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Mireille Laigle

Mireille Laigle

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Earth Science

D-Index
30
Citations
2594
World Ranking
9173
National Ranking
753

Overview

Mireille Laigle is affiliated with GeoAzur in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research extends primarily into Geophysics, alongside contributions to Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering. Their work spans topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, and marine biology and ecology research.

Laigle's frequent co-authors include Boris Marcaillou, Serge Lallemand, Jean-Frédéric Lebrun, Frauke Klingelhoëfer, and Philippe Münch. This network of collaborators has contributed to advancing understanding in several geoscientific disciplines.

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with the most frequent publication venues including the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Earth-Science Reviews, Tectonics, Communications Earth & Environment, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Recent publications by Laigle cover a range of geological and geophysical topics:

  • Genetic Relations Between the Aves Ridge and the Grenada Back-Arc Basin, East Caribbean Sea (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • Paleogene V-Shaped Basins and Neogene Subsidence of the Northern Lesser Antilles Forearc (2021), Tectonics
  • 3D Local Earthquake Tomography of the Ecuadorian Margin in the Source Area of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales Earthquake (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Pervasive detachment faults within the slow spreading oceanic crust at the poorly coupled Antilles subduction zone (2021), Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Roots of Etna volcano in faults of great earthquakes

    Alfred Hirn;Rinaldo Nicolich;Josep Gallart;Mireille Laigle

  • Western Hellenic subduction and Cephalonia Transform: local earthquakes and plate transport and strain

    Maria Sachpazi;Alfred Hirn;C. Clément;F. Haslinger

  • Crustal structure of the Ionian margin of Sicily: Etna volcano in the frame of regional evolution

    R. Nicolich;M. Laigle;A. Hirn;L. Cernobori

  • The structures, stratigraphy and evolution of the Gulf of Corinth rift, Greece

    Brian Taylor;Jonathan R. Weiss;Andrew M. Goodliffe;Maria Sachpazi

  • Slip-rate variability and distributed deformation in the Marmara Sea fault system

    Tobias Hergert;Oliver Heidbach

  • Mount Etna dense array local earthquake P and S tomography and implications for volcanic plumbing

    Mireille Laigle;Alfred Hirn;Martine Sapin;Jean-Claude Lépine

  • Deep structure of the central Lesser Antilles Island Arc: Relevance for the formation of continental crust

    Heidrun Kopp;Wolfgang Weinzierl;A. Becel;P. Charvis

  • Moho, crustal architecture and deep deformation under the North Marmara Trough, from the SEISMARMARA Leg 1 offshore–onshore reflection–refraction survey

    Anne Bécel;Mireille Laigle;Béatrice de Voogd;Alfred Hirn

  • Crustal thickening and variations in architecture from the Qaidam basin to the Qang Tang (North-Central Tibetan Plateau) from wide-angle reflection seismology

    M. Jiang;A. Galvé;A. Galvé;A. Hirn;B. De Voogd

  • A first deep seismic survey in the Sea of Marmara: Deep basins and whole crust architecture and evolution

    Mireille Laigle;Anne Becel;Béatrice de Voogd;Alfred Hirn

  • Rift structure, evolution, and earthquakes in the Gulf of Corinth, from reflection seismic images

    Maria Sachpazi;Christophe Clément;Mireille Laigle;Alfred Hirn

  • Dehydration of subducting slow-spread oceanic lithosphere in the Lesser Antilles.

    Michele Paulatto;Mireille Laigle;Audrey Galve;Philippe Charvis

  • Variation of seismic coupling with slab detachment and upper plate structure along the western Hellenic subduction zone

    Mireille Laigle;Maria Sachpazi;Alfred Hirn

  • Explosion seismic P and S velocity and attenuation constraints on the lower crust of the North-Central Tibetan Plateau, and comparison with the Tethyan Himalayas: Implications on composition, mineralogy, temperature, and tectonic evolution

    A. Galvé;A. Galvé;M. Jiang;A. Hirn;M. Sapin

  • North Marmara Trough architecture of basin infill, basement and faults, from PSDM reflection and OBS refraction seismics

    Anne Bécel;Mireille Laigle;Béatrice de Voogd;Alfred Hirn

  • Segmented Hellenic slab rollback driving Aegean deformation and seismicity

    Maria Sachpazi;Mireille Laigle;Marinos Charalampakis;Jordi Diaz

  • 3-D sediment-basement tomography of the Northern Marmara trough by a dense OBS network at the nodes of a grid of controlled source profiles along the North Anatolian fault

    G. Bayrakci;G. Bayrakci;M. Laigle;A. Bécel;A. Bécel;A. Hirn

  • Genetic Relations Between the Aves Ridge and the Grenada Back-Arc Basin, East Caribbean Sea

    Clément Garrocq;Serge Lallemand;Boris Marcaillou;Jean-Frédéric Lebrun

  • Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles

    Jean-Jacques Cornee;Philippe Münch;Mélody Philippon;Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel

  • Geomechanical model of the Marmara Sea region—I. 3-D contemporary kinematics

    Tobias Hergert;Tobias Hergert;Oliver Heidbach;Anne Bécel;Anne Bécel;Mireille Laigle

  • Moho topography under central Greece and its compensation by Pn time-terms for the accurate location of hypocenters: The example of the Gulf of Corinth 1995 Aigion earthquake

    M. Sachpazi;A. Galvé;M. Laigle;A. Hirn

  • Seismic structure and activity of the north-central Lesser Antilles subduction zone from an integrated approach: Similarities with the Tohoku forearc

    M. Laigle;M. Laigle;A. Hirn;M. Sapin;A. Bécel

  • Seismological and SAR signature of unrest at Nisyros caldera, Greece

    M Sachpazi;Ch Kontoes;N Voulgaris;M Laigle

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Diaz
Jordi Diaz Spanish National Research Council
Philippe Charvis
Philippe Charvis Université Côte d'Azur
Ernst R. Flueh
Ernst R. Flueh GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Heidrun Kopp
Heidrun Kopp GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Edi Kissling
Edi Kissling ETH Zurich
Josep Gallart
Josep Gallart Spanish National Research Council
Tuncay Taymaz
Tuncay Taymaz Istanbul Technical University
Serge Lallemand
Serge Lallemand University of Montpellier
Mario Ruiz
Mario Ruiz National Polytechnic School
Frauke Klingelhoefer
Frauke Klingelhoefer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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