Cécile Prigent
Content / Work
| My research focuses on the dynamics of the lithosphere at plate boundaries, with a principal purpose of understanding how feedback processes between rock deformation and fluid migration influence seismic and tectonic processes. To do this, I principally conduct geological fieldwork and integrated, petrological-geochemical-(micro)structural, studies of exhumed crustal and mantle fault zones sampled at the seafloor or exposed on land at ophiolites and orogenic massifs. |
Publications
Dergham P., Prigent C., Brassart Ch., Duval L., Lamour E., Macé S., Steydli S., Tosi E., Vernhet D., Trassinelli Martino. Effect of surface magnetism on the x-ray spectra of hollow atoms. 19 June 2025.
Mérit Louise, Agard Philippe, Labrousse Loïc, Dubacq Benoît, Prigent Cécile, Guilmette Carl. Metamorphic re-equilibration, deformation and rheology along a nascent plate boundary: the case study of the Bay of Islands Ophiolitic Complex, Newfoundland. 27 April 2025. <10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18133>
Précigout Jacques, Prigent Cécile, Mcgill Gina, Arbaret Laurent, Airaghi Laura, Wallis David. Quartz amorphization to produce porosity in crustal shear zones. 2024. <10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9882>
Agard Philippe, Soret Mathieu, Bonnet Guillaume, Ninkabou Dia, Plunder Alexis, Prigent Cécile, Yamato Philippe. Subduction and obduction processes: the fate of oceanic lithosphere revealed by blueschists, eclogites and ophiolites. 2023. <10.1002/essoar.10510507.1>
Précigout Jacques, Prigent Cécile, Almqvist Bjarne. Editorial for Special Issue “Mantle Strain Localization—How Minerals Deform at Deep Plate Interfaces”. Minerals, MDPI, December 2022, 12. <10.3390/min12121625>
Wang Zhikai, Singh Satish C., Prigent Cécile, Gregory Emma P. M., Marjanović Milena. Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries. Nature Geoscience, Nature Publishing Group, 2022, 15. <10.1038/s41561-022-01003-3>
Patterson Sierra N., Lynn Kendra J., Prigent Cécile, Warren Jessica M.. High temperature hydrothermal alteration and amphibole formation in Gakkel Ridge abyssal peridotites. Lithos, Elsevier, 2021, 392. <10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106107>
Kohli Arjun, Wolfson-Schwehr Monica, Prigent Cécile, Warren Jessica M.. Oceanic transform fault seismicity and slip mode influenced by seawater infiltration. Nature Geoscience, Nature Publishing Group, 2021, 14. <10.1038/s41561-021-00778-1>
Agard Philippe, Prigent Cécile, Soret Mathieu, Dubacq Benoît, Guillot Stephane, Deldicque Damien. Slabitization: Mechanisms controlling subduction development and viscous coupling. Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2020, 208. <10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103259>
Prigent Cécile, Warren J.M., Kohli A.H., Teyssier C.. Fracture-mediated deep seawater flow and mantle hydration on oceanic transform faults. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier, 2020, 532. <10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115988>
Soret Mathieu, Agard Philippe, Ildefonse Benoit, Dubacq Benoît, Prigent Cécile, Rosenberg Claudio L. Deformation mechanisms in mafic amphibolites and granulites: record from the Semail metamorphic sole during subduction infancy. Solid Earth, European Geosciences Union, 2019, 10. <10.5194/se-10-1733-2019>
Prigent Cécile, Agard Philippe, Guillot Stéphane, Godard Marguerite, Dubacq Benoît. Mantle Wedge (De) formation During Subduction Infancy: Evidence from the Base of the Semail Ophiolitic Mantle. Journal of Petrology, Oxford University Press (OUP), November 2018, 59. <10.1093/petrology/egy090>
Prigent C., Guillot S., Agard Philippe, Lemarchand D., Soret M., Ulrich M.. Transfer of subduction fluids into the deforming mantle wedge during nascent subduction: Evidence from trace elements and boron isotopes (Semail ophiolite, Oman). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier, February 2018, 484. <10.1016/j.epsl.2017.12.008>
Prigent Cécile, Guillot S., Agard Philippe, Ildefonse Benoit. Fluid-Assisted Deformation and Strain Localization in the Cooling Mantle Wedge of a Young Subduction Zone (Semail Ophiolite). Journal of Geophysical Research, American Geophysical Union, 2018, 123. <10.1029/2018JB015492>
Précigout Jacques, Prigent Cécile, Palasse Laurie, Pochon Anthony. Water pumping in mantle shear zones. Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, August 2017, 8. <10.1038/ncomms15736>
Agard Philippe, Yamato Philippe, Soret Mathieu, Prigent Cécile, Guillot S., Plunder Alexis, Dubacq Benoît, Chauvet Alain, Monie Patrick. Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: Control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier, 2016, 451. <10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.054>
Guillot Stéphane, Schwartz Stéphane, Reynard Bruno, Agard Philippe, Prigent Cécile. Tectonic significance of serpentinites. Tectonophysics, Elsevier, 2015, 646. <10.1016/j.tecto.2015.01.020>
Braun Jean, van Der Beek Peter, Valla Pierre, Robert Xavier, Herman Frédéric, Glotzbach Christoph, Pedersen Vivi, Perry Claire, Simon-Labric Thibaud, Prigent Cécile. Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE. Tectonophysics, Elsevier, 2011, 524-525. <10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.035>