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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:14.666667px; text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is with great sadness that I write to tell you of the sudden death
a few months ago</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> of our colleague </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Roque Aguado Merlo</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:14.666667px; text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">. </span></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:14.666667px; text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Roque was a field geologist and a stratigrapher, specialist of Mesozoic
nannofossils. </span></span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">He</span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> was born in Pinos del Valle (Granada) in 1961. </span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">After
a doctoral thesis on calcareous nannofossils from the Cretaceous of the Betic Cordillera in 1992, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Roque </span><span style="font-size:12pt">became</span></span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Full
Professor in the </span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Department of Geology of the University of Jaen (Campus of Linares)</span><span style="text-indent:-18pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt"><span style="text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We keep in our memory a very kind colleague and a
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">talented</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> researcher. </font></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">He
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Best wishes,</span></p>
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Terre, Planètes, Environnement<br>
UMR 5276 CNRS<br>
Observatoire de Lyon<br>
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