Publications marquantes

  • Nature_cover 1

    L’article de l’équipe d’A. El Albani paru en juin 2010 a fait la couverture de la revue Nature et a permis de reculer de 1.5 milliards d’années l’apparition de la vie multicellulaire. Lire l’article.

    PNAS 3

    En octobre 2013, un article paraît dans PNAS sur l’histoire de l’oxygène et le GOE (Great Oxidation Event). Lire l’article.

    En 2014, un article dans Plos One décrit la biodiverté qui existait déjà ll y a 2.1 milliards d’années. Lire l’article.

    plos oneDécembre 2015, article dans une revue du groupe Nature – Scientifc Reports sur le rôle de l’arsenic dans l’origine de la vie.

     Scientific Reports 04

    PNAS Mai 2016 – La découverte d’un nouvel indicateur de l’oxygène de l’atmosphère dans les océans de la Terre primitive…

    .PNAS Mai 2016Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event dans le Magazine de l’Académie des Sciences Américaine “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A, PNAS

  • Février 2019, les plus anciennes traces de mobilité sur Terre, article dans PNAS. Lire l’article
  • Liste exhaustive des publications
  • Becker-Kerber B., El Albani A*, Konhauser K., Elmola A., Fontaine C., S. G. Paim P., Mazurier A., Gustavo M.E.M. Prado, Douglas Galante, Kerber P., da Rosa A. L. Z., Fairchild T., Meunier A., Pacheco M.  (2021). The role of volcanic-derived clays in the preservation of Ediacaran biota from the Itajaí Basin (ca. 563 Ma, Brazil). (officially accepted). Nature Publishing Group, Scientific Reports.
  • Aubineau J., El Albani A., Chi-Fru E., A. Kipp M., Ngwalghoubou Ikouanga J. & Bekker A. (2021). A. Benthic redox conditions and nutrient 1 dynamics in the ca. 2.1 Ga Franceville sub-basin. (Officially accepted). Precambrian Research.
  • Bekker, A. El Albani*, A., Hofmann, A., Karhu, A., Kump, L., Ossa Ossa F., Planavsky, N (2021). Comment on the paper by Bakakas Mayika et al. ‘The Paleoproterozoic Francevillian succession of Gabon and the Lomagundi-Jatuli event’. (Officially accepted). Geology, The Geological Society of America.Becker-Kerber B., Eduardo Baréa de Barros G., Sergio Gomes Paim P., M. E. M. Prado G., Lucia Zucatti da Rosa A., El Albani. A. and Laflamme. M. (2020). In situ filamentous communities from the Ediacaran (approx. 563 Ma) of Brazil. Proceedings of Royal Society. B. 288: 20202618. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2618.Chraiki I., Bouougri H., Chi Fru E., Lazreq N., Youbi N., Boumehdi A., Aubineau J., Fontaine C., El Albani. A.* (2020). A 571 million-year-old alkaline volcanic lake photosynthesizing microbial community, the Anti Atlas, Morocco (2020). Geobiology. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12425.Abdelfadel F., Hilali M., Fontaine C., El Albani A.*, Mahboub A., Eloy L., Labanowski J., Benaissi L. and Razack M. (2020). Hydrogeology of a Complex Aquifer System in Semi-Arid Mountainous Region: The Eastern Upper Guir Basin in the High Atlas (Morocco). Water. 12, 2849; doi:10.3390/w12102849.Bankole A., El Albani A., Meunier A., Poujol M., Bekker A. (2020). Elemental geochemistry and Nd isotope constraints on the provenance of the basal siliciclastic succession of the middle Paleoproterozoic Francevillian Group, Gabon. Precambrian Research. 348. 105874.
  • Becker-Kerber B., Gomes Paim P.S., Zucatti da Rosa A.L., El Albani A., Chemale Junior F., Girelli T.J., Osés G.L.; Prado G.M.E.M, Figueiredo M., Amarante Simões L.S., Forancelli Pacheco M. L. (2020). The oldest record of Ediacaran macrofossils in the Gondwana (~563 Ma, Itajaí Basin, Brazil). Gondwana Research. 84: 211-228
  • Aubineau J., El Albani A., Bekker A., Chi Fru E., Somogyi A., Medjoubi K., Riboulle A.Meunier A., O. Konhauser K. Trace element perspective into the ca. 2.1-billion-year-old shallow-marine microbial mats from the Francevillian Group, Gabon (2020). Chemical Geology. 543 119620.
  • Vannier J., Vidal M., Marchant R., El Hariri K., Kouraiss K., Pittet B., El Albani A., Mazurier  A., Martin E., Author Correction  Collective behaviour in 480-millionyear-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 10 (2020) 1842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51012-3.
  • Vannier J., Vidal M., Marchant R., El Hariri K., Kouraiss K., Pittet B., El Albani A., Mazurier A., Martin E., Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 9 (2019) 14941. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51012.
  • Soldatenko Y., El Albani A., Ruzina M., Fontaine C., Nesterovsky V., Paquette, J.-L. Meunier A., Ovtcharova M., Precise U-Pb age constrains on the Ediacaran biota in Podolia, East European Platform, Ukraine, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 9 (2019) 1675. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38448-9.
  • Soldatenko Y., El Albani A., Fontaine C., Nesterovsky V.A., Ruzina M.V., Neoproterozoic microbially-induced sedimentary structures (MISS) from Ediacaran Podillya Basin, Ukraine: mineralogical particularity and paleoenvironmental application, Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology, 28 (2019), 554–561. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15421/111952.
  • Kouraiss K., El Hariri K., El Albani A., Azizi A., Mazurier A., Lefebvre B., Digitization of fossils from the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician, Morocco) : Evaluating computed tomography and photogrammetry in collection enhancement, Geoheritage, 11 (2019) 1889-1901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-019-00403-z.
  • Ezzahmouly M., Elmoutaouakkil A., Ed-Dhahraouy M. Khallok H., Elouahli A., Mazurier A., El Albani A., Hatim Z., Micro-computed tomographic and SEM study of porous bioceramics using an adaptive method based on the mathematical morphological operations. Heliyon, 5 (2019) e02557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02557.
  • El Albani A., Mangano M.G., Buatois L.A., Bengtson S., Riboulleau A., Bekker A., Konhauser K., Lyons T., Rollion-Bard C., Bankole O., Lekele Baghekema S.G., Meunier A., Trentesaux A., Mazurier A., Aubineau J., Laforest C., Fontaine C., Recourt P., Chi Fru E., Macchiarelli R., Reynaud J.Y., Gauthier-Lafaye F., Canfield D.E., Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 116 (2019) 3431-3436. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815721116.
  • Chi Fru E., Somogyi A., El Albani A., Medjoubi K., Aubineau J., Robbins L.J., V. Lalonde S., Konhauser K.O., The rise of oxygen-driven arsenic cycling at ca. 2.48 Ga, Geology, 47 (2019) 243-246.  https://doi.org/10.1130/G45676.1.
  • Aubineau J., El Abani A. , Bekker A., Somogyi A.,  Bankole O., Macchiarelli R., Meunier A., Riboulleau A., Reynaud J.R., Konhauser K.O., Microbially induced potassium enrichment in Paleoproterozoic shales and implications for reverse weathering on early Earth, Nature Communications, 10 (2019), 2670. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10620-3.
  • Zidi M. El Albani A., Touir J., Abiod Formation in Boukhil section (Jebel M’rhila, Central Tunisia): facies, geochemistry, mineralogy and deposition sequences, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 150 (2018) 757-782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.10.005.
  • Reynaud J.Y., Trentesaux A., El Albani A., Aubineau J., Ngombi Pemba L., Guiyeligou G., Bouton P., Gauthier Lafaye F., Weber F. Discussion of « Depositional setting of the 2.1 Ga Francevillian macrobiota (Gabon): Rapid mud settling in a shallow basin swept by high-density sand flows” Sedimentology, 65 (2018) 670–701. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12506.
  • Néraudeau D., Dabard M.-P., El Albani A., Gougeon R., Mazurier A., Pierson-Wickmann A.-C., Poujol M., Saint Martin J.-P., Saint Martin S., First evidence of Ediacaran-Fortunian elliptical body fossils in the Brioverian series of Brittany, NW France, Lethaia, 51 (2018) 513-522. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/let.12270.
  • Otálora F., Mazurier A., Garcia-Ruiz J.M., Van Kranendonk M.J., Kotopoulou E., El Albani A., Garrido C.J., A crystallographic study of crystalline casts and pseudomorphs from the 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton (Australia), J. of Appl. Crystallogr., 51 (2018) 1050-1058. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718007343. (Couverture).
  • Kouraiss K., El Hariri K., El Albani A., Azizi A., Mazurier A., Vannier J., X-ray microtomography applied to fossils preserved in compression: Palaeoscolescid worms from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 508 (2018) 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.012.
  • Aubineau J., El Albani A. , Chi Fru E., Gingras M., Batonneau Y., Buatois L.A., Geffroy C., Labanowski J., Laforest C., Lemée L., Mángano M.G., Meunier A., Pierson-Wickmann A.-C., Recourt P., Riboulleau A., Trentesaux A., Konhauser K., Unusual microbial mat-related structural diversity at 2.1 billion years old and implications for the Francevillian biota. Geobiology, 16 (2018) 476-497. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12296 (Couverture).
  • Reynaud J.Y., Trentesaux A., El Albani A., Aubineau J., Ngombi Pemba L., Guiyeligou G., Bouton P., Gauthier Lafaye F., Weber F., Depositional setting of the 2.1 Ga Francevillian macrobiota (Gabon): Rapid mud settling in a shallow basin swept by high-density sand flows, Sedimentology 65, (2017) 670-701. doi: 10.1111/sed.12398.
  • Lekele Baghekema S., Lepot K., Riboulleau A., Fadel A., Trentesaux A., El Albani A, Nanoscale analysis of preservation of ca. 2.1 Ga old Francevillian microfossils, Gabon. Precambrian Research. 301  (2017) 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.08.024.
  • Weber F., Gauther-Lafaye F., Whithechurch H., Ulrich M., El Albani A., The 2 Ga Eburnean Orogeny in Gabon and opening of the Francevillian intracratonic basins: a review. Comptes Rendus Geosciences 348, (2016) 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2016.07.003.
  • Onanga M., El Albani A., Trentesaux A., Fontaine C., Pierson-Wickmann A-C., Boulvais P., Riboulleau A., Ngombi Pemba L., Pambo F., Gauthier-Lafaye F., The Role of diagenetic dolomitic concretions in the preservation of the 2.1 Ga Paleoenvironmental signal:  Paleoproterozoic of the Francevillian basin, Gabon. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences-Géosciences, 348 (2016) 609-618 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2016.08.002.
  • Chi Fru E., Hemmingsson C., Callac N., Perez N., Panova E. G., Broman C., El Albani A. Atmospheric weathering of Scandinavian alum shales and the fractionation of C, N and S isotopes. Applied Geochemistry. 74, (2016) 94-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.09.006
  • Chi Fru E., Rodriguez N., Partin C., Lalonde S., Andersson P., Weiss D., El Albani A., Rodushkin I., Konhauser K., Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 113 (2016) 4941-4946. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523544113.
  • Bankole O., El Albani A., Meunier A., Rouxel O.J., Gauthier-Lafaye F., Bekker A., Origin of red beds in the Paleoproterozoic Franceville Basin, Gabon, and implications for sandstone-hosted uranium mineralization. American Journal of Science, 316 (2016) 839-872. DOI: 10.2475/09.2016.02.
  • Ernest Chi Fru, Nathalie P. Rodríguez, Camille A. Partin, Stefan V. Lalonde, Per Andersson, Dominik J. Weiss, Abderrazak El Albani,  Ilia Rodushkin, and Kurt O. Konhauser (2016) Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event – Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), vol. 113 no. 18 Ernest Chi Fru,  4941–4946.
  • Ernest Chi Fru, Emma Arvestål, Nolwenn Callac, El Albani A., Stephanos Kilias, Ariadne Argyraki & Martin Jakobsson (2015) Arsenic stress after the Proterozoic glaciations – Nature Publishing Group – Scientific Reports 5, 17789 (2015)
  • Bankole O., El Albani A., Meunier A & Lafaye F-G. (2015). Textural and paleo-fluid flow control on diagenesis in the Paleoproterozoic Franceville Basin, South Eastern, Gabon ». Precambrian research 268, 115-134.
  • Elmoubarki,R., Mahjoubi F.Z., Tounsadi H., Moustadraf J., Abdennouri M., Zouhri A., El Albani, A., Barka N. (2015). Adsorption of textile dyes on raw and decanted Moroccan clays: Kinetics, equilibrium and thermodynamics. Water Resources and Industry (9) 16-29.
  • Bessong M., Mbess C.O., Ntsama A. J., Hell J.V., El Albani A., Fontaine C., Nolla J. D., Dissomo E.A.N., Eyong J.T., Mvondo O.F. (2015) Mineralogy and clay minerals distribution in the Benue through, Northern Cameroon (W. Africa) : Diagenetic significance. International Journal of Applied Research 1(11): 01-08.
  • El Albani A, Bengtson S., Canfield D.E, Riboulleau A, Rollion-Bard C, et al. (2014) The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity. PLOS ONE 9(6) 1-18: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099438.
  • Ngombi L., El Albani A., Alain Meunier, O. Grauby & François Gauthier-Lafaye From detrital heritage to diagenetic transformations, the message of clay minerals contained within shales of the Palaeoproterozoic Francevillian basin (Gabon) (2014). Precambrian Research, 255, 63-76.
  • Moubiya Mouélé I., Dudoignon P., El Albani A. , Cuney M., Boiron M-C., Gauthier-Lafaye F. (2014). Percolation of diagenetic fluids in the Archean basement of the Franceville basin. Comptes Rendus Académie des Sciences-Geosciences, 346, 13-19.
  • Moubiya Mouélé I., Dudoignon P., El Albani A., Meunier A., Boulvais P., Gauthier-Lafaye F., Paquette J-L., Martin H. , Cuney M., (2014). 2.9 to 1.9 Ga paleoalterations of Archean granitic basement of the Franceville basin (Gabon). Journal of African Earth Science, 97, 244-260.
  • Canfield D. E., Ngombi Pemba, L., Hammarlund, E., Bengtson S., Chaussidon M., François Gauthier-Lafaye F., Meunier A., Riboulleau A., Rollion Bard C., Rouxel O., Asael D., Pierson-Wickmann A-C & El Albani A.* (2013). Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of the Earth’s atmosphere. Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 110, 16736-16741.
  • Ngombi-Pemba L., Canfield D-E., Hammarlund E-U., Bengtson S., Pierson-Wickmann A-C, Gauthier-Lafaye F., Rouxel O., El Albani A. (2013). Establishment of euxinic oceanic conditions following the Lomagundi Event. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 5.
  • Ossa Ossa F. El Albani A., Hofmann A., Bekker A., Gauthier-Lafaye F., Pambo F., Meunier A., Fontaine C., Boulvais Ph., Pierson-Wickmann A-C, Cavalazzi B., Macchiarelli R.. (2013). Exceptional preservation of expandable clay minerals in the ca. 2.1 Ga black shales of the Francevillian basin, Gabon and its implication for atmospheric oxygen accumulation. Chemical Geology, 362 181-192 doi : 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.011.
  • Moubiya Mouélé I., Dudoignon P., El Albani A., Hervé, Martin H., Paquette J-L., Michel Cuney, Gauthier-Lafaye F (2013). The Archean granitoid-Paleoproterozoic unconformity: superimposition of alteration events in Archean granitoids, Gabon. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 7, 598-601.
  • Dauzères A., Maillet A., Gaudin A., El Albani A.,Vieillard Ph. (2013). Ten years of Toarcian argillite – carbon steel in situ interaction. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 195-198.
  • Blaise T., Barbarand J., Kars M., Ploquin F., Aubourg C., Brigaud B., Cathelineau M., El Albani A., Gautheron, C., Izart A., Janots D., Michels R., Pagel M., Pozzi J-P., Boiron M-C., Landrein Ph. Reconstruction of low burial (< 100 °C) in sedimentary basins: a comparison of geothermometer sensibility in the intracontinental Paris Basin (2013). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 53, 71-87.
  • Meunier A., Caner L., Hubert, F., El Albani A. & Prêt D. (2013) The Weathering intensity scale (WIS): An alternative approach of chemical index of alteration (CIA). American Journal of Science, Vol. 313, p. 113–143, DOI 10.2475/02.2013.03.
  • Meunier A., Petit S., Ehlmann, B., Dudoignon P., Westall, F. Mas, A., El Albani, A., Ferrage E. (2012) Magmatic precipitation as a possible origin of Noachian clays on Mars. Nature Geoscience 1572 (DOI : 10.1038/NGEO1572).
  • Frouin M., Ploquin F., Soresi, M., Rendu, W., Macchiarelli, R., El Albani, A., & Meunier A. (2013). Clay minerals of late Pleistocene sites (Jonzac and Les Cottés, SW France): Applications of X-ray diffraction analyses to local paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Quaternary International, 302, 184-198.
  • El Albani A. (2012) Émergence de la vie multicellulaire au Gabon : Un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire de la vie vieux de 2.1 Milliards d’années. Presse des Mines ParisTech, Collection Sciences de la Terre et de l’environnement. 171-178. ISBN 978-2-911256-84-4.
  • Meunier A., Petit S., Ehlmann, B., Dudoignon P., Westall, F. Mas, A., El Albani, A., Ferrage E. (2012) Magmatic precipitation as a possible origin of Noachian clays on Mars. Nature Geoscience 1572 (DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1572).
  • Néraudeau D., Allain,R., Ballèvre M., Batten D.J., Buffetaut E., Colin J.P., Dabard M.P., Daviero-Gomez V., El Albani A., Gomez B., Grosheny D., Le Lœuff J., Leprince A., Martin-Closas C., Masure E., Mazin J.-M., Philippe M., Pouech J., Tong H., Tournepiche J.F, Vullo R. (2012) The Hauterivian–Barremian lignitic bone bed of Angeac (Charente, SW France): stratigraphical, palaeobiological and palaeogeographical implications Cretaceous Research 37, 1-14.
  •  El Albani A., Meunier A. Macchiarelli R., Ploquin F. & Tournepiche J.F. (2011) Local environmental changes recorded by clay minerals in a karst deposit during the MIS 3 isotope stage (La Chauverie, SW France) Quaternary International 241, 26-34.
  •  Besong M., El Albani A., Hell J.V., Fontaine C., Ndjeng E., Ngos S., Nolla J.D., Dissombo E., Mfoumbeng M.P., Mbang B.A-R. (2011) Diagenesis in Cretaceous formation of Benue Trough in Northern part of Cameroon: Garoua Sandstone. World Journal of Engineering and Pure and Applied Sciences 1 (3): 11-67.
  •  Dos Anjos C., Meunier A., Guimaraes E. & El Albani A. (2010) Possible marine Saponite-rich black shales and Nontronites beds in the Permian Irati Formation. Origin, mineralogical and geochemical signatures of thermal maturation. Clays and clay minerals 58, 606-626.
  •  El Albani A., Bengtson S., Canfield D.E., Bekker A., Macchiarelli R., Mazurier A., Hammarlund E., Boulvais P., Dupuis J.-J., Fontaine C., Fürsich F.T., Gauthier-Lafaye F., Janvier P., Javaux E., Ossa Ossa F., Pierson-Wickmann A.-C., Riboulleau A., Sardini P., Vachard D., Whitehouse M. & Meunier A. (2010) Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 billion years ago. Nature 466, 100-104 (couverture+32 pages de Supplementary Information).
  • Meunier A., Petit S., Cockell S., El Albani A. & Beaufort D. (2010) The Fe-rich clay microsystems in Basalt- KomatiitelLavas : importance of Fe-Smectites for pre-biotic molecule catalysis during the Hadean Eon. Origin of Life & Evolution of Biosphere 40, 253-272.
  • Heba G., Prichonnet G. & El Albani A. (2009) Meteoric diagenesis of Late Cretaceous and Paleocene–Eocene shallow-water carbonates in the Kruja platform (Albania): geochemical evidence. Geologica Carpathica 60, 2,165-179.
  •  Sardini P., El Albani A., Gaboreau S., Siitari Kauppi M., Beaufort D. & Prêt D. (2009) Analyses of microporous clay cements in sandstones using the 14C PMMA-Method. Journal of Sedimentary Research 79, 584-592.
  •  Martín-Closas C., Colin J-P., Billon-Bruyat J-P., El Albani A., Mazin J-M. & Schnyder J. (2008) Palaeobiogeography of the genus Latochara (fossil Charophyta) in the Upper Jurassic of Southern Europe. New data from Oléron Island (France). Geologica Croatica 61, 177-184.
  •  Meunier A. & El Albani (2007) – The Glauconite-Fe-Illite Fe-Smectite probem : A critical review, Terra Nova. No.19, 95-104.
  •  Riquier L., Averbuch O., Trobovillard N., El Albani A., Lazreq N.& Chakiri S. (2007) – Environmental changes at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in Central Morocco (Northern Gondwana) : integrated rock-magnetic and geochemical studies. Geological Society of London, sp. Pub. No. 278 p. 197-217.
  •  Alvaro J., Clausen S., El Albani A. & Chellai H. (2006) – Tectonic control on the earliest Cambrian nucleation of cryptic microbial and epibenthic archaeocyathan-microbial communities in the western Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Sedimentology, 53, 35-53.
  •  El Albani A., Meunier, A. & Fürsich  F. (2005) – Unusual occurrence of glauconite in a shallow lagoonal environment (lower Cretaceous, Northern Aquitaine Basin, SW France) Terra Nova 17, No. 6 : 537-544.
  •  Riquier L., Tribovillard N., Averbuch O., Joachimski M.M., Racki G., Devleeschouwer X.,  El Albani A. & Riboulleau A., (2005) – Productivity and bottom water redox conditions at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary on both sides of the Eovariscan Belt: constraints from trace-element geochemistry , in Over, D.J., Morrow, J.R., and Wignall, P.B., eds., Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events: Towards an Integrated Approach: Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Elsevier Pub. Co.199-224.
  •  El Albani A., Vachard D., Fürsich F., Buitrón, & B. Flores de Dios A. (2005) – Palaeoenvironmental significance and faunal characterisation of the Upper Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian deposits of the San Salvador Patlanoaya Section (Puebla, Mexico). Facies 50: 629-645.
  •  El Albani A., Fürsich F.,Colin, J.P., Meunier A., Hochuli P., Martín-Closas C., Mazin J.M., & Billon-Bruyat J.P. (2004) – Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the basal Cretaceous vertebrate bearing beds in the Northern part of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France): Sedimentological and geochemical evidence. Facies 50 : 195-215.
  •  Bréhéret J.G., Hanzo M., El Albani A. & Iatzoura, A. (2004) – Impact of benthic life on the genesis of calcareous nodules in black shale facies. Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, 336, Issue 1, 1355-1362.
  •  Colin J-P., El Albani A., Fürsich F., Matin-Closas. C., Mazin, J.M. and Billon-Bruyat J.P. (2003) – Le gisement “ Purbeckien” de vertébrés de Cherves de Cognac, Charente (SW France) : nouvelles données biostratigraphiques. Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, 3, 9-16.
  •  El Albani A., Cloutier, R & Candilier, (2002) – A.-M.- Early Diagenesis of the Upper Devonian Escuminac Formation from the Gaspé Peninsula (Québec) : Sedimentological and Geochemical evidences. Sedimentary Geology 146 /3 – 4, 209-223.
  •  El Albani A., Vachard D., Kuhnt W., & Thurow J. (2001) – The Role of diagenetic carbonate concretions in the preservation of original sedimentary record – Sedimentology 48, 875-886.
  •  Kuhnt W., Chellai H., Luderer F., Thurow J., Wagner T., El Albani A., Beckmann B., Herbin J.-P., Kolonic S., Nederbragt S., Ravilious K (2001) – Morocco Basin’s Sedimentary Record May provide correlations for paleoceanographic event worldwide. American, Geophysical Union. 82, (33), 361-364.
  •  El Albani A., Kuhnt W. & Vachard D. (1999) – Signature of hydrodynamic activity caused by rapid sea-level changes in pelagic organic-rich sediments, Tarfaya basin (Southern Morocco). Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences 329, 397-404.
  •  El Albani A., Kuhnt W., Luderer F., Herbin J.P. & Caron M. (1999) – Paleoenvironmental evolution of the Upper Cretaceous sequence in the Tarfaya Basin (Southwest of Morocco) Journal of Geological Society of London, 153, 223-240.
  •  Holbourn A., Kuhnt W., El Albani A., Pletsch T., Luderer F. & Wagner T. (1999) – Upper Cretaceous palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography of benthic foraminifera of petroleum source rock in West African Continental Margin –Journal of Geological Society of London, 153, 195-222.
  •  Holbourn A., Kuhnt W., El Albani A., Ly A., Ricardo G. & Herbin J.P.- (1999) – Palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography of the Late Cretaceous Casamance Transect (Senegal, NW Africa) : Distribution patterns of benthic foramminifera, organic carbon and terrigenous flux – Geologisch und Paläontologisches Jahrbuch, 212 (1-3) 335-377.
  •  Masse J.P. El Albani A. & Erlenkeuser H. (1999)- Stratigraphie Isotopique (d13C) de l´Aptien Inférieur Provencal : Application aux Corrélations Plate-Forme/Bassin – Eclogae Geol. Helv., 92, 259-263.
  •  El Albani, A., Caron, M., Deconinck, J.F., Robaszynski, F., Amédro, F., Daoudi, L., Ezaidi, A., Terrab, S. & Thurow, J. (1997) – Origines et signification sédimentologique de la nodulisation dans les dépôts anoxiques du Turonien inférieur du Bassin de Tarfaya (Maroc). Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, t. 324, serie II a, 9-16.
  •  Herbin J.P., Geyssant J.R., El Albani A., Colbeaux J.P., Deconinck J.F., Fernandez-Martinez J.L., Proust J.N. & Vidier J.P. (1995) – Sequence stratigraphy of source rocks applied to the study of the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian in the Northwest European shelf (Dorset/U.K., Yorkshire/U.K. and Boulonnais/France) – Marine and Petroleum Geology, 12, 177-194.
  • El Albani A., Deconinck J.F., Herbin J.P. & Proust J.N. (1993) – Caractérisation géochimique de la matière organique et minéralogie des argiles du Kimméridgien du Boulonnais. Ann. Soc. Géol. du Nord, tome 2 (2e série), Fascicule 2, p. 105-113.

    Ouvrages
  • El Albani A. Macchiarelli R., Meunier A. (2020). Comment tout a commencé sur la Terre. Le récit d’une incroyable découverte. Humensciences- Edition-Paris. 196 p. ISBN 978-2-37931-033-1.
  • El Albani A. Macchiarelli R. & Meunier  (2016) :  Aux origines de la vie  : Une nouvelle histoire de l’évolution (217 pages) – DUNOD-Edition-Paris.
  • El Albani A. « Histoire de la Terre et de la vie » (2012), 84 p, DIMAGRAF. ISBN 978-9954589-090.
  •  El Albani A. & Trentesaux A. (2008) Procédures de Caractérisation des Minéraux Argileux par Diffraction des Rayons X et Spectroscopie Infrarouge, 130 p.,
    Chapitres d’ouvrages
  • El Albani « A. Gabon : Une nouvelle histoire de vie » (2020) L’Atlas des nouveaux mondes territoires d’exploration et de découverte Edité par CNRS- Editions Cherche midi. Sous la direction de N. Arnaud et S. Thiébault..
  • El Albani A.  « Etonnant vivant : Découvertes et Promesses du XXIe siècle » Ed. C. Jesus (CNRS Editions INSERM) (2017). EAN : 9782271094032.
  • El Albani A. « A la croisée des savoirs »  (2015) : Editions de la Martinière. ISBN : 978-2-7324-6952-2.