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Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
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NWO VIDI laureate
 Dr. G. Dupont-Nivet
Paleomagnetic Laboratory
Fort Hoofddijk
Department of Earth Sciences
Utrecht University
Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht
The Netherlands

E-mail:gdn@geo.uu.nl

Research
Publications & PhD Thesis
Grants and awards

Research of Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Tibetan Plateau uplift and climate change
  (see also Geotimes article)
Himalayan chronostratigraphy
Mediterranean geodynamics
Hominid paleoenvironment

Asian Climate and Tectonics Seminar 2010


Tibetan uplift and climate change
What has the uplift of the Tibetan plateau to do with climate change ? The prevailing answer to this fundamental question is simple: wholesale plateau uplift triggers the onset of Asian monsoons, and thus generates a major change in global climate. The widely accepted mechanism for this tectonic uplift is convective removal of the Tibetan lithosphere at ~8 Ma . Nevertheless, there is growing evidence from paleoclimatic and geologic indicators that argue for older initiation of Tibetan uplift and progressive northeastward plateau propagation, even to such extent that the exact age and the rate of uplift remains essentially unresolved.

Has Tibetan uplift triggered climate change and the onset of Asian monsoons? The answer to this question is fundamentally unresolved because timing of the uplift and related climate change is largely unconstrained by existing data and competing geodynamic models.

To fundamentally understand the processes involved, key time constraints are badly needed on surface uplift, tectonic deformation and variations of paleoenvironmental proxies. The extensive sedimentary records in basins bounding the Tibetan plateau need to be extended back in time and to various areas of the plateau. In addition, a much higher time resolution is required to assess the related tectonic and paleoclimate record in sufficient detail.  The aim of this project is to assess independently tectonic and climatic events during Tibetan uplift. To do so, Guillaume applies a multidisciplinary approach on the longest continuous continental records of Tibetan uplift found in Northeastern Tibet. Magneto-cyclostratigraphic analysis and a wide array of paleoenvironmental proxies are being gathered in the basin deposits. In addition, the exhumation history of adjacent granitic massifs is being quantified using U-Th/He thermochronology.

Northeastern Tibet, is perfectly suited for this project. It exhibits exceptional exposure of late Jurassic to Pliocene sedimentary sections lying at the  edge of the Tibetan plateau (background map from Tapponier et al., 2001).
The primary goal of this project is to establish a well-calibrated chronostratigraphy correlated to the Astronomical Polarity Time Scale (APTS), which will provide the required time framework for subsequent analysis of climatic versus tectonic components. The Utrecht expertise in APTS construction in continental settings has proven to work perfectly. The very high resolution of an APTS provides the required accuracy for meaningful paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental and tectonic reconstructions.

Low temperature thermochronology analysis is being performed on several transects across neighbouring massifs to assess timing of exhumation related to basin formation. Amongst the existing thermochronologic tools, the U-Th/He system has the lowest closure temperature of 75°C. For this reason, it has proven the best and often the only tool capable of recording thrust-related exhumation history in Northern Tibet. This work is being performed in collaboration at the Vrije Universiteit noble gas laboratory.
Paleoenvironmental proxies are being gathered for paleoclimatic reconstruction and astronomical calibration of the observed cycles. Magnetic susceptibility and rock magnetic properties are being analysed in the paleomagnetic laboratory in collaboration with Mark Dekkers. Pollen analysis as well as grain-size analysis are being performed under the guidance of Carina Hoorn (University of Amsterdam) and Jef Vandenberghe (Free University Amsterdam)

See also Geotimes article ...

Paleomagnetism, magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy are being performed to obtain a chronostratigraphic framework with a resolution down to eccentricity  (~100 kyr) and precession (~20 kyr) cycles in collaboration with Wout Krijgsman, Cor Langereis and Hemmo Abels (Utrecht University).  By-products of magnetostratigraphic analyses are the of timing and magnitude of the tectonic signal  through analysis of tectonic rotations and variation of sediment accumulation rates.

Project collaborators:

  • Students:
    • Wentao Huang (Beijing University) PhD thesis started December 2010
    • Roderic  Bosboom (Utrecht University) PhD thesis started July 2009 following his MSc thesis:  "Link between the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition and the retreat of the Paratethys in the Tarim Basin (NW China)"; Awarded a Molengraaff Fonds grant.
    • Bas van den Berg (Utrecht University) MSc thesis:  "Pollen record during Tibetan uplift and the Eocene-Oligocene transition ". "Late Eocene sediments in the Xining basin, China: recorders of local or global changes ?" Awarded a Molengraaff Fonds grant.
    • Julia Straathof (Utrecht University) MSc thesis:  "Pollen record during Tibetan uplift and the Eocene-Oligocene transition ". 
    • Femke Saulus  (Utrecht University) MSc thesis:  "Tectonic vs. Climatic Records on Tibetan Plateau Stratigraphy"; Awarded a Molengraaff Fonds grant. 
    • Veronique Erens (Utrecht University)  BSc thesis:  "Paleomagnetic research in the Xining-Lanzhou region, the deformation history of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau"; MSc thesis: "Magnetostratigraphic record of tectonic-climate interactions in the Siwalik sediments of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan"
    • Mariel Reitsma  (Utrecht University) BSc thesis: "Paleomagnetic evidence for clockwise rotation of the Xining-Lanzhou region".

    Himalayan chronostratigraphy


    The history of the topography in the Himalaya orogen remains a major unresolved question with important implication for understanding the erosional processes, the tectonic history and the evolution of the climate during the uplift of the Himalaya. Successful research requires a multidisciplinary approach involving geologic tools as varied as structural geology, geochronology, geomorphology, geochemistry, paleoclimatology, palynology, sedimentology and paleomagnetism. 
    Despite the numerous geological investigations previously performed on the Himalayas, there are still some important unresolved questions, especially on the eastern side of the Himalaya region, in the remote kingdom of Bhutan and the Indian region of Arunashal Pradesh. The eastern Himalayas provide a unique opportunity to test the effect of climate on mountain uplift. 

    The late Miocene uplift of the Shillong plateau located to the south of the Eeastern Himalayas, in India, has created a rain shadow shielding the eastern Himalayas from monsoonal precipitation and resulting in a totally different exhumation and erosion history of this part of the Himalayas (Grujic et al., 2006). This change has likely been recorded in the Siwalik sediments that have been deposited during the formation of the Himalayas. 
    The aim of this project - which is co-supervised by Guillaume Dupont-Nivet and lead by collaborators from the Universtiy of Grenoble (France) and the Dalhousie University (Canada) is to understand the tectonic-climatic interactions in the Siwalik sediments of the Eastern Himalayas.
    Within a team of international geoscientists studying the Siwalik sediments in the Eastern Himalayas, the aim of this research project is to date the sediments - using magnetostratigraphy - to provide the age framework for all other aspects of the project. The new paleomagnetic data of the Siwalik group in Buthan will add to previous paleomagnetic results of the Siwalik group in Pakistan and in Nepal (Ohja et al., 2000, 2008; Gautam et al., 1999, 2000), providing the first complete regional description and time frame of the detrital record of the Himalayas. 
    The study section is the Siwalik group exposed in the the Eastern Himalayas, deposited during the uplift of the Himalayan foreland basin (Ojha et al., 2008) and consisting of several kilometers of siltstone to sandstone sequences. Earlier paleomagnetic studies proved that this section is suitable for obtainig good paleomagnetic results. These will contribute to the tectonic history in the eastern part of the Himalaya orogen during the uplift.
     

    Project collaborators:

  • Students:
    • Francois Chirouze (Grenoble University) PhD thesis finished January 2011 "Contrôles tectonique et climatique du drainage himalayen et son évolution depuis 15MA".
    • Veronique Erens (Utrecht University)  BSc thesis:  "Paleomagnetic research in the Xining-Lanzhou region, the deformation history of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau"; MSc thesis: "Magnetostratigraphic record of tectonic-climate interactions in the Siwalik sediments of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan"

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    Mediterranean Geodynamics

    "The Mediterranean area is one of the most appealing natural laboratories in the world to study geodynamic and paleoclimatic processes on different scales. Consequently, the Mediterranean Sea can be considered as the Mare Nostrum (‘our sea’) of Earth sciences.  Its semi-enclosed land-locked configuration in a convergent setting between Africa in Europe, in combination with its latitudinal position, makes the Mediterranean extremely suitable to study both fundamental plate tectonic processes and astronomically induced oscillations in climate." 
    Krijgsman, EPSL 2002 
    The Carpathian arc (Romania)
    The Moesian platform (Bulgaria)

    Formation of the Carpathian arc

    The Neogene geodynamic evolution of the southeastern Carpatho-Pannonian system is constrained by the timing and magnitude of vertical-axis tectonic rotations derived from paleomagnetic analysis. We report results from 13 paleomagnetic localities (139 sites, 993 samples) of Middle Miocene to Pliocene sediments of the eastern Carpathians region, the southern Carpathians region and the actively deforming “Bend Area” between these two regions. Absolute age control of the sampled sediments is provided by previous magnetostratigraphic analysis. Our results indicate: (1) Systematic ~30° clockwise rotations occurred in the southern Carpathians after ~13 Ma; (2) tectonic rotation had ceased in the investigated eastern and southern Carpathians regions after ~9 Ma except in the Bend Area where recent clockwise rotations took place after ~5 Ma. This pattern of rotations implies a concentration of tectonic activity during the Middle to Late Miocene collision of the Carpathian arc with the European platform, followed by relative tectonic quiescence through the Pliocene except in the Bend Area subject to late-stage slab pull. 

    Project collaborators:

    The Moesian platform (Bulgaria)

    The Moesian platform of northern Bulgaria and southern Romania is long considered to form a rigid, stable block bounding the Carpathian system and the Aegean system. However, no reliable paleomagnetic data have been reported to constrain Neogene rotation of the Moesian platform.
    If the Moesian platform is indeed rotating, it implies a causal relationship between the kinematic evolution of the Aegean and Carpathian domains during the Middle to Late Miocene: Aegean rotation would be accommodated in the Carpathian back-arc. 
    The western Aegean region underwent a 50° clockwise rotation phase since 13 Ma, with the majority of the rotations occurring between 13 and 8 Ma. Rotation values decrease towards the northwest and amount 20° CW in the Greek Rhodope

    The southern Carpathian Foreland underwent a 30° clockwise rotation phase, between 13 and 9 Ma. This is time-equivalent to the Aegean clockwise rotation phase. 

    The similarity in sense and timing of rotations is strikingly conspicuous. The absence of a major Miocene tectonic discontinuity between the Greek Rhodope and the southern Carpathian foreland suggests that the clockwise rotation of the Rhodope was accommodated in the Carpathian orogenic belt through wholesale rotation of the Moesian platform. 


    Thinking about drinking........................ thinking about drilling (left to right, Douwe, Radoslav and Karen).

    Project collaborators:
    • Radoslav Nakov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
    • Douwe van Hinsbergen (Geological Survey of Norway NGU)
    • Karen Oud  (MSc student, Utrecht University)

    Hominid paleoenvironment 

    The Afar region in Ethiopia contain some of the world’s best known hominid fossils and span a time frame which is of major interest for paleoanthropologists. According to several workers the period between 3.5 and 1.8 million years ago was a period of major climatic change. It is not yet sure if these changes in the climate resulted in the diversity of our human ancestors and the origin of the oldest known tools. New research in a wide variety of fields related to the study of human evolution is trying to shed light on this possible relation between climatic change and increased diversity of African fauna.
    This project with the Institute of Human Origin at the Arizona State University aims at collecting new data from a location (the Ledi-Geraru area) reported to span the 3.4-2.0 Ma period. The lacustrine sediments from this area offer an ideal distal setting to study climate evolution in the Awash basin.

    "Team 2006" sampling and measuring Ledi-Geraru section: Chris (with staff), Ramon, Erin and Bruno.
    The  project's main goals:
    1. Date the sediments using all possible tools at hand (magnetostratigraphy, radio-isotopic dating and stratigraphic and geochemical correlation through detailed mapping).
    2. Reconstruct the paleoenvironments.
    3. Collect and correlate fossils to the dated paleoenvironment reconstruction.
    4. What is the age range of this Ledi-Geraru stratigraphy?
    5. Can the climate and tectonic signals be recognised and deciphered in the Ledi-Geraru stratigraphy? 
    Furthermore a variety of proxies will be measured for getting a grip on the climatic signal in the sampled sediments.

    Collaborators:

  • Students:
    • Mark Sier PhD at Leiden University. Former MSc Thesis, (Utrecht University)Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin.
    • Patrick Lemmers (Leiden University) MSc thesis: Awarded a Molengraaff Fonds grant.



    Grants and awards
    • Career Integration Grant, EU FP7 (100 k€, 2012-2014)
    • Allocation d’installation scientifique jeunes chercheurs, Rennes Metropole (2011)
    • Projets Emergents, Université de Rennes 1 (2011)
    • Geodynamic Darius Programme (9k€, 2010)
    • Chair Professorship at the Peking University.
    • Utrecht - Asia grant from the Utrecht University for organizing the "Asian Climate and Tectonics" seminar 2010 (15 k€, 2009).
    • VIDI grant from the Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO), Is the collision between India and Asia responsible for global climate cooling? (600 k€, 2009-2013).
    • Van Gogh Fellowship, NWO/EGIDE exchange France / Netherlands (2008).
    • Netherlands-China collaboration grants NWO-NSFC (4.5 k€, 2008)
    • VENI grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), Coupled geodynamic to climatic changes during Tibetan uplift, Postdoctoral funding (200 k€, 2005-2008).
    • Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Union, Tibetan uplift and related climate change. Postdoctoral funding (140 k€, 2003-2005).
    • Outstanding Student Research Award of the Geological Society of America (2002).
    • Student research grant of the Geological Society of America (2002).
    • Student research grant Chevron Research Support (2001).
    • Tom Hedrick Award (Structure & Tectonics), University of Arizona Geodaze Symposium (2001).


    publicationsPublications of Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

    2012

    • Xiao, G., Guo, Z., Dupont-Nivet, G., Lu, H., Wu, N., Ge, J., Hao, Q., Peng, S., Li, F., Abels, H.A., and Zhang, K., 2012, Evidence for northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift between 25 and 20 Ma in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, Northwestern China: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 317-318, p. 185-195, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.008.
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Yin, A., and Clift, P.D., (2012), Introduction to the "Asian Climate and Tectonics" special issue: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Asian Climate and Tectonics, v. 44, p. 1-2, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.12.001.
    • Chirouze, F., Bernet, M., Huyghe, P., Erens, V., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Senebier, F., (2012), Detrital thermochronology and sediment petrology of the middle Siwaliks Molasse along the Muksar Khola section in eastern Nepal: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Asian Climate and Tectonics, v. 44, p.94-106, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.01.009.
    • Chirouze, F., Dupont-Nivet, G., Huyghe, P., Beek, P.v.d., Chakraborti, T., Bernet, M., and Erens, V., (2012), Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Siwalik Group of far eastern Himalaya, Kameng section, Arunachal Pradesh, India: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,  Asian Climate and Tectonics, v. 44, p. 117-135, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.05.016.
    • Guilbaud, R., Bernet, M., Erens, V., Chirouze, F., Huyghe, P., and Dupont-Nivet, G., (2012), On the influence of diagenesis on the original petrographic composition of Miocene-Pliocene fluvial sandstone in the Himalayan foreland basin of western-central Nepal: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,  Asian Climate and Tectonics, v. 44, p. 107-116, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.025.
    • Xu, Y., Zhang, K., Wang, G., Jiang, S., Chen, F., Xiang, S., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Hoorn, C., (2012), Extended stratigraphy, palynology and depositional environments record the initiation of the Himalayan Gyirong Basin (Neogene China): Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,  Asian Climate and Tectonics, p. 77-93, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.007.
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., and Krijgsman, W., (in press), Magnetostratigraphic methods and applications, in Busby, C., and Azor, A. (eds.), Recent Advances in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Blackwell.
    2011
    • van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Kapp, P., Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P. C., DeCelles, P. G., and Torsvik T. H., (2011), Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India, Tectonics, 30, TC5003, doi:10.1029/2011tc002908.
    • Joordens, J.C.A., Vonhof, H.B., Feibel, C.S., Lourens, L.J., Dupont-Nivet, G., van der Lubbe, J.H.J.L., Sier, M.J., Davies, G.R., and Kroon, D., (In Press), An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin : Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 307, 1-8, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.005......SCIENCE EDITOR'S' CHOICE, Mueller, K. and Yeston, J., In Synch with the Weather, Science, 333, 137-138 
    • Abels, H.A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Xiao, G., Bosboom, R.E. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Step-wise change of Asian interior climate preceding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,  299, 399-412.  
    • Bosboom, R.E., Dupont-Nivet, G., Houben, A.J.P., Brinkhuis, H., Villa, G., Mandic, O., Stoica, M., Zachariasse, W.J., Guo, Z., Li, C. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Late Eocene sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China) and concomitant Asian paleoenvironmental change, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299, 385-398.   
    • Li, C., Guo, Z., and Dupont-Nivet, G., (2011), Late Cenozoic tectonic deformation across the northern foreland of the Chinese Tian Shan: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Continental accretion and intra-continental deformation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, v. 42, p. 1066-1073, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.08.009.
    • Li C., Dupont-Nivet, G., Guo, Z., (2011). Magnetostratigraphy of the Northern Tian Shan foreland, Taxi He section, China, Basin Research, 23, 101-117, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00475.x. 
    2010
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.  Meijers, M.J.M. , Kapp, P., (2010). Palaeolatitude and age of the Indo–Asia collision: palaeomagnetic constraints, Geophysical Journal international, 182, 1189-1198. 
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., D. J.J. van Hinsbergen, and T. H. Torsvik (2010), Persistently low Asian paleolatitudes : Implications for the India-Asia collision history, Tectonics, 29, TC5016.   
    • Köhler, C.M.,  Krijgsman, W., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Heslop, D. and Dupont-Nivet, G. (2010). Concurrent tectonic and climatic changes recorded in upper Tortonian sediments from the eastern Mediterranean, Terra Nova, 22, 52-63. 
    • Xiao, G.Q., Abels, H.A., Yao, Z.Q., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Hilgen, F.J., (2010), Asian aridification linked to the first step of the Eocene-Oligocene climate Transition (EOT) in obliquity-dominated terrestrial records (Xining Basin, China) : Climate of the Past, 6, 501-513. www.clim-past-discuss.net/6/627/2010/. 
    2009
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Hoorn, C. and Konert, M. (2008). 2009, Erratum: Tibetan Uplift Prior to The Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition: Evidence From Pollen Analysis of The Xining Basin, Geology, 37, p. 506 
    2008
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Dai, S., Fang, X., Krijgsman, W., Erens, V., Reitsma, M. and Langereis, C.G. (2008). Timing and distribution of tectonic rotations in the northeastern Tibetan plateau, In: Burchfiel, C. and Wang, E. (eds.), Investigations into the Tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau, GSA Special Paper 444, 73–87, (doi: 10.1130/2008.2444). 
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Hoorn, C. and Konert, M. (2008). Tibetan uplift prior to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: evidence from pollen analysis of the Xining Basin, Geology, 36 (12), 987–990.  (doi: 10.1130/GS25063A.1) .....RESEARCH FOCUS by Garzione, C.N. (2008). Surface uplift of Tibet and Cenozoic global cooling, Geology, 36, 1003-1004. .....Erratum:Geology, 37, p. 506......
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., DiMaggio, E.N., Reed, K., Lockwood, C.A., Franke, C., and Huesing, S.K. (2009), Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia), implications for hominin paleoenvironments, In: Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G. (eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa, GSA Special Paper 446, 67-85. 
    • Quade, J., Levin, N., Simpson, S., Butler, R.F., McIntosh, W., Sileshi, S., Kleinasser, L., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Renne, P. (2009), The geology of Gona. In:  Quade, J., and Wynn, J.G. (eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Boulder, GSA Special Paper, 446, 1-31. 
    • Simpson, S.W., Quade, J.,Levin, N.E., Butler, R.F., Dupont-Nivet, G., Everett, M. and Sileshi, S. (2008). A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia, Science, 322, 1089-1092. .....NEWSFOCUS by Ann Gibson, The Birth of Childhood, Science, 322, 1040-1043 
    • Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Nakov, R., Oud, K. and Panaiotu, C. (2008). No significant post-Eocene rotation of the Moesian Platform and Rhodope (Bulgaria): implications for the kinematic evolution of the Carpathian and Aegean arcs: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 273, 345-358.  
    2007
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Abels, H. A., Dai, S. and Fang, X. (2007). Tibetan Plateau Aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene-Oligocene transition,  Nature, 445, 635-638   (see also Nature News & Views )
    2006
    • Dai, S., X. Fang, G. Dupont-Nivet, C. Song, J. Gao, W. Krijgsman, C. Langereis, and W. Zhang (2006) Magnetostratigraphy of Cenozoic sediments from the Xining Basin: Tectonic implications for the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B11102, doi:10.1029/2005JB004187.
    2005
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Vasiliev, I., Langereis, C.G., Krijgsman, W. and Panaiotu, C. (2005). Neogene tectonic evolution of the southern and eastern Carpathians constrained by paleomagnetism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 374– 387
    2004
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Robinson, D., Butler, R. F., Yin, A., Zhang, Y., and Qiao, W. S, Melosh, J. (2004). Concentration of crustal displacement along a weak Altyn Tagh fault: Evidence from paleomagnetism of the northern Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, doi: 2002TC001397 
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., B. K. Horton, R. F. Butler, J. Wang, J. Zhou, and G. L. Waanders (2004). Paleogene clockwise tectonic rotation of the Xining-Lanzhou region, northeastern Tibetan plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi: 2003JB002620 
    • Horton B. K., Dupont-Nivet, G., R. F. Butler, J. Wang, J. Zhou, and G. L. Waanders (2004). Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the Xining-Minhe and Dangchang basins, northeastern Tibetan plateau: Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic results, J. Geophys. Res. 109, doi: 2003JB002660 
    • Washburn, Z., Arrowsmith, J. R., Dupont-Nivet, G, Feng, X. F., Zhang, Y., Chen, Z. (2004). Paleoseismology of the Xorkol segment of the central Altyn Tagh Fault, Xinjiang, China, Annals of Geophysics, 45(5), 1015-1034.
    2003
    • Arriagada, C., Roperch, P., Mpodozis, C., Dupont-Nivet, G., Cobbold, P. R., Chauvin, A., and Cortés, J. (2003). Paleogene clockwise tectonic rotations in the forearc of central Andes, Antofagasta region, northern Chile: J. of  Geophys. Res, 105, doi:10.1029/2001JB001598.  
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Butler, R. F., Yin, An, and Chen, Xuanhua. (2003). Paleomagnetism indicates no Neogene vertical-axis rotations of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2386, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002399. 
    • Robinson, D., Dupont-Nivet, G., Gehrels, G. E., Zhang, Y. (2003). The Tula uplift, northwestern China: Evidence for regional tectonism of the northern Tibetan Plateau during late Mesozoic-early Cenozoic time, Geol. Soc. Am. Bulletin, 31, 35-47. 
    2002
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Butler, R. F., Yin, A., and Chen, X. (2002). Paleomagnetism indicates no Neogene rotation of the Qaidam Basin in North Tibet during Indo-Asian Collision, Geology, 30, 263-266. 
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., Guo, Z., Butler, R. F., and Jia, C. (2002). Discordant paleomagnetic direction in Miocene rocks from the central Tarim Basin: Evidence for local deformation and inclination shallowing, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 199, p. 473-482. 
    • Dupont-Nivet, G., 2002, Constraints on the mechanism of the Altyn Tagh Fault from paleomagnetism (PhD. thesis, University of Arizona), pp. 118. 
    1998
    • Dupont-Nivet, G.,(1998), Carte 7032G, Natures de fond de l'Ile de Groix à Belle-Ile, abords de Lorient, 1:50,000, Etablissement Principal du Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, Brest.
    1997
    • Dupont-Nivet, G. (1997). Mise en évidence paléomagnétique de rotations tectoniques au Nord du Chili, Mémoire de D.E.A, Géosciences Rennes, pp. 47.