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French-Moroccan sedimentologist and professor
Abderrazak El Albani is a French-Moroccan
sedimentologist ,
professor at
University of Poitiers at the Hydrasa laboratory (
IC2MP -
CNRS ).
[1] He is known for describing the "
Francevillian Biota " from the
Paleoproterozoic of Gabon, which he suggests represents the oldest known multicellular organisms,
[2] though this claim has been questioned by other authors.
[3]
[4]
Biography
French-Moroccan
geologist , born in
Marrakesh , he studied in the University of Lille, from which he received a doctorate after defending a thesis on
geology and sedimentary
geochemistry . Between 1996 and 1998, he spent a postdoctoral period at the
University of Kiel , in
Germany . He published several scientific articles on Paleo-environments,
Geobiology and
Diagenesis in
sedimentary basins . He then joined the Hydrasa laboratory
[5] (
University of Poitiers –
CNRS ) in 1999. He was appointed Professor in 2010
References
^
Hydrasa laboratory
Archived April 5, 2010, at the
Wayback Machine
^ El Albani, Abderrazak; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Riboulleau, Armelle; Rollion Bard, Claire; Macchiarelli, Roberto; et al. (2014).
"The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity" . PLOS ONE . 9 (6): e99438.
Bibcode :
2014PLoSO...999438E .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0099438 .
PMC
4070892 .
PMID
24963687 .
^ Javaux, Emmanuelle J.; Lepot, Kevin (January 2018).
"The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age" . Earth-Science Reviews . 176 : 68–86.
doi :
10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.10.001 .
hdl :
20.500.12210/62416 .
S2CID
37069547 . The identity of the [Francevillian biota] macrostructures remains unknown and their biogenicity is questionable
^ Fakhraee, Mojtaba; Tarhan, Lidya G.; Reinhard, Christopher T.; Crowe, Sean A.; Lyons, Timothy W.; Planavsky, Noah J. (May 2023).
"Earth's surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited" . Earth-Science Reviews . 240 : 104398.
doi :
10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104398 .
S2CID
257761993 .
^
HydrASA - Clays, soils and alterations
External links
Books
El Albani, A., Macchiarelli, R., Meunier, A. 2016. Aux origines de la vie - une nouvelle histoire de l'évolution. Dunod Paris, 224 pp., many b/w pictures in the text, 8 tables of color photos.
ISBN
978-2-10-073791-8 .
Troppenz, U.-M., Schmälzle, D. 2015. Wohin die Spuren führen - das neue Bild des Präkambriums: Franceville-, Montana und Ediacarafauna. Tetrada Parchim, 192 pp., 162 photos, 2 time tables.
ISBN
978-3-00-047871-0 .
Troppenz, U.-M. 2017. The New Precambrian - no "boring", but bustling billions in a succession of evolutions and global catastrophes. Tetrada Parchim, 140 pp., 115 photos, 2 time tables.
ISBN
978-3-00-054215-2 .
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