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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
8693
World Ranking
7049
National Ranking
547

Best Publications

  • Crustal thickening in Gansu-Qinghai, lithospheric mantle subduction, and oblique, strike-slip controlled growth of the Tibet plateau

    B. Meyer;Paul Tapponnier;Laurence Bourjot;F. Metivier

  • Northeastward growth of the Tibet plateau deduced from balanced reconstruction of two depositional areas: The Qaidam and Hexi Corridor basins, China

    François Métivier;Yves Gaudemer;Paul Tapponnier;Bertrand Meyer

  • Active thrusting and folding in the Qilian Shan, and decoupling between upper crust and mantle in northeastern Tibet

    P. Tapponnier;B. Meyer;J.P. Avouac;G. Peltzer

  • Partitioning of crustal slip between linked, active faults in the eastern Qilian Shan, and evidence for a major seismic gap, the ‘Tianzhu gap’, on the western Haiyuan Fault, Gansu (China)

    Y. Gaudemer;P. Tapponnier;B. Meyer;G. Peltzer

  • Primary surface ruptures of the great Himalayan earthquakes in 1934 and 1255

    Soma N Sapkota;Laurent Bollinger;Yann Klinger;Paul Tapponnier

  • MASS ACCUMULATION RATES IN ASIA DURING THE CENOZOIC

    François Métivier;Yves Gaudemer;Paul Tapponnier;Michel Klein

  • Uniform postglacial slip-rate along the central 600 km of the Kunlun Fault (Tibet), from 26Al, 10Be, and 14C dating of riser offsets, and climatic origin of the regional morphology

    Jerome Van Der Woerd;Jerome Van Der Woerd;Paul Tapponnier;Frederick J. Ryerson;Anne-Sophie Meriaux;Anne-Sophie Meriaux

  • Quantifying landscape differences across the Tibetan plateau: Implications for topographic relief evolution

    Jing Liu-Zeng;Jing Liu-Zeng;Paul Tapponnier;Yves Gaudemer;Lin Ding

  • Holocene left-slip rate determined by cosmogenic surface dating on the Xidatan segment of the Kunlun fault (Qinghai, China)

    J. Van der Woerd;J. Van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;P. Tapponnier;Y. Gaudemer

  • Slip accumulation and lateral propagation of active normal faults in Afar

    I. Manighetti;G. C. P. King;Y. Gaudemer;C. H. Scholz

  • Location of largest earthquake slip and fast rupture controlled by along-strike change in fault structural maturity due to fault growth

    Clément Perrin;Clément Perrin;Isabelle Manighetti;Jean-Paul Ampuero;Frédéric Cappa;Frédéric Cappa

  • Uniform slip-rate along the Kunlun Fault: Implications for seismic behaviour and large-scale tectonics

    J. van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;A. S. Meriaux

  • Fast late Pleistocene slip rate on the Leng Long Ling segment of the Haiyuan fault, Qinghai, China

    C. Lasserre;C. Lasserre;Y. Gaudemer;P. Tapponnier;A.-S. Mériaux

  • Postglacial left slip rate and past occurrence of M≥8 earthquakes on the Western Haiyuan Fault, Gansu, China

    Cecile Lasserre;Paul-Henri Morel;Yves Gaudemer;Paul Tapponnier

  • Rate of left-lateral movement along the easternmost segment of the Altyn Tagh fault, east of 96°E (China)

    B. Meyer;P. Tapponnier;Y. Gaudemer;G. Peltzer

  • Earthquake synchrony and clustering on Fucino faults (Central Italy) as revealed from in situ Cl-36 exposure dating

    Lucilla Benedetti;Isabelle Manighetti;Yves Gaudemer;Robert Finkel

  • Thermal control on post-orogenic extension in collision belts

    Yves Gaudemer;Claude Jaupart;Paul Tapponnier

  • Using in situ Chlorine-36 cosmonuclide to recover past earthquake histories on limestone normal fault scarps: a reappraisal of methodology and interpretations

    Aloé Schlagenhauf;Yves Gaudemer;Lucilla Benedetti;Isabelle Manighetti

  • "Offsets of Late Quaternary morphology, rate of slip, and recurrence of large earthquakes on the Chang Ma Fault (Gansu, China)""

    Gilles Peltzer;Paul Tapponnier;Yves Gaudemer;Bertrand Meyer

  • River offsets across active strike-slip faults

    Y Gaudemer;P Tapponnier;D.L Turcotte

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