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Philippe Agard

Philippe Agard

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Earth Science

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60
Citations
12628
World Ranking
1902
National Ranking
119

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Philippe Agard is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and is a researcher primarily engaged in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields within this domain, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Agard's recent papers reflect a focus on subduction zones, tectonics, and associated geophysical phenomena. Selected recent publications include:

  • Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Timescales of subduction initiation and evolution of subduction thermal regimes, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Seismic hazard of the western Makran subduction zone: Insight from mechanical modelling and inferred frictional properties, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Ocean Subduction Dynamics in the Alps, 2021, Elements
  • Structure of the Offshore Obducted Oman Margin: Emplacement of Semail Ophiolite and Role of Tectonic Inheritance, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Agard include Guillaume Bonnet, Thomas Gyomlai, Clément Herviou, Benoît Dubacq, and Anne Verlaguet.

The venues where Agard most often publishes work feature prominently in Earth and Planetary Sciences journals. These include:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Lithos
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Agard has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2020.

Best Publications

  • Convergence history across Zagros (Iran): constraints from collisional and earlier deformation

    Philippe Agard;J. Omrani;Laurent Jolivet;Frédéric Mouthereau

  • Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

    Philippe Agard;Jafar Omrani;Laurent Jolivet;Hubert Whitechurch

  • Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones :Timing and mechanisms

    Philippe Agard;Philippe Yamato;Laurent Jolivet;Evgenii Burov

  • Arc-magmatism and subduction history beneath the Zagros Mountains, Iran: A new report of adakites and geodynamic consequences

    Jafar Omrani;Philippe Agard;Hubert Whitechurch;Mathieu Benoit

  • Subduction tectonics and exhumation of high pressure metamorphic rocks in the Mediterranean orogens

    Laurent Jolivet;Claudio Faccenna;Bruno Goffé;Evgenii Burov

  • Exhumation Processes in Oceanic and Continental Subduction Contexts: A Review

    Stéphane Guillot;Keiko Hattori;Philippe Agard;Stéphane Schwartz

  • The subduction plate interface: rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

    P. Agard;A. Plunder;S. Angiboust;G. Bonnet

  • Tectonic significance of serpentinites

    Stéphane Guillot;Stéphane Schwartz;Bruno Reynard;Philippe Agard

  • Transient, synobduction exhumation of Zagros blueschists inferred from P‐T, deformation, time, and kinematic constraints: Implications for Neotethyan wedge dynamics

    P. Agard;P. Monié;W. Gerber;J. Omrani

  • The Zermatt‐Saas ophiolite: the largest (60‐km wide) and deepest (c. 70–80 km) continuous slice of oceanic lithosphere detached from a subduction zone?

    Samuel Angiboust;Philippe Agard;Laurent Jolivet;O. Beyssac

  • Exhumation of the Schistes Lustrés complex: in situ laser probe 40Ar/39Ar constraints and implications for the Western Alps

    P. Agard;P. Monié;L. Jolivet;B. Goffé

  • Plate acceleration: The obduction trigger?

    Philippe Agard;Laurent Jolivet;Bruno Vrielynck;Evgenii Burov

  • Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Schistes Lustres Complex; implications for the exhumation of HP and UHP rocks in the Western Alps

    Philippe Agard;Laurent Jolivet;Bruno Goffe

  • Burial and exhumation in a subduction wedge: Mutual constraints from thermomechanical modeling and natural P‐T‐t data (Schistes Lustrés, western Alps)

    P. Yamato;Philippe Agard;Evgenii Burov;Latetia Le Pourhiet

  • Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: Control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation

    Philippe Agard;Philippe Yamato;Mathieu Soret;Christophe Prigent

  • Subduction, convergence and the mode of backarc extension in the Mediterranean region

    Laurent Jolivet;Romain Augier;Claudio Faccenna;François Negro

  • Eclogitization of the Monviso ophiolite (W. Alps) and implications on subduction dynamics

    S. Angiboust;R. Langdon;P. Agard;D. Waters

  • Exhumation, doming and slab retreat in the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain): in situ40Ar/39Ar ages and P–T–d–t paths for the Nevado-Filabride complex

    Romain Augier;Philippe Agard;Patrick Monié;Laurent Jolivet

  • HP-UHP exhumation during slow continental subduction: Self-consistent thermodynamically and thermomechanically coupled model with application to the Western Alps

    P. Yamato;P. Yamato;E. Burov;P. Agard;L. Le Pourhiet

  • Subduction interface processes recorded by eclogite-facies shear zones (Monviso, W. Alps)

    Samuel Angiboust;Philippe Agard;Hugues Raimbourg;Philippe Yamato

  • Analysis of continental midcrustal strain localization induced by microfracturing and reaction‐softening

    Frédéric Gueydan;Yves M. Leroy;Laurent Jolivet;Philippe Agard

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
Samuel Angiboust
Samuel Angiboust Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Marc Fournier
Marc Fournier Sorbonne University
Evgenii Burov
Evgenii Burov Université Paris Cité
Laetitia Le Pourhiet
Laetitia Le Pourhiet Sorbonne University
Patrick Monié
Patrick Monié University of Montpellier
Bruno Goffé
Bruno Goffé Aix-Marseille University
Loïc Labrousse
Loïc Labrousse Sorbonne University
Gray E. Bebout
Gray E. Bebout Lehigh University
Timm John
Timm John Freie Universität Berlin

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