2026 Christian Teyssier: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	62	1691	1514	744	648	283	12892

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Christian Teyssier is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysics. Their research spans topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other areas of interest include geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

The scientist has published numerous papers in various high-impact venues. Frequent publication venues include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geology, Geosphere, Journal of Structural Geology, and Tectonophysics.

Deformation-enhanced recrystallization of titanite drives decoupling between U-Pb and trace elements (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system (2023, Geology)
Deep crustal source of gneiss dome revealed by eclogite in migmatite (Montagne Noire, French Massif Central) (2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology)
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey, during the transition from Arabia-Eurasia collision to escape tectonics (2020, Geosphere)
Single-phase vs two-phase rifting: Numerical perspectives on the accommodation of extension during continental break-up (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)

Christian Teyssier has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Donna L. Whitney, Patrice Rey, Michael A. Cosca, Françoise Roger, and Clémentine Hamelin.

Donna L. Whitney
Patrice Rey
Michael A. Cosca
Françoise Roger
Clémentine Hamelin

The scientist has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Cambridge University Press titled "Plate Tectonics" in 2024.

Christian Teyssier is recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

Strain modeling of displacement-field partitioning in transpressional orogens

Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier

673
Citations
An evaluation of quartzite flow laws based on comparisons between experimentally and naturally deformed rocks

Greg Hirth;Christian Teyssier;James W. Dunlap

581
Citations
Gravitational collapse of the continental crust: definition, regimes and modes

P. Rey;O. Vanderhaeghe;Christian Teyssier

547
Citations
Oblique plate motion and continental tectonics

Christian Teyssier;Basil Tikoff;Michelle Markley

422
Citations
Partial melting and flow of orogens

Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Christian Teyssier

410
Citations
Continental and oceanic core complexes

Donna L. Whitney;Christian Teyssier;Patrice Rey;W. Roger Buck

400
Citations
Gneiss domes and orogeny

Christian Teyssier;Donna L. Whitney

344
Citations
Crustal-scale, en echelon P-shear tensional bridges: A possible solution to the batholithic room problem

Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier

331
Citations
Earthquakes in the ductile regime

B. E. Hobbs;A. Ord;C. Teyssier

329
Citations
Partial convective overturn of Archaean crust in the east Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: driving mechanisms and tectonic implications

W. J. Collins;W. J. Collins;W. J. Collins;M. J. Van Kranendonk;Christian Teyssier

304
Citations
Strain modeling of transpressional and transtensional deformation

Haakon Fossen;Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier;H. Fossen

287
Citations
Transpressional kinematics and magmatic arcs

Michel De Saint Blanquat;Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier;Jean Louis Vigneresse

263
Citations
Gneiss domes and crustal flow

Donna L. Whitney;Christian Teyssier;Olivier Vanderhaeghe

247
Citations
Tectonic controls on metamorphism, partial melting, and intrusion: timing and duration of regional metamorphism and magmatism in the Niğde Massif, Turkey

Donna L Whitney;Christian Teyssier;Annia K Fayon;Michael A Hamilton

227
Citations
Thermomechanical evolution of a ductile duplex

W. J. Dunlap;W. J. Dunlap;G. Hirth;Christian Teyssier

222
Citations
Extension rates, crustal melting, and core complex dynamics

P. F. Rey;Christian Teyssier;Donna L Whitney

204
Citations
Structural and geochronological constraints on the role of partial melting during the formation of the Shuswap metamorphic core complex at the latitude of the Thor-Odin dome, British Columbia

Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Christian Teyssier;Richard Wysoczanski

188
Citations
Partial melting and decompression of the Thor-Odin dome, Shuswap metamorphic core complex, Canadian Cordillera

Britt H Norlander;Donna L Whitney;Christian Teyssier;Olivier Vanderhaeghe

184
Citations
Strike-slip partitioned transpression of the San Andreas fault system: a lithospheric-scale approach

Christian Teyssier;Basil Tikoff

180
Citations
Crustal-scale rheological transitions during late-orogenic collapse

Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Christian Teyssier

179
Citations
An evaluation of quartzite flow laws based on comparisons between experimentally and naturally deformed rocks (special issue on Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Microstructures)

C Hirth;Christian Teyssier;William James Dunlap

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna L. Whitney University of Minnesota

Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt

Basil Tikoff University of Wisconsin–Madison

Olivier Vanderhaeghe University of Lorraine

Eric C. Ferré New Mexico State University

Haakon Fossen University of Bergen

Torsten Vennemann University of Lausanne

Greg Hirth Brown University

Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona

Matt Heizler New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

External Links

Personal website of Christian Teyssier

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