Jean-Clair Duchesne

 

 

 

 

Department of Geology (B20)

Université de Liège

B-4000 SART TILMAN

BELGIUM

Phone: +32-4-3662255

Fax: +32-4-3662029

 

jc.duchesne@ulg.ac.be

 

 

Education


1960 - Mining Engineer

1962 - Geological Engineer

1969 - Docteur en Sciences

1969-1970 - Post-doctoral stay: University of Cambridge (UK)

1996 - Sabbatical stay: University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand (RSA)

 

 

International commitments


  • Council member of the European Union of Geosciences (1994-1999)

  • Vice-President of the Société Géologique de France (1998-99)

  • Council Member of the European Association for Geochemistry (1987-91)

  • Vice-President of the Society for Applied Geology (1990-93)

  • Member of the editorial board of Lithos (since 1981) and advisory board of Journal of African Earth Sciences (1994- 1999)

  • Co-leader of IGCP program n° 290 (Origin of anorthosites and related rocks) (1990-94)

 

 

Involvements in European research programs


  • 1979-1981: Investigation on new geochemical metallotect in the prospection of Belgian Pb-Zn stratabound deposits (CEE: 111-79-7 MPPS and SIPS: MP/CE/5)

  • 1991: Organiser of a post graduate intensive course on "Petrology, geochemistry and geophysics of magma chambers" (S. Norway, Moi, July 1991) (SCIENCE program)

  • 1994-1997: Geochemistry of Romanian granites (CIPA CT93 0237-DG12 HSMU)

  • 1997-1998: TMR panel member in the Earth Sciences

  • 1999: Chairman of the Enviroment and Geosciences Panel of the Marie Curie Training sites and Development Hosts Fellowships

  • 1999-present: Evaluation Member of the Environment and Geosciences Panel of the Marie Curie Programmes

 

 

Research profile


  • Anorthosites and related rocks

  • Charnockites and granitoids

  • Layered rocks

  • Geochemistry of sediments

  • Fe-Ti deposits

 

 

Publications


Five Significant International publications

 

Duchesne, J.C., Liégeois, J.P., Vander Auwera, J. and Longhi, J., 1999. The crustal tongue melting model and the origin of massive anorthosites. Terra Nova, 11: 100-105.

Duchesne, J.C. and Wilmart, E., 1997. Igneous charnockites and related rocks from the Bjerkreim-Sokndal layered intrusion (Southwest Norway): a jotunite (hypersthene monzodiorite)-derived A-type granitoid suite. Journal of Petrology, 38(3): 337-369.

Duchesne, J.C., Roelandts, I., Demaiffe, D. and Weis, D., 1985. Petrogenesis of monzonoritic dykes in the Egersund-Ogna anorthosite (Rogaland, S.W. Norway): trace elements and isotopic (Sr, Pb) constraints. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 90: 214-225.

Duchesne, J.C., 1978. Quantitative modeling of Sr, Ca, Rb, and K in the Bjerkrem-Sogndal layered lopolith (S.W. Norway). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 66: 175-184.

Duchesne, J.C., 1972. Iron-titanium oxide minerals in the Bjerkrem-Sogndal Massif, South-western Norway. Journal of Petrology, 13(1): 57-81.

 

Complete list of publications

 

Université de Liège - Faculté des Sciences