Chopin, F. , Leprêtre, R. , Houicha, M. , Tabaud, A.-S. , Schulmann, K. , Míková, J. , Barbarand, J. and Chebli, R. 2023. U–Pb geochronology of Variscan granitoids from the Moroccan Meseta (Northwest Africa): Tectonic implications. Gondwana Research. 117, 274–294.
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Researcher
Dr. Francis Chopin
Alumni
Orogenic processes – Metamorphic domes – Microtectonics in shear zones
f.chopin@unistra.fr
RID:
A-8826-2013
After completing my Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of Strasbourg on the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Orlica-Śnieżnik dome in the Bohemian massif, I’ve got a one-year lecturer position at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis where I started to worked on the variscan belt of Morocco. Then, as a post-doctoral fellow and Lecturer in Structural Geology, I have been 3 years at the University of Helsinki where I studied a paleoproterozoic migmatitic dome, the Vaasa migmatitic complex. I went back to Strasbourg in 2015 as a Lecturer, pursuing research on (1) the Variscan belt, (2) the Svecofennian orogen in Finland, (3) the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (Altai and Tian Shan) and (4) geothermal power. Since March 2018, I’m very glad to be part of the Centre for Lithospheric Research group from the Czech Geological Survey.
- Structural geology (field work),
- Cartography (ArcGIS),
- Metamorphic petrology (Perple_X modelling, XMapTools),
- Geochronology (40Ar/39Ar, U/Pb)
- Quantitative microstructural and textural analysis (MATLABTM PolyLX toolbox, EBSD)
- 3D geologic modelling (Midland Valley Move)
Research projects
Publications
Jouhari, M. , Chopin, F. , Houicha, M. , Ghienne, J.-F. , Schulmann, K. , Míková, J. and Corsini, M. 2022. U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology and source provenance in the Moroccan Meseta (Variscan belt): A perspective from the Rehamna massif. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 194, 104610.
DOI Google ScholarJiang, Y. , Štípská, P. , Schulmann, K. , Aguilar, C. , Wang, S. , Anczkiewicz, R. , Zhang, J. , Li, P. and Chopin, F. 2021. Barrovian and Buchan metamorphic series in the Chinese Altai: P–T–t–D evolution and tectonic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 40, 823–857.
DOI Google ScholarAguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Chopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Pitra, P. , Závada, P. , Hasalová, P. and Martelat, J.-E. 2020. Syn-deformational melt percolation through a high-pressure orthogneiss and the exhumation of a subducted continental wedge (Orlica-Śnieżnik Dome, NE Bohemian Massif). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 109, 34.
DOI Google ScholarChopin, F. , Korja, A. , Nikkilä, K. , Hölttä, P. , Korja, T. , Zaher, M.A., Kurhila, M. , Eklund, O. and Rämö, T. 2020. The Vaasa Migmatitic Complex (Svecofennian Orogen, Finland): Buildup of a LP-HT Dome During Nuna Assembly. Tectonics. 39, e2019TC005583.
DOI Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Hasalová, P. , Powell, R. , Závada, P. , Schulmann, K. , Racek, M. , Aguilar, C. and Chopin, F. 2019. The Effect of Melt Infiltration on Metagranitic Rocks: the Snieznik Dome, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Petrology. 60, 591–618.
Google ScholarJiang, Y. , Schulmann, K. , Sun, M. , Weinberg, R.F., Štípská, P. , Li, P.F., Zhang, J. , Chopin, F. , Wang, S. , Xia, X.P. and Xiao, W. 2019. Structural and Geochronological Constraints on Devonian Suprasubduction Tectonic Switching and Permian Collisional Dynamics in the Chinese Altai, Central Asia. Tectonics. 38, 253–280.
DOI Google ScholarWernert, P. , Schulmann, K. , Chopin, F. , Štípská, P. , Bosch, D. and Houicha, E. 2016. Tectonometamorphic evolution of an intracontinental orogeny inferred from P–T–t–d paths of the metapelites from the Rehamna massif (Morocco). Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 34, 917–940.
DOI Google ScholarChopin, F. , Corsini, M. , Schulmann, K. , Houicha, E. , Ghienne, J.-F. and Edel, J.B. 2014. Tectonic evolution of the Rehamna metamorphic dome (Morocco) in the context of the Alleghanian-Variscan orogeny. TECTONICS.
DOI Google ScholarLehmann, J. , Schulmann, K. , Edel, J.B., Ježek, J. , Hrouda, F. , Lexa, O. and Chopin, F. 2013. Structural and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility records of granitoid sheets emplacement during growth of a continental gneiss dome (Central Sudetes, European Variscan Belt). Tectonics. 32, 797–820.
Google ScholarChopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Skrzypek, E. , Lehmann, J. , Dujardin, J.R., Martelat, J.-E. , Lexa, O. , Corsini, M. , Edel, J.B., Štípská, P. and Pitra, P. 2012. Crustal influx, indentation, ductile thinning and gravity redistribution in a continental wedge: Building a Moldanubian mantled gneiss dome with underthrust Saxothuringian material (European Variscan belt). Tectonics. 31, TC1013.
Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Chopin, F. , Skrzypek, E. , Schulmann, K. , Pitra, P. , Lexa, O. , Martelat, J.-E. , Bollinger, C. and Žáčková, E. 2012. The juxtaposition of eclogite and mid-crustal rocks in the Orlica-Snieznik Dome, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 30, 213–234.
Google ScholarChopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Štípská, P. , Martelat, J.-E. , Pitra, P. , Lexa, O. and Petri, B. 2012. Microstructural and metamorphic evolution of a high-pressure granitic orthogneiss during continental subduction (Orlica-Snieznik dome, Bohemian Massif). Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 30, 347–376.
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