Franck Delpomdor
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Associate Sedimentologist
Coal, Bedrock Geology & Industrial Minerals
466 Natural Resources Building
615 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign
217-265-6892
Resume/CV:
Education:
- 2015-2015: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Post doctorate in Geological Sciences.
- 2008-2013: Université libre de Bruxelles at Brussels, Belgium - PhD in Mineralogical and Geological Sciences.
- 2007-2008: Université libre de Bruxelles at Brussels, Belgium - MSc. in Mineralogical and Geological Sciences.
- 2006-2007: Université libre de Bruxelles at Brussels, Belgium - MSc. In Mineralogical and Geological Sciences.
Major Responsibilities:
- Plan, coordinate, conduct basic and applied research related to the bedrock geology and industrial minerals.
- Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, geochemistry.
- Surface and bedrock geologic mapping.
- Core and cutting loggings, geophysical interpretation.
Research Interests:
- Sedimentology: siliciclastic and carbonate expertise.
- Basin analysis (litho- and microfacies analysis, sedimentary modeling).
- High-resolution sequence stratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy.
- Diagenetic interpretation (SEM, XRD, XRF, CL microscopy, fluid inclusion thermometry, elemental and isotope geochemistry).
- Reservoir and source rocks characterization (organic geochemistry and petrophysics of conventional and unconventional rocks).
- Geologic mapping.
Current Research Projects:
- StateMap Program, geologic mapping of the Franklin Grove Quadrangle (scale 1/24000), Illinois.
- Scientific support of the Pre-feasibility phase of CO2 sequestration CARBONSAFE East Sub-basin (DE-FE0029445) – Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and diagenetic characterization of the Upper Cambrian Mt Simon Sandstone Formation in the Illinois Basin.
- Ordovician sedimentary rocks in north-Central Illinois: Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy.
- Precambrian Geology in Africa: using magnetic susceptibility in sedimentology.
Selected Publications:
Journal Articles
- Delpomdor, F., Kant, F., Tack, L., Préat, A., in press. Cyclicity and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic uppermost Haut Shiloango-Lukala carbonate ramp system in the Lower Congo region (Democratic Republic of the Congo): Example of tectonostratigraphic control versus climatic changes. Journal of African Earth Sciences, Available online 5 September 2019. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103636
- Delpomdor, F., Bonneville, S., Baert, K., Préat, A., 2018. An introduction to the Precambrian Petroleum System of the Sankuru-Mbuji-Mayi-Lomami-Lovoy Basin, South-Central Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of petroleum geology 41 (1), 5-27. doi: 10.1111/jpg.12690
- Delpomdor, F., Schroeder, S., Préat, A., Lapointe, P., Blanpied, C., 2018. Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the late Neoproterozoic carbonate ramp sequences of the Hüttenberg Formation (northwestern Namibia) and the C5 Formation (western central Democratic Republic of Congo): Record of the late post-Marinoan marine transgression on the margin of the Congo Craton. South African Journal of Geology 121 (1), 1-20. doi: 10.25131/jajg.121.0003
- Delpomdor, F., van Vliet, N., Devleeschouwer, X., Tack, L., Préat, A., 2018. Evolution and Estimated Age of the C5 Lukala Carbonate-Evaporite Ramp Complex in the Lower Congo region (Democratic Republic of Congo): New perspective in Central Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 137, 261-277. doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.10.021
- Préat, A., Delpomdor, F., Ackouala Mféré, A.P., Callec, Y., 2018. Paleoenvironments, d13C and d18O signatures in the Neoproterozoic carbonates of the Comba Basin, Republic of Congo: Implications for regional correlations and Marinoan Event. Journal of African Earth Sciences 137, 69-90. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.09.002
- Delpomdor, F.R.A., Tack, L., Préat, A.R., 2017. Facies and micromorphology of the Neoproterozoic Upper Diamictite Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: new evidence of sediment gravity flow. Geologica Belgica 20 (1-2), 69-79. doi:10.20341/gb.2017.004
- Delpomdor, F.R.A., Devleeschouwer, X., Spassov, S., Préat, A.R., 2017. Stratigraphic correlations in mid- to late-Proterozoic carbonates of the Democratic Republic of Congo using magnetic susceptibility. Sedimentary Geology 351, 80-101. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.02.007.
- Delpomdor, F., Eyles, N., Tack, L., Préat, A., 2016. Pre- and post-Marinoan carbonate facies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: glacially- or tectonically-influenced deep-water sediments? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 457, 144-157. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.014.
- Cailteux, J.L.H., Delpomdor, F.R.A., Ngoei Ndobani, J.-P., 2015. The Neoproterozoic West-Congo “Schisto-Calcaire” sedimentary succession from the Bas-Congo region (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the frame of regional tentative correlations. Geologica Belgica 18 (2-4), 126-146. http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=5059.
- Delpomdor, F., Tack, L., Cailteux, J., Préat, A., 2015. The C2 and C3 formations of the Schisto-Calcaire Subgroup (West Congo Supergroup) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An example of Post-Marinoan sea-level fluctuations as a result of extensional tectonisms. Journal of African Earth Sciences 110, 14-33. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.06.005.
Book Chapters
- Delpomdor, F., Préat, A., 2015. Overview of the Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Series Exposed Along Margins of the Congo Basin. In: de Wit, M., Guillocheau, F., de Wit, M.J. (Eds.), The Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin. Springer-Verlag, pp. 41-58. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29482-2_3.
- Delpomdor, F., Virgone, A., Blanpied, C., Préat, A., 2015. Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Late Precambrian carbonates of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup in the Sankuru-Mbuji-Mayi-Lomami-Lovoy Basin (Democratic Republic of the Congo). In: de Wit, M.J., Guillocheau, F., de Wit, M.C.J. (Eds.), Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin. Springer-Verlag, 59-76 p. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29482-2_4.
Abstracts with Presentations
- Delpomdor, F., 2016. The Devonian System in the Illinois Basin: the past 159 years of geologic research and future objectives. The Geological Society of America, North-Central Section – 50th Annual meeting, 2016, paper No. 32-3. Champaign, Illinois, USA, 14-17 April. doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NC-275382.
- Ackouala Mféré, A.P., Delpomdor, F., Callec, Y., Fournier, F., Boudzoumou, F., Malounguila Nganga, D.M., Préat, A, 2016. Paleoenvironments and Diagenesis in the Ediacaran SCIc Formation of the Schisto-Calcaire Group in the Niari-Nyanga and Comba subbasins, Republic of Congo. 25th Edition of Earth Science Meeting, Caen, France, 24-28 October 2016. http://rst2016-caen.sciencesconf.org/
- Bonneville, S., Baert, K.K, Hubin, A., Delpomdor, F., 2015. In Search of Neoproterozoic Fungi Microfossils. XXVth Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. http://goldschmidt.info/2015/uploads/abstracts/finalPDFs/339.pdf
- Delpomdor, F., 2015. Sedimentology, geochemistry and depositional environments of the 1175-570 Ma carbonates series, Sankuru-Mbuji-Mayi-Lomami-Lovoy and Lower Congo basins, Democratic Republic of the Congo – New insights into the late Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic glacially- and/or tectonically-influenced sedimentary systems in equatorial Africa. Lucien Cahen Award, Royal Academy of Oversea Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. Cahen's Prize Winner 2015
Geologic Mapping
- Delpomdor, F., 2019. Bedrock Geology of Rochelle Quadrangle, Lee and Ogle Counties, Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, USGS-STATEMAP contract report, 2 sheets, 1:24,000.
- Delpomdor, F., Wirth, H., 2018. Bedrock Geology of Chana Quadrangle, Lee and Ogle Counties, Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, USGS-STATEMAP contract report, 2 sheets, 1:24,000.
- Callec, Y., Dobmeier, C., Hall, D., Padel, M., Delpomdor, F., Thiéblemont, D., Chevillard, M., Fournier, E., Colin, S., Ilunga Ngoy, S., Mulindwa Matubila, S., Tshikala Longwa, D., Muana Kanda, J., Appiah, K., Kyobela Wibyala, J., Mashagiro Kwezi, E.H., Sebagenzi Mwene Ntabwoba, S., 2018. Carte géologique à l’échelle 1/400.000. Zone ciblée Katanga Sud. 1 feuille. BRGM Edition.
- Dobmeier, C., Callec, Y., Hall, D., Padel, M., Delpomdor, F., Thiéblemont, D., Chevillard, M., Ilunga Ngoy, S., Mulindwa Matubila, S., Kyobela Wibyala, J., Mashagiro Kwezi, E.H., Sebagenzi Mwene Ntabwoba, S., 2018. Carte des coupures à l’échelle 1/200.000. Kayoyo. 1 feuille. BRGM Edition.
- Callec, Y., Dobmeier, C., Hall, D., Padel, M., Delpomdor, F., Thiéblemont, D., Chevillard, M., Fournier, E., Colin, S., Ilunga Ngoy, S., Mulindwa Matubila, Tshikala Longwa, D., Muana Kanda, J., Appiah, K., Kyobela Wibyala, J., Mashagiro Kwezi, E.H., 2018. Carte des coupures à l’échelle 1/200.000. Kayoyo-Sud. 1 feuille. BRGM Edition.
- Hall, D., Padel, M., Callec, Y., Dobmeier, C., Delpomdor, F., Thiéblemont, D., Chevillard, M., Fournier, E., Ilunga Ngoy, S., Sebagenzi Mwene Ntabwoba, S., 2018. Carte des coupures à l’échelle 1/200.000. Ruwe. 1 feuille. BRGM Edition.
- Padel, M., Callec, Y., Dobmeier, C., Hall, D., Delpomdor, F., Thiéblemont, D., Chevillard, M., Fournier, E., Colin, S., Ilunga Ngoy, S., Mulindwa Matubila, Tshikala Longwa, D., Muana Kanda, J., Appiah, K., Mawaya, P., Sebagenzi Mwene Ntabwoba, S., 2018. Carte des coupures à l’échelle 1/200.000. Sakabinda. 1 feuille. BRGM Edition.
- Devera, J.A., Breeden, J.R., Delpomdor, F., 2017. Bedrock Geology of Thebes Quadrangle, Alexander County, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties, Missouri, Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, USGS-STATEMAP contract report, 2 sheets, 1:24,000, report 9 p. IGSS website for map
- Charles, N., Callec, Y., Préat, A., Thiéblemont, D., Delpomdor, F., Malounguila, D., Gloaguen, E., Petitot, J., Akouala, A.-P., Ndiele, B., Mvoula Boungou, I., Moebo Boungou, M., 2015. Notice explicative de la carte géologique de la République du Congo à 1/200 000, Feuille Madingou. Editions Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières. 221 p. (in french).