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Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere Team News
17 May 2024
Press, Research
A new tectonic micro-plate identified north of the Dead Sea Fault
In a study published in Science Advances, an international team has systematically analysed Sentinels-2 radar images to identify a new tectonic micro-...
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 ...
