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Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

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Overview

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay is affiliated with Université Côte d'Azur in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable emphasis on Geophysics. Other areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of seismic and tectonic topics. These topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • E. Calais
  • Steeve Symithe
  • Roby Douilly
  • Clément Garrocq
  • Serge Lallemand

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay has been published multiple times in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (3 publications)
  • Tectonics (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Earth Science (1 publication)

Significant recent papers by Bernard Mercier de Lépinay include:

  • "Genetic Relations Between the Aves Ridge and the Grenada Back-Arc Basin, East Caribbean Sea," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Polyphase Tectonic Evolution of Fore-Arc Basin Related to STEP Fault as Revealed by Seismic Reflection Data From the Alboran Sea (W-Mediterranean)," 2020, Tectonics
  • "A Socio-Seismology Experiment in Haiti," 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Strain Partitioning within the Caribbean-North America Transform Plate Boundary in Southern Haiti, Tectonic and Hazard Implications," 2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Rupture Segmentation of the 14 August 2021 Mw 7.2 Nippes, Haiti, Earthquake Using Aftershock Relocation from a Local Seismic Deployment," 2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The active Main Marmara Fault

    X. Le Pichon;X. Le Pichon;A.M.C. Şengör;E. Demirbağ;E. Demirbağ;C. Rangin

  • Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart (North Anatolian Fault): Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul

    Rolando Armijo;Nicolas Pondard;Bertrand Meyer;Gulsen Uçarkus

  • Active thrust faulting offshore Boumerdes, Algeria, and its relations to the 2003 Mw 6.9 earthquake

    Jacques Déverchère;K. Yelles;A. Domzig;B. Mercier de Lépinay

  • An alternative interpretation of the Cayman trough evolution from a reidentification of magnetic anomalies

    S. Leroy;A. Mauffret;P. Patriat;B. Mercier de Lépinay

  • Strain partitioning in the transition area between oblique subduction and continental collision, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil

  • From Oblique Subduction to Intra-Continental Transpression: Structures of the Southern Kermadec-Hikurangi Margin from Multibeam Bathymetry, Side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Reflection

    Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil;Keith B. Lewis;Bryan Davy

  • Strain partitioning and fault slip rates in the northeastern Caribbean from GPS measurements

    Eric Calais;Yves Mazabraud;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Paul Mann

  • Rates and mechanics of rapid frontal accretion along the very obliquely convergent southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • The Guerrero suspect terrane (western Mexico) and coeval arc terranes (the Greater Antilles and the Western Cordillera of Colombia): a late Mesozoic intra-oceanic arc accreted to cratonal America during the Cretaceous

    M. Tardy;H. Lapierre;C. Freydier;C. Coulon

  • Searching for the Africa–Eurasia Miocene boundary offshore western Algeria (MARADJA'03 cruise)

    Anne Domzig;Karim Yelles;Charlotte Le Roy;Jacques Déverchère

  • Gas emissions and active tectonics within the submerged section of the North Anatolian Fault zone in the Sea of Marmara

    L. Géli;P. Henry;T. Zitter;S. Dupré

  • Multiple plume events in the genesis of the peri‐Caribbean Cretaceous oceanic plateau province

    Henriette Lapierre;Delphine Bosch;Vincent Dupuis;Mireille Polvé

  • Late Quaternary co-seismic sedimentation in the Sea of Marmara's deep basins

    Christian Beck;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Jean-Luc Schneider;Michel Cremer

  • Tectonic expression of an active slab‐tear from high‐resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore Sicily (Ionian Sea)

    Marc-André Gutscher;Stephane Dominguez;Bernard Mercier de Lepinay;Luis Pinheiro

  • Recent and active deformation pattern off the easternmost Algerian margin, Western Mediterranean Sea: New evidence for contractional tectonic reactivation

    Abdelaziz Kherroubi;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Abdelkarim Yelles;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Paleogeodynamic maps of the Caribbean; 14 steps from Lias to present

    J. F. Stephan;B. Mercier de Lepinay;E. Calais;M. Tardy

  • Cold seeps along the main Marmara Fault in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey)

    T.A.C. Zitter;P. Henry;G. Aloisi;G. Delaygue

  • Tectonic inheritance and Pliocene‐Pleistocene inversion of the Algerian margin around Algiers: Insights from multibeam and seismic reflection data

    Pierre Strzerzynski;Pierre Strzerzynski;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Antonio Cattaneo;Anne Domzig

  • From transcurrent faulting to frontal subduction: A seismotectonic study of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary from Cuba to Puerto Rico

    Eric Calais;Nicole Béthoux;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Plate boundary segmentation in the northeastern Caribbean from geodetic measurements and Neogene geological observations

    Éric Calais;Steeve Symithe;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Claude Prépetit

  • Is the Lower Duarte Igneous Complex (Hispaniola) a Remnant of the Caribbean Plume-Generated Oceanic Plateau?

    Henriette Lapierre;Vincent Dupuis;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Marc Tardy;Marc Tardy

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Jacques Déverchère
Jacques Déverchère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Serge Lallemand
Serge Lallemand University of Montpellier
Stéphane Dominguez
Stéphane Dominguez University of Montpellier
Marc-André Gutscher
Marc-André Gutscher Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frauke Klingelhoefer
Frauke Klingelhoefer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Antonio Cattaneo
Antonio Cattaneo French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jacques Bourgois
Jacques Bourgois Sorbonne University

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