Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere Team PhDs

October 2021
In progress
Use of scientific knowledge for risk reduction purposes: what the Mayotte seismo-volcanic crisis teaches us
Louise Le Vagueresse's thesis focuses on the use of scientific knowledge for risk reduction purposes and takes as a case study the seismo-volcanic cri...

October 2018 - February 2022
Defended
Contribution of the West Andean flank in Northern Chile to early stages of the Andean orogeny: insights from structural geology, thermochronology and analog modeling
Using a variety of approaches (structural geology, thermochronology, analog modeling), this PhD project aimed at providing answers to the following qu...

October 2016 - December 2019
Defended
Kinematics of active deformation of the Western Kunlun Range (Xinjiang, China): implications for potential seismic hazards
By combining structural geology and geomorphology, this PhD project aimed at quantifying the rates and loci of active deformation across the Western K...

April 2014 - October 2017
Defended
Plio-Quaternary tectonic changes along the Hellenic Arc (Greece) induced by a propagating plate boundary
This PhD project was on recent uplift and tectonics of the Aegean using multi-disciplinary approaches (geomorphology, geological mapping, remote sensi...

October 2013 - September 2017
Defended
Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang, China) and impact on its current morpho-sedimentary landscape
Since its onset during the Paleogene, the India-Asia collision has led to the formation of some of the most impressive orogenic systems worldwide (Him...
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