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Jacques Déverchère is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including geophysics, earth-surface processes, geology, atmospheric science, and mechanics of materials. The focus areas of their work involve earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geological and geochemical analysis, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

They have published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for Déverchère include:

  • Tectonics
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Tectonophysics
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience

Some recent papers featuring Déverchère's work include:

  • "Tectonic Inversion and Geomorphic Evolution of the Algerian Margin Since Messinian Times: Insights From New Onshore/Offshore Analog Modeling Experiments," 2021, Tectonics
  • "Back-Arc Dynamics Controlled by Slab Rollback and Tearing: A Reappraisal of Seafloor Spreading and Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern Algero-Balearic Basin (Western Mediterranean) in the Middle-Late Miocene," 2022, Tectonics
  • "Deep structure of the Demerara Plateau and its two-fold tectonic evolution: from a volcanic margin to a transform marginal plateau, insights from the Conjugate Guinea Plateau," 2022, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • "On the origin and consequences of crustal-scale extension between Africa and Sicily since Late Miocene: insights from the Kaboudia area, western Pelagian Sea," 2020, Tectonophysics
  • "Characteristics and possible origins of the seismicity in northwestern France," 2021, Comptes Rendus Géoscience

Déverchère has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • David Graindorge
  • Frauke Klingelhoëfer
  • Mohamed Arab
  • Mourad Medaouri
  • Julie Perrot

The topics that dominate Déverchère's research output involve earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies on a global scale, and detailed geological and geochemical analyses. Their work contributes to understanding geological formations and processes as well as investigations into earth-surface dynamics.

Best Publications

  • GPS measurements of crustal deformation in the Baikal-Mongolia area (1994–2002): Implications for current kinematics of Asia

    Eric Calais;Mathilde Vergnolle;Vladimir San'kov;Andrei Lukhnev

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Structure and evolution of the Baikal rift: A synthesis

    Carole Petit;Jacques Déverchère

  • Depth distribution of earthquakes in the Baikal rift system and its implications for the rheology of the lithosphere

    Jacques Déverchère;Carole Petit;Nadejda Gileva;Natalia Radziminovitch

  • Back arc extension, tectonic inheritance, and volcanism in the Ligurian Sea, Western Mediterranean

    Nadège Rollet;Jacques Déverchère;Marie-Odile Beslier;Pol Guennoc

  • Refining our knowledge of the Messinian salinity crisis records in the offshore domain through multi-site seismic analysis

    Johanna Lofi;Françoise Sage;Jacques Déverchère;Lies Loncke

  • Crustal rheology and depth distribution of earthquakes: Insights from the central and southern East African Rift System

    Julie Albaric;Jacques Déverchère;Carole Petit;Julie Perrot

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

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

  • Rift propagation at craton margin.: Distribution of faulting and volcanism in the North Tanzanian Divergence (East Africa) during Neogene times

    B. Le Gall;P. Nonnotte;J. Rolet;M. Benoit

  • Crustal deformation in the Baikal Rift from GPS measurements

    Eric Calais;Olivia Lesne;Jacques Déverchère;Vladimir San'kov

  • Deep structure of the Baikal rift zone revealed by joint inversion of gravity and seismology

    C Tiberi;M Diament;Jacques Déverchère;C Petit-Mariani

  • 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

  • Seismic Atlas of the Messinian Salinity Crisis markers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

    Johanna Lofi;Jacques Déverchère;Virginie Gaullier;Hervé Gillet

  • Deep structure and mechanical behavior of the lithosphere in the Hangai-Hövsgöl region, Mongolia: new constraints from gravity modeling

    Carole Petit;Jacques Déverchère;Eric Calais;Vladimir San’kov

  • 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

  • Upper mantle flow beneath and around the Hangay dome, Central Mongolia

    Guilhem Barruol;Anne Deschamps;Jacques Déverchère;Valentina V. Mordvinova

  • Velocity structure around the Baikal rift zone from teleseismic and local earthquake traveltimes and geodynamic implications

    Carole Petit;Ivan Koulakov;Ivan Koulakov;Jacques Deverchère

  • The transition from Alboran to Algerian basins (Western Mediterranean Sea): Chronostratigraphy, deep crustal structure and tectonic evolution at the rear of a narrow slab rollback system

    Mourad Medaouri;Jacques Déverchère;David Graindorge;Rabah Bracene

  • Evidence for a seismogenic upper mantle and lower crust in the Baikal rift

    Jacques Déverchère;Frédérique Houdry;Michel Diament;Natalia V. Solonenko

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Cattaneo
Antonio Cattaneo French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frauke Klingelhoefer
Frauke Klingelhoefer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Cynthia J. Ebinger
Cynthia J. Ebinger Tulane University
Michel Diament
Michel Diament Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Bruno Savoye
Bruno Savoye French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bernard Mercier de Lépinay
Bernard Mercier de Lépinay Université Côte d'Azur
Jean-François Ritz
Jean-François Ritz University of Montpellier
François Roure
François Roure French Institute of Petroleum

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