CV
Research interests
- geodynamic, tectonic, structural geology
- lithospheric extensional deformation processes
- rifted margins architecture and evolution
- basin analysis and modeling
- site studies: Iberia, Newfoundland, South Atlantic, Norway, Jan Mayen, Greenland
- methods: seismic, gravimetry/magnetic modeling
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Present position
Researcher, continental shelf geophysics team, NGU - Geological Survey of Norway
Education - Diplomas
2008-2011: Postdoctoral scholar at the NGU.
Subject: Breakup and microcontinent formation: investigation of the Jan Mayen and Norway-Greenland conjugate margins system.
2006-2008: Postdoctoral scholar at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, FR.
Subjects:
- The conjugate rifted margins system of Iberia - Newfoundland.
- The conjugate rifted margins system of the South Atlantic.
2006: Ph.D. at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, FR.
Subject: The morphotectonic evolution of the West Iberia margin: sedimentary architecture, basement structure, temporal and spatial evolution.
Awards
January 2009: Georges Kohn Price from the Oceanographic Institute of Paris, Prince Albert Foundation.
EXPERIENCES
Responsibilities at the European Geosciences Union
Member of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division Program Committee 2011-2013, responsible of the Extensional Tectonics Settings header.
Organization of an international meeting
Ocean Continent Transition International Workshop, Paris, France, September, 19th-21st, 2007. Co-conveners: G.Manatschal, P.Huchon.
Editor of Special Issues
2009 - Elsevier - Tectonophysics - Special Publication - Title: Role of magmatism in continental lithosphere extension: structure, chemistry and evolution of rifts. Co-editors: J.van Wijk, L.Gernigon, D.Shillington
2009 - CRAS - Special Publication - Title: Ocean-Continent Transitions. Co-editors: P.Huchon, G.Manatschal
Reviewer in peer-review journals
AGU - Tectonics
Elsevier - Tectonophysics
Blackwell Publishing - Geophysical Journal International
CRAS - Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
Session Convener at international conferences
2011 - 3P-Halifax, August 2011. Session: Evolving Tectonic Interpretations and Models - Including Insights form New Seismic and Potential Fields Data.
2011 - EGU, April 2011. Session: Continental rifting & mid-ocean ridges : the role and mechanisms of tectonics, mantle dynamics, sedimentation and magmatism.
2010 - EGU, May 2010. Session: Continental rifting: mechanisms of deformation, sedimentation, and magmatism.
2007 - AGU Fall Meeting, December 2007. Session: Bringing together observations and models at rifted margins and extensional basins.
2006 - AGU Fall Meeting, December 2006. Session: Extensional Processes Leading to the Formation of Basins and Rifted Margins, From Volcanic to Magma-Limited.
Professional
2005-2006: Lecturer at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France - Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre. Lessons: rock physics, hydrology, tectonics and sedimentation.
2001 : Internship in seismology at the Volcanologic Observatory of Le Piton de la Fournaise, île de La Réunion, France. Data acquisition and processing during the 2001 eruption.
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED CONTRIBUTIONS
2010
PERON-PINVIDIC G., SHILLINGTON D. and TUCHOLKE B., 2010 -- Characterization of sills associated with the U reflection on the Newfoundland margin: Evidence for widespread early post-rift magmatism on a magma-poor rifted margin. GJI. Vol. 182-1, pp.113-136, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04635.x
PERON-PINVIDIC G. and MANATSCHAL G., 2010 -- From microcontinents to extensional allochthons : witnesses of how continents break apart?. Petroleum Geosciences, Rift Thematic Volume. Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 16 2010, pp. 189–197, doi: 10.1144/1354-079309-903.
UNTERNEHR P., PERON-PINVIDIC G., MANATSCHAL G. and SUTRA E., 2010 – Hyper-extended crust in the south Atlantic: in search for a model. Petroleum Geosciences, Rift Thematic Volume. Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 16 2010, pp. 207–215, doi: 10.1144/1354-079309-904.
2009
PERON-PINVIDIC G. and MANATSCHAL G., 2009 -- The final rifting evolution at deep magma-poor passive margins: a new point of view based on observations from Iberia-Newfoundland. International Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol.98, N.7, October 2009, doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0337-9
CANNAT M., MANATSCHAL G., SAUTER D. and PERON-PINVIDIC G., 2009 -- Assessing the conditions of continental breakup at magma-poor rifted margins: what can we learn from slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges?. C.R.Geoscience Special Issue.
PERON-PINVIDIC G., VAN WIJK J., GERNIGON L. and SHILLINGTON D., 2009 -- An introduction to the Tectonophysics Special Issue "Role of magmatism in continental lithosphere extension". Tectonophysics Special Issue: Role of magmatism in continental lithosphere extension. DOI information: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.019
PERON-PINVIDIC G., P.HUCHON and G.MANATSCHAL, 2009 -- An introduction to the "Ocean-Continent Transition". C.R.Geoscience Special Issue. doi: 10.1016 / j.crte. 2008.12.007
2008
PERON-PINVIDIC G., MANATSCHAL G., DEAN S. and MINSHULL T., 2008 -- Compressional structures on the West Iberia rifted margin: what controls their distribution? In: The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins, H., Johnson, et al. (Eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 306, 169-183.DOI: 10.1144/SP306.8.
2007
PERON-PINVIDIC G., MANATSCHAL G., MINSHULL T. and SAWYER D., 2007 -- The tectono-sedimentary and morpho-tectonic evolution recorded in the deep Iberia-Newfoundland margins: evidence for a complex break-up history. Tectonics 26-2. Doi:10.1029/2006TC001970.
Jagoutz O., Müntener O., Manatschal G., PEron-Pinvidic G., Rubatto D. and Villa I.M., 2007 -- The rift-to-drift transition in the Atlantic: A stuttering start of the MORB engine? Geology 35-12, 1087-1090. doi: 10.1130/G23613A.1.