Research Departments
Chargée de Recherche (Ass. Prof.) CNRS
Keywords: Active tectonics, geomorphology, mountain-building, seismic hazards, interactions between tectonics and surface processes
Current field areas: Western Kunlun and Southern Tarim Basin (China), Andes (Chili), Himalaya (Bhutan), Taiwan mountain range,
Recent Publications:
*Laborde A., Barrier L., Simoes M., Li H., Coudroy T., Van der Woerd J., Tapponnier P., Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview., Earth Science Review, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102891, 2019.
* Riesner M., Simoes M., Carrizo D., Lacassin R., Early exhumation of the Frontal Cordillera (Southern Central Andes) and implications for Andean mountain-building at 33.5°S., Scientific Reports, 9, 7972, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44320-1, 2019.
* Riesner M., Lacassin R., Simoes M., Carrizo D., Armijo R., Revisiting the crustal structure and kinematics of the Central Andes at 33.5°S : implications for the mechanics of Andean mountain-building., Tectonics, 37, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004513, 2018.
* Guilbaud C., Simoes M., Barrier L., Laborde A., Van der Woerd J., Li H., Tapponnier P., Coudroy T.*, Murray A., Kinematics of active deformation across the Western Kunlun mountain range (Xinjiang, China), and potential seismic hazards within the southern Tarim Basin, J. Geophys. Res, doi:10.1002/2017JB014069, 2017.
* Riesner M., Lacassin R., Simoes M., Armijo R., Rauld R., Vargas G. , Kinematics of the active West Andean fold-and-thrust belt (central Chile) : structure and long-term shortening rate., Tectonics, 36, doi:10.1002/2016TC004269, 2017.
* Grandin R., Martin V., Satriano C., Lacassin R., Klinger Y., Simoes M., Bollinger L., Rupture process of the Mw=7.9 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal) : insights into Himalayan megathrust segmentation., Geophys. Res. Letters,42, doi :10.1002/2015GL066044, 2015.
* Steer P., M. Simoes, R. Cattin, Erosion influences the seismicity of active thrust faults, Nature Communications, doi :10.1038/ncomms6564, 2014.
See more on:
on my personal IPGP web page : http://www.ipgp.fr/~simoes