Luc Bulot

Bulot graduated with a master's degree in geology from the University of Dijon and obtained a PhD at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris in 1995.

Chairman of the "Working group on the Valanginian" within the International Commission on Stratigraphy, he worked for a long time on the definition of the Lower Cretaceous GSSP.^[2]

From 2020 to 2022, he held various simultaneous positions: lead biostratigraphy expert within the North Africa Research Group, co-leader of an LCO/IFREMER/CNRS consortium based in Brest and investigating the links between biostratigraphy, sedimentology and plate tectonics, lecturer at the University of Manchester; and editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (AJGS).^[3]

Notable areas of work included:

• Reconstruction of the Mesozoic paleogeography of Provence.^[4]
• Definition of the marine biostratigraphic framework of West Africa.^[5]
• Definition of Cretaceous stage limits (for the International Chronostratigraphic Chart) leading in particular to the definition of the GSSP of the Valanginian-Hauterivian transition at La Charce.^[6][7][2]
• Discovery of new species of ammonites.^[8]

In July 2022, Luc Bulot died of cancer in Manchester, United Kingdom at the age of 59.^[5]

In 2023, many researchers paid tribute, in a special edition of the Journal of African Earth Science, to the extent of his work which redefined a significant part of the stratigraphy of West Africa.^[5]