CV
Present situation and research interests
I am Research Professor in geophysics/tectonics at NGU, Geological Survey of Norway.
My work addresses the following topics: lithosphere dynamics and rheology, heat flow/geothermy, (neo)tectonics, fault and brittle tectonics, lithospheric stresses, numerical modelling.
See also Christophe Pascals webpage http://www. geo. vu. nl/users/pasc/
Education and career
Since 2005 Senior scientist at NGU (promoted to the highest government scientific research grade in 2007).
Since 2005 Visiting research fellow at Tectonics Group, Free Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1999-2005 Post-doc Fellow at Free Univ., Amsterdam.
1998-1999 Post-doc Fellow at Univ. of Bergen, Norway.
1994-1998 PhD thesis in Tectonophysics (supervised by J. Angelier), Univ. of Paris VI, France.
1993-1994 MSc ("DEA") in Quantitative Geosciences, Institut Français du Pétrole-Paris VI, Fr.
1992-1993 MSc ("Maîtrise") in Theoretical Physics, Univ. Bordeaux I, France.
Publications (selection)
Pascal, C., and Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., 2009. Gravitational potential stresses and stress field of passive continental margins: insights from the south-Norway shelf, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 277, 464-473.
Pascal, C., 2008. The biggest break-up, Nature Geoscience, 1, 499-500.
Doré, A. G., Lundin, E. R., Kusznir, N., Pascal, C., 2008. Potential mechanisms for the genesis of Cenozoic domal structures on the NE Atlantic margin: pros, cons and some new ideas, In: The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins, H., Johnson, et al. (Eds.), Spec. Pub. Geol. Soc. London, 306, 1-26.
Pascal, C., Ebbing, J., and Skilbrei, J. R., 2007. Interplay between the Scandes and the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt: integrated thermal and potential field modelling of the Central Scandes profile, Norwegian Journal of Geology, 87, 3-12.
Cloetingh, S. A. P. L. + 31 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2007. Topo-Europe: the geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes, Global & Planetary Change, 58, 1-118.
Smelror, M. + 15 co-authors (including Pascal, C.), 2007. Towards a 4D topographic view of the Norwegian Sea margin, Global & Planetary Change, 58, 382-410.
Pascal, C., 2006. On the role of heat flow, lithosphere thickness and lithosphere density on gravitational potential stresses, Tectonophysics, 425, 83-99.
Pascal, C., Roberts, D., and Gabrielsen, R. H., 2006, Present-day stress orientations in Norway as deduced from stress-release features. In In-situ Rock Stress, Measurement, Interpretation and Application (M. Lu, C. C. Li, H. Kjørholt and H. Dahle, Eds.), pp. 209-214, Taylor and Francis, London.
McCann, T., Pascal, C., Timmerman, M. J., Krzywiec, P., López-Gómez, J., Krawczyk, C. M., Rieke, H., & Lamarche, J., 2006. Post-Variscan (end Carboniferous-early Permian) basin evolution in western and central Europe, in European Lithosphere Dynamics, Gee, D., and Stephenson, R. A. (eds.), Geol. Soc. London Memoirs, 32, 355-388.
Pascal, C., Roberts, D., and Gabrielsen, R. H., 2005. Quantification of neotectonic stress orientations and magnitudes from field observations in Finnmark, northern Norway, Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 859-870.
Pascal, C., 2004. SORTAN, a Unix program for calculation and graphical presentation of fault slip as induced by stresses, Computers & Geosciences, 30, 259-265.
Pascal, C., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L. and Davies, G. R., 2004. Asymmetric lithosphere as the cause of rifting and magmatism in the Permo-Carboniferous Oslo Graben, in Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe, Wilson, M., et al. (eds.), Spec. Pub. Geol. Soc. London, 223.
Pascal, C., and Angelier, J., 2003. SORTAN an analytical method to determine fault slip as induced by stresses, Mathematical Geology, 35/5, 627-642.
Pascal, C., and Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., 2002. Rifting in heterogeneous lithosphere: inferences from numerical modeling of the northern North Sea and the Oslo Graben, Tectonics, 21/6, p. 10/1-15.
Pascal, C., Angelier, J., Seland, R., and Lepvrier, C., 2002. A simplified model of stress-slip relationships: application to the Frøy Field, northern North Sea, Tectonophysics, 357, 103-118.
Pascal, C., 2002. Interaction of faults and perturbation of slip: influence of anisotropic stress states in the presence of fault friction and comparison between Wallace-Bott and 3D Distinct Element models, Tectonophysics, 356, 307-322.
Pascal, C., van Wijk, J. W., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L. and Davies, G. R., 2002. Effect of lithosphere thickness heterogeneities in controlling rift localization: numerical modeling of the Oslo Graben, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29/9, p. 69/1-4.
Pascal, C., and Gabrielsen, R. H., 2001. Numerical modelling of Cenozoic stress patterns in the Mid Norwegian Margin and the northern North Sea, Tectonics, 20/4, 585-599.
Pascal, C., Angelier, J., Cacas, M.-C., and Hancock, P. L., 1997. Distribution of joints: probabilistic modelling and case study near Cardiff (Wales, U. K.), Journal of Structural Geology, 19, 1273-1284.