Annales de Géologie

Annales de Géologie
Title	Annales de Géologie
Discipline	Geology
Language	French

Annales de Géologie is a French scientific journal focused on stratigraphy, paleontology, sedimentology and regional tectonics. The journal has served as a venue for studies related to the Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Atlas Mountains, and other European and North African provinces, and has been cited alongside works from the BRGM, IPGP, MNHN, École Normale Supérieure, and university departments such as Sorbonne Université, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université de Lyon.

History

The journal was established amid the 19th and 20th century expansion of geological societies such as the Société Géologique de France and institutions like the Collège de France, reflecting research traditions linked to figures such as Georges Cuvier, Alexandre Brongniart, Élie de Beaumont, and later workers parallel to Alfred Wegener and André Cailleux. Early editorial networks intersected with expeditions associated with the Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques and colonial-era surveys comparable to those by the Service Géographique de l'Armée and researchers collaborating with the Institut Pasteur and naturalists tied to the Jardin des Plantes. During periods marked by influences from continental debates including those involving Charles Lyell, James Hutton, Marcel Bertrand, and Émile Haug, the journal reflected changing paradigms in stratigraphy and structural geology.

Scope and Contents

The periodical publishes original articles on stratigraphy, paleontology, structural geology, sedimentology, petrography, geochronology, and regional syntheses pertaining to the European Alpine orogeny, Variscan orogeny, Hercynian orogeny, and Neogene basins such as the Aquitaine Basin and Paris Basin. Contributions often treat fossil groups including Ammonite, Brachiopod, Foraminifera, Trilobite, and microfossil assemblages used in biostratigraphy alongside studies employing methods developed in laboratories like CNRS facilities and comparisons with collections from the Natural History Museum, London and the Smithsonian Institution. The journal also includes petrographic studies referencing minerals such as biotite, amphibole, feldspar, and techniques rooted in isotopic systems linked to U–Pb dating and Ar–Ar dating.

Publication and Editorial Information

Publication practices have mirrored those of contemporary European periodicals including editorial boards drawn from members of the Académie des sciences, professors from institutions like Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Strasbourg, and international collaborators from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Vienna, and Padua University. The journal's issues have been distributed through libraries such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and indexed alongside titles from publishers comparable to Elsevier, Springer, and scientific series issued by the Royal Society. Editorial standards intersect with peer review customs practiced by journals like Journal of the Geological Society and Geology (journal), and editorial correspondences have been exchanged with curators at the Natural History Museum Basel and researchers at the Max Planck Society.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal has been abstracted in bibliographic services analogous to GeoRef, Web of Science, Scopus, and library catalogs managed by the Sudoc and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Its articles appear in citation networks alongside outputs indexed for grants from agencies such as the European Research Council, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and referenced in national geological maps produced by the BRGM and regional syntheses by the Bureau des Recherches Géologiques.

Impact and Reception

Scholars assessing stratigraphic frameworks in the Alpine orogen and Devonian–Carboniferous successions have cited the journal in concert with classic works by Charles Darwin, Roderick Murchison, Adam Sedgwick, and 20th-century syntheses by F. J. Turner and Paul Fallot. Regional tectonic models and paleobiogeographic reconstructions published in the journal have been used in comparative studies with datasets from the North Sea Basin, the Mediterranean Basin, and North African sections such as the Morocco Atlas Province. Reviews in national and international venues, including those hosted by the Société Géologique de France and proceedings of the International Geological Congress, have noted the journal's role in documenting French and adjacent-country stratigraphy.

Notable Articles and Contributions

Noteworthy contributions include regional monographs and syntheses addressing the stratigraphy of the Pyrenees, tectonostratigraphic analyses of the Alps, paleontological descriptions of invertebrate faunas comparable to museum-led revisions at the NHM London and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, and geochronological refinements aligning with work at facilities such as the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques and the Laboratoire Alfred Wegener (AWI). Influential papers have intersected with broader debates involving the concepts advanced by Alfred Wegener, basin analysis traditions of John T. Hack and Peter Vail, and stratigraphic principles echoing those of William Smith and Hutton.

Category:Geology journals Category:French-language journals