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Bruno C. Vendeville

Bruno C. Vendeville

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
7074
World Ranking
7082
National Ranking
550

Overview

Bruno C. Vendeville is affiliated with the University of Lille in France, working primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focus encompasses several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Mechanics of Materials, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Frequent venues for their scholarly publications include:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • Tectonics

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored with Vendeville are:

  • "Shelf-derived mass-transport deposits: origin and significance in the stratigraphic development of trench-slope basins" (2021), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • "Contrasting mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf-derived gravity-driven systems in compressional intra-slope basins (southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand)" (2021), Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Interaction between basement inherited strike-slip structures and thrust wedge propagation in the northern Tianshan foreland basin: Insight from analogue modelling experiments" (2024), Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Analogue modeling of the role of salt in the structuration of thin-skinned pull-apart basins: The case study of El Hamma basin, Central Tunisia" (2022), Journal of Structural Geology
  • "The perched synclines look-alike of central Tunisia: Examples of diapir rise - Fall - Rise illustrated by field, geophysical, and experimental data" (2021), Journal of Structural Geology

Collaborations form a significant part of their academic work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Frank Chanier
  • Fabien Graveleau
  • Barbara Claussmann
  • Julien Bailleul
  • Geoffroy Mahieux

Bruno C. Vendeville has produced a body of work that spans both theoretical and applied aspects of Earth sciences, integrating geological and geophysical approaches to better understand structural dynamics, sedimentary processes, and tectonic phenomena across various geographical contexts.

Best Publications

  • The fall of diapirs during thin-skinned extension

    B. C. Vendeville;Martin P Jackson

  • Rheological and tectonic modeling of salt provinces

    R. Weijermars;Martin P Jackson;B. Vendeville

  • Regional extension as a geologic trigger for diapirism

    Martin P Jackson;B. C. Vendeville

  • Experimental insights on the geometry and kinematics of fold-and-thrust belts above weak, viscous evaporitic décollement

    E. Costa;B.C. Vendeville

  • Physical models of extensional tectonics at various scales

    B. Vendeville;P. R. Cobbold;P. Davy;P. Choukroune

  • Kinematics and Dynamics of Salt Tectonics Driven by Progradation

    Hongxing Ge;Martin P. A. Jackson;Bruno C. Vendeville;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • Structural Dynamics of Salt Systems

    Martin P. A. Jackson;Bruno C. Vendeville;Daniel D. Schultz-Ela

  • Mechanics of active salt diapirism

    D. D. Schultz-Ela;M. P. A. Jackson;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • Duplex style and triangle zone formation: insights from physical modeling

    Brent A. Couzens-Schultz;Bruno C. Vendeville;David V. Wiltschko

  • Foldbelts with early salt withdrawal and diapirism: Physical model and examples from the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Flinders Ranges, Australia

    Mark G. Rowan;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • The Nile deep-sea fan : An example of interacting sedimentation, salt tectonics, and inherited subsalt paleotopographic features

    Lies Loncke;Virginie Gaullier;Jean Mascle;Bruno Vendeville

  • Scale models of salt tectonics during basement-involved extension

    B. C. Vendeville;Hongxing Ge;M. P. A. Jackson

  • Salt tectonics driven by sediment progradation: Part I—Mechanics and kinematics

    Bruno C. Vendeville

  • Kinematic analysis of faults in a physical model of growth faulting above a viscous salt analogue

    C. Childs;S. J. Easton;B. C. Vendeville;Martin P Jackson

  • The role of deformation in controlling depositional patterns in the south-central Niger Delta, West Africa

    Robert J. Hooper;Roy J. Fitzsimmons;Neil Grant;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • Some experiments on interacting sedimentation and deformation above salt horizons

    P. Cobbold;E. Rossello;B. Vendeville

  • The salt mine : a digital atlas of salt tectonics

    Michael R. Hudec;Martin P. A. Jackson;Nancy Cottington;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • How normal faulting and sedimentation interact to produce listric fault profiles and stratigraphic wedges

    Bruno Vendeville;Peter R Cobbold

  • The effect of decollement dip on geometry and kinematics of model accretionary wedges

    Hemin A Koyi;Bruno C Vendeville

  • Salt tectonics at passive margins: Geology versus models – Discussion

    Mark G. Rowan;Frank J. Peel;Bruno C. Vendeville;Virginie Gaullier

  • EPISODIC GROWTH OF SALT DIAPIRS DRIVEN BY HORIZONTAL SHORTENING

    Bruno C. Vendeville;Kåre T. Nilsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. A. Jackson
Martin P. A. Jackson The University of Texas at Austin
Hemin Koyi
Hemin Koyi Uppsala University
Walter R. Roest
Walter R. Roest University of Western Brittany
Jean Mascle
Jean Mascle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Paul Callot
Jean-Paul Callot University of Pau and the Adour Region
George E. Hilley
George E. Hilley Stanford University
Susanne J. H. Buiter
Susanne J. H. Buiter Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Mark G. Rowan
Mark G. Rowan University of Colorado Boulder
Roy W. Schlische
Roy W. Schlische Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Guido Schreurs
Guido Schreurs University of Bern

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