Luc Bulot
French palaeontologist (1963–2022)
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Luc Bulot (July 23, 1963 – July 27, 2022) was a French paleontologist mainly known for his work on the biostratigraphy of West Africa and on the determination of Lower Cretaceous GSSP.
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| Born | July 23, 1963 Cavaillon, France |
| Died | July 27, 2022 (aged 59) Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostratigraphy, Plate tectonics |
| Institutions | National Museum of Natural History, Aix-Marseille University, University of Manchester |
| Thesis | (1995) |
Personal life
Luc Georges Bulot was born in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, France on July 23, 1963.
On October 17, 2015, he married Elsa Schnebelen in Saint-Privat-de-Champclos (Gard).[1]
Career
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]
Death and tributes
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]
