Maître de conférence / HDR
CV / functions
Since Dec. 2016, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III , Geosciences Environment Toulouse (France)Associate Professor
2013-2016, The University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences (Switzerland)Senior Re searcher (SNSF Ambizione)
2010-2013, Curtin University, Department of Applied Geology, Perth (Australia)Research fellow and lecturer
2007-2009, The University of Montpellier, CNRS (France) Post-doc
2007, The University of Neuchâtel , Geology and Hydrogeology Institute (Switzerland)PhD and teaching assistant
Research
My current research explores the relationships between deformation (how deformation initiated, localized and evolved) and the magma percolation in the upper mantle and sometimes, coupled with the lower crust at the mantle-crust interface.
I am also interested in magmatic and deformation processes occurring in the European subcontinental mantle using xenoliths, and at larger scale I am interested by these processes at the Moho. Both in the oceanic crust in Oman and in the continental crust in the Andes.
Using petrology and microstructure, I also study achondrite meteorites (brachinites, Chassignites) to decipher their magmatic and plastic history.
Publications
Bouyssou J., Kaczmarek M-A, Ceuleneer G., Brunelli D., Maia M. (submitted) – Melt and deformation feedback during the formation and evolution of oceanic core complexes (Romanche transform fault, Atlantic ocean), Journal of Petrology
Meunier-Mili N., Kaczmarek M-A ., Bystricky M. (submitted) – Textures of Chassignite meteorites: Clues to cumulate formation and early deformation processes on Mars, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta
Bickert M., Rospabé M., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Maia M. (submitted) –Direct observations of frozen hydrous Si-rich melt interacting with mantle in the oceanic lithosphere. Geology.
2026
Malvoisin B., Dörfler P., Auzende A.-L., Brunet F., Cannat M., Austrheim H., Kaczmarek M.-A. (2026) – Magnetite production in mesh texture during serpentinization, a marker of H2 diffusion, Journal of Petrology
2025
Vonlanthen P., Nabiei F., Cayron C., Aebersold A. B., Robyr M., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Müntener O., Gillet P. (2025) – Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshell, Nature communications.
Puziewicz J, Aulbach S., Kaczmarek M.-A., Ntaflos T., Matusiak-Małek M., Ziobro-Mikrut M., (2025) – Multi-stage evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Hessian Depression (Germany): Peridotite xenoliths from Stöpfling, Lithos
2024
Henry H., Ceuleneer G., Proietti A., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Chatelin T., De Parseval P. (2024) – How nodular chromite nucleate and grow? An integrated microstructural and petrological approach, Journal of Petrology
Muckensturm N., Kaczmarek M.-A., M. Grégoire, T. Ntaflos, E. A. Bjerg, Mouthereau F. (2024) – Petrology and microstructures of the deep crust from the North Patagonian Massif, given by meta-igneous granulite xenoliths, Journal of Petrology .
Ziobro-Mikrut M., Puziewicz J., Aulbach S., Kaczmarek M.-A., Kiraly F. (2024) – The refertilized nature of the soutern lithospheric mantle domain beneath the Massif Central (France): an example of xenoliths from Mt. Briançon, Lithos
Meunier-Mili N., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Bystricky M. (2024) – Insights on the brachinite parent body: a petrological and microstructural study of 10 brachinites. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets,
2023
Bickert M., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Brunelli D., Maia M., Campos F.C., Sichel S.E. (2023) – Strain localization in oceanic transform faults by fluid-assisted grain size reduction. Nature communications,
Puziewicz J., Aulbach S., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Ntaflos T., Gerdes A., Mazurek H., Kukuła A., Matusiak-Małek M., Tedonkenfack S.S.T., Ziobro-Mikrut M., (2023) – The origin and evolution of DMM-like lithospheric mantle beneath continents: Mantle xenoliths from the Oku Volcanic Group in the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa. Journal of Petrology.
2022
Ceuleneer G., Rospabé M., Chatelin T., Henry H. Thilac R., Kaczmarek M.-A. , le Sueur E., (2022) – A Rosetta stone linking melt trajectories in the mantle to the stress field and lithological heterogeneities (Trinity ophiolite, California). Geology,
Abily B., Ceuleneer G., Rospabé M., Kaczmarek M.-A., Python M., Grégoire M., Benoit M., Rioux M., (2022 ) – Ocean crust accretion along a high-temperature detachment fault in the Oman ophiolite: a structural and petrological study of the Bahla massif, Tectonophysics,
2021
Tedonkenfac S.S.T., Puziewicz J., Aulbach S., Ntaflos T., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Matusiak-Małek M., Kukula A., Ziobro M. (2021) – Lithospheric mantle refertilization by DMM-derived melts beneath the Cameroon Volcanic Line – a case study of the Befang xenolith suite (Oku Volcanic Group, Cameroon). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,
Henry H., Kaczmarek M.-A ., Ceuleneer G., Tilhac R., Grégoire M., Griffin W. L., O’Reilly S. Y., le Sueur E. (2021) – The microstructure of layered mafic-ultramafic cumulates: Case study of the Bear Creek intrusion, Trinity ophiolite, California, USA. Lithos
Rospabé M., Ceuleneer G., Le Guluche V., Benoit M., Kaczmarek M.-A . (2021) – Chromite-hosted Silicate Inclusions in Disseminated Chromites from the Dunitic Mantle-Crust Transition Zone (Oman Ophiolite): the Chicken and Egg Dilemma Linking Dunites and Chromitites. Journal of Petrology.
2020
Vieira Duarte J., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Putlitz B., Vonlanthen P., Müntener O. (2020) – Hydration of a mantle shear-zone beyond serpentine stability: a possible link to microseismicity along ultra-slow spreading ridges? Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019509
Rospabé M., Ceuleneer G., Benoit M., Kaczmarek M.-A . (2020) – Composition gradients in silicate inclusions in chromites from the dunitic mantle-crust transition (Oman ophiolite) reveal high temperature fluid-melt-rock interaction controlled by faulting. Ofioliti.
Puziewicz J., Matusiak-Małek M., Ntaflos T., Grégoire M., Kaczmarek M.-A ., Aulbach S., Ziobro M., Kukuła A. (2020) – The major lithologies of subcontinental lithospheric mantle of Variscan orogen in Europe. Lithos
2019
Rospabé M., Benoit M., Ceuleneer G., Kaczmarek M.-A ., Hodel F. (2019) – Melt hybridization and metasomatism associated to synmagmatic fault zones within the dunitic mantle-crust transition zone in the Oman ophiolite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters here
2018
Rospabé M., Benoit M., Ceuleneer G., Hodel F., Kaczmarek M.-A . (2018) – Extreme geochemical variability through the dunitic transition zone of the Oman ophiolite: implications for melt/fluid-rock reactions at Moho level beneath oceanic spreading center. Geochemica and Cosmochimica Acta
2017
Malvoisin B., Brantu N., Kaczmarek M.-A . (2017) – Control of serpentinisation rate by reaction-induced cracking. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.042
Henry H., Tilhac R., Griffin W. L., O’Reilly S. Y., Satsukawa T., Kaczmarek M.-A. , Grégoire M., Ceuleneer G. (2017) – Deformation of mantle pyroxenites provides clues to geodynamic processes in subduction zones: a case study of the Cabo Ortegal complex, Spain. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
2016
Pilet S., Abe N., Rochat L., Kaczmarek M.-A., Hirano N., Machida S., Buchs D., Baumgartner P.O., Muntener O. (2016 ) – Pre-subduction metasomatic enrichment of the oceanic lithosphere induced by plate flexure. Nature Geosciences .
Kaczmarek M.-A. , Bodinier J.-L., Bosch D., Tommasi A, Dautria J.-M., S.A. Kechid (2016 ) – Metasomatised mantle xenoliths as a record of the lithospheric evolution of the northern edge of the Ahaggar swell, In Teria (Algeria). Journal of Petrology , 1-38Kaczmarek M.-A. , Reddy S, Friend C, Nutman A, Bennett V. (2016 ) – Earth’s oldest mantle fabrics indicate Eoarchaean subduction. Nature communications doi :10.1038/ncomms10665 – open access
2015
Kaczmarek M.-A. , Jonda L., Davies H. (2015 ) – Evidence of melting, melt percolation and deformation in supra-subduction zone (Marum ophiolite complex -Papua New Guinea). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 179, 19.
2013
2012
Merle R., Kaczmarek M.-A, Tronchet E., Girardeau J. (2012 ) Occurrence of inherited supra-subduction zone mantle in the oceanic lithosphere as inferred from mantle xenoliths and xenocrystals from Dragon and Lion seamounts (Southern Tore-Madeira Rise). Journal of the Geological Society London . 169, 251-267. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492011-015
2011
Kaczmarek M.-A., Reddy S., Timms N. (2011 ) Temporal evolution of zircon deformation mechanisms in a shear-zone, Lanzo massif (W-Alps, Italy). Lithos . Kaczmarek M.-A., Tommasi A. (2011 ) Anatomy of an extensional shear zone in the mantle (Lanzo massif, Italy). Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems
2010
Kaczmarek M.-A., Müntener O. (2010 ) – The variability of peridotite composition across a mantle shear zone (Lanzo massif, Italy): interplay of melt focusing and deformation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology . 160: 663-679
2008
Kaczmarek M.-A. , Müntener O. (2008 ) – Juxtaposition of melt impregnation and high temperature shear zones in the upper mantle. Field and petrological constraints from the Lanzo peridotite, (N-Italy). Journal of Petrology , Kaczmarek M.-A., Müntener O., Rubatto, D. (2008 ) – Trace element chemistry and U-Pb dating of zircons from oceanic gabbros and their relationship with whole rock composition (Lanzo, Italian Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology ,
2005
Kaczmarek M.-A., Müntener O. (2005 ) – Exhumation of mantle lithosphere: field relations, and interaction processes between magmatism and deformation (field trip to the Northern Lanzo peridotite). Ofioliti ,
Network
SMARTIES Oceanic cruise (2019)
This scientifique expedition study the intersection of the Medio-Atlantic ridge and the Romanche transform fault. The aim is to understand the processes at the origin of the transition between a magmatic accretion mode and a purely amagmatic mode. (Official website)
During the cruise to share life onboard, I fed a blog for kids (in french) (HERE)
