Michel Lamothe

Géochronologie quaternaire
Variations du niveau de la mer

Université du Québec à Montréal

Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère

lamothe.michel [at] uqam.ca (lamothe[dot]michel[at]uqam[dot]ca)

Thèmes de recherche
Publications
Étudiants

Stratigraphie et géochronologie du Quaternaire, géologie glaciaire et datation par luminescence optique.

Peros, M. C., Collins, S., Martínez-López, J. G., López, L. W. V., Sosa, M. A. P., Brisson, L. F., Hardy, F., Lamothe, M. et al., 2023. Multi-proxy paleohydrological and paleoecological reconstruction of a subaquatic cave in western Cuba. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 627, 111725.

Bonneau, A., Pearce, D.G., Mitchell, P.J., Didier, L., Eoin, L.N., Higham, T.F., Lamothe, M., Arthur, C., 2022. Characterization and dating of San rock art in the Metolong catchment, Lesotho: A preliminary investigation of technological and stylistic changes. Quaternary International 611-612, 181-193.

Kreutzer, S., Mercier, N., Lamothe, M., 2022. Infrared-radiofluorescence: Dose saturation and long-term signal stability of a K-feldspar sample. Radiation Measurements 156, 106818.

Accès libre Woywitka, R., Froese, D., Lamothe, M., Wolfe, S., 2022. Late Pleistocene aeolian deposition and human occupation on the eastern edge of the deglacial corridor, northeastern Alberta, Canada. Quaternary Research 110, 100-113.

Dalton, A.S., Margold, M., Stokes, C.R., Tarasov, L., Dyke, A.S., Adams, R.S., Allard, S., Arends, H.E., Atkinson, N., Attig, J.W., Barnett, P.J. et al., 2020. An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex. Quaternary Science Reviews 234, 106223.

Nalin, R., Lamothe, M., Auclair, M., Massari, F., 2020. Chronology of the marine terraces of the Crotone Peninsula (Calabria, southern Italy) by means of infrared-stimulated luminescence (IRSL). Marine and Petroleum Geology 122, 104645.

Balescu, S., Tuffreau, A., Dobrescu, R., Auguste, P., Bahain, J.-J., Lamothe, M., Petculescu, A., Shao, Q., 2018. Nouvelles données sur la chronologie des sites paléolithiques en contexte lœssique du Nord-Est et du Sud-Est de la Roumanie (Périphérie orientale des Carpates). L'Anthropologie 122 (2), 87-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2018.02.001

Coutard, S., Antoine, P., Herisson, D., Pirson, S., Balescu, S., Forget Brisson, L., Spagna, P., Debenham, N., Barre, M., Chantreau, Y., Giros, R., 2018. La séquence loessique Pléistocène moyen à supérieur d’Etricourt‑Manancourt (Picardie, France) : un enregistrement pédo‑sédimentaire de référence pour les derniers 350 ka. Quaternaire 29(4), 311-346.

Lamothe, M., Forget Brisson, L., Hardy, F., 2018. Dose recovery performance in double IRSL/pIRIR SAR protocols. Radiation Measurements 120, 120-123.

Balescu, S., Weisrock, A., Huot, S., Lamothe, M., Ghaleb, B., Ouammou, A., Rousseau, L., Abdessadok, S., 2017. Les hauts niveaux marins interglaciaires pléistocènes enregistrés dans la région d’Agadir : bilan des données chronologiques. L'Anthropologie 121 (1-2), 102-111.

Bejjit, L., Haddad, M., Belaabed, R., Charroud, M., Benkdad, A., Bounakhla, M., Huot, S., Falguères, C., Lamothe, M., 2017. Développement de la méthode de datation par luminescence (TL/OSL) au Maroc. L'Anthropologie 121 (1-2), 25-34.

Bonneau, A., Moyle, J., Dufourmentelle, K., Arsenault, D., Dagneau, C., Lamothe, M., 2017. A Pigment Characterization Approach to Selection of Dating Methods and Interpretation of Rock Art: The Case of the Mikinak Site, Lake Wapizagonke, Quebec, Canada. Archaeometry 59 (5), 834-851.

Chahid, D., Boudad, L., Lenoble, A., Lamothe, M., Chakroun, A., Falguères, C., Nespoulet, R., 2017. Les paléo-rivages des formations littorales atlantiques du Pléistocène moyen – supérieur de Rabat-Témara (Maroc). L'Anthropologie 121 (1-2), 122-132.

Frouin, M., Huot, S., Kreutzer, S., Lahaye, C., Lamothe, M., Philippe, A., Mercier, N., 2017. An improved radiofluorescence single-aliquot regenerative dose protocol for K-feldspars. Quaternary Geochronology 38, 13-24.

Lamothe, M., 2017. La contribution de la luminescence à la datation des hauts niveaux marins du Pléistocène. L'Anthropologie 121 (1-2), 19-24.

Lamothe, M., 2016. Luminescence dating of interglacial coastal depositional systems: Recent developments and future avenues of research. Quaternary Science Reviews 146, 1-27.

Ritz, J.-F., Avagyan, A., Mkrtchyan, M., Nazari, H., Blard, P.-H., Karakhanian, A., Philip, H., Balescu, S., Mahan, S., Huot, S., Münch, P., Lamothe, M., 2016. Active tectonics within the NW and SE extensions of the Pambak-Sevan-Syunik fault: Implications for the present geodynamics of Armenia. Quaternary International 395, 61-78.

Turner, D.G., Ward, B.C., Froese, D.G., Lamothe, M., Bond, J.D., Bigelow, N.H., 2016. Stratigraphy of Pleistocene glaciations in the St Elias Mountains, southwest Yukon, Canada. Boreas 45 (3), 521-536.

Bailiff, I.K., Chen, R., Duller, G.A.T., Huot, S., Lamothe, M., 2015. 14th international conference on luminescence and electron spin resonance dating, 7-11 July, 2014, Montréal, Canada. Radiation Measurements 81, 1.

Balescu, S., Huot, S., Mejri, H., Barré, M., Forget Brisson, L., Lamothe, M., Oueslati, A., 2015. Luminescence dating of Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) marine shoreline deposits along the eastern coast of Tunisia: A comparison of K-feldspar and Na-feldspar IRSL ages. Quaternary Geochronology 30, 288-293.

Forget Brisson, L., Lamothe, M., Huot, S., Hardy, F., Chapdelaine, C., 2015. Optical dating of St. Lawrence Iroquoian ceramics from the Mailhot-Curran site, southern Québec. Quaternary Geochronology 30, 392-397.

Frouin, M., Huot, S., Mercier, N., Lahaye, C., Lamothe, M., 2015. The issue of laboratory bleaching in the infrared-radiofluorescence dating method. Radiation Measurements 81, 212-217.

Huot, S., Frouin, M., Lamothe, M., 2015. Evidence of shallow TL peaks contributions in infrared radiofluorescence. Radiation Measurements 81, 237-241.

Ritz, J.-F., Avagyan, A., Mkrtchyan, M., Nazari, H., Blard, P.-H., Karakhanian, A., Philip, H., Balescu, S., Mahan, S., Huot, S., Münch, P., Lamothe, M., 2015. Active tectonics within the NW and SE extensions of the Pambak-Sevan-Syunik fault: Implications for the present geodynamics of Armenia. Quaternary International 395, 61-78.

Backwell, L.R., McCarthy, T.S., Wadley, L., Henderson, Z., Steininger, C.M., Bonita deKlerk, Barré, M., Lamothe, M., Chase, B.M., Woodborne, S., Susino, G.J., Bamford, M.K., Sievers, C., Brink, J.S., Rossouw, L., Pollarolo, L., Trower, G., Scott, L., d'Errico, F. 2014, Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 99, pp. 42-59.

Christol, A., Kuzucuoglu, C., Fort, M., Lamothe, M. 2013, First OSL chronology of the fluvio-lacustrine deposits of the Karasu valley: Implications on the palaeogeography of the Lake Van basin (Turkey), Geomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement, , no. 4, pp. 393-406.

Dubé-Loubert, H., Roy, M., Allard, G., Lamothe, M., Veillette, J.J. 2013, Glacial and nonglacial events in the eastern James Bay lowlands, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 379-396.

Barré, M., Lamothe, M., Backwell, L., McCarthy, T. 2012. Optical dating of quartz and feldspars: A comparative study from Wonderkrater, a Middle Stone Age site of South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 10 pp. 374-379.

Fouache, E., Besenval, R., Cosandey, C., Coussot, C., Ghilardi, M., Huot, S., Lamothe, M. 2012. Palaeochannels of the Balkh river (northern Afghanistan) and human occupation since the Bronze Age period, Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (11), 3415-3427.

Huot, S., Lamothe, M. 2012. The implication of sodium-rich plagioclase minerals contaminating K-rich feldspars aliquots in luminescence dating, Quaternary Geochronology, vol. 10, pp. 334-339.

Lamothe, M. (2012). Dating the last 500 000 years of climate history using feldspar luminescence, Quaternary International, Vol. 279–280, pp. 263.

Lamothe, M., Barré, M., Huot, S., Ouimet, S. 2012. Natural luminescence and anomalous fading in K-feldspar. Radiation Measurements, 47 (9), 682-987.

Mejri, H., Balescu, S., Lamothe, M., Barre, M., Abichou, H., Bouaziz, S. 2012. Feldspar luminescence evidence fortwo middle pleistocene interglacial sea-level highstands (mis 7 and mis 9) along the eastern coast of Tunisia (Sahel). Quaternaire, 23 (2) pp. 175-186.

Ritz, J.-F., Nazari, H., Balescu, S., Lamothe, M., Salamati, R., Ghassemi, A., Shafei, A., Ghorashi, M., Saidi, A. 2012. Paleoearthquakes of the past 30,000 years along the North Tehran Fault (Iran), Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, vol. 117, no. 6.

Guyard, H., St-Onge, G., Pienitz, R., Francus, P., Zolitschka, B., Clarke, G.K., Hausmann, S., Salonen, V-.P., Lajeunesse, P., Ledoux, G., Lamothe, M., 2011. New insight into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from the Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(27-28), 3892-3907.

Jensen, B.J.L., Preece, S.J., Lamothe, M., Pearce, N.J.G., Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Schaefer, J., Begét, J., 2011. The variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska, Quaternary International, 246(1-2), 312-323.

Wolfe, S., Bond, J., Lamothe, M., 2011. Dune stabilization in central and southern Yukon in relation to early Holocene environmental change, northwestern North America, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (3-4), 324-334.

Balescu, S., Lamothe, M., Panaiotu, C., Panaiotu, C., 2010. IRSL chronology of eastern romanian loess sequences, Quaternaire, 21 (2), 115-126.

Barré, M., Lamothe, M., 2010. Luminescence dating of archaeosediments: A comparison of K-feldspar and plagioclase IRSL ages, Quaternary Geochronology, 5(2-3), 324-328.

Tremblay, T., Nastev, M., Lamothe, M., 2010. Grid-based hydrostratigraphic 3D modelling of the Quaternary sequence in the Chateauguay River watershed, Quebec, Canadian Water Resources Journal, 35(4), 377-398.

Cloutis, E., Vila, B., Bell, A., Lamothe, M., 2009. Hyperspectral and Luminescence Observer (HALO) Mars mission concept - Innovative data triage, compression, processing and analysis for the hyperspectral imager, WHISPERS '09 - 1st Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, art. no. 5289049, Conference paper.

Cliquet, D., Lautridou, J.-P., Antoine, P., Lamothe, M., Leroyer, M., Limondin-Lozouet, N., Mercier, N., 2009. Loessic sequence of saint-pierre-les-elbeuf (Normandy, France): New archaeological, geochronogical and palaeontological data, Quaternaire, 20(3), 321-343.

Cliquet, D., Lautridou, J.-P., Lamothe, M., Mercier, N., Schwenninger, J.-L., Alix, P., Vilgrain, G., 2009. The raised beaches, heads and human occupations of the hague peninsula (Cotentin, Normandy): The key site of the ecalgrain bay, 2009, Quaternaire, 20(3), 345-359.

Guette-Marsac, C., Lautridou, J.-P., Cliquet, D., Lechevalier, C., Schwenninger, J.-L., Lamothe, M., Mercier, N., Fosse, G., 2009. Middle and upper palaeolithic settlements of épouville (pays-de-caux, France) in their loessic context, Quaternaire, 20(3), 389-404.

Auclair, M., Lamothe, M., Lagroix, F., Banerjee, S.K., 2007. Luminescence investigation of loess and tephra from Halfway House section, Central Alaska, Quaternary Geochronology, 2 (1-4), 34-38.

Balescu, S., Ritz, J.-F., Lamothe, M., Auclair, M., Todbileg, M., 2007. Luminescence dating of a gigantic palaeolandslide in the Gobi-Altay mountains, Mongolia, Quaternary Geochronology, 2 (1-4), 290-295.

Lamarche, L., Bondue, V., Lemelin, M.-J., Lamothe, M., Roy, A.G., 2007. Deciphering the Holocene evolution of the St. Lawrence River drainage system using luminescence and radiocarbon dating, Quaternary Geochronology, 2 (1-4), 155-161.

Bondue, V., Boyer, C., Lamothe, M., Roy, A.G., Ghaleb, B., 2006. Recent evolution of the Yamachiche delta (Québec): Natural processes and anthropogenic impacts [Évolution récente du delta de la Yamachiche (Québec): Processus naturels et impacts anthropiques], Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, 60(3), 289-306.

Pedoja, K., Dumont, J.F., Lamothe, M., Ortlieb, L., Collot, J.-Y., Ghaleb, B., Auclair, M., Alvarez, V., Labrousse, B., 2006. Plio-Quaternary uplift of the Manta Peninsula and La Plata Island and the subduction of the Carnegie Ridge, central coast of Ecuador,Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 22 (1-2), 1-21.