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Guest editor, Grenoble Janvier 2008

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Henriette Lapierre passed away unexpectedly in January 2006 while on a field trip with close friends of hers in Syria. The aim of the trip was to sample Triassic and Jurassic volcanic rocks similar to those already studied in the Himalaya, Oman, Cyprus, Greece, Albania and Turkey. True to her convictions, the work was based on a team effort. Indeed, Henriette always insisted on the importance of teamwork to which she contributed her enthusiasm and extensive knowledge of petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry of volcanic rocks. This was the domain in which she excelled.

Throughout her career, this need for teamwork generated an important number of collaborations throughout the world in research programs in North and Central America, the Caribbean domain, the Middle-East, Africa and more recently in South America. However, Henriette made a name for herself in the ancient Mediterranean domain, now closed in the Alps and Himalayas.

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