Paul Tapponnier

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Paul Tapponnier is affiliated with the following schools: California State University, Fullerton, Université Paris Cité, University of Montpellier, Nanyang Technological University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Tapponnier is a French geologist, specializing in plate tectonics and crustal deformation. Education and career Tapponnier graduated in 1970 with an M.S. in geology from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. From 1972 to 1975 he was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He received in 1978 his doctorate from the Université Montpellier-II. He was an associate professor from 1980 to 1985, a full professor from 1986 to 1990, and a full professor with tenure from 1991 to 2009 at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. In 1985 he was a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. From January to July 2000, he was a visiting professor at Caltech. Since 2009 he has been a tectonics group leader at the EOS of Nanyang Technological University.

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Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision. (1975) (3766)
Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau (2001) (2823)
Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine (1982) (2398)
On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia (1986) (1224)
Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the south China Sea: Implications for the Tertiary tectonics of Southeast Asia (1993) (1132)
Active faulting and tectonics in China (1977) (998)
The Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone (Yunnan, China), Tertiary transform boundary of Indochina (1995) (951)
Structure and evolution of the Himalaya–Tibet orogenic belt (1984) (916)
Kinematic model of active deformation in central Asia (1993) (846)
Crustal thickening in Gansu‐Qinghai, lithospheric mantle subduction, and oblique, strike‐slip controlled growth of the Tibet plateau (1998) (831)
Quaternary extension in southern Tibet: Field observations and tectonic implications (1986) (821)
The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China (1990) (818)
Active faulting and cenozoic tectonics of the Tien Shan, Mongolia, and Baykal Regions (1979) (784)
Formation and evolution of strike‐slip faults, rifts, and basins during the India‐Asia Collision: An experimental approach (1988) (764)
Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics (1976) (731)
Development of stress-induced microcracks in Westerly Granite (1976) (703)
On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup (1999) (690)
Active tectonics of Tibet (1978) (686)
Active thrusting and folding along the northern Tien Shan and Late Cenozoic rotation of the Tarim relative to Dzungaria and Kazakhstan (1993) (655)
Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia (1985) (599)
New constraints on the structure, thermochronology, and timing of the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, SE Asia (2001) (544)
Late Cenozoic right‐lateral strike‐slip faulting in southern Tibet (1989) (504)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: fission-track constraints (2001) (444)
Reconstruction of the deformed collision zone Between India and Asia by backward motion of lithospheric blocks (2003) (429)
Tectonics of Western Tibet, between the Tarim and the Indus (1996) (413)
Northeastward growth of the Tibet plateau deduced from balanced reconstruction of two depositional areas: The Qaidam and Hexi Corridor basins, China (1998) (391)
Active thrusting and folding in the Qilian Shan, and decoupling between upper crust and mantle in northeastern Tibet (1990) (378)
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 (2002) (363)
Primary surface ruptures of the great Himalayan earthquakes in 1934 and 1255 (2012) (323)
MASS ACCUMULATION RATES IN ASIA DURING THE CENOZOIC (2002) (321)
Active faulting and tectonics of Burma and surrounding regions (1984) (308)
Paleontological view of the ages of the Deccan Traps, the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, and the India-Asia collision (1989) (297)
Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan: East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet (2009) (292)
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) (1995) (286)
Mesozoic ophiolites, sutures, and arge-scale tectonic movements in Afghanistan (1981) (282)
Correction: 'Necking of the Lithosphere and the Mechanics of Slowly Accreting Plate Boundaries' (1978) (266)
The Tibetan side of the India–Eurasia collision (1981) (260)
Magnitude of Late Quaternary Left-Lateral Displacements Along the North Edge of Tibet (1989) (259)
Duration of strike-slip movements in large shear zones: The Red River belt, China (1994) (254)
Seismic hazard in the Marmara Sea region following the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake (2000) (248)
4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography (2004) (246)
Structural, petrological and thermal evolution of a tertiary ductile strike-slip shear zone, Diancang Shan, Yunnan (1993) (245)
Teleseismic imaging of subducting lithosphere and Moho offsets beneath western Tibet (2004) (245)
Relation of the tectonics of eastern China to the India-Eurasia collision: Application of slip-line field theory to large-scale continental tectonics (1977) (242)
Holocene left-slip rate determined by cosmogenic surface dating on the Xidatan segment of the Kunlun fault (Qinghai, China) (1998) (238)
Late Quaternary slip rates on the Acireale-Piedimonte normal faults and tectonic origin of Mt. Etna (Sicily) (1997) (227)
Intraplate tectonics in Asia: A precise age for large-scale Miocene movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, China (1990) (219)
The high K2O volcanism of northwestern Tibet: Geochemistry and tectonic implications (1992) (216)
Slip-Rate Measurements on the Karakorum Fault May Imply Secular Variations in Fault Motion (2005) (210)
Arc parallel extension and localization of volcanic complexes in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles (2002) (210)
Tertiary diachronic extrusion and deformation of western Indochina: Structural and 40Ar/39Ar evidence from NW Thailand (1997) (209)
Quantifying landscape differences across the Tibetan plateau: Implications for topographic relief evolution (2008) (202)
Large river offsets and Plio‐Quaternary dextral slip rate on the Red River fault (Yunnan, China) (2001) (202)
Rapid slip along the central Altyn Tagh Fault: Morphochronologic evidence from Cherchen He and Sulamu Tagh (2004) (198)
Propagation of rifting along the Arabia-Somalia plate boundary: (1998) (198)
Propagation of rifting along the Arabia‐Somalia Plate Boundary: The Gulfs of Aden and Tadjoura (1997) (196)
Estimating the return times of great Himalayan earthquakes in eastern Nepal: Evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust (2014) (195)
Diachronous initiation of transtension along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, Yunnan and Vietnam (1996) (193)
Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibet (2004) (192)
High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Mw ∼7.8, 14 November 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, Kunlun Fault, Northern Tibet, China (2005) (188)
Change from Late Tertiary compression to Quaternary extension in southern Tibet during the India‐Asia Collision (1987) (185)
The Aksay segment of the northern Altyn Tagh fault: Tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution, and Holocene slip rate (2005) (178)
Seismic evidence for stepwise thickening of the crust across the NE Tibetan plateau (2002) (177)
An Early Miocene Transition in deformation regime within the Red River Fault Zone, Yunnan, And its significance for Indo‐Asian tectonics (1992) (169)
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on Mesozoic suturing in east central Tibet (2003) (168)
Uniform slip‐rate along the Kunlun Fault: Implications for seismic behaviour and large‐scale tectonics (2000) (167)
Coseismic deformation of the 2001 Mw = 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake in Tibet, measured by synthetic aperture radar interferometry (2005) (164)
Characteristic slip for five great earthquakes along the Fuyun fault in China (2011) (160)
The Collision between India and Eurasia (1977) (154)
Bookshelf faulting and horizontal block rotations between overlapping rifts in southern Afar (1990) (151)
Neogene and Quaternary faulting in and along the Qinling Shan (1985) (150)
Growth folding and active thrusting in the Montello region, Veneto, northern Italy (2000) (149)
Fluid flow triggered migration of events in the 1989 Dobi Earthquake sequence of central Afar (1997) (148)
A possible dependence of tectonic strength on the age of the crust in Asia (1981) (148)
Field evidence for active normal faulting in Tibet (1981) (145)
Fast late Pleistocene slip rate on the Leng Long Ling segment of the Haiyuan fault, Qinghai, China (2002) (144)
September 2005 Manda Hararo‐Dabbahu rifting event, Afar (Ethiopia): Constraints provided by geodetic data (2009) (139)
Slip rate on the Kunlun fault at Hongshui Gou, and recurrence time of great events comparable to the 14/11/2001, Mw∼7.9 Kokoxili earthquake (2005) (137)
Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal (2016) (137)
Postglacial left slip rate and past occurrence of M≥8 earthquakes on the Western Haiyuan Fault, Gansu, China (1999) (135)
Faulting and earthquake triggering during the 1783 Calabria seismic sequence (2001) (134)
"Offsets of Late Quaternary morphology, rate of slip, and recurrence of large earthquakes on the Chang Ma Fault (Gansu, China)"" (1988) (128)
Relevance of Afar seismicity and volcanism to the mechanics of accreting plate boundaries (1979) (125)
Long-term elasticity in the continental lithosphere; modelling the Aden Ridge propagation and the Anatolian extrusion process (2002) (124)
Seismic tomography of northern Tibet and Kunlun: Evidence for crustal blocks and mantle velocity contrasts (1996) (124)
Discussion on the role of the Red River shear zone, Yunnan and Vietnam, in the continental extrusion of SE Asia Journal, Vol. 163, 2006, 1025–1036 (2007) (122)
Seismic evidence for broken oceanic crust in the 2004 Sumatra earthquake epicentral region (2008) (117)
Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake (2007) (115)
Active oblique extension in the central Apennines (Italy): evidence from the Fucino region (1999) (113)
Spreading direction in the central South China Sea (1986) (110)
Bounds on strain in large Tertiary shear zones of SE Asia from boudinage restoration (1993) (109)
Constraints on the post-25-ka slip rate of the Yammouneh fault (Lebanon) using in situ cosmogenic 36Cl dating of offset limestone-clast fans (2004) (108)
Kongur Shan normal fault: Type example of mountain building assisted by extension (Karakoram fault, eastern Pamir) (1994) (107)
Thermal control on post-orogenic extension in collision belts (1988) (103)
Rapid active thrusting along the northwestern range front of the Tanghe Nan Shan (western Gansu, China) (2001) (103)
Tectonic context of moderate to large historical earthquakes in the lesser Antilles and mechanical coupling with volcanoes (2011) (101)
New U‐Th/Pb constraints on timing of shearing and long‐term slip‐rate on the Karakorum fault (2008) (101)
Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan (2006) (99)
Rate of left-lateral movement along the easternmost segment of the Altyn Tagh fault, east of 96°E (China) (1996) (99)
High cooling and denudation rates at Kongur Shan, Eastern Pamir (Xinjiang, China) revealed by 40Ar/39Ar alkali feldspar thermochronology (1993) (98)
Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake? (2016) (98)
Slip Partitioning by Elastoplastic Propagation of Oblique Slip at Depth (2003) (98)
Deformation phases and tectonic evolution of the Lhasa block (southern Tibet, China) (1983) (97)
An Eocene magmatic belt across central Tibet: mantle subduction triggered by the Indian collision? (2000) (96)
Twenty million years of continuous deformation along the Karakorum fault, western Tibet: A thermochronological analysis (2007) (96)
Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces (2011) (94)
Contemporary, Holocene, and Quaternary deformation of the Asal Rift, Djibouti: Implications for the mechanics of slow spreading ridges (1991) (92)
Major Strike-slip Fault of Late Hercynian Age in Morocco (1972) (91)
Reevaluation of surface rupture parameters and faulting segmentation of the 2001 Kunlunshan earthquake (Mw7.8), northern Tibetan Plateau, China (2006) (90)
Late Quaternary sinistral slip rate along the Altyn Tagh fault and its structural transformation model (2005) (89)
Paleomagnetic study of Mesozoic continental sediments along the northern Tien Shan (China) and heterogeneous strain in central Asia (1991) (87)
Long-term slip rates and characteristic slip: keys to active fault behaviour and earthquake hazard (2001) (87)
12,000-Year-Long Record of 10 to 13 Paleoearthquakes on the Yammoûneh Fault, Levant Fault System, Lebanon (2007) (85)
Phase velocity structure from Rayleigh and Love waves in Tibet and its neighboring regions (1998) (85)
Sources of the large A.D. 1202 and 1759 Near East earthquakes (2005) (84)
Kinematics of the Sinai triple junction and a two-phase model of Arabia-Africa rifting (1987) (82)
Millennial Recurrence of Large Earthquakes on the Haiyuan Fault near Songshan, Gansu Province, China (2007) (82)
Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from western Tibet and tectonic implications (1993) (82)
Geomorphic evidence for an emergent active thrust along the edge of the Po Plain: The Broni‐Stradella fault (2003) (80)
The ML 5.3 Epagny (French Alps) earthquake of 1996 July 15: a long-awaited event on the Vuache Fault (1998) (78)
Post 4 Ma initiation of normal faulting in southern Tibet. Constraints from the Kung Co half graben (2006) (77)
Palaeomagnetism and K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages in the Ali Sabieh area (Republic of Djibouti and Ethiopia): constraints on the mechanism of Aden ridge propagation into southeastern Afar during the last 10 Myr (2004) (74)
The 2012 Mw 8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near‐orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults (2015) (74)
Evidence for Mesozoic shear along the western Kunlun and Altyn‐Tagh fault, northern Tibet (China) (2003) (73)
Seismic anisotropy beneath Tibet: evidence for eastward extrusion of the Tibetan lithosphere? (1996) (73)
The mechanism of partial rupture of a locked megathrust: The role of fault morphology (2016) (73)
Surface Rupture of the 1857 Southern Italian Earthquake? (1998) (71)
Slip-Partitioned Surface Breaks for the Mw 7.8 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, China (2005) (70)
Active faulting induced by slip partitioning in Montserrat and link with volcanic activity: New insights from the 2009 GWADASEIS marine cruise data (2010) (67)
Tertiary deformation and metamorphism SE of Tibet: The folded Tiger-leap décollement of NW Yunnan, China (1996) (64)
River offsets across active strike-slip faults (1989) (63)
The 14 November 2001, Mw = 7.8 Kokoxili Earthquake in Northern Tibet (Qinghai Province, China) (2002) (63)
The Sinai triple junction revisited (1987) (62)
Northern Hemisphere climate control of the Bengali rivers discharge during the past 4 Ma (2010) (58)
Incision rate of the Yellow River in Northeastern Tibet constrained by 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic isotope dating of fluvial terraces: implications for catchment evolution and plateau building (2011) (56)
Source parameters and tectonic origin of the 1996 June 1 Tianzhu (Mw=5.2) and 1995 July 21 Yongden (Mw=5.6) earthquakes near the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China) (2001) (56)
Differential uplift and tilt of Pleistocene reef platforms and Quaternary slip rate on the Morne‐Piton normal fault (Guadeloupe, French West Indies) (2004) (55)
Ductile and brittle deformations in the northern snake range, nevada (1987) (54)
Teleseismic Shear wave splitting and lithospheric anisotropy beneath and across the Altyn Tagh Fault (1999) (54)
Surface features associated with transform faults: A comparison between observed examples and an experimental model (1974) (53)
On the growth of normal faults and the existence of flats and ramps along the El Asnam active fold and thrust system (1992) (51)
The Pingding segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault (91°E): Holocene slip-rate determination from cosmogenic radionuclide dating of offset fluvial terraces (2012) (48)
Along-strike variations of the partitioning of convergence across the Haiyuan fault system detected by InSAR (2016) (48)
Coseismic slip on shallow décollement megathrusts: implications for seismic and tsunami hazard (2013) (47)
Relocation of M≥2 events of the 1989 Dôbi seismic sequence in Afar: evidence for earthquake migration (1999) (47)
Numerical modeling of crustal block-and-fault dynamics, earthquakes and slip rates in the Tibet-Himalayan region (2007) (46)
Seismic evidence for Neogene and active shortening offshore of Lebanon (Shalimar cruise) (2004) (46)
Spatially constant slip rate along the southern segment of the Karakorum fault since 200 ka (2012) (46)
Quaternary morphotectonic mapping of the Wadi Araba and implications for the tectonic activity of the southern Dead Sea fault (2012) (45)
The Mw = 6.3, November 21, 2004, Les Saintes earthquake (Guadeloupe): Tectonic setting, slip model and static stress changes (2011) (45)
Paleozoic to Cenozoic deformation along the Altyn Tagh fault in the Altun Shan massif area, eastern Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibet, China (2001) (44)
High-resolution mapping based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture paleoseismic offsets along the Altyn-Tagh fault, China (2016) (43)
Fault propagation and climatic control of sedimentation on the Ghoubbet Rift Floor: insights from the Tadjouraden cruise in the western Gulf of Aden (2001) (43)
Measuring radon flux across active faults : relevance of excavating and possibility of satellite discharges (2010) (42)
The accreting plate boundary Ardoukoˆba Rift (northeast Africa) and the oceanic Rift Valley (1976) (42)
Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview (2019) (42)
The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone (2017) (41)
A composite rupture model for the great 1950 Assam earthquake across the cusp of the East Himalayan Syntaxis (2020) (41)
Preliminary Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from the Gansu Corridor, China (1995) (40)
Early Holocene and Late Pleistocene slip rates of the southern Dead Sea Fault determined from 10Be cosmogenic dating of offset alluvial deposits (2010) (39)
Seismic activity triggered by stress changes after the 1978 events in the Asal Rift, Djibouti (1996) (39)
Co-seismic and cumulative offsets of the recent earthquakes along the Karakax left-lateral strike-slip fault in western Tibet (2012) (37)
Giant, ∼M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics (2004) (34)
Constraints of Sea Beam data on crustal fabrics and seafloor spreading in the South China Sea (1989) (34)
Subduction of Continental Crust in the Early Palaeozoic North Qaidam Ultrahigh‐Pressure Metamorphic Belt, NW China: Evidence from the Discovery of Coesite in the Belt (2002) (31)
Response to Comment on "Slip-Rate Measurements on the Karakorum Fault May Imply Secular Variations in Fault Motion" (2005) (31)
Applications of Morphochronology to the Active Tectonics of Tibet (2006) (30)
What caused the mysterious eighteenth century tsunami that struck the southwest Taiwan coast? (2015) (30)
The Al Hoceima Mw 6.4 earthquake of 24 February 2004 and its aftershocks sequence (2014) (29)
Seismic anisotropy in western Tibet (2005) (29)
Seismic hazard in the Sea of Marmara following the 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake (2000) (28)
Structural control and system-level behavior of the seismic cycle at the Nankai Trough (2020) (27)
Deformation Characteristics and Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Qinling Orogenic Belt (2009) (26)
A model for the evolution of the axial zone of mid-ocean ridges as suggested by icelandic tectonics (1975) (26)
Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin (2017) (25)
Successive deformation episodes along the Lungmu Co zone, west-central Tibet (2012) (25)
The 2015 Mw 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake: an infrequent fault rupture within the Crocker fault system of East Malaysia (2017) (25)
Late Quaternary Extension Rates Across the Northern Half of the Yadong‐Gulu Rift: Implication for East‐West Extension in Southern Tibet (2019) (24)
Comment on “Onset timing of left-lateral movement along the Ailao Shan-Red river shear zone: 40Ar/39Ar dating constraint from the Nam Dinh area, northeastern Vietnam” by Wang et al., 2000. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 18, 281–292 (2001) (23)
Tertiary diachronic extrusion and deformation of western Indochina: Structural and 4øAr/39Ar evidence (1997) (23)
Normal Faulting during the August 1989 Earthquakes in Central Afar: Sequential Triggering and Propagation of Rupture along the Dôbi Graben (2011) (22)
Geological and chronological evidence of Indo-Chinese strike-slip movement in the Altyn Tagh fault zone (2002) (22)
Confrontation of mantle seismic anisotropy with two extreme models of strain, in central Asia (1998) (22)
Late Quaternary slip-rate along the central Bangong-Chaxikang segment of the Karakorum fault, western Tibet (2015) (21)
Was the Trévaresse thrust the source of the 1909 Lambesc (Provence, France) earthquake? Historical and geomorphic evidence (2001) (21)
Reply to Comment on “Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibetˮ (2004) (19)
Co-seismic rupture and maximum displacement of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and its tectonic implications (2009) (18)
Post Earthquake Aggradation Processes to Hide Surface Ruptures in Thrust Systems: The M8.3, 1934, Bihar‐Nepal Earthquake Ruptures at Charnath Khola (Eastern Nepal) (2019) (17)
Determination of the Altyn Tagh strike-slip fault basin and its relationship with mountains (2002) (16)
Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust (2020) (15)
Rupture behavior and deformation localization of the Kunlunshan earthquake (Mw7.8) and their tectonic implications (2008) (14)
Comment on "Displacement along the Karakoram fault, NW Himalaya, estimated from LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of offset geologic markers" published by Shifeng Wang et al. in EPSL, 2012 (2013) (13)
Triple junction kinematics accounts for the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake rupture complexity (2019) (13)
Is There a Nascent Plate Boundary in the Northern Indian Ocean? (2020) (12)
Evidence of pervasive trans-tensional deformation in the northwestern Wharton Basin in the 2012 earthquakes rupture area (2018) (12)
Tsunamigenic potential due to frontal rupturing in the Sumatra locked zone (2015) (12)
Neogene and active shortening offshore the reactivated Levant margin in Lebanon: results of the SHALIMAR cruise (2004) (12)
Extensional tectonics in central and eastern Asia: a brief summary (1981) (11)
Seismic hazard in the Sea of Marmara Following the Izmit Earthquake (1999) (11)
Initial movement of the Karakorum Fault in western Tibet: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircons (2007) (10)
Two hundred thirty years of relative sea level changes due to climate and megathrust tectonics recorded in coral microatolls of Martinique (French West Indies) (2016) (10)
Co-seismic rupture of the 2021, M 7.4 Maduo earthquake (northern Tibet): Short-cutting of the Kunlun fault big bend (2022) (9)
High-resolution stratigraphy and multiple luminescence dating techniques to reveal the paleoseismic history of the central Dead Sea fault (Yammouneh fault, Lebanon) (2018) (9)
RE-EVALUATION OF SURFACE RUPTURE PARAMETERS AND FAULTING SEGMENTATION OF THE 2001 KUNLUNSHAN EARTHQUAKE ( MW 7 . 8 ) , NORTHERN TIBETAN PLATEAU , CHINA (2006) (8)
Coral microatolls of Martinique (French West Indies) record 230 years of relative sea-level changes due to climate and megathrust tectonics: LESSER ANTILLES MICROATOLLS RECORD (2016) (8)
Basin to basin: Plate tectonics in exploration (2011) (8)
The maximum cumulative strike-slip displacement of the Altyn Tagh Fault——900 km? (2007) (7)
Geology Along the Line from Yecheng to Shiquanhe and Tectonic Evolution of the Region Involved1 (2009) (7)
Necking and fracking may explain stationary seismicity and full degassing in volcanic silicic spine extrusion (2018) (6)
Evidence for Holocene Slip and Large Earthquakes on the Yammouneh Fault (Lebanon) (2001) (6)
Coseismic deformation from the Mw=7.8 Kokoxili, Tibet earthquake, from ERS InSAR data. (2002) (6)
A comment on “Orogen-parallel, active left-slip faults in the eastern Himalaya: Implications for the growth mechanism of the Himalayan arc” by Li and Yin (Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 274 (2008) 258–267) (2009) (6)
Surface rupture of the 1950 Assam earthquake: active faults and recurrence interval along the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis (2016) (5)
Space Imaging Geodesy Reveals Near Circular, Coseismic Block Rotation During the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand (2020) (5)
Joint InSAR and Field Constraints on Faulting During the Mw 6.4, July 23, 2020, Nima/Rongma Earthquake in Central Tibet (2021) (5)
Sources of the AD 551, 1202 and 1759 earthquakes (Lebanon and Syria) (2004) (4)
The Sagaing Fault in Myanmar: Preliminary Field Observations and Relevance to the Gulf of Martaban Cenozoic Petroleum System (1997) (4)
Editorial Policy for Tectonics (1982) (4)
12,000-year-long record of up to 14 paleo-earthquakes on the Yammoneh fault (Levant fault system) (2006) (4)
High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip (2005) (3)
Introduction [to Special Section: Magnetotectonics] (1986) (3)
Post‐20 ka Earthquake Scarps Along NE‐Tibet's Qilian Shan Frontal Thrust: Multi‐Millennial Return, ∼Characteristic Co‐Seismic Slip, and Geological Rupture Control (2021) (3)
Discrete Element Modeling of a Subduction Zone with a Seafloor Irregularity and its Impact on the Seismic Cycle (2020) (3)
Growth Of Faults In An Analog Material - Plasticine (1984) (3)
Extension in Central-South Tibet, insight from cosmogenic nuclide dating (2010) (3)
Slip Partitioned Surface Breaks for the 14 November 2001, Mw 7.8 Kokoxili Earthquake. (2003) (3)
High Resolution Topography and Multiple Seismic Uplift on the Main Frontal Thrust near the Ratu River, Eastern Nepal (2015) (3)
Uniform slip-rate along the Kunlun fault: Implication for seimic behaviour, large-scale tectonics and climatic imprint on Tibetan landforms (2000) (3)
From plate tectonics to the design of the Dul Hasti hydroelectric project in Kashmir (India) (1994) (3)
Return period of great Himalayan earthquakes in Eastern Nepal: evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust (2013) (3)
Field study of the 20/03/2008, Mw 7.2 Ashikule earthquake rupture (Xinjiang, China) (2009) (2)
Active faulting in Raghunandan Anticline, NE Bengal Basin, implications for future earthquake hazards (2015) (2)
First Long-Term slip-Rate Along the San Andreas Fault Based on 10 Be- 26 Al Surface Exposure Dating : The Biskra Palms Site, 23 mm/yr for the last 30,000 years. (2001) (2)
Block Tectonics Across Western Tibet and Multi‐Millennial Recurrence of Great Earthquakes on the Karakax Fault (2021) (2)
Miocene to Quaternary Folding and Thrusting Offshore Lebanon From SHALIMAR Seismic Profiles (2004) (2)
Detailed strip map of the Kokoxili earthquake rupture (Mw 7.8, 14/11/01) from space (2003) (2)
Correction to “Growth folding and active thrusting in the Montello region, Veneto, northern Italy” by Lucilla Benedetti, Paul Tapponnier, Geoffrey C. P. King, Bertrand Meyer, and Isabelle Manighetti (2000) (2)
Fresh Submarine Seismic Breaks due to Historical Thrust Earthquakes Offshore Lebanon (2004) (2)
Tectonic geomorphology, aftershock relocation, and sources of the great 1950 and 1897 East Himalayan earthquakes (2013) (2)
Surface Break and Coseismic Slip of the Great 1950 Assam Earthquake and Previous Events along the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis (2015) (2)
Continental magmatism by shear heating at geometric complexities on fault systems (2010) (2)
The 2018 Mw7.5 Palu earthquake, a gradually accelerating super-shear rupture stopped by stress shadows in a complex fault system (2018) (2)
Imaging the seismic history of the MFT: a 100km-long Airborne Lidar Survey in Eastern Nepal (2017) (2)
Post-glacial Slip-rate on the Aksay segment of the Northern Altyn Tagh fault, derived from cosmogenic radionuclide dating of morphological offset features. (2003) (2)
Long-term faulting behavior of eastern Altyn Tagh fault, north Tibetan Plateau (2015) (2)
hunting for the Traces of Great Himalayan Earthquakes: Surface Break of the M ≈ 8.1, 1934 Bihar Nepal event? (2010) (1)
Coseismic offsets and style of surface ruptures of the14 November 2001 mw=7.8 Kokoxili earthquake (northern Tibet) (2003) (1)
LGM glaciers in the SE Mediterranean? First evidence from glacial landforms and 36Cl dating on Mount Lebanon (2022) (1)
The Mw = 6.3, November 21, 2004, Les Saintes earthquake (Guadeloupe): Tectonic setting and static stress modeling (2010) (1)
The November 14th, 2001, Mw=7.8 Kokoxili earthquake in north Tibet (Qinghai province, China) (2002) (1)
New age constraints on the evolution of the Karakorum fault, west Tibet (2003) (1)
Role of the Ruoergai Subblock in tectonic partitioning on the eastern margin of Tibet (2023) (1)
Long, Regular Return of Four Large Earthquakes on Qilian Shan's Minle‐Damaying Frontal Thrust (NE Tibet): Partial Clustering With Great Events on the Leng Long Ling Fault? (2022) (1)
The Tripoli-Roum thrust: source of the Beirut 551~AD earthquake and cause of the rise of Mount-Lebanon (2001) (1)
Réponse au commentaire de Maurice Mattauer à l'article Was the Trevaresse Thrust the source of the 1909 Lambesc (Provence) earthquake? Historical and geomorphic evidence (2002) (1)
Holocene Slip Rate Along the Beng Co Fault and Dextral Strike‐Slip Extrusion of Central Eastern Tibet (2022) (1)
Morphologic and Geochronological constraints on the long (> Ma) and short (10-100 Kyr) term vertical rates on south Tibetan normal faults. (2009) (1)
Incision and uplift patterns along the Yellow River from fluvial terrace dating in northeastern Tibet: implications for plateau building (2010) (1)
Geomorphic evidence for Quaternary sinistral slip on the Cevennes Fault (Languedoc, France) (1998) (1)
Paleoseismology, seismic cycle and tectonic coupling of the Lesser Antilles subduction zone : Insights from micro-atolls (2010) (1)
Surface-exposure cosmogenic dating of Southern Tibet moraines reveal glaciations coincident with the Northern Hemisphere (2008) (1)
Incision rate of the Yellow River in notheastern Tibet constrained by cosmogenic isotope dating (10Be, 26Al) of fluvial terraces: implications to catchment evolution and plateau building (2009) (1)
The 2017 Mw8.2 Tres Picos, Mexico Earthquake, an intraslab rupture crossing the Tehuantepec Fracture Zone stopped by a tear in the Cocos Plate (2017) (1)
Slip Partitioning Along the Haiyuan Fault System (2014) (1)
High-Resolution satellite imagery mapping of the Ms 7.9, 11 august 1931 Fuyun earthquake, Northern Xinjiang, China (2010) (1)
Paleoseismological Evidence of Large Pre-historical Earthquakes on the Western Haiyuan Fault Near Tianzhu, Gansu Province (2004) (0)
Surface Rupture of the Mw ≈ 8.1, 1934, Bihar Nepal Earthquake (2011) (0)
Sea level high stand in Marine Isotope Stage 5e: evidence from coral terraces in Sumba Island, Indonesia (2017) (0)
Insights on the Quaternary Tectonic Evolution of the SE Indonesia Arc-Continent Collision from the Study of Uplifted Coral Terraces on Sumba Island. (2015) (0)
Tectonic and geomorphic setting of the Pamir Plateau: Insights from InSAR and teleseismic analysis of the 2015 Lake Saurez and 2016 Muji fault earthquake sequence (2017) (0)
Hydrocarbons on the Roof of the World (Invited) (2013) (0)
Evidence of Frontal Rupturing in the Mentawai Gap, SW Sumatra, Newly Acquired High-Resolution Seismic Reflection and Bathymetry Data (2015) (0)
Paleoseismic investigation on the eastern end of the Altyn Tagh fault (2017) (0)
Climate Change and Neotectonic History of Northwestern China (1996) (0)
Numerical simulation of faulting in Mentawai of the Sunda Trench shows that seamounts may generate megathrust earthquakes (2018) (0)
Investigating lateral variations in the kinematics of active deformation along the Western Kunlun mountain front (Xinjiang, China): structural and morphological analysis of the Hotan anticline (2020) (0)
Shortening rates across the foothills of the Western Kunlun (Xinjiang, China) inferred from geomorphic measurements and cosmogenic 10Be dating. (2009) (0)
Towards a spatially and temporally constant Karakorum fault slip rate (2012) (0)
Mid-Miocene to Present Growth and Uplift of Mt-Lebanon and Tectonic Evolution of the Dead Sea Transformê's Restraining Bend. (2007) (0)
Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture ancient seismic offsets along the Altyn Tagh fault (2015) (0)
Seismic risk in France: Myths and reality (1996) (0)
Morphology and Role of the Investigator Fracture Zone on the Sumatra Subduction Zone Process using High-resolution Bathymetry and Seismic Data (2016) (0)
Assessing the seismic hazards associated with one of the largest active thrust sheets: the case of the slowly deforming Western Kunlun mountain range (Xinjiang, China). (2020) (0)
Cretaceous Magmatism and Deformation in Central-west Tibet (2003) (0)
Surface rupture and landscape response within the core of the great Mw 8.3 1934 earthquake mesoseismal area: the case of the Khutti Khola (2020) (0)
Searching for Tsunami deposits along the Lebanese Coast (2012) (0)
Surface ruptures of great (M>8) earthquakes in Eastern Himalayas: characteristic slip over the last 9ky (2017) (0)
Discrete element simulation of faulting in a subduction zone (2017) (0)
Earthquake-ponded sediments as a high-resolution archive of Anthropocene climate change on the Fuyun Fault (Xinjiang, China). (2016) (0)
Correction [to “Necking of the lithosphère and the mechanics of slowly accreting plate boundaries” by Paul Tapponnier and Jean Francheteau] (1978) (0)
Surface rupture and landscape response in the middle of the great Mw 8.3 1934 earthquake mesoseismal area: Khutti Khola site (2023) (0)
Preface for “Geohazards and mitigation along the Sichuan-Tibet Railway” (2023) (0)
Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust: Reply to Commentary (2021) (0)
Slip partitioning in the Lesser Antilles arc: implications for seismic and volcanic hazards (2012) (0)
Frontier Hydrocarbon Exploration: The Importance of Tectonic Models (2011) (0)
Source model and ground shaking of the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Mw7.8 earthquake (2015) (0)
Deciphering the Paleoseismic History of the Yammouneh Fault (Lebanon) (2004) (0)
Modeling of Block-and-Fault System Dynamics and Seismicity: Description of the Model and Application to the Tibet-Himalayan Region (2005) (0)
Late Quaternary reef growth history of Les Saintes submarine plateau: a key to constrain active faulting kinematics in Guadeloupe (FWI) (2012) (0)
Frontal Pop-up Structures and Tsunami Earthquakes (2017) (0)
Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the Banquan pull-apart basin and implications for late Cenozoic dextral strike-slip movement of the Tanlu Fault Zone (2023) (0)
Lake Level Changes and Holocene Extension Rate Across the NS‐trending Peiku Co‐Gyirong Faults, Southern Tibet (2023) (0)
Morphotectonics of the Central Sagaing fault West of Mandalay: Trace of the 1839 Ava Earthquake Rupture (2014) (0)
Evidence of 5 to 6m repetitive uplift of MFT hangingwall and channel abandonment in Suklaha Khola valley, Eastern Nepal (2018) (0)
(Table 2) epsilon-Nd values for ODP Sites 121-758 and 121-157 (2010) (0)
Deciphering the paleoseismic history of the central Dead Sea fault (Yammouneh fault, Lebanon) based on multiple luminescence dating techniques (2017) (0)
3D Discrete Element Simulation of Faulting and Crustal Thickening during the India-Asia Collision (2017) (0)
Direct evidence of frontal rupture during the 2010 Mentawai earthquake, offshore Central Sumatra (2017) (0)
Paleoseismologic investigation revealed early events occurred along north Altyn Tagh fault near Shibaocheng, Gansu, China (2018) (0)
Seismic slip deficit along Nepal Himalayas: implications for seismic hazard (2016) (0)
Explaining the current geodetic field with geological models: A case study of the Haiyuan fault system (2015) (0)
Kinematics of a Strike-Slip Fault Segment at Various Time Scales, Determined From GPS and Geomorphic Measurements: the Example of the Wadi Araba Fault, Dead Sea Transform. (2008) (0)
Structure and Morphology of the Red Sea. From the Mid-Ocean Ridge to the Ocean-Continent Boundary (2023) (0)
The Pingding segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault (91°E): Slip rate determination from cosmogenic radionuclide dating of offset fluvial terraces (2013) (0)
Seismic imaging of the crust and mantle in Western Tibet (2003) (0)
2014 SSA Annual Meeting Report (2014) (0)
High-resolution mapping based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture paleoseismic offsets along the Altyn-Tagh fault, China (2017) (0)
3D Discrete Element Simulation of Large-scale Faulting and Crustal Thickening in the India-Asia Collision Zone (2015) (0)
ON THE MERITS OF A DETERMINISTIC APPROACH TO SEISMIC RISK FOR DAM DESIGN (1994) (0)
Satell ite-Based Observation of the Tectonics of Southern Ti bet (2003) (0)
Radiocarbon Dating of the 1934AD Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Surface Rupture Reveals Systematic Biases that Cause Artificially Aging of Historical events (2018) (0)
Earthquake-bound ponded sediments as a high-resolution archive of Anthropocene climate in the arid Fuyun region of northwestern China (2016) (0)
The Tyr-Nabatiyeh plateau: a relatively stable Cenozoic plateau of the locally inverted Lebanese margin. (2010) (0)
Characterizing the sub-surface geometry of the Main Frontal Thrust in the Bardibas area of central Nepal (2014) (0)
The catastrophe in Haiti : a repeat lesson for us all (2010) (0)
New insight on the deep structure of the Wharton Basin oceanic lithosphere in the vicinity of the 11 April 2012, Mw 8.6 strike-slip earthquake (2018) (0)
Age of magmatism and tectonics of northeastern Kunlun, China (1998) (0)
(Table 3) Nd isotopic ratios of ancient seawater fraction of ODP Sites 121-758 and 121-757 samples (2010) (0)
Faults and earthquakes - Proceedings of the Conference held on 20 March 2000 at the Academy of Sciences - Presentation (2001) (0)
Source process of the Mw=8.7, 1950 Assam earthquake, Eastern Himalayas, inferred from field observations and relocated aftershocks (2019) (0)
Large > 10 m coseismic oblique slip along the rupture of the Mw 7.9 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Sichuan, China) (2009) (0)
New insights on multiple seismic uplift on the Main Frontal Thrust near the Ratu river, Eastern Nepal using high-resolution topography (2016) (0)
Determination, by 10Be Cosmogenic Dating, of Slip-rates on the Karakorum Fault (Tibet) and Paleoclimatic Evolution Since 200 ka (2006) (0)
Structural control of the upper plate on the down-dip segmentation of subduction dynamics (2017) (0)
Surface ruptures and land deformation from the 21 June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake (2022) (0)
Catastrophe in Haiti. A Repeat Lesson for Asia (2011) (0)
Quaternary Slip on the Southern Segment of the Karakorum Fault and Pulan Graben, Western Tibet (2010) (0)
Co-seismic and cumulative slip along the Kokoxili Mw 7.9 earthquake rupture (Kunlun Fault, northeastern Tibet) (2009) (0)
Deformation localisation in continental lithosphere (1997) (0)
Impact of rupture complexity on seismic hazard: Case of the 2018 M w 7.5 Palu earthquake (2022) (0)
Discrete Element Modeling of Southeast Asia's 3D Lithospheric Deformation During the Indian Collision (2023) (0)
Did Structural Segmentation of the Main Himalayan Thrust Control the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake Rupture in Nepal (2015) (0)
Seismic Evidence for a Mantle Megathrust Producing the Giant Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (2007) (0)
Numerical simulation of faulting in the Sunda Trench shows that seamounts may generate megathrust earthquakes (2017) (0)
Recent activity on the Main Boundary Thrust in western Nepal: implications for mechanics of the Himalayan thrust system (2018) (0)
Aggradation and incision following the 1934 and 1255 A.D earthquakes at Charnath river (Eastern Nepal) (2018) (0)
Fault and Rift evolution - All Features Great and Small (2003) (0)

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