Biographie

Docteur de l’Université Paris VI en 1977, Dominique Cluzel a exercé 5 ans en coopération (Algérie, Zaïre), puis 8 ans à Orléans comme maître de conférences (1978-90). Il est promu professeur en Nouvelle-Calédonie de 1991 à 1998. Après un retour à Orléans en 1998 où il exerce pendant 10 ans, il revient à l’Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie en 2008.

Financements 

IFP (Institut français du pétrole) – Report on Petroleum potential of NC EEZ

Co-manager with R. Herzer then N. Mortimer (GNS) of the France-New Zealand Geoscience Collaboration programme in the SW Pacific funded by the French Fonds Pacifique (GNS, UNC, SGNC, ISTO, IFREMER, University of Auckland) 2003-2008.

CNRT (National Center for Technological Research) Nickel and its environment

• Small open pit Ni mine watersheds (assessment of erosion and mass transfer during heavy rain events) (2010-2014)
• NICKAL Typology of laterite ores of New Caledonia (2008-2013)
• Asbestos in Ni mines (characterization and typology) (2008-2012)
• Underground CO2 storage in New Caledonia. Research for potential sites (2013)
• Ophiostruct Fracture development and basement geometry in Ni mines. Fracture analysis and heliborne EM survey (improvement of Ni resource assessment and mine sustainability). (2015-2018)

Encadrements 

Theses, PhD

• Choulet F. « Mécanismes et évolution des chaînes d’accrétion. Exemple des chaînes paléozoïques d’Asie Centrale (Ouest Junggar, N-O de la Chine) » thèse Université d’Orléans soutenue en décembre 2011
• Sevin B. « Cartographie du régolithe sur formation ultrabasique de Nouvelle-Calédonie ; localisation dans le temps et l’espace des gisements nickélifères » thèse UNC soutenue en juillet 2014 (CNRT)
• Folcher N. « Contrôles géodynamique et climatique du système fluvio-lacustre de Nouvelle- Calédonie, conséquences sur les gisements de nickel latéritique » thèse UNC (financement ValeNC) 2016
• Secchiari A. « Geochemical characterization of New Caledonia ophiolite in the geodynamic framework of the Southwest Pacific » thèse co-tutelle Parme-Montpellier 2 ; encadrement sur le terrain, 2016
• Iseppi M. « Fracturation polyphasée et contrôles des gisements supergènes de nickel. Nouvelles méthodes de prospection et modèles de gisements » thèse UNC (cofinancement BRGM-UNC) soutenance prévue en juin 2018 (CNRT)

MSc, Hns

• Winninger J.E. 2014. « Contrôles structuraux de l’altération de la Nappe des Péridotites et minéralisation supergène de Nickel ». Mémoire de master 2 Université d’Orléans, 140p. (CNRT)
• Whitten M. 2015 « Formation de Koné: Recording the final stages of Gondwana breakup in New Caledonia ». Hnrs Thesis University of Tasmania 130p.
• Thomas C. 2016. Le Massif du Koniambo : « Analyse structurale et corrélation avec l’exploration électromagnétique héliportée » Master 1 Univ. Grenoble, 32 p. (CNRT)
• Bufféral S. 2017 « Analyse structurale des déformations associées au métamorphisme néogène HP-BT ; illustration du continuum subduction-exhumation »

Dernières publications

• Folcher N., Sevin B., Lignier V.,  Ricordel-Prognon C., Quesnel F., Maurizot P., and Cluzel D. 2015. Neogene terrestrial sediments; a record of the post-obduction history of New-Caledonia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2, 4, 479-492. DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2015.1049207
• Choulet F, Faure M, Cluzel D, Chen Y, Lin W, Wang B, Xu B. 2015. Toward a unified model of Altaids geodynamics: Insight from the Palaeozoic polycyclic evolution of West Junggar (NW China). Science China: Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s11430-015-5158-7
• Secchiari A., Montanini A.; Bosch D.; Macera P.; Cluzel D. 2016. Melt extraction and enrichment processes in the New Caledonia lherzolites: evidence from geochemical and Sr-Nd isotope data. Lithos 260, 28-43. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.030
• Cluzel D., Ulrich M., Jourdan F., Paquette J.L., Audet M.A., Secchiari A., Maurizot P. 2016. Early Eocene clinoenstatite boninite and boninite-series dikes of the ophiolite of New Caledonia; a witness of slab-melt enrichment of the mantle wedge in a nascent volcanic arc. Lithos doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.031
• Cao Y, Wang B., Jahn B.-M., Cluzel D., Shu L., Zhong L. 2017. Late Paleozoic arc magmatism in the southern Yili Block (NW China): insights to the geodynamic evolution of the Balkhash-Yili continental margin, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Lithos
• De Boissieu F., Sevin B., Cudahy T., Mangeas M., Chevrel S., Ong C., Rodger A., Maurizot P., Laukamp C., Lau I.,Touraivane, Cluzel D., Despinoy M. 2017. Regolith-geology mapping with support vector machine: a case study over weathered Ni-bearing peridotites, New Caledonia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.012
• Wali G., Wang B., Cluzel D., Zhong L., Cao Y., 2017. Carboniferous – Early Permian magmatic evolution of the southern Bogda Range (Xinjiang, Northwest China): Implications for the Late Paleozoic accretionary tectonics of the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt. J. of SE Asia Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.07.045
• Cluzel D., Whitten M., Meffre S., Aitchison J.C., Maurizot P. 2017. A reappraisal of the Poya Terrane (New Caledonia). Accreted Late Cretaceous marginal basin upper crust, passive margin sediments and Eocene E-MORB sill complex. Tectonics. DOI: 10.1002/2017TC00457
• Maurizot P., Cluzel D., Meffre S., Campbell H.J., 2017. Pre-Late Cretaceous basement terranes of the Gondwanaland active margin. In: “Geology Geology and Mineral Resources of New Caledonia” Memoir of the Geological Society of London Ed N. Mortimer Ch. 3,
• Iseppi M., Sevin B., Cluzel D., Le Bayon B. and Maurizot P., 2018. Supergene nickel ore deposits controlled by gravity-driven faulting and slope failure (Peridotite Nappe, New Caledonia). Economic Geology 113, 2, . doi: 10.5382/econgeo.2018.4561
• Campbell M., Shaanan U., Rosenbaum G., Allen C., Cluzel D. and Maurizot P., 2018. Permian rifting and isolation of New Caledonia: Evidence from detrital zircon geochronology. Gondwana Research doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.04.004
• Secchiari A., Montanini A., Bosch D., Macera P., and Cluzel D., 2018. The contrasting geochemical message from the New Caledonia gabbronorites: insights on depletion and contamination processes of the sub-arc mantle in a nascent arc setting. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology DOI: 10.1007/s00410-018-1496-8
• Cluzel D. and S. Meffre, 2018. In search of Gondwana heritage in the Outer Melanesian Arc: no pre-upper Eocene detrital zircons in Viti Levu river sands (Fiji Islands). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Maurizot P., Cluzel D., Meffre S., Campbell H.J., 2018. Pre-Late Cretaceous basement terranes of the Gondwanaland active margin. In: “Geology Geology and Mineral Resources of New Caledonia” Memoir of the Geological Society of London Ed N. Mortimer Chapter 3,
• Maurizot P., D. Cluzel, J. Collot, S. Etienne, A. Bordenave, 2018. Late Cretaceous to Eocene cover: from rifting to convergence. In “Geology and Mineral Resources of New Caledonia” Memoir of the Geological Society of London Ed N. Mortimer Chapter 4,
• Maurizot P., J. Collot, D. Cluzel, M. Patriat, 2018. The Loyalty Ridge In “Geology and Mineral Resources of New Caledonia” Memoir of the Geological Society of London Ed N. Mortimer Chapter 6
• Collot J., Patriat M., Sutherland R., Williams S., Cluzel D., Seton M., Pelletier B., Roest W., Etienne S., Bordenave A., Maurizot P., 2018. Geodynamics of the southwest Pacific: a brief review and relations to New Caledonian geology. In “Geology and Mineral Resources of New Caledonia” Memoir of the Geological Society of London. Ed N. Mortimer Chapter 1.
• Secchiari A., Montanini A., Bosch D., Macera P., and Cluzel D., 2019. Origin of the spinel-pyroxene symplectites in the harzburgites from the New caledonia peridotite. Ofioliti, 2019, 44 (1), 31-42 – doi: 10.4454/ofioliti.v44i1.463
• Zhu X., Wang B., Cluzel D., He Z., Zhou Y., Zhong L. 2019. Early Neoproterozoic gneissic granitoids in the South Yili Block (Northwest China): Constraints on microcontinent provenance and assembly in the Southwest Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Precambrian Research