Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere Team News

11 April 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger awarded ERC Advanced Grant 2023

Yann Klinger, CNRS Research Director and head of the Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team at the IPGP, has been awarded the prestigious Eur...

26 December 2023

Institute Life, Press

Tribute to Paul Tapponnier (1947-2023)

Paul Tapponnier, a geologist who pioneered the study of continental deformation and founded the IPGP tectonics team in the early 1980s, died on 24 Dec...

29 November 2023

Press, Research

The geodynamic conditions for the formation of the Andes experimentally explored

A team of researchers has used a novel experimental setup to explore the geodynamic conditions under which compressive deformation of the upper tecton...

28 November 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger receives the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal

Yann Klinger, head of the IPGP's Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team, has been awarded the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal, which rewards rese...

05 September 2023

Press, Research

2000 years of seismicity on the San Andreas fault segment modulated by the level of the Salton Sea

Using a technique traditionally used in civil engineering, two seismologists, including Yann Klinger, a researcher at the Institut de Physique du Glob...

22 March 2023

Press, Research

The topography of the escarpments allows us to estimate the mode of slip of the faults

Fault slip, particularly during earthquakes, can generate topographic jumps on the surface, commonly known as fault escarpments. Since the 1970s, nume...

22 October 2021

Press, Research

The mechanics of earthquakes studied using high-resolution satellite images

Using very high-resolution satellite images, taken before and after the ruptures of a sequence of earthquakes in the California desert, a study led by...

30 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Successful installation of the first connected underwater observatory in Guadeloupe

By recording its first earthquake on Sunday, June 20th, 2021, two days after its installation was completed, the new optical underwater observatory in...

02 June 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Yann Klinger, SGF Pierre Pruvost Award

17 September 2020

Press, Research

Experimental testing of processes controlling the structuring of major continental rifts

Assessing the seismic hazard in continental strike-slip zones (faults that are usually vertical and along which two blocks slide horizontally in relat...

04 May 2020

Press, Research

Periodic coastal uplift in a subduction context

Topography in subduction zones is commonly seen as the consequence of tectonic processes occurring at the plate interface where mega-earthquakes such ...

19 December 2019

Observatories, Press, Research

Monitoring deformation in Mayotte using satellite radar interferometry

Since May 2018, the island of Mayotte has been experiencing a seismo-volcanic crisis on an unprecedented scale. Numerous earthquakes are being felt by...