The author

Christine Laverne is a senior lecturer of geosciences at Paul Cezanne University of Aix-Marseille III, France. For the last thirty years, her research has been devoted to the study of rocks from the oceanic crust, and particularly their interaction with seawater. She has participated in numerous oceanographic cruises, has written many scientific papers, and has created the watercolor illustrations for several books. She likes field geology, studying rocks with the microscope, and painting watercolors.


News

  • The book Drill me a painting at low price

    21 Apr 2012

    The book Drill me a painting and its french version Forages sous le Pacifique is now available at low price, due to a new director of its publisher Atlantica. If interested, please contact Sylvie Dargelez:   sylvie.dargelez@atlantica.fr

  • In preparation, a new book of geology illustrated with watercolors

    17 Apr 2012

    Christian Nicollet and me are preparing a watercolor book dealing with old lost oceans whose relicts are now in french mountains. These rocks lived a long and complicated aventure to finally end as very beautiful geological objects.

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