Editing Claude Allègre (section)

===Scientific works===
Over the course of his career, Allègre published many scientific papers. He also authored a number of scientific monographs and textbooks, including:

* ''Introduction to geochemistry'' (1974)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpkuAAAAIAAJ|last1=Allègre|first1=C.J.|last2=Michard|first2=G.|title=Introduction to Geochemistry|publisher=Springer Netherlands|date=December 1974|isbn=978-90-277-0498-6}}</ref> 
* ''Trace elements in igneous petrology : a volume in memory of Paul W. Gast'' (1978)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Allègre|first1=C.J.|last2=Hart|first2=S.R.|year=1985|title=Trace elements in igneous petrology : a volume in memory of Paul W. Gast|series=Developments in petrology|volume=5|pages=1–272|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-41658-2}}</ref>
* ''From stone to star : a view of modern geology'' (1992)<ref>{{cite book|last=Allègre|first=C.J.|title=From stone to star : a view of modern geology|translator=Deborah Kurmes van Dam|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1992|pages=287|isbn=978-0-674-83866-6}}</ref>
* ''Isotope geology'' (2008) <ref>{{cite book|last=Allègre|first=C.J.|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|title=Isotope Geology|translator=Christopher Sutcliffe|isbn=978-0-511-80932-3}}</ref>

Allègre also wrote a number of [[popular science]] texts, on topics such as the history of the Earth and the [[plate tectonic]] revolution. His 1988 book, ''The behaviour of the Earth'', gained praise from reviewers for presenting a perspective on the French scientific contributions to the history of plate tectonics.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wyllie|first=Peter J.|year=1988|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.242.4884.1451.b|title=Earth Science and History: The Behavior of the Earth. Continental and Seafloor Mobility. Claude Allègre. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988. Translated from the French by Deborah Kurmes van Dam|journal=Science|volume=242|pages=1451–1452|doi=10.1126/science.242.4884.1451.b |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Historian of geology, David Leveson, cautioned that the narrative promoted a  '[[Whig history|Whiggish]]' telling of the story of plate tectonics as one of progress, from the viewpoint of an insider.<ref name="auto5">{{cite journal|title=Whiggism and its sources in Allègre's ''The Behaviour of the Earth''|first=David J.|last=Leveson|journal=Earth Sciences History|volume=10|year=1991|issue=1 |pages=29–37|doi=10.17704/eshi.10.1.p221j6ku9058752l |jstor=24138410 |bibcode=1991ESHis..10...29L |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24138410|url-access=subscription}}</ref> While Allègre's account of the new global geology of plate tectonics was 'lyrical' and 'rhapsodic', Leveson argued that Allègre's focus on progress meant that he was not able to successfully place 'mobilist geology in its "proper" sociological context' in this book.<ref name="auto5"/>