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Neil S. Mancktelow

Neil S. Mancktelow

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Earth Science

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54
Citations
8368
World Ranking
2764
National Ranking
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Overview

Neil S. Mancktelow is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Additional areas of study include Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, Materials Chemistry, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work involve earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, granular flow and fluidized beds, material dynamics and properties, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Mancktelow has contributed to several publications across various scientific journals. Their recent papers include:

  • Time-Lapse Record of an Earthquake in the Dry Felsic Lower Continental Crust Preserved in a Pseudotachylyte-Bearing Fault, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • The earthquake cycle in the dry lower continental crust: insights from two deeply exhumed terranes (Musgrave Ranges, Australia and Lofoten, Norway), 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Intermittent fracturing in the middle continental crust as evidence for transient switching of principal stress axes associated with the subduction zone earthquake cycle, 2020, Geology

Other connected research articles where Mancktelow is a coauthor or relevant contributor include works published in the Journal of Structural Geology, such as Carbonate deformation through the brittle-ductile transition: The case of the SW Helvetic nappes, Switzerland (2024) and Strain-rate- and capillary-number-dependent deformation of weak viscous particles (2022).

Frequent collaborators with whom Mancktelow has coauthored multiple studies include:

  • Giorgio Pennacchioni
  • Alfredo Camacho
  • Giovanni Toffol
  • Luca Menegon
  • Lucy Campbell

The venues where their research appears reflect interdisciplinary interests, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Time-dependent effects of heat advection and topography on cooling histories during erosion

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Bernhard Grasemann

  • The influence of grain boundary fluids on the microstructure of quartz-feldspar mylonites

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • The control of precursor brittle fracture and fluid–rock interaction on the development of single and paired ductile shear zones

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • The Simplon line: a major displacement zone in the western Lepontine Alps

    N. Mancktelow

  • Exhumation in a convergent orogen: the western Tauern window

    Bernhard Fiigenschuh;Diane Seward;Neil Mancktelow

  • Rare earth and trace element mobility in mid-crustal shear zones: insights from the Mont Blanc Massif (Western Alps)

    Yann Rolland;Stephen Cox;Anne-Marie Boullier;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Neogene lateral extension during convergence in the Central Alps: Evidence from interrelated faulting and backfolding around the Simplonpass (Switzerland)

    Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Fold-fault relationships in low-angle detachment systems

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Terry L. Pavlis

  • Tectonic pressure: Theoretical concepts and modelled examples

    Neil S Mancktelow

  • Nucleation and initial growth of a shear zone network within compositionally and structurally heterogeneous granitoids under amphibolite facies conditions

    Giorgio Pennacchioni;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Timing of Alpine fault gouges

    Horst Zwingmann;Neil Mancktelow

  • Two-dimensional thermal modelling of normal faulting: the Simplon Fault Zone, Central Alps, Switzerland

    Bernhard Grasemann;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Neogene kinematics of the central and western Alps: Evidence from fission-track dating

    Diane Seward;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Fluid flow during slab unbending and dehydration: Implications for intermediate‐depth seismicity, slab weakening and deep water recycling

    Manuele Faccenda;Taras V Gerya;Neil S Mancktelow;Louis-Noel Moresi

  • Nonlithostatic pressure during sediment subduction and the development and exhumation of high pressure metamorphic rocks

    Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Late Oligocene‐Neogene evolution of Europe‐Adria collision: New structural and geochronological evidence from the Giudicarie fault system (Italian Eastern Alps)

    Giulio Viola;Neil S. Mancktelow;Diane Seward

  • Deformation around rigid particles: The influence of slip at the particle/matrix interface

    Benoît Ildefonse;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Mechanical interactions between rigid particles in a deforming ductile matrix. Analogue experiments in simple shear flow

    Benoît Ildefonse;Dimitrios Sokoutis;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Periadriatic Fault System (Alps)

    Wolfgang Müller;Giacomo Prosser;Neil S. Mancktelow;Igor M. Villa

  • The DAV and Periadriatic fault systems in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Daniel F. Stöckli;Balz Grollimund;Wolfgang Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Pennacchioni
Giorgio Pennacchioni University of Padua
Stefan M. Schmalholz
Stefan M. Schmalholz University of Lausanne
Giulio Viola
Giulio Viola University of Bologna
Diane Seward
Diane Seward Victoria University of Wellington
Horst Zwingmann
Horst Zwingmann Kyoto University
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne
Anne-Marie Boullier
Anne-Marie Boullier Grenoble Alpes University
Stephen F. Cox
Stephen F. Cox Australian National University
Karsten Kunze
Karsten Kunze ETH Zurich

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