Publications

Research papers

Refereed Publications - In Review


35. Jaimes-Gutierrez, R., Adatte, T., Puceat, E., Vennemann, T., Prieur, M., Wild, A.L., Khozyem, H., Vaucher, R. Castelltort, S. (in review) Deciphering Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Climatic Dynamics: Insights from Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Clay Minerals of Paleosols from the Southern Pyrenees. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology


34. Vaucher, R., Musajo, C., Spangenberg, J. E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Zeeden, C., Puigdefàbregas, C., Castelltort, S., Adatte, T. (in review | moderate revision) Sediment supply controls on Early Eocene delta sequences (South Pyrenean Foreland Basin; Spain). Geology (preprint)



Refereed Publications - Published, In Press, and Accepted


33. Saleh, F., Lustri, L., Gueriau, P., Potin, G., Pérez-Peris, F., Laibl, L., Jamart, V., Vite, A., Antcliffe, J. B., Daley, A. C., Nohejlová, M., Dupichaud, C., Lynch, S., Drage, H. B., Vaucher, R., Vizcaïno, D., Monceret, E., Monceret, S., and Lefebvre, B. (2024) The Cabrières Biota (France) provides insights into Ordovician polar ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution (pdf)


32. Hsieh, A.I., Dashtgard, S.E., Clift, P. D., Lo, L. Vaucher, R., Löwemark, L. (2024) Competing influence of the Taiwan orogen and East Asian Summer Monsoon on South China Sea paleoenvironmental proxy records. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 635, 111933 (pdf)


31. Cichowolski, M., Vaccari, N. E., Phole, A., Morón Alfonso, D. A., Vaucher, R., Waisfeld, B. G. (2023) Early Tremadocian cephalopods from NW Argentina (Santa Rosita Formation): the oldest record for South America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68(4), 583-601 (pdf)


30. Jin, L., Shan, X., Vaucher, R., Qiao, S., Wang, C., Liu, S., Wang, H., Fang, X., Bai, Y., Zhu, A., Shi, X. (2023) Sea-level changes control coastal organic carbon burial in the East China Sea during the late MIS 3. Global and Planetary Change 229, 104225 (preprint) (pdf)


29. Hsieh, A. I., Vaucher, R., Löwemark, L., Dashtgard, S.E., Horng, C-S., Lin, A-T., Zeeden, C. (2023) Influence of a rapidly uplifting orogen on the preservation of climate oscillations. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(6), 1-17 (pdf)


28. Vaucher, R., Dillinger, A., Hsieh, A. I., Chi, W-R., Löwemark, L., Dashtgard, S. E. (2023) Storm-flood-dominated delta succession in the Pleistocene Taiwan Strait. The Depositional Record (pdf)


27. Zuchuat, V., Gugliotta, M., Poyatos-Moré, M., van der Vegt, H., Collins, D. S., Vaucher, R. (2023) Mixed depositional processes in coastal to shelf environments: towards acknowledging their complexity. The Depositional Record 9(2), 206-212 (pdf)


26. Thomas, C., Privat, A. M-L., Vaucher, R., Spychala, Y., Zuchuat, V., Poyatos-Moré, M., Marchegiano, M., Kane, I., Chiarella, D. (2023) Sedimentologika: a community-driven diamond open access journal in sedimentology. Sedimentologika 1:1 (pdf)


25. Vaucher, R., Zeeden, C., Hsieh, A. I., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lin, A-T., Horng, C-S., Dashtgard, S.E. (2023) Hydroclimate dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition in the northwest Pacific realm. Global and Planetary Change 223, 104088 (pdf)


24. Hsieh, A. I., Dashtgard, S. E., Wang, P-L., Horng, C-H., Su, C-C, Lin, A. T., Vaucher, R., Löwemark, L. (2023) Multi-proxy evidence for rapidly shifting sediment sources to the Taiwan Western Foreland Basin at the Miocene- Pliocene transition. Basin Research 35(3), 932-948 (pdf)


23. Saleh, F., Vaucher, R., Vidal, M., El Hariri, K., Laibl, L., Daley, A.C., Gutiérrez-Marco, J-C., Candela, Y., Harper, D. A.T., Ortega-Hernández, J., Ma, X., Vizacaïno, D., Lefebvre B. (2022) New fossil assemblages from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota. Scientific Reports, 12, 20773 (preprint) (pdf)


22. Saleh, F., Qi, C., Buatois, L. A., Mángano M. G., Paz M., Vaucher, R., Zheng, Q., Hou, X-G., Gabbott, S., Ma, X. (2022) The Chengjiang Biota inhabited a deltaic environment. Nature Communications, 13, 1569 (pdf)


21. Vaucher, R., Dashtgard, S.E. (2022) Nearshore Bedforms. In: Shroder, J.J.F. (Ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology, vol. 8. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 230–246 (pdf)


20. Dillinger, A., Vaucher, R., Haig, D.W. (2022) Refining the depositional model of the lower Permian Carynginia Formation in the northern Perth Basin: anatomy of an ancient mouth bar. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 69:1, 135-151 (pdf)


19. Vaucher, R., Dashtgard, S.E., Horng, C-S., Zeeden, C., Dillinger, A., Pan, Y-Y., Ari Setiaji, R., Chi, W-R., Löwemark, L. (2021) Insolation-paced sea level and sediment flux during the early Pleistocene in Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports 11, 16707 (pdf)

18. Dillinger, A., George, A. D., Vaucher, R. (2021) Evolution of a complex early Permian coarse-grained shoreline along a rift basin margin. Journal of Sedimentary Research 91, 317-347 (pdf)

17. Dashtgard, S.E., Vaucher, R., Yang, B., Dalrymple, R.W. (2021) Wave-Dominated to Tide-Dominated Coastal Systems: A Unifying Model for Tidal Shorefaces and Refinement of the Coastal-Environments Classification Scheme. Geoscience Canada 48, 5-22 (pdf)


16. Serra, F., Balseiro, D., Vaucher, R., and Waisfeld, B.G. (2021). Structure of trilobite communities along a delta-marine gradient (Lower Ordovician; Northwestern Argentina). PALAIOS,  36(2), 39-52 (pdf)


15. Dashtgard, S.E., Löwemark, L., Wang, P-L., Ari Setiaji, R., Vaucher, R. (2021) Geochemical Evidence of Extreme Weather Events in Shallow-Marine Strata (Pliocene, Taiwan). Geology 49, 566-570 (pdf)


14. Saleh, F., Vaucher, R., Antcliffe, J., Daley, A.C., El Hariri, K., Lefebvre, B., Kouraiss, K., Martin, E.L.O, Perrillat, J-P., Sansjofre, P., Vidal, M., Pittet, B. (2021) Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota. Earth-Science Reviews, 213, p. 103464 (pdf)


13. Vaucher, R., Vaccari, N.E., Balseiro, D., Muñoz, D.F., Dillinger, A., Waisfeld, B.G, Buatois L.A. (2020) Tectonic controls on late Cambrian - Early Ordovician deposition in Cordillera Oriental (Northwest Argentina). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109(6), 1897-1920 (pdf) (preprint)


12. Dashtgard, S.E, Löwemark, L., Vaucher, R., Pan, Y-Y., Pilarczyk, J., Castelltort, S. (2020) Tropical cyclone deposits in the Pliocene Taiwan Strait: Processes, examples, and conceptual model. Sedimentary Geology, 405, p. 105687 (pdf


11. Vaucher, R., Pittet B., Passot, S., Grandjean, P., Humbert, T., Allemand, P. (2018) Bedforms in a tidally modulated ridge and runnel shoreface (Berck-Plage; North France): implications for the geological record. BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin, 189:5 (pdf)


10. Vaucher, R., Pittet, B., Humbert, T., Ferry, S. (2018) Large-scale bedforms induced by supercritical flows and wave–wave interference in the intertidal zone (Cap Ferret, France). Geo-Marine Letters, 38, 287-305 (pdf)


9. Allaire, N., Lefebvre, B., Martin, E.L.O, Nardin, E., Vaucher, R., Escarguel, G. (2017) Morphological disparity analysis and systematic revision of the eocrinoid genus Rhopalocystis (Echinodermata, Blastozoa) from the Lower Ordovician of the central Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Journal of Paleontology, 91(4), 685-714 (pdf)


8. Vaucher, R., Pittet, B., Hormière, H., Martin, E.L.O., Lefebvre, B. (2017) A wave-dominated, tide-modulated model for the Lower Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Sedimentology, 64, 777-807 (pdf)


7. Vaucher, R., Martin, E.L.O., Hormière, H. Pittet, B. (2016) A genetic link between Konzentrat- and Konservat-Lagerstätten in the Fezouata Formation (Lower Ordovician, Morocco). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 460, 24-34 (pdf)


6. Martin, E.LO., Vidal, M., Vizcaïno, D., Vaucher, R., Sansjofre, P., Lefebvre, B., Destombes, J. (2016) Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 460, 142-154 (pdf)


5. Nowak H., Servais T., Pittet B., Vaucher R., Akodad M., Gaines R.R., Vandenbtoucke T.R.A. (2016) Palynomorphs of the Fezouata Formation (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): age and environmental constraints of the Fezouata Biota. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 460, 62-74 (pdf)


4. Martin, E.L.O, Pittet, B., Gutiérrez-Marco, J.-C., El Hariri, K., Lerosey-Aubril, R., Masrour, M., Nowak, H., Servais, T., Vandenbroucke, T., Vannier, J., Van Roy, P., Vaucher, R., Lefebvre, B. (2016). The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives. Gondwana Research, 34, 274-283 (pdf)


3. Martin, E.L.O, Lefebvre, B., Vaucher, R. (2015) Taphonomy of a stylophoran-dominated assemblage in the Lower Ordovician of Zagora Area (central Anti-Atlas, Morocco). In: Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology, Publisher: Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19, Editors: S. Zamora, I. Rábano, 95-100. ISBN: 978-84 7840-961-7 (pdf)


2. Allaire, N., Lefebvre, B., Martin, E.L.O, Nardin, E., Vaucher, R. (2015) Taphonomy of new Rhopalocystis assemblages in the Lower Ordovician of the Zagora area (central Anti-Atlas, Morocco). In: Progress in Echinoderm Palaeobiology, Publisher: Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 19., Editors: S. Zamora, I. Rábano, 21-26. ISBN: 978-84-7840-961-7 (pdf)


1. Plotieau, T., Baele, J.-M., Vaucher, R., Hasler, C.-A., Koudad, D., Eeckhaut, I. (2013) Analysis of the impact of Holothuria scabra intensive farming on sediment. Cahier de Biologie Marine, 54, 703-711 (pdf)

Special issue

2023 | Special Issue:

Mixed depositional processes in coastal to shelf environments

Guest Editors:

 
Valentin Zuchuat, Marcello Gugliotta, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Helena van der Vegt, Daniel S. Collins, Romain Vaucher

Journal covers

Vaucher, R., Pittet, B., Hormière, H., Martin, E.L.O., Lefebvre, B. (2017) A wave-dominated, tide-modulated model for the Lower Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Sedimentology 64, 777-807


Serra, F., Balseiro, D., Vaucher, R., and Waisfeld, B.G. (2021). Structure of trilobite communities along a delta-marine gradient (Lower Ordovician; Northwestern Argentina). PALAIOS  36(2), 39-52

Dashtgard, S.E., Vaucher, R., Yang, B., Dalrymple, R.W. (2021)  Hutchison Medallist 1. Wave-Dominated to Tide-Dominated Coastal Systems: A Unifying Model for Tidal Shorefaces and Refinement of the Coastal- Environments Classification Scheme. Geoscience Canada 48, 5-22

 Thesis

PhD Characterization of hybrid sedimentary environments (wave-tide) in ancient and modern systems (pdf)

Master Impact of holothurids (Aspidochirotida) on carbonate sediments (pdf)

Non-refeered works

4. Aubray, A.,  Mollex, D., Vaucher, R., Lorin, T. (2019) Les plages de l’ile de Groix (Morbihan) : plage convexe, sables à grenats, dynamique sédimentaire et climatique, processus d’altération / érosion côtière. Planet Terre (pdf in French)

3. El Hariri, K., Hafid, A., Saïdi, A., Bachnou, A., Bourgeoini, Y., Soulaimani, A., Baïdder, L., Lefebvre, B., Martin, E., Pittet, B., Prieur, A., Robert, E., Vaucher, R., Masrour, M. (2015). Lower Ordovician outcrops along Central High Atlas ; Anti-Atlas traverse: (oct. 8-10, 2015). Field trip Guidebook, The Rise of Animal Life, RALI 2015, Marrakesh, 5-10 October 2015 : 1-40 (pdf)

2. Vaucher R.,  Godefroid F., Kindler P., Le Cotonnec A. (2012) Geology and sedimentology of Bimini Islands (Bahamas). Intern publication for the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Geneva, 15 pp (pdf)

1. Le Cotonnec A., Hunger G., Martinuzzi V., Ruisillon E., Vaucher R. (2011) Sedimentological report of Tremp bassin (Spain). Intern publication for the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Geneva, 78pp (pdf)

Reviewer for scientific journals

Sedimentology, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Journal of the Geological Society, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, The Depositional Record, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Picture: Late Cretaceous fluvial sucession, Bosque pertrificado La Leona near El Calafate, Argentina © Romain Vaucher