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Jean-Louis Mugnier is affiliated with the Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France. Their research spans several domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on understanding geological and climatic processes through multidisciplinary approaches.

The main fields of study addressed in their research are Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these areas, Mugnier has contributed extensively to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Mugnier's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

The scientist has a record of publications in frequent venues such as:

  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Boreas
  • Environmental Research Letters

Among their recent papers are:

  • The impact of climate change and glacier mass loss on the hydrology in the Mont-Blanc massif, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Millennial-scale deglaciation across the European Alps at the transition between the Younger Dryas and the Early Holocene - evidence from a new cosmogenic nuclide chronology, 2021, Boreas
  • SAR and optical images correlation illuminates post-seismic landslide motion after the Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal), 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Seismic Coupling Quantified on Inferred Décollements Beneath the Western Syntaxis of the Himalaya, 2020, Tectonics
  • New perspectives in studying active faults in metropolitan France: the "Active faults France" (FACT/ATS) research axis from the Resif-Epos consortium, 2022, Comptes Rendus Géoscience

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

  • Riccardo Vassallo
  • Jean-François Buoncristiani
  • François Jouanne
  • Julien Carcaillet
  • Léa Courtial-Manent

Best Publications

  • Structural inversion and its controls : examples from the Alpine foreland and the French Alps

    Ralph Gillcrist;Mike Coward;Jean-Louis Mugnier

  • A Rouse-based method to integrate the chemical composition of river sediments: Application to the Ganga basin

    Maarten Lupker;Christian France-Lanord;Jérôme Lavé;Julien Bouchez

  • Current shortening across the Himalayas of Nepal

    François Jouanne;Jean-Louis Mugnier;J. F. Gamond;P. Le Fort

  • Thrust geometry controlled by erosion and sedimentation: A view from analogue models

    J. L. Mugnier;P. Baby;B. Colletta;P. Vinour

  • Structural interpretation of the great earthquakes of the last millennium in the central Himalaya

    J.-L. Mugnier;A. Gajurel;A. Gajurel;P. Huyghe;R. Jayangondaperumal

  • Miocene to Recent exhumation of the central Himalaya determined from combined detrital zircon fission‐track and U/Pb analysis of Siwalik sediments, western Nepal

    Matthias Bernet;Peter van der Beek;Raphaël Pik;Pascale Huyghe

  • Late Miocene – Recent exhumation of the central Himalaya and recycling in the foreland basin assessed by apatite fission-track thermochronology of Siwalik sediments, Nepal

    Pieter van der Beek;Xavier Robert;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Matthias Bernet

  • Long-term fluvial incision rates and postglacial river relaxation time in the French Western Alps from 10Be dating of alluvial terraces with assessment of inheritance, soil development and wind ablation effects

    G.Y. Brocard;P.A. van der Beek;D.L. Bourlès;L.L. Siame

  • Propagation of the thrust system and erosion in the Lesser Himalaya: Geochemical and sedimentological evidence

    Pascale Huyghe;Albert Galy;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Christian France-Lanord

  • The Siwaliks of western Nepal I. Geometry and kinematics

    J.L Mugnier;P Leturmy;G Mascle;P Huyghe

  • Oblique convergence in the Himalayas of western Nepal deduced from preliminary results of GPS measurements

    F. Jouanne;J. L. Mugnier;M. R. Pandey;J. F. Gamond

  • Control of detachment geometry on lateral variations in exhumation rates in the Himalaya: Insights from low‐temperature thermochronology and numerical modeling

    Xavier Robert;Xavier Robert;Peter van der Beek;Jean Braun;Claire Perry;Claire Perry

  • Growth and lateral propagation of fault‐related folds in the Siwaliks of western Nepal: Rates, mechanisms, and geomorphic signature

    Bénédicte Champel;Peter van der Beek;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Pascale Leturmy;Pascale Leturmy

  • Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya constrained by detrital 40Ar–39Ar, Sm–Nd and petrographic data from the Siwalik foreland basin succession, SW Nepal

    A. G. Szulc;Y. Najman;H. D. Sinclair;M. Pringle

  • Episodicity and Rates of Thrust-sheet Motion in the Himalayas (Western Nepal)

    Jean-Louis Mugnier;Pascale Huyghe;Pascale Leturmy;François Jouanne

  • Neogene evolution of the western Alpine foreland in the light of ECORS data and balanced cross-section

    S. Guellec;J.-L. Mugnier;M. Tardy;F. Roure

  • Piggyback basin development above a thin-skinned thrust belt with two detachment levels as a function of interactions between tectonic and superficial mass transfer : the case of the subandean zone (Bolivia)

    P. Leturmy;J.L. Mugnier;P. Vinour;Patrice Baby

  • Control of detachment dip on drainage development in regions of active fault-propagation folding

    Peter van der Beek;Bénédicte Champel;Jean-Louis Mugnier

  • Seismites in the Kathmandu basin and seismic hazard in central Himalaya

    Jean-Louis Mugnier;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Pascale Huyghe;Ananta Prasad Gajurel;Ananta Prasad Gajurel;Bishal Nath Upreti

  • Assessing Quaternary reactivation of the Main Central thrust zone (central Nepal Himalaya): New thermochronologic data and numerical modeling

    Xavier Robert;Peter van der Beek;Jean Braun;Claire Perry

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascale Huyghe
Pascale Huyghe Grenoble Alpes University
Julien Carcaillet
Julien Carcaillet Institut des Sciences de la Terre
Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Arnaud Pêcher
Arnaud Pêcher Grenoble Alpes University
Matthias Bernet
Matthias Bernet Grenoble Alpes University
Patrice Baby
Patrice Baby Paul Sabatier University
Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
Albert Galy
Albert Galy University of Lorraine
Henriette Lapierre
Henriette Lapierre University of Quebec at Montreal

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