Cyril Fleurant

Prof. Cyril Fleurant

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Academic Career Length

26Years (2001-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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25 April 2015 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
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TCThomas Cornet
Thomas Cornet
DCDaniel Cordier
Daniel Cordier
TBTangui Le Bahers
Tangui Le Bahers
OBOlivier Bourgeois
Olivier Bourgeois
CFCyril Fleurant
Cyril Fleurant
NANicolas Altobelli
Nicolas Altobelli
Titan's polar surface is dotted with hundreds of lacustrine depressions. Based on the hypothesis that they are karstic in origin, we aim at determining the efficiency of surface dissolution as a landshaping process on Titan, in a comparative planetology perspective with the Earth as reference. Our approach is based on the calculation of solutional denudation rates and allow inference of formation timescales for topographic depressions developed by chemical erosion on both planetary bodies. The model depends on the solubility of solids in liquids, the density of solids and liquids, and the average annual net rainfall rates. We compute and compare the denudation rates of pure solid organics in liquid hydrocarbons and of minerals in liquid water over Titan and Earth timescales. We then investigate the denudation rates of a superficial organic layer in liquid methane over one Titan year. At this timescale, such a layer on Titan would behave like salts or carbonates on Earth depending on its composition, which means that dissolution processes would likely occur but would be 30 times slower on Titan compared to the Earth due to the seasonality of precipitation. Assuming an average depth of 100 m for Titan's lacustrine depressions, these could have developed in a few tens of millions of years at polar latitudes higher than 70°N and S, and a few hundreds of million years at lower polar latitudes. The ages determined are consistent with the youth of the surface (<1 Gyr) and the repartition of dissolution‐related landforms on Titan.

18 March 2013 in Molecular Ecology
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YFYoan Fourcade
Yoan Fourcade
ACAudrey Chaput‐Bardy
Audrey Chaput‐Bardy
JSJean Secondi
Jean Secondi
CFCyril Fleurant
Cyril Fleurant
CLChristophe Lemaire
Christophe Lemaire

1 April 2012 in Icarus
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TCT. Cornet
T. Cornet
OBO. Bourgeois
O. Bourgeois
SMStéphane Le Mouélic
Stéphane Le Mouélic
SRS. Rodriguez
S. Rodriguez
TLTeodolina Lopez
Teodolina Lopez
PNP.D. Nicholson
P.D. Nicholson

1 December 2009 in Ecological Modelling
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ACA. Chaput-Bardy
A. Chaput-Bardy
CFCyril Fleurant
Cyril Fleurant
CLC. Lemaire
C. Lemaire
JSJ. Secondi
J. Secondi

30 November 2006 in Hydrological Processes
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CFCyril Fleurant
Cyril Fleurant
BKB. Kartiwa
B. Kartiwa
BRB. Roland
B. Roland

19 December 2003 in Journal of Theoretical Biology
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CFCyril Fleurant
Cyril Fleurant
JDJ. Duchesne
J. Duchesne
PRP. Raimbault
P. Raimbault