Valerie Clouard

publications

 

Articles

Clouard, V., A. Bonneville et H.G. Barsczus, Size and depth of frozen magma chambers under atolls and islands of French Polynesia using detailed gravity data, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 8173-8192, 2000. (pdf, 1.8Mb)
Clouard, V. et Bonneville, A. How many Pacific hotspots are fed by deep mantle plumes ? Geology, 29, 695-698, 2001. (pdf, 385k)
Clouard, V., A. Bonneville et P.Y. Gillot, A giant landslide on the southern flank of Tahiti Island, French Polynesia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2253-2256,2001. (pdf, 333k)
A. Bonneville, R. Le Suavé, L. Audin, V. Clouard, L. Dosso, P.-Y. Gillot, P. Janney, K. Jordahl, K. Maamaatuaiahutapu, Arago Seamount: The missing hotspot found in the Austral Islands, Geology, 30, 1023–1026, 2002. (pdf, 708k)
Barruol G., D. Bosch, V. Clouard, E. Debayle, M. P. Doin, F. Fontaine, M. Godard, F. Masson, D. Reymond, A. Tommasi and C. Thoraval, PLUME investigates the South Pacific Superswell, Eos, 83, 511-514, 2002.
Clouard, V., A. Bonneville, A. et P.Y. Gillot, The Tarava seamounts: a newly characterized hotspot chain on the South Pacific Superswell, 207, 117-130, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2003. (pdf, 1.6Mb)
Gillot, P.-Y., Hildenbrand, A. and Clouard, V., Comments on ''Epiclastic deposits and ''horseshoe-shaped'' caldeiras in Tahiti (Society Islands) and Ua Huka (Marquesas Archipelago), French Polynesia'' by Clement et al. (2003), J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 136, 159-163, 2004. (pdf, 204k)
Clouard, V., Campos, J., Perez, A , Lemoine, A., and Kausel, E., Outer rise stress changes related to the subduction of the Juan Fernandez Ridge, Central Chile. J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05305, doi:10.1029/2005JB003999,  2007. (pdf, 3.1Mb)
Clouard, V. and M. Gerbault, Break-up spots: could the Pacific open as a consequence of plate kinematics?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 265, 195–208, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.013, 2008. (pdf, 1.4Mb)
Clouard, V. and M. Gerbault,, Reply to "Break-up spots: Could the Pacific open as a consequence of plate kinematics?" comment by R. Pilger, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. ,10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.008, 2008 (pdf, 673k)
Montagner,J-P., V. Clouard, J. Campo, A. Cisternas, M. Gerbault, B. Romanowicz, Earthquakes in subduction zones: A multidisciplinary approach, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 175, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.001, 1-2, 2009. (pdf, 84k)

 

A propos de mes articles

 

A Pacific Break-up, Nature Geoscience 1, 83 - 83 (01 Feb 2008), doi: 10.1038/ngeo123, Research Highlights (pdf, 109k)

Is the Pacific splitting in two? New Scientist, Michael Reilly, 26 January 2008 (pdf, 29k)

 

 

Chapitre dans des livres

 

Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A., Submarine landslides in Society and Austral Islands, French Polynesia: evolution with the age of edifices, in Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences, edited by J. Locat, and  J. Mienert, pp. 335-341, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. (pdf, 355k)
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A, Submarine Landslides in French Polynesia, In Oceanic Hotspots: intraplate submarine magmatism and tectonism, Eds R. Hekinian, P. Stoffers and J.-L. Cheminé, Springer-Verlag,, pp 209-238, 2004. (pdf, 2.1Mb)
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A, Ages of seamounts, islands and plateaus on the Pacific Plate, In Plates, plumes and paradigms, Eds G.R. Foulger, J. H. Natland,  D. Presnall, and D. L. Anderson, pp. 71-90, Geological Society of America,  Special Paper 388, 2005. (pdf, 5Mb)

 

 

Thèses

 

Clouard, V., Gravimétrie des îles et atolls de Polynésie Française, DEA, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, 1996.
Clouard, V., Etude géodynamique et structurale du volcanisme de la Polynésie française de 84 Ma à l'actuel, Ph.D Thesis, Univ. Fr. du Pacifique, Tahiti, 2000. (sommaire et accès aux chapitres)
Clouard, V., La lithosphère océanique: volcanisme intraplaque et comportement en subduction, HDR Thesis, Univ. Paris VII, 2005.

Présentations dans des congrès

 

Clouard, V., A. Bonneville and H.G. Barsczus, Gravity study of French Polynesia atolls and islands, Eos Trans. AGU Fall meeting, 78(46), p. 725, San Francisco, 1997.
Bonneville, A.; Clouard, V.; Beuzart, P.; Klaucke, I.; Le Suavé, R.; Loubrieu, B.; Saget, P.; Thomas, Y., Possible control of Society Islands volcanism by a preexisting volcanic chain, Eos Trans. AGU Fall meeting, 78(46), p. 725, San Francisco, 1997.
Clouard, V. and A. Bonneville, Combien y a-t-il de vrais points chauds sur la plaque Pacifique?, Soc. Géol. Fr., 17eme Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, p. 94, UBO-CNRS, Brest, 1998.
Bonneville, A. and V. Clouard, How many true hotspot on the Pacific plate ?, Eos Trans. AGU Fall meeting, 79, F860, San Francisco, 1998.
Clouard, V., A. Bonneville and P.Y. Gillot, A giant submarine landslide evidenced offshore Tahiti island, French Polynesia, EGS, XXV General Assembly, 74, p. 291, Nice, France, 2000.
Bonneville, A., R. Le Suavé,V. Clouard, P. Beuzart, P. Saget, L. Audin, L. Dosso, K. Jordhal, P. Janney, K. Maamaatuaiahutapu, A. Normand, L. Treluyer, The northern Austral volcanic region, French Polynesia, EGS, XXV General Assembly, 74, p. 90, Nice, France, 2000.
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A., The Tarava Seamount chain, French Polynesia: an example of lithospheric control on the emplacement of volcanoes,  Eos Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V21F-06, San Francisco, 2000.
Bonneville, A., Le Suavé, R., Audin, L., Clouard, V., Dosso, L., Gillot, P.-Y., Hildenbrand, A., Janney, P., and Jordhal, K., Tino Mana, the missing hot spot found in the Austral Islands, Eos Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V21F-02, San Francisco, 2000.
Adam, C., Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A., Variations of the lithospheric elastic thickness beneath the Austral Islands Eos Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V22A-03, San Francisco, 2000.
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A., Submarine landslides in Society and Austral Islands, French Polynesia: Evolution with the age of the edifices, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Meeting, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 07428, Nice, 2003. 
Clouard, V., R. Zapata, and E. Vera., Modal Depth Analysis of the Oceanic Lithospheric Bending Along the Chilean Margin, from a new Detailed Bathymetric Synthesis, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S41D-0119, San Francisco, 2003.
Campos, J., Clouard, V., Lemoine, A., Kausel, E., and Perez, A., Outer Rise Stress Changes in Central Chile related to the 1985 Mw 7.8 Valparaíso Earthquake. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46),  Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T52B-0262E, San Francisco, 2003
Clouard, V., A. Flores, A. Perez, M. Gerbault and J. Campos, The effect of seamount subduction on the stress field of the oceanic plate and the accretionary prism offshore Valparaiso, Central Chile, EGU General Assembly,  EGU05-A,  08641, Vienna, Austria, 2005.
Flores, A., V. Clouard, A. Pérez, M. Gerbault and J. Campos, Efecto de la subducción de una montaña marina sobre el campo de esfuerzos y el prisma de acreción frente a Chile central y su relación con la nucleación del terremoto de Valparaíso de 1985, Achisina, IX Jordanas, A01-29,  Concepción, Chile, 16-19 Nov. 2005.
Campos, J., J-B. de Chabalier, A. Perez, P. Bernard, S. Bonvalot, M-P. Bouin, O. Charade, A. Cisternas, E. Clevede, V. Clouard, R. Dannoot, G. Gabalda, E. Kausel, D. Legrand, A. Lemoine, A. Nercessian, G. Patau, J-C. Ruegg, J-P. Vilotte, Source parameters and GPS deformation of the Mw 7.8 Tarapaca intermediate depth earthquake (Northern Chile) of June 13, 2005, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S13B-0209, 2005.
Clouard, V.,  A. Perez and J. Campos, Temporal evolution of the outer rise stress offshore Valparaiso between 1906 and 2001, International Conference Montessus de Ballore, ST1-05, Santiago, Chile, 6-8 Nov. 2006.
Clouard, V., M.-P. Bouin, J.-B. de Chabalier, N. Feuillet, J. Latchman, J.-M. Saurel, C. Antenor Habazac, L. Lynch, T. Kitou, A. Bosson, C. Vidal, A. Lemarchand, A. Nercessian, R. Robertson, S. Tait, Seismological monitoring and tsunami alert in the Antilles Arc: an integrated network of the Trinidad SRC (UWI) and the West Indies French Observatories
Clouard V. and M. Gerbault, Plate geometry and kinematics modeling to explain South Central Pacific volcanism and plate re-organization, Vol. 12, EGU2010-13604, EGU General Assembly, 2010.
Clouard V., Thermo-mechanical segmentation of the Nazca plate in Central Andes, Vol. 12, EGU2010-13504, EGU General Assembly, 2010.
Saurel J.-M., F. Randriamora, A. Bosson, T. Kitou, C. Vidal, M.-P. Bouin, J.-B. De Chabalier, V. Clouard, and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Team, Recent advances in the Lesser Antilles observatories Part 1 : Seismic Data Acquisition Design based on EarthWorm and SeisComP, Vol. 12, EGU2010-5023, EGU General Assembly, 2010.
Beauducel F., A. Bosson, F. Randriamora, C. Anténor-Habazac, A. Lemarchand, J.-M. Saurel, A. Nercessian, M.-P. Bouin, J.-B. de Chabalier, V. Clouard, Recent advances in the Lesser Antilles observatories Part 2 : WebObs - an integrated web-based system for monitoring and networks management, Vol. 12, EGU2010, EGU General Assembly, 2010.