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Overview

Serge Lallemand is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has a focused research portfolio primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their published work spans various subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology. The bulk of their research addresses geological and geophysical phenomena with a particular emphasis on earthquake and tectonic studies and geological and geochemical analysis.

Their recent research contributions include several papers published in notable scientific journals. Key publications are:

  • Subduction initiation from the earliest stages to self-sustained subduction: Insights from the analysis of 70 Cenozoic sites (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Eocene intra-plate shortening responsible for the rise of a faunal pathway in the northeastern Caribbean realm (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • 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)
  • Can subduction initiation at a transform fault be spontaneous? (2020, Solid Earth)

Their work has been cited multiple times, reflecting engagement with the scientific community across topics related to tectonics and subduction processes. Frequent coauthors collaborating on this research include Philippe Münch, Boris Marcaillou, Mélody Philippon, Jean-Jacques Cornée, and Jean-Frédéric Lebrun.

Lallemand's papers appear regularly in several prominent scientific venues, with multiple publications in Tectonics, Earth-Science Reviews, PLoS ONE, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Main thematic areas of their research include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Geological and tectonic studies in Latin America
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Geological and geophysical studies worldwide
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geophysical studies

Best Publications

  • On the relationships between slab dip, back‐arc stress, upper plate absolute motion, and crustal nature in subduction zones

    Serge Lallemand;Arnauld Heuret;David Boutelier

  • Tectonic segmentation of the North Andean margin: impact of the Carnegie Ridge collision

    M.-A Gutscher;J Malavieille;S Lallemand;J.-Y Collot

  • Plate motions, slab dynamics and back-arc deformation

    Arnauld Heuret;Serge Lallemand

  • Tectonic erosion along the Japan and Peru convergent margins

    R. Von Huene;S. Lallemand

  • Coulomb theory applied to accretionary and nonaccretionary wedges: Possible causes for tectonic erosion and/or frontal accretion

    Serge E. Lallemand;Philippe Schnürle;Jacques Malavieille

  • UPPER PLATE DEFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH SEAMOUNT SUBDUCTION

    S Dominguez;S.E Lallemand;J Malavieille;R von Huene

  • Japan Sea: a pull-apart basin?

    Serge Lallemand;Laurent Jolivet

  • Deformation of accretionary wedges in response to seamount subduction: Insights from sandbox experiments

    Stephane Dominguez;Jacques Malavieille;Serge Lallemand

  • Subduction zone geodynamics

    Serge Lallemand;Francesca Funiciello

  • The West Philippine Basin: An Eocene to early Oligocene back arc basin opened between two opposed subduction zones

    Anne Deschamps;Serge Lallemand

  • Subduction-triggered magmatic pulses: A new class of plumes?

    Claudio Faccenna;Thorsten W. Becker;Serge Lallemand;Yves Lagabrielle

  • New insights on 3-D plates interaction near Taiwan from tomography and tectonic implications

    Serge Lallemand;Yvonne Font;Harmen Bijwaard;Honn Kao

  • The giant Ruatoria debris avalanche on the northern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: Result of oblique seamount subduction

    Jean-Yves Collot;Keith Lewis;Geoffroy Lamarche;Serge Lallemand

  • Physical characteristics of subduction interface type seismogenic zones revisited

    Arnauld Heuret;Serge Lallemand;Francesca Funiciello;Claudia Piromallo

  • Arc-continent collision in Taiwan: New marine observations and tectonic evolution

    Jacques Malavieille;Serge E. Lallemand;Stephane Dominguez;Anne Deschamps

  • Cyclical behavior of thrust wedges: Insights from high basal friction sandbox experiments

    Marc-André Gutscher;Nina Kukowski;Jacques Malavieille;Serge Lallemand

  • Trench migration, net rotation and slab-mantle coupling

    Francesca Funiciello;Claudio Faccenna;A. Heuret;A. Heuret;S. Lallemand

  • Relation between subduction megathrust earthquakes, trench sediment thickness and upper plate strain

    Arnauld Heuret;Arnauld Heuret;C. P. Conrad;F. Funiciello;Serge Lallemand

  • Hypocentre determination offshore of eastern Taiwan using the Maximum Intersection method

    Yvonne Font;Honn Kao;Serge Lallemand;Char-Shine Liu

  • Plate kinematics, slab shape and back-arc stress: A comparison between laboratory models and current subduction zones

    Arnauld Heuret;F. Funiciello;C. Faccenna;Serge Lallemand

  • EFFECTS OF OCEANIC RIDGE SUBDUCTION ON ACCRETIONARY WEDGES: EXPERIMENTAL MODELING AND MARINE OBSERVATIONS

    Serge E. Lallemand;Jacques Malavieille;Sylvain Calassou

Frequent Co-Authors

Char-Shine Liu
Char-Shine Liu National Taiwan University
Jacques Malavieille
Jacques Malavieille University of Montpellier
Claudio Faccenna
Claudio Faccenna Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum
Jean-Yves Collot
Jean-Yves Collot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frauke Klingelhoefer
Frauke Klingelhoefer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jean-Jacques Cornée
Jean-Jacques Cornée University of Montpellier
Francesca Funiciello
Francesca Funiciello Roma Tre University
Shu-Kun Hsu
Shu-Kun Hsu National Central University
Frédéric Quillévéré
Frédéric Quillévéré Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stéphane Dominguez
Stéphane Dominguez University of Montpellier

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