddad, Habib Taibi, 
Si Mohammed Mohammed Arezki  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
(Climate and palaeoclimate)
• Probabilistic multi-model ensemble prediction of Indian 
summer monsoon rainfall using general circulation 
models: A non-parametric approach
Nachiketa Acharya, Uma Charan Mohanty, 
Lokanath Sahoo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
• Quantifying 21st-century France climate change and related 
uncertainties
Laurent Terray, Julien Boé  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
• The impact of a major environmental crisis on species, 
populations and communities: The fragmentation 
of African forests at the end of the Holocene
Anne-Marie Lézine, Doyle McKey  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
• δ13C variation of soil organic matter as an indicator of 
vegetation change during the Holocene in central Cameroon
Thierry Desjardins, Bruno Turcq, 
Jean-Pierre Nguetnkam, Gaston Achoundong, 
Magloire Mandeng-Yogo, Fethyé Cetin, 
Anne-Marie Lézine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
• Comparative phylogeography of African rain forest trees: A 
review of genetic signatures of vegetation history in the 
Guineo-Congolian region
Olivier J. Hardy, Céline Born, Katarina Budde, 
Kasso Daïnou, Gilles Dauby, Jérôme Duminil, 
Eben-Ezer B.K. Ewédjé, Céline Gomez, Myriam Heuertz, 
K. Guillaume Koffi  , Andrew J. Lowe, Claire Micheneau, 
Dyana Ndiade-Bourobou, Rosalía Piñeiro, 
Valérie Poncet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
• Detecting recent changes in the demographic parameters of 
drosophilid populations from western and central Africa
Axelle Bouiges, Amir Yassin, Maya Ikogou, 
Clément Lelarge, Axelle-Rolande Sikoa, 
Stefano Mona, Michel Veuille  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
• Consequences of past climate change for species engaged 
in obligatory interactions
Rumsaïs Blatrix, Doyle McKey, Céline Born  . . . . . . . . . 306
• Seasonal and altitudinal structure of drosophilid 
communities on Mt Oku (Cameroon volcanic line)
Stéphane R. Prigent, Philippe Le Gall, 
Shay Wilfred Mbunda, Michel Veuille  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
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• Temporal relationship between Holocene human 
occupation and vegetation change along the 
northwestern margin of the Central African rainforest
Anne-Marie Lézine, Augustin F.-C. Holl, 
Judicaël Lebamba, Annie Vincens, 
Chimène Assi-Khaudjis, Louis Février, 
Émmanuelle Sultan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
• Climate-induced vegetation dynamics and the Bantu 
Expansion: Evidence from Bantu names for pioneer trees 
(Elaeis guineensis, Canarium schweinfurthii, and Musanga 
cecropioides)
Koen Bostoen, Rebecca Grollemund, 
Joseph Koni Muluwa  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
(Océanographie dynamique / 
Dynamical oceanography)
• Modelling and in-situ measurements of intense currents 
during a winter storm in the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes (NW 
Mediterranean Sea)
Héloïse Michaud, Yann Leredde, Claude Estournel, 
Éric Berthebaud, Patrick Marsaleix  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Géophysique interne / Internal geophysics
• Topographic migration of GPR data: Examples from Chad 
and Mongolia
Jean-Rémi Dujardin, Maksim Bano  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
• Is earthquake activity along the French Atlantic margin 
favoured by local rheological contrasts?
Yves Mazabraud, Nicole Béthoux, 
Bertrand Delouis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
• Seismic random noise attenuation by time-frequency peak 
fi ltering based on joint time-frequency distribution
Chao Zhang, Hong-bo Lin, Yue Li, Bao-jun Yang . . . . . 383
• Cenozoic Eurasia is not a single rigid plate: Paleomagnetic 
evidence
Jean-Pascal Cogné  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
(Physics of Earth’s interior) 
• On some early attempts to determine the variation of the 
magnetic force with distance
Mickaël Mussard, Jean-Louis Le Mouël, 
Jean-Paul Poirier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Pétrologie, géochimie / Petrology, geochemistry
• No proof from carbon isotopes in the Francevillian (Gabon) 
and Onega (Fennoscandian shield) basins of a global 
oxidation event at 1980–2090 Ma following the Great 
Oxidation Event (GOE)
Francis Weber, François Gauthier-Lafaye . . . . . . . . . . . 28
• Nuclear fi eld shift in natural environments
Frédéric Moynier, Toshiyuki Fujii, 
Gregory A. Brennecka, Sune G. Nielsen  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
• The Ge/Si ratio as a tool to recognize biogenic silica in chert
Nicolas Tribovillard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
• Experimental abiotic alteration of igneous and manufactured 
glasses
Martin R. Fisk, Jean-Louis Crovisier, José Honnorez  . . . 176
• Geochemistry of the Jurassic and Upper Cretaceous shales 
from the Molango Region, Hidalgo, eastern Mexico: 
Implications for source-area weathering, provenance, 
and tectonic setting
John S. Armstrong-Altrin, Ramasamy Nagarajan, 
Jayagopal Madhavaraju, Leticia Rosalez-Hoz, 
Yong Il Lee, Vysetti Balaram, Adriana Cruz-Martínez, 
Gladis Avila-Ramírez  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
(Isotopic geochemistry) 
• Ab initio calculations of the Fe(II) and Fe(III) isotopic effects 
in citrates, nicotianamine, and phytosiderophore, and new 
Fe isotopic measurements in higher plants
Frédéric Moynier, Toshiyuki Fujii, Kun Wang, 
Julien Foriel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Hydrologie, environnement / 
Hydrology, environment
• Groundwater modelling: Towards an estimation of the 
acceleration factors of iterative methods via an analysis 
of the transmissivity spatial variability
Abdelmajid Benali  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
• Nutrient distribution and fl uxes from three Mediterranean 
coastal rivers (NE Algeria) under large damming
Makhlouf Ounissi, Noureddine Bouchareb . . . . . . . . . . 81
• Features of climate change and their effects on glacier snow 
melting in Xinjiang, China
Xiang-ling Tang, Xin Lv, Ying He  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
• Particle transport within water-saturated porous media: 
Effect of pore size on retention kinetics and size selection
Tahar Ikni, Ahmed Benamar, Mohamed Kadri, 
Nasre-Dine Ahfi r, Hua-Qing Wang  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
• The slope aspect: A predisposing factor for landsliding?
Marco Capitani, Adriano Ribolini, Monica Bini  . . . . . . 427
• Modeling nutrients profi les at the sediment-water 
interface. Calibration and validation from two climatically 
contrasted estuaries: Seine (France) and Somone 
(Senegal)
Valérie Mesnage, Nicolas Lecoq, Issa Sakho, 
Arnaud Vennin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
(Hydrologie-hydrogéologie/ 
Hydrology-hydrogeology)
• An integrative geological and geophysical approach to 
characterize a superfi cial deltaic aquifer in the Camargue 
plain, France
Laura Torres-Rondon, Simon Damien Carrière, 
Konstantinos Chalikakis, Vincent Valles  . . . . . . . . . . . 241
(Pédologie / Pedology)
• Soil discrimination using diffuse refl ectance Vis-NIR 
spectroscopy in a local toposequence
José Francirlei Oliveira, Michel Brossard, 
Pedro Rodolfo Siqueira Vendrame, Stanislas Mayi III, 
Edemar Joaquim Corazza, Robélio Leandro Marchão, 
Maria de Fátima Guimarães  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
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Tectonique, tectonophysique / 
Tectonics, tectonophysics
• The Taraklı Flysch in the Boyali area (Sakarya Terrane, 
northern Turkey): Implications for the tectonic history of 
the IntraPontide suture zone
Rita Catanzariti, Alessandro Ellero, 
Mehmet Cemal Göncüoglu, Michele Marroni, 
Giuseppe Ottria, Luca Pandolfi   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Stratigraphie, sédimentologie / 
Stratigraphy, sedimentology
• Hydrothermal dolomitization of the carbonate Jurassic 
succession in the Provençal and Subbriançonnais 
Domains (Maritime Alps, North-Western Italy)
Luca Barale, Carlo Bertok, Anna d’Atri, 
Gabriele Domini, 
Luca Martire, Fabrizio Piana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
• Were the 2.1-Gyr fossil colonial organisms discovered in 
the Francevillian basin (Palaeoproterozoic, Gabon) buried 
by turbidites?
Olivier Parize, Jean-Louis Feybesse, 
François Guillocheau, Thierry Mulder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
• Study of a Neogene basin dynamics: The “Bizerte basin”, 
northeastern Tunisia: relevance to the global Messinian 
Salinity Crisis
Salah Harrab, Beya Mannai-Tayech, Mohsen Rabhi, 
Fouad Zargouni  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
• Seismic sequence stratigraphy of Miocene deposits 
related to eustatic, tectonic and climatic events, Cap Bon 
Peninsula, northeastern Tunisia
Ramzi Gharsalli, Taher Zouaghi, Mohamed Soussi, 
Riadh Chebbi, Sami Khomsi, Mourad Bédir  . . . . . . . . . 401
(Paléoenvironnement / Palaeoenvironment)
• The Permian–Triassic mass extinction: Ostracods (Crustacea) 
and microbialites
Marie-Béatrice Forel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
• Geochronological arguments for a close relationship 
between surfi cial formation profi les and environmental 
crisis (c. 3000-2000 BP) in Gabon (Central Africa)
Denis Thiéblemont, Christine Flehoc, 
Michel Ebang-Obiang, Christophe Rigollet, 
Jean-Pierre Prian, François Prognon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
• Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intraindividual, 
intra-site, and inter-taxonomic levels in populations 
of the Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae) complex over 
environmental gradients in Cameroon
Walter Finsinger, Thibaut Dos Santos, 
Doyle McKey  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Erratum
• Corrigendum to “Topographic migration of GPR data: 
Examples from Chad and Mongolia” [C. R. Geoscience 345 
(2) (2013) 73–80; doi:10.1016/j.crte.2013.01.003]
Jean-Rémy Dujardin, Maksim Bano  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166


Sommaire / Contents

Walter Finsinger

Thibaut Dos Santos

Doyle McKey

Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intra-individual, intra-site, and inter-taxonomic levels in populations of the <i>Leonardoxa africana</i> (Fabaceae) complex over environmental gradients in Cameroon

Darshana Duhan

Ashish Pandey

Krishan Pratap Singh Gahalaut

Rajendra Prasad Pandey

Michel Petit

Spatial and temporal variability in maximum, minimum and mean air temperatures at Madhya Pradesh in central India

Marco Capitani

Adriano Ribolini

Monica Bini

The slope aspect: A predisposing factor for landsliding?

Nachiketa Acharya

Uma Charan Mohanty

Lokanath Sahoo

Probabilistic multi-model ensemble prediction of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using general circulation models: A non-parametric approach

Nicolas Tribovillard

The Ge/Si ratio as a tool to recognize biogenic silica in chert

Frédéric Moynier

Toshiyuki Fujii

Kun Wang

Julien Foriel

<i>Ab initio</i> calculations of the Fe(II) and Fe(III) isotopic effects in citrates, nicotianamine, and phytosiderophore, and new Fe isotopic measurements in higher plants

Axelle Bouiges

Amir Yassin

Maya Ikogou

Clément Lelarge

Axelle-Rolande Sikoa

Stefano Mona

Michel Veuille

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board

Detecting recent changes in the demographic parameters of drosophilid populations from western and central Africa

Ramzi Gharsalli

Taher Zouaghi

Mohamed Soussi

Riadh Chebbi

Sami Khomsi

Mourad Bédir

Seismic sequence stratigraphy of Miocene deposits related to eustatic, tectonic and climatic events, Cap Bon Peninsula, northeastern Tunisia

Rita Catanzariti

Alessandro Ellero

Mehmet Cemal Göncüoglu

Michele Marroni

Giuseppe Ottria

Luca Pandolfi

The Taraklı Flysch in the Boyali area (Sakarya Terrane, northern Turkey): Implications for the tectonic history of the IntraPontide suture zone

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