Prof. Dr. Jamel
Touir
University of Sfax, Tunisia
Email: jamel.touir11@gmail.com
Qualifications
1999-2010 Ph.D., Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia
1986-1990 M.S., Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia
Publications
(Selected)
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Chaabane C., Haj Ali H., Zidi M., Jaillard E., Touir
J. (2022) – Vertical transition from ramp to rimmed shelf: example of the
Turonian carbonates platforms in Central Tunisia. Carbonates and Evaporites (2022)
37:2.
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Zidi M., Touir J., El Albani A., Boulvain F.
(2021)- Sedimentology and carbonatogenesis of the Upper Campanian limestones in
Jebel Berda (south central Tunisia.) Journal of African Earth Sciences 182, 104284.
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Slimene W., Touir J., Fatteh N., Khelil L., Saiid
bZ., Bouzid M. (2021)- Study of the Upper Paleocene-Lower Ypresian phosphate succession
in El Guettar out crop (Gafsa area, central Tunisia). Journal of African
Earth Sciences 177, 104125.
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Khlifi N., Touir J., Spangenberg J., Adatte T.
(2021)- Characterization of dolomitization in the paleodeltaic system of
Meloussi Formation (Upper Valanginian–Hauterivian) in Central Tunisia (Jebel
Meloussi, Jebel Kebar, and Jebel Siouf). Arabian Journal
of Geosciences 14:1388.
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Messadi A., Touir J., Mardassi B., Abdennaceur
Ouali J. (2020)-Factors controlling sedimentation and sequence stratigraphy evolution
in shallow marine (carbonates) platform: example of Middle Eocene deposits from
Gafsa Basin. Carbonates
and Evaporites, 35:58.
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Messadi A., Mardassi B., Abdennaceur Ouali J, Touir
J. (2019)-Phosphate genesis and concentration a response to sea level
fluctuation in shallow marine environments of the lower Eocene deposits in the
southern Tethyan margin: case study of the Gafsa Basin, southern Tunisia. Carbonates and
Evaporites, 34, 4, pp 1489–1509.
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Njahi Derbali Z., Touir J. (2019) - Sedimentology
and sequence stratigraphy of the middle and Upper Eocene succession from Jebel
Kabbara (central Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences 160
(2019) 103599.
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Messadi A. Mardassi B. Ouali J. Touir J. (2018) -
Diagenetic process as tool to diagnose paleo-environment conditions, bathymetry
and oxygenation during Late Paleocene-Early Eocene in the Gafsa Basin. Carbonates and
Evaporites.
doi.org/10.1007/s13146-018-0424-3.
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Zidi M. El Albani A. Touir J. (2018) - Abiod
Formation in Boukhil section (Jebel M'rhila, Central Tunisia): Facies, geochemistry,
mineralogy and deposition sequences. African Earth Sciences Journal. DOI:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.10.004.
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Touir, J., Soussi, M., Haj Ali, H., Ouali, J.
(2018) – Carbonate production, accumulation and sea-level change in fault-block
platform setting: a case study on the Albian sequences in Central Tunisia.
Carbonates and Evaporites. doi.org/10.1007/s13146-018-0451-0.
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Lamourou, A., Touir, J., Fagel, N. (2017) -
Reconstructing the Holocene depositional environments along the northern coast
of Sfax (Tunisia): Mineralogical and sedimentological approaches. Journal of African
Earth Sciences, 129, 713-727.
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Touir, J., Mechi, Ch., Haj Ali, H. (2017) -
Changes in carbonate sedimentation and faunal assemblages in the Tunisian
carbonate platform around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Journal of African
Earth Science, 129, 527-541.
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Salmouna, A., Cojan, I., Touir, J. (2017) - The
charophytes-rich Barremian-Albian record in Jebel Ksaïra (Central Tunisia).
Journal of African Earth Sciences, Volume 130, June 2017, Pages 87-101.
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Njahi, Z., Kassabi, N., Touir, J. (2017) -
Porosity and reservoir potentiality of the Cherahil Formation limestone
(middle-upper Eocene) in the Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Science,
131, 166-178.
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Kassabi N, Njahi Z., Ménendez, B., Jeddi, S., Touir,
J. (2107) - Spatiotemporal sedimentological and petrophysical characterization of
El Gueria reservoir (Ypresian) in sFAX and Gulf of Gabes Basins (SE-Tunisia).
Journal of African Earth Science, 130, 202-222.
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Haj Ali, H., Belghithi, H., Ouali, J. Touir, J.,
(2016) – Relationship between fracturing and porogenesis in a carbonate
reservoir: example from the middle Turonian Bireno member in Jebel M'rhila, central
Tunisia. Journal of African Earth Science, 1-16.
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Ben Rouina, S., Bassetti, M.A., Touir, J., Trabelsi,
K., Berne, S. (2016)–Sedimentary and microfaunal evolution in the Quaternary deposits
in El Akarit river mouth (Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia): environments and extreme
events. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 121, 30-41.
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Haj Ali, H., Essefi, E., Belghithi, H., Yaich, Ch.,
Touir, J. (2016) - Repercussions of the dolomitization of the fractured Middle
Turonian succession of Bireno platform, central part of Tunisia. Arabian Journal
of Geosciences, 9, 1-11.
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Messadi, A., Mardassi, B., Ouali, J.A., Touir, J.
(2016) - Sedimentology, diagenesis, clay mineralogy and sequential analysis model
of Upper Paleocene evaporite-carbonate ramp succession from Tamerza area (Gafsa
Basin: Southern Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences.
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Touir, J., Mahjoubi, F., Haj Ali H., Ouali J.
(2015) – Microstratigraphy and interpretation of the karst sedimentary fillings
associated to the Aptian-Albian unconformity in Jebel Semmama (Central
Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Science, 112, 186-198.
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Trabelsi, K., Benjamin, S, Salmouna, A., Piovesan,
E.K., Ben Rouina, S., Houla, Y., Touir, J., Soussi, M. (2015) –
Ostracods from the marginal coastal Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of the Central
Tunisia Atlas (North Africa): paleoenvironment, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography.
Revue de Microbiologie, 58, 309-331.
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Essefi, H., Tagorti, M.A. Touir, J., Yaïch, CH.
(2014) Past human life near sebkha Sidi El Hani, esatern Tunisia: the
geoarcheological approach to link paleoclimatology, paleoepidemiology, and populations
dynamics. Arabian
Journal of Earth Sciences, volume 1 (2), 39-54.
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Tagorti, M.A., Essefi, H., Touir, J., Rihab
Guellalaf and Yaïch, CH. (2013) Geochemical controls of groundwaters
upwelling in saline environments: Case study the discharge playa of Sidi El
Hani (Sahel, Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences, Volume 86, pp 1–9.
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Essefi, H., Tagorti, M.A., Touir, J. and Yaïch, CH.
(2012) Modeling of the chaotic behaviors at Sidi El Hani discharge playa, eastern
Tunisia: contribution of the philosophy of causality to solve complex chaotic
systems in geology and biology. Tunisian Journal of Medicinal Plants and
Natural Products, 7: 116-128.
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Trabelsi, K., Colin, J.-P., Touir, J., and
Soussi, M. (2011), Cypridea Bosquet, 1852 (Ostracoda) in the Early Albian of Tunisia.
Journal of
Micropalaeontology, 30 (2):187-188.
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Trabelsi K., Touir J., Soulié-Märsche I., Martin-Closas
C., Soussi M., Colin J.P. (2010) Découverte de charophytes dans la formation Kébar
(Tunisie centrale) : implications paléoécologiques et palébiogéographiques. Annales de Paléontologie, Volume 96, Issue 3,
p. 117–133.
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Touir, J., Soussi, Mr., Troudi, H. (2009)
Polyphased dolomitization of a shoal-rimmed
carbonate platform: Example from the middle Turonian
Bireno platform in central Tunisia. Cretaceous Research 30, 785-804. Factor of impact 2007:1.045.
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Touir, J., Soussi, M., Zghal, I., Ouali, J.
(2005) – The Albian depositional sequence record and associated euxinic facies
in a platform to basin transitional zone: central Tunisia. Alpine Geology 6, 67-74.
ISSN: 0993-796X.
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Touir, J.; Echihaoui, A.; Medhioub, M.; Zghal, I.;
Arnaud-plover, A.; Cario, E.; Arnaud, H. (2005) - Main unconformities and
associated early diagenetic features in central Tunisia (southern Tethyan margin)
during the late Aptian-Turonian interval. In: the Aptian - Turonian superchron
global events. Alpine Geology 5, 11-21. ISSN: 0993 - 796X.
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Touir, J., Zaghbib-Turki, D. (2004) - Effects of
the eustatic oscillation coupled to syn-depositional tectonics on the southern
margin of Tethys during the Senonian: example of Jebel M’rhila, central Tunisia. Cretaceous
Research 25, 675-695. Factor of impact 2007:1.045.
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Touir, J., Soussi, Mr. (2003) - Growth and
migration off two Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms in Tunisia
exchange. Eustatic and tectonic controls. In: Gili, E, Nera, Mr. H., Skelton, W.
(Eds.), North african Cretaceous carbonates platform systems. NATO Science Series
28 (IV), 53-81. ISSN: 1568-1238.