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The nature and evolution of West Africa’s surface deciphered by laterites

An unprecedented cartographic synthesis on the scale of North-West Africa reveals the diversity and history of the laterites that form the film of ‘red earth’ covering tropical landscapes. The surface […]

19.06.2023

Within a reef – When a cave shows the internal structure of an old reef

Since 2021, as part of a Franco-German cooperation between the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier and the Ruhr-Universität of Bochum, doctoral students from the Geosciences Environment laboratories of […]

14.04.2023

An AI to locate traces of life on rocks on Earth and on Mars

Improved knowledge about the conditions under which life arose about 3.8 billion years ago and the recognition of the remarkable resilience of extremophilic microorganisms have sparked new interest in the […]

05.04.2023

Questioning our knowledge of the chemistry of the early oceans

An international team involving a CNRS-INSU laboratory has determined the isotopic fractionations associated with greenalite, a mineral of the silicate class rich in ferrous iron (Fe2+), and has thus evaluated […]

24.03.2023

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