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Damien Delvaux is a researcher affiliated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on geophysics, earth-surface processes, and geology, with additional contributions in artificial intelligence and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's research encompasses various topics, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Delvaux has published numerous papers, with notable recent works including:

  • The Congo Basin: Stratigraphy and subsurface structure defined by regional seismic reflection, refraction and well data (2020) in Global and Planetary Change
  • Seismogenic Fault Reactivation in Western Central Africa: Insights From Regional Stress Analysis (2022) in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic implications (2020) in South African Journal of Geology
  • Thickness of sediments in the Congo basin based on the analysis of decompensative gravity anomalies (2021) in Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Exhumation of the passive margin of the DR Congo during pre- and post- Gondwana breakup: Evidence from low-temperature thermochronology, geology and geomorphology (2021) in Geomorphology

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Francesca Maddaloni
  • Magdala Tesauro
  • Carla Braitenberg
  • Hardy Medry Dieu-Veill Nkodia
  • Florent Boudzoumou

Delvaux publishes regularly in scientific venues such as:

  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geotectonics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Among their academic contributions is a book published in the Geologica Belgica conference proceedings titled Géologie et ressources naturelles en Afrique centrale, impact sociétal et développement durable (2024), addressing geology and natural resources in Central Africa with implications for societal development and sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Paleostress reconstructions and geodynamics of the Baikal region, Central Asia, Part 2. Cenozoic rifting

    Damien Delvaux;Rikkert Moeys;Gerco Stapel;Carole Petit

  • New aspects of tectonic stress inversion with reference to the TENSOR program

    D. Delvaux;B. Sperner

  • African stress pattern from formal inversion of focal mechanism data

    Damien Delvaux;Andreas Barth

  • Present-day kinematics of the East African Rift

    E. Saria;E. Calais;D. S. Stamps;D. S. Stamps;D. Delvaux

  • Tectonic stress in the Earth’s crust: advances in the World Stress Map project

    B. Sperner;B. Müller;O. Heidbach;D. Delvaux

  • Palaeostress reconstructions and geodynamics of the Baikal region, Central Asia, Part I. Palaeozoic and Mesozoic pre-rift evolution

    D. Delvaux;R. Moeys;G. Stapel;A. Melnikov

  • Strain accommodation by slow slip and dyking in a youthful continental rift, East Africa

    Eric Calais;Nicolas d'Oreye;Julie Albaric;Anne Deschamps

  • Meso- and Cenozoic Tectonics of the Central Asian Mountain Belt: Effects of Lithospheric Plate Interaction and Mantle Plumes

    N. L. Dobretsov;M. M. Buslov;D. Delvaux;N. A. Berzin

  • Present‐day stress field changes along the Baikal rift and tectonic implications

    Carole Petit;Jacques Déverchère;Frédérique Houdry;Vladimir A. Sankov

  • Structure and geological history of the Congo Basin: an integrated interpretation of gravity, magnetic and reflection seismic data

    E. Kadima;D. Delvaux;S. N. Sebagenzi;L. Tack

  • Geodynamic significance of the TRM segment in the East African Rift (W-Tanzania): Active tectonics and paleostress in the Ufipa plateau and Rukwa basin

    D. Delvaux;F. Kervyn;A.S. Macheyeki;E.B. Temu

  • CENOZOIC PALEOSTRESS AND KINEMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE RUKWA - NORTH MALAWI RIFT VALLEY (EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM)

    Damien Delvaux;Kirill Levi;Julius Sarota

  • Spatial variation of present-day stress field and tectonic regime in Tunisia and surroundings from formal inversion of focal mechanisms: Geodynamic implications for central Mediterranean

    Abdelkader Soumaya;Noureddine Ben Ayed;Damien Delvaux;Mohamed Ghanmi

  • Denudation history of the Malawi and Rukwa Rift flanks (East African Rift System) from apatite fission track thermochronology

    Peter Van der Beek;Evelyne Mbede;Paul Andriessen;Damien Delvaux

  • Seismic triggering of landslides, Part A: Field evidence from the Northern Tien Shan

    H.-B. Havenith;A. Strom;D. Jongmans;D. Jongmans;A. Abdrakhmatov

  • Basin evolution in a folding lithosphere: Altai-Sayan and Tien Shan belts in Central Asia

    D. Delvaux;D. Delvaux;S Cloetingh;F. Beekman;D. Sokoutis

  • AGE OF LAKE MALAWI (NYASA) AND WATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS

    D. Delvaux

  • The Rwenzori Mountains, a landslide-prone region?

    Liesbet Jacobs;Liesbet Jacobs;Olivier Dewitte;Jean Poesen;Damien Delvaux

  • Tectonic history of the Irtysh shear zone (NE Kazakhstan): new constraints from zircon U/Pb dating, apatite fission track dating and palaeostress analysis.

    S. Glorie;J. De Grave;D. Delvaux;M.M. Buslov

  • Early Cretaceous denudation related to convergent tectonics in the Baikal region, SE Siberia

    P.A. Van Der Beek;D. Delvaux;P.A.M. Andriessen;K.G. Levi

Frequent Co-Authors

M.M. Buslov
M.M. Buslov V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
Olivier Dewitte
Olivier Dewitte Royal Museum for Central Africa
Hans-Balder Havenith
Hans-Balder Havenith University of Liège
Matthieu Kervyn
Matthieu Kervyn Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Carla Braitenberg
Carla Braitenberg University of Trieste
Nathalie Fagel
Nathalie Fagel University of Liège
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich

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