P. Tapponnier

Research interests

Publications

• Estimating the return times of great Himalayan earthquakes in eastern Nepal: Evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust

  Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jb010970

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

  Nature Geoscience · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1669

• 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

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.017

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

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2007jf000897

• Teleseismic imaging of subducting lithosphere and Moho offsets beneath western Tibet

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(03)00723-4

• Reconstruction of the deformed collision zone Between India and Asia by backward motion of lithospheric blocks

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2001jb000661

• Arc parallel extension and localization of volcanic complexes in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2001jb000308

• New constraints on the structure, thermochronology, and timing of the Ailao Shan‐Red River shear zone, SE Asia

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2000jb900322

• Large river offsets and Plio‐Quaternary dextral slip rate on the Red River fault (Yunnan, China)

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2000jb900135

• Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: fission-track constraints

  Tectonophysics · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951(01)00196-2

• Seismic hazard in the Marmara Sea region following the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35005054

• On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00282-9

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

  Geophysical Journal International · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246x.1998.00567.x

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

  Geology · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0695:hlsrdb>2.3.co;2

• 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)

  Geophysical Journal International · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.1995.tb01842.x

• Active thrusting and folding along the northern Tien Shan and Late Cenozoic rotation of the Tarim relative to Dzungaria and Kazakhstan

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1029/92jb01963

• Structural, petrological and thermal evolution of a Tertiary ductile strike‐slip shear zone, Diancang Shan, Yunnan

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1029/92jb02791

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

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(90)90053-z

• The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China

  Nature · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1038/343431a0

• On the mechanics of the collision between India and Asia

  Geological Society London Special Publications · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.1986.019.01.07

• Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia

  Nature · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1038/317496a0

• Structure and evolution of the Himalaya–Tibet orogenic belt

  Nature · 1984 · https://doi.org/10.1038/307017a0

• Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine

  Geology · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1982)10<611:petian>2.0.co;2

• The Tibetan side of the India–Eurasia collision

  Nature · 1981 · https://doi.org/10.1038/294405a0

• 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

  Science · 1975 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.189.4201.419

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