Contact details
Associate Professor since 2013 at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
Study Group on Natural, Anthropogenic and Archaeological Environments ang Geomaterials (GEGENA- EA 3795)
2 Esplanade Roland Garros
F-51100 Reims
Phone. 00 33. 3 29 77 36 87
E-Mail : gilles.fronteau@univ-reims.fr
Website : GEGENA
Key words
Geomaterial ; regional geology ; petrography ; enhancing the shared heritage of Champagne
International conferences
- Gommeaux M., Thomachot-Schneider C., FRONTEAU G., Fujimaki T., Oguchi C.T. 2014 Salt weathering processes of reconstituted stone used in the orval Abbey (Belgium). SWBSS. 14-16 Octobre 2014. Bruxelles (Belgique).
- Lepareux-Couturier S., FRONTEAU G., Robin. B. 2014. Productions of Paris basin «meulière» querns and millstones from the La Tène period to the Middle Ages. Typology-Chronology-Distribution. Tilting at mills. The 5th international colloquium on the Archaeology & Geology of mills and milling. Almería (Spain) 5-8 Mars 2014.
- Eyssautier-Chuine S., Moreau C., Gommeaux M., FRONTEAU G., Celine Thomachot-Schneider, Jessica Pleck and Benoit Kartheuser. 2012. The development of a water repellent with biocide effects. 12th International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone. 22-26 Octobre 2012. New-york (USA). Poster + Actes, Vol. 11, p. 136-14
- Dewanckele, J., De Boever, W, De Kock, T., Boone, M.-A., Boone, M-N, FRONTEAU G., Van Hoorebeke, L., Cnudde, V, Jacobs, P. 2012 Influence of limestone microstructure on gypsum crystallization. Cryspom III. Crystallization in porous media. Troia (Portugal), 4-7 septembre 2012.
- Bouvy C., Turmel A., FRONTEAU G., Devos A., Thomachot-Schneider C. 2013. Recherche d’un Equivalent à la « Pierre de Courville » (Lutétien, Marne, France) pour les Chantiers de restauration de la Cathédrale de Reims, sites potentiels et Contraintes. 14ème Congrès de l’ASF, Session 22 Patrimoine et pierres de construction, Paris, 5-7 novembre 2013.
Some publications
- Devos A., Bollot N., Chalumeau L., FRONTEAU G., Lejeune O. A paraître. Impact of lateral variations of geologic facies on water resources in homogeneous basins. Example of tertiary plateaus in the Paris Basin. Geodinamica Acta.
- Turmel A., FRONTEAU G., C. Thomachot- Schneider, L. Chalumeau, V. Barbin. 2014. Stone uses in Reims Cathedral: provenance, physical properties and restoration phases. Stone in Historic Buildings: Characterization and Performance. Dir. Cassar J. SP391. Geological Society, London, p. 17-30.
- Dewanckele, J., De Kock, T., FRONTEAU G., Derluyn, H., Vontobel, P., Dierick, M., Van Hoorebeke, L., Jacobs, P., Cnudde, V. 2014. Neutron radiography and X-ray computed tomography for quantifying weathering and water uptake processes inside porous limestones used as building material. Materials Characterization. Volume 88, February 2014, p. 86–99.
- Dewanckele J., De Kock T., Boone M.A., Cnudde V., Brabant L., Boone M.A, FRONTEAU G., Van Hoorebeck L., Jacobs. P. 2012. 4D imaging and quantification of pore structure modifications inside natural building stones by means of high resolution X-ray CT. Science of The Total Environment. 416. p 436-448.
- FRONTEAU G., Moreau, C., Thomachot-Schneider, C., and Barbin, V., 2010, Variability of some Lutetian building stones from the Paris Basin, from characterisation to conservation: Engineering Geology, vol. 115. p. 158.-166.
- FRONTEAU G., Schneider-Thomachot C., Chopin E., Barbin V. Mouze D. and Pascal A., 2010, Black crust growth processes and morphology of crust-stone interface in relation with the subjacent limestones’s microfacies: Prikryl R. & Torok A. (eds). Natural Stone Resources for Historical Monuments. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 333, 25–34.