Publications

  1. Smaoui, C., Essefi, E. Reading process as first stage of the publication industry: have Tunisian novice researchers acquired the appropriate reading skills to do a literature review. International Journal of Language and Linguistics.
  2. Smaoui, C., & Essefi, E. Linguistic features to compile a successful scientific discourse: Have Tunisian novice researchers ever seen such features during their educational career. International Journal of Language and Linguistics.
  3. Smaoui, C., & Essefi, E. Research Article revision and Error Analysis (EA): Have Tunisian novice researchers learnt from their errors. International Journal of Language and Linguistics.
  4. Elhoucine Essefi, Najoua Gharsalli, and Chokri Yaich, 2015. Geophysical and Geochemical Study of the Silico-evaporitic Sedimentary Filling of Boujmal wetland, Eastern Tunisia: Inferring the Climatic Signal within Groundwater Noise. Journal of Basic and Applied Research International. In press.
  5. Elhoucine Essefi, Najoua Gharsalli, and Chokri Yaich, 2015. Climatic significance of grain size parameters of the wet aeolian sedimentary filling of sebkha Mhabeul, southeast Tunisia: contribution of the genetic approach. Journal of Basic and Applied Research International. 1(4), 140-152.
  6. Elhoucine Essefi, Najoua Gharsalli, Sonia Salhi, and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Cyclicity of Grain Size Parameters along a Core from the Gleysol of Sebkha Ennoual, Southeastern Tunisia. Journal of Basic and Applied Research International. In press.
  7. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Marjorie A. Chan, Yaich, C., 2013. Groundwater influence on the aeolian sequence stratigraphy of the Mechertate-Chrita- Sidi El Hani system, Tunisian Sahel: Analogies to the wet-dry aeolian sequence stratigraphy at Meridiani Planum, Terby crater, and Gale crater, Mars. Planetary and Space Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2013.05.004.
  8. Essefi, E., Touir, J., Tagorti, M. A., Yaich, C., 2013. Effect of the groundwater contribution, the climatic change, and the human induced activities on the hydrological behavior of discharge playas: a case study Sidi El Hani discharge playa, Tunisian Sahel. Arabian Journal of Geoscience. DOI 10.1007/s12517-012-0659-6. (facteur d’impact 0.74).
  9. Tagorti, M. A., Essefi, E., Touir, J., Yaich, C., 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. 86 (2013) 1-9. (facteur d’impact 1.25).
  10. Tagorti, M. A., Guellala, R., Gallala, W., Essefi, E., Tlig, S., 2013. Geochemical and hydrogeological studies of a sodium sulphate deposits: the case of Sabkhet El Ghine Oum El Khialate, southeast Tunisia. Carbonates and Evaporites Journal. DOI 10.1007/s13146-013-0180-3(facteur d’impact 0.458).
  11. Mefteh, S., Medhioub, M., Essefi, E., Jamoussi, F., 2014. Effect of the diagenesis on the clay mineralogy and the organic matter in the Tunisian southern subsurface. Journal of the Geological Society of India http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/798706. (facteur d’impact 0.59).
  12. Gallala, W., Gaied M. E., Essefi, E., Montacer M., 2010. Pleistocene calcretes from eastern Tunisia: the stratigraphy, the microstructure and the environmental significance. Journal of African Earth Sciences (2010). (facteur d’impact 1.25).
  13. Essefi, E., Ben Jmaa, H., Touir, J., Tagorti, M. A., Yaich, C., 2013. Variability to sedimentary dynamics and climatic conditions during the last two millennia at sebkha Souassi in eastern Tunisia Papers on Global Change IGBP 20, 29–45, 2013. DOI  10.2478/igbp-2013-0001.
  14. Essefi, E., Touir, J., Tagorti, M.A., Yaich, C., 2014. Geodynamic framework of saline systems in eastern Tunisia: saline depressions inherited from the Triassic intrusions and/or the Messinian Salinity Crisis. ISRN GEOLOGY dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/798706.
  15. Essefi, E., Touir, J., Tagorti, M.A., Yaich, C., 2013. Record of the climatic variability and the sedimentary dynamics during the last two millennia at sebkha Dkhila, eastern Tunisia. ISRN GEOLOGY 1-9. doi.org/10.1155/2013/936198.
  16. Essefi, E., Tagorti, M. A., Touir, J., Yaich, C., 2013. Hydrocarbons migration through groundwater convergence toward saline depressions: case study, Sidi El Hani discharge playa, Tunisian Sahel. ISRN Environmental Chemistry Volume 2013, Article ID 709190, 14pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/709190.
  17. Gaied M. E., Gallala, W., Essefi, E., Montacer M., 2010. Effect of quartzo-feldspathic sand on the mechanical properties and the microstructure of a traditional clayey ceramic. Mohamed Essghaïer Gaied, Wissem Gallala, Elhoucine Essefi, Mabrouk Montacer (201 1 ). Transactions of the Indian Ceramic Society. (facteur d’impact 0.13).
  18. Essefi, E., Tagorti, M. A., Touir, J., Yaich, C., 2012b. 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. Tunis. J. Med. Plants Nat. Prod. 2012; 7: 116-128.
  19. Essefi, E., Mefteh, S., Medhioub, M., Yaich, Chokri, 2014. Magnetic Study of the Heated and Unheated Sedimentary Fillings of Sebkha Mhabeul, Southeast Tunisia: a Geophysical Method for Paleoclimatic Investigation and Tephrochronological Dating. International Journal of Geophysics.
  20. Essefi, E., Tagorti, M A., Touir, J. and Yaich, C., 2014. Past human life in the vicinities of saline systems in Tunisia: the geoarcheological approach to link paleoclimatology, paleoepidemiology, and populations dynamics. Arabian Journal of Earth Sciences.
  21. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Marjorie A. Chan, Yaich, C., 2014. Models of Formation and Activity of Spring Mounds in the Mechertate-Chrita-Sidi El Hani System, Eastern Tunisia: Implications for the Habitability of Mars. Life 2014, 4, 1-xmanuscripts; doi:10.3390/life40x000x.
  22. Samir Mefteh, Elhoucine Essefi, Chokri Yaich, Fakher Jamoussi and Mounir Medhioub, 2015. Correlation between magnetic susceptibility and mineral species along NWA-1 well, southern Tunisia: an overlap of the depositional environment, the climate, and the diagenesis. Journal of African Earth Sciences (2015).
  23. Elhoucine Essefi, Najoua Gharsalli, Sabrine Kalabi, Mohamed Ben Ameur, and Chokri Yaich, 2015. Spectral analysis of a core from the sebkha of Sidi Mansour, southern Tunisia: the Holocene cyclostratigraphy. Journal of Geophysics & Remote Sensing In press.

Proceedings

  1. Essefi, E., and Yaich, C., 2012. The magnetic susceptibility as tool for environmental and paleoenvironmental prospections: case study coast of Sfax, southern Tunisia. IGCP 580, 4th Annual Meeting.
  2. Essefi, E., Fairén, A. G., Komatsu, G., Rekhiss, F., Yaich, C., 2012. Study of cores from a spring mound at the Mars analog of Boujmal, eastern Tunisia: coring martian spring mounds as potential efficient tool for a geologic exploration of early Mars. Third Conference on Early Mars, 7029 (abstracts).
  3. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Ben Jmaa, H., Rekhiss, F., Yaich, C., 2012. Spring mounds at Sidi El Hani saline environment, eastern Tunisia: terrestrial analog for Mars. Lunar. and Planet. Sci. XXXXIII, 1229 (abstract).
  4. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Marjorie A. Chan, H., Yaich, C., 2013. Alignment of fault spring mounds at El-Guetiate, Southeast Tunisia: terrestrial analogue implications for martian tectonics. Lunar. and Planet. Sci. XXXXIX, 1545 (abstract).
  5. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Rekhiss, F., Yaich. C., 2012. Identification of tephra layers in spring mounds at the terrestrial analog of Boujmal, eastern Tunisia: repercussions and limits of tephrostratigraphy application on martian stratigraphy and paleoclimatology. Third Conference on Early Mars, 7034 (abstracts).
  6. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Significance of Tunisian Terrestrial Analogues: Tunisia in the Map of Comparative Planetology. Proceeding of the 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  7. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Paleo-Hydrogeological Cycle and Groundwater Influence on Mars Wet Sedimentology Evidences from Gale Crater. Proceeding of the 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  8. Ferhi, S., Essefi, E., Barbieri, R., and Yaich, C., 2013. Hydrogeological Study of the Terrestrial Analogue of Chott El Gharsa, Southwestern Tunisia: Implication for Martian Study. Proceeding of the 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  9. Essefi, E. Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Cyclostratigraphy at Gale Crater: the Chaotic Behavior of Mars Obliquity. Proceeding of The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.

Oral Communications

  1. Sabrine Kalabi, Elhoucine Essefi and Chokri Yaich, 2014 Coastal dynamics of the zone of Chaffar, South Sfax : Putative effect of Dam construction  on Wadi Chaffar on the Sedimentary dynamics and sediment supply. 4ème colloque international. De la Syrtis minor au golfe de Gabès : une histoire, un patrimoine. Sfax,  20, 21 et 22 novembre 2014.
  2. Elhoucine Essefi and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Causes astronomiques des changements climatiques enregistrés durant les deux millénaires au sein des sebkhas étalées le long des côtes de la Petite Syrte : effet de l’anthropisation actuelle. 4ème colloque international. De la Syrtis minor au golfe de Gabès : une histoire, un patrimoine. Sfax,  20, 21 et 22 novembre 2014.
  3. Soufyane Sabir, Abdelallah Ait-Addi, Driss Chafiki, Essefi Elhoucine,  Yaich Chokri, 2014. Facies et variations de la susceptibilité magnétique au passage paléocène/éocène (P/E), atlas de Marrakech, Maroc. 24e Réunion des Sciences de la Terre 27-31 octobre 2014. Maroc.
  4. Elhoucine Essefi, Sameh Masmoudi, Chokri Yaich, 2014. Wet lands in Tunisia: the field of an integrated multidisciplinary approach: a review. Oral presentation, International Conference in Integrated Management of Environment September 25-28, 2014 Hammamet-Tunisia.
  5. Najoua Gharsalli, Elhoucine Essefi, Fatma Karray, Ridha Amdouni, Didier Alazard, Chokri Yaich. Role of the biological activity in the evolution of the saline evaporitic paragenesis in the saltworks of Sfax, Tunisia, Oral presentation, International Conference in Integrated Management of Environment September 25-28, 2014 Hammamet-Tunisia.
  6. Essefi, E. Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Cyclostratigraphy at Gale Crater: the Chaotic Behavior of Mars Obliquity. Oral Communication. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  7. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Significance of Tunisian Terrestrial Analogues: Tunisia in the Map of Comparative Planetology. Oral Communication. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  8. Elhoucine Essefi, Mohamed Ali Tagorti, Jamel Touir and Chokri Yaich, 2013. Past human life in the vicinities of saline systems in Tunisia: the geoarcheological approach to link paleoclimatology, paleoepidemiology, and populations dynamics. Oral Communication. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  9. Elhoucine Essefi, Jamel Touir, Mohamed Ali Tagorti, Salem Bouri, Henda Essefi, Jamel Ouali and Hayet Ben Jmaa (2009). Modeling of the chaotic behavior of Sidi El Hani discharge playa, Tunisian Sahel: which exogenous factor commands this saline environment? The subsurface flow or the climatic variability?www.geotunis.org/2009’

Posters

  1. Mariem Ben Ameur, Elhoucine Essefi, Chokri Yaich, 2014. Genetic study of the grain size distribution of the sedimentary filling of the clay pan of Mhabeul, southeast Tunisia. Geoshale conference Poland 2014.
  2. Mariem Ben Ameur, Elhoucine Essefi, Chokri Yaich, 2014. Cyclicity of grain size parameters and magnetic properties within the wet aeolian filling of sebkha Mahbeul, southeastern Tunisia. Poster, International Conference in Integrated Management of Environment September 25-28, 2014 Hammamet-Tunisia.
  3. Najoua Gharsalli, Elhoucine Essefi, Chokri Yaich, 2014. Magnetic properties of the sedimentary filling of the inland sebkha of El Ghorra, Tunisian Sahel: high resolution. Poster, International Conference in Integrated Management of Environment September 25-28, 2014 Hammamet-Tunisia.
  4. Sonia Salhi, Elhoucine Essefi, Chokri Yaich, 2014. Progradation of the exorheic system of Wadi Wadrane, southeast Tunisia: local versus global forcing. Poster, International Conference in Integrated Management of Environment September 25-28, 2014 Hammamet-Tunisia.
  5. Ferhi, S., Essefi, E., Barbieri, R., and Yaich, C., 2013. Hydrogeological Study of the Terrestrial Analogue of Chott El Gharsa, Southwestern Tunisia: Implication for Martian Study. Poster Presentation. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  6. Essefi, E., and Yaich, C., 2013. Magnetic Study of the Sedimentary Filling OF Sebkha Boujmal (Eastern Tunisia): the Sedimentary Dynamics and the Climatic Variability. Poster Presentation. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  7. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., and Yaich, C., 2013. Paleo-Hydrogeological Cycle and Groundwater Influence on Mars Wet Sedimentology Evidences from Gale Crater. Poster Presentation. The 5th Tunisian Days of Applied Geology.
  8. Mefteh, S., Essefi, E., Medhioub, M., Yaich C., and Jamoussi, F., 2012. Correlation between clay minerals, organic matter, and magnetic susceptibility along NWA-1 well (southern Tunisia): paleo-environmental indications. Poster Presentation. 4th Maghrebian Symposium on Clays Minerals, 21 to 23 March 2012, Hammamet Tunisia.
  9. Elhoucine Essefi and Chokri Yaich, 2012. Mathematical optimization of classification systems of the descriptive grain size distribution: a new classification scheme based on mathematical criteria. Recent Advances in Geology of Fine-Grained Sediments Geoshale conference 14–16 May 2012 Warsaw, Poland.
  10. Elhoucine Essefi and Chokri Yaich, 2010. Multidisciplinary study of saline systems. 2ème journée des l’Ecole doctoral Science et technologie. Poster Presentation. 27-29 Décembre 2010. Tunisie.
  11. Elhoucine Essefi, Samir Mefteh, and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Evolution of the sandy fraction within the sedimentary filling of 12 Tunisian clay pans in central and southern Tunisia, global versus local variability. 2èmes Journées de Valorisation de la Silice et des Sables Siliceux. 21-23 Février 2014. Abstract book.
  12. Elhoucine Essefi, Samir Mefteh, and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Effect of the sandy fraction on the permeability within clay pans: comparison between 13 saline systems in Tunisia. 2èmes Journées de Valorisation de la Silice et des Sables Siliceux. 21-23 Février 2014. Abstract book.
  13. Elhoucine Essefi, Samir Mefteh, and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Evolution of the sandy fraction along a 160 cm corefrom Ennoual clay pan: Climatic significance. 2èmes Journées de Valorisation de la Silice et des Sables Siliceux. 21-23 Février 2014. Abstract book.
  14. Elhoucine Essefi, Samir Mefteh, and Chokri Yaich, 2014. Climatic significance of the sandy fraction along acore from sebkha Mhabeul, southeastern Tunisia. 2èmes Journées de Valorisation de la Silice et des Sables Siliceux. 21-23 Février 2014. Abstract book.
  15. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Marjorie A. Chan, H., Yaich, C., 2013. Alignment of fault spring mounds at El-Guetiate, Southeast Tunisia: terrestrial analogue implications for martian tectonics. Print-only Presentation. Lunar. and Planet. Sci. XXXXIX, 1545 (abstract).
  16. Essefi, E., Fairén, A. G., Komatsu, G., Rekhiss, F., Yaich, C., 2012. Study of cores from a spring mound at the Mars analog of Boujmal, eastern Tunisia: coring martian spring mounds as potential efficient tool for a geologic exploration of early Mars. Poster Presentation. Third Conference on Early Mars, 7029 (abstracts).
  17. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Ben Jmaa, H., Rekhiss, F., Yaich, C., 2012. Spring mounds at Sidi El Hani saline environment, eastern Tunisia: terrestrial analog for Mars. Poster Presentation. Lunar. and Planet. Sci. XXXXIII, 1229 (abstract).
  18. Essefi, E., Komatsu, G., Fairén, A. G., Rekhiss, F., Yaich. C., 2012. Identification of tephra layers in spring mounds at the terrestrial analog of Boujmal, eastern Tunisia: repercussions and limits of tephrostratigraphy application on martian stratigraphy and paleoclimatology. Poster Presentation. Third Conference on Early Mars, 7034 (abstracts).


Elhoucine Essefi

Assistant Professor

 

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  • DEPARTMENTUniversity of Sfax
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