Joseph Offei Thompson [BSc (Ghana), MSc , PhD (France)]

Academic Qualifications

Université de Rennes 1 and IFREMER Oct 2014 -Nov 2017 PhD in Geodynamics

European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD Summer School) Aug - Sept 2015 Certificate of participation

University of Lille 1 2013 - 2014 MSc Structural Geology

University of Ghana 2008 - 2012 BSc Geology

Research interest 

My reseach is focus on understanding earth structuration, geological structures, earth deformational processes, plate tectonics and their effect of evolutionary and biological changes on the environment.

Current research/project(s)

1. Geophysical data acquisition along the Ivory Coast-Ghana margin to allow the palinspatic reconstruction of East Gondwana.

Past research projects* (project title and duration, funding agency)

1. Assesing the impact of the breakup of West Gondwana on the East African, Madagascar and Antarctic Margins, and the origin of the aseismic ridges.

2. Analogy Modelling of Ghana- Ivory Coast transform margin.

Recent publications

1. Thompson, J., Moulin, M., Aslanian, de Clarens, P., Guillocheau, F., 2019. New starting point for the Indian Ocean: Second phase of breakup for Gondwana. Earth-Science Reviews 191, 26–56.

2. Moulin, M., Aslanian, D., Evain, M., Thompson, J., Leprêtre, A., Loureiro, A., Dias, N., Schnurle, P., De Clarens, P., Picot, M., Davy, C., Crozon, J., Fernagu, P., Roudaut, M., Corela, C., Duarte, J.L., Inguane, H., Senkans, A., Afilhado, A., Leroy, S., Droz, L., D’acremont, E., Bronner, A., Castilla, R., Le Boutellier, P., Moocroft, D., Fischer, M., Franke, D., Rombe, C., Mahanjane, S., Apprioul, R., Ferrant, A., Le Bihan, C., Pelleau, P., Pierre, D., Pitel1, M., 2019. Gondwana breakup: messages from the North Natal Valley. Terra Nova, doi: 10.1111/TER.12448.

3. Thompson, J. O.  et al., The opening of the Indian Ocean: a consequence of a major kinematic reorganization? (Submitted to Geology).

1. Thompson, J., Moulin, M., Aslanian, de Clarens, P., Guillocheau, F., 2017.The opening of the Indian Ocean: what is the consequence on the formation of the East African, Madagascar and Antarctic margins, and what are the origins of the aseismic ridges? Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017-8220.

2. Aslanian, D., Moulin, M., Rabineau, M., Schnurle, P., Estelle Leroux, Pellen, R., Thompson, J., 2019. The major kinematic revolutions: the underside of the maps. 2nd conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), 25 -28 November 2019, Sousse, Tunisia.

Professional membership(s)

1. Member, European Geoscience Union

2. Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers

3. Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologist