List of works - Paul E. Tapponnier

4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography

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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)

A model for the evolution of the axial zone of mid-ocean ridges as suggested by icelandic tectonics

scholarly article by Marc Daignieres et al published June 1975 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Active faulting and tectonics in China

scientific article published on 10 July 1977

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

Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake

scholarly article by Ata Elias et al published 2007 in Geology

Along-strike variations of the partitioning of convergence across the Haiyuan fault system detected by InSAR

An Early Miocene Transition in deformation regime within the Red River Fault Zone, Yunnan, And its significance for Indo-Asian tectonics

scientific article published in 1992

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

scientific article

Change from Late Tertiary compression to Quaternary extension in southern Tibet during the India-Asia Collision

scientific article published in June 1987

Characteristic slip for five great earthquakes along the Fuyun fault in China

article

Co-seismic and cumulative offsets of the recent earthquakes along the Karakax left-lateral strike-slip fault in western Tibet

scholarly article by Haibing Li et al published January 2012 in Gondwana Research

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

scholarly article by J. Liu-Zeng et al published September 2009 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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

article

Confrontation of mantle seismic anisotropy with two extreme models of strain, in central Asia

scientific article published in May 1998

Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces

article

Contemporary, Holocene, and Quaternary deformation of the Asal Rift, Djibouti: Implications for the mechanics of slow spreading ridges

scholarly article

Coseismic slip on shallow décollement megathrusts: implications for seismic and tsunami hazard

scholarly article by Judith Hubbard et al published February 2015 in Earth-Science Reviews

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

scientific article

Ductile and brittle deformations in the northern snake range, nevada

scientific article published in January 1987

Duration of strike-slip movements in large shear zones: The Red River belt, China

scientific article published in September 1994

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

article

Evidence of pervasive trans-tensional deformation in the northwestern Wharton Basin in the 2012 earthquakes rupture area

scientific article published in November 2018

Field evidence for active normal faulting in Tibet

scientific article published in Nature

Formation and evolution of strike-slip faults, rifts, and basins during the India-Asia Collision: An experimental approach

article

Giant, ∼M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics

scientific article published in 2004

High cooling and denudation rates at Kongur Shan, Eastern Pamir (Xinjiang, China) revealed by40Ar/39Ar alkali feldspar thermochronology

article

High-resolution mapping based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture paleoseismic offsets along the Altyn-Tagh fault, China

scientific article

High-resolution stratigraphy and multiple luminescence dating techniques to reveal the paleoseismic history of the central Dead Sea fault (Yammouneh fault, Lebanon)

scientific article published in July 2018

Initial movement of the Karakorum Fault in western Tibet: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircons

Intraplate tectonics in Asia: A precise age for large-scale Miocene movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, China

scientific article published in February 1990

Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin

article

Kinematics of the Sinai triple junction and a two-phase model of Arabia-Africa rifting

scientific article published in 1987

Kongur Shan normal fault: Type example of mountain building assisted by extension (Karakoram fault, eastern Pamir)

scholarly article

Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibet

scholarly article

Late Cenozoic right-lateral strike-slip faulting in southern Tibet

scientific article published on 10 March 1989

Long-term elasticity in the continental lithosphere; modelling the Aden Ridge propagation and the Anatolian extrusion process

scientific article published in April 2003

Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan

scientific article published in 2006

Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of tibet

scientific article published in December 1989

Major Strike-slip Fault of Late Hercynian Age in Morocco

scientific article published in Nature

Measuring radon flux across active faults: Relevance of excavating and possibility of satellite discharges

scholarly article by Patrick Richon et al published February 2010 in Radiation Measurements

Mesozoic ophiolites, sutures, and arge-scale tectonic movements in Afghanistan

scientific article published in February 1981

Necking and fracking may explain stationary seismicity and full degassing in volcanic silicic spine extrusion

scholarly article

New U-Th/Pb constraints on timing of shearing and long-term slip-rate on the Karakorum fault

scientific article published in 2008

Numerical modeling of crustal block-and-fault dynamics, earthquakes and slip rates in the Tibet-Himalayan region

scientific article published in June 2007

Oblique stepwise rise and growth of the Tibet plateau

scientific article

On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup

article published in 1999

On the growth of normal faults and the existence of flats and ramps along the El Asnam active fold and thrust system

scientific article published in 1992

Paleontological view of the ages of the Deccan Traps, the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, and the India-Asia collision

article

Phase velocity structure from Rayleigh and Love waves in Tibet and its neighboring regions

scientific article published on 10 September 1998

Post 4 Ma initiation of normal faulting in southern Tibet. Constraints from the Kung Co half graben

scholarly article

Preliminary early cretaceous paleomagnetic results from the Gansu Corridor, China

article

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

scholarly article

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

article

Propagation of rifting along the Arabia-Somalia Plate Boundary: The Gulfs of Aden and Tadjoura

scholarly article by Isabelle Manighetti et al published 10 February 1997 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Quaternary extension in southern Tibet: Field observations and tectonic implications

scientific article published in 1986

Relation of the tectonics of eastern China to the India-Eurasia collision: Application of slip-line field theory to large-scale continental tectonics

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Reply to Comment on “Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibetˮ

Seismic anisotropy beneath Tibet: evidence for eastward extrusion of the Tibetan lithosphere?

article

Seismic evidence for broken oceanic crust in the 2004 Sumatra earthquake epicentral region

scientific article published on 26 October 2008

September 2005 Manda Hararo-Dabbahu rifting event, Afar (Ethiopia): Constraints provided by geodetic data

scholarly article by Raphael Grandin et al published 18 August 2009 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake?

scholarly article by Laurent Bollinger et al published 28 January 2016 in Earth, Planets and Space

Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth

scientific article

Slip-Partitioned Surface Breaks for the Mw 7.8 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, China

scientific article published in April 2005

Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics

scientific article published in Nature

Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion

scientific article published in January 2005

Sources of the large A.D. 1202 and 1759 Near East earthquakes

scholarly article by M. Daëron et al published 2005 in Geology

Spreading direction in the central South China Sea

scientific article published in Nature

Structural control and system-level behavior of the seismic cycle at the Nankai Trough

Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal

scholarly article

Structure and evolution of the Himalaya–Tibet orogenic belt

scientific article published in Nature

Successive deformation episodes along the Lungmu Co zone, west-central Tibet

scientific article published in 2012

Tectonic context of moderate to large historical earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles and mechanical coupling with volcanoes

scientific article

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

scientific article published in Nature

Teleseismic Shear wave splitting and lithospheric anisotropy beneath and across the Altyn Tagh Fault

scientific article published in November 1999

Teleseismic imaging of subducting lithosphere and Moho offsets beneath western Tibet

scholarly article

Tertiary diachronic extrusion and deformation of western Indochina: Structural and40Ar/39Ar evidence from NW Thailand

scientific article published on 10 May 1997

The 2012 Mw 8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near-orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults

scholarly article by Emma M. Hill et al published May 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

The 2015 M w 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake: an infrequent fault rupture within the Crocker fault system of East Malaysia

scientific article

The Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone (Yunnan, China), Tertiary transform boundary of Indochina

scientific article published in December 1995

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

scientific article published in Nature

The Mw = 6.3, November 21, 2004, Les Saintes earthquake (Guadeloupe): Tectonic setting, slip model and static stress changes

scholarly article

The Sinai triple junction revisited

scientific article published in September 1987

The Tibetan side of the India–Eurasia collision

scientific article published in Nature

The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone.

scientific article

The mechanism of partial rupture of a locked megathrust: The role of fault morphology

scholarly article

Thermal control on post-orogenic extension in collision belts

scientific article published in June 1988

Triple junction kinematics accounts for the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake rupture complexity

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Tsunamigenic potential due to frontal rupturing in the Sumatra locked zone

scholarly article

Twenty million years of continuous deformation along the Karakorum fault, western Tibet: A thermochronological analysis

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Two hundred thirty years of relative sea level changes due to climate and megathrust tectonics recorded in coral microatolls of Martinique (French West Indies)

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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

scientific article published on 27 March 2002

Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the south China Sea: Implications for the Tertiary tectonics of Southeast Asia

scientific article published on 10 April 1993

List of works by Paul E. Tapponnier

4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography

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)

A model for the evolution of the axial zone of mid-ocean ridges as suggested by icelandic tectonics

Active faulting and tectonics in China

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

Active thrusting offshore Mount Lebanon: Source of the tsunamigenic A.D. 551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake

Along-strike variations of the partitioning of convergence across the Haiyuan fault system detected by InSAR

An Early Miocene Transition in deformation regime within the Red River Fault Zone, Yunnan, And its significance for Indo-Asian tectonics

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

Change from Late Tertiary compression to Quaternary extension in southern Tibet during the India-Asia Collision

Characteristic slip for five great earthquakes along the Fuyun fault in China

Co-seismic and cumulative offsets of the recent earthquakes along the Karakax left-lateral strike-slip fault in western Tibet

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

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

Confrontation of mantle seismic anisotropy with two extreme models of strain, in central Asia

Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces

Contemporary, Holocene, and Quaternary deformation of the Asal Rift, Djibouti: Implications for the mechanics of slow spreading ridges

Coseismic slip on shallow décollement megathrusts: implications for seismic and tsunami hazard

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

Ductile and brittle deformations in the northern snake range, nevada

Duration of strike-slip movements in large shear zones: The Red River belt, China

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

Evidence of pervasive trans-tensional deformation in the northwestern Wharton Basin in the 2012 earthquakes rupture area

Field evidence for active normal faulting in Tibet

Formation and evolution of strike-slip faults, rifts, and basins during the India-Asia Collision: An experimental approach

Giant, ∼M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics

High cooling and denudation rates at Kongur Shan, Eastern Pamir (Xinjiang, China) revealed by40Ar/39Ar alkali feldspar thermochronology

High-resolution mapping based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture paleoseismic offsets along the Altyn-Tagh fault, China

High-resolution stratigraphy and multiple luminescence dating techniques to reveal the paleoseismic history of the central Dead Sea fault (Yammouneh fault, Lebanon)

Initial movement of the Karakorum Fault in western Tibet: constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircons

Intraplate tectonics in Asia: A precise age for large-scale Miocene movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, China

Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin

Kinematics of the Sinai triple junction and a two-phase model of Arabia-Africa rifting

Kongur Shan normal fault: Type example of mountain building assisted by extension (Karakoram fault, eastern Pamir)

Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibet

Late Cenozoic right-lateral strike-slip faulting in southern Tibet

Long-term elasticity in the continental lithosphere; modelling the Aden Ridge propagation and the Anatolian extrusion process

Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan

Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of tibet

Major Strike-slip Fault of Late Hercynian Age in Morocco

Measuring radon flux across active faults: Relevance of excavating and possibility of satellite discharges

Mesozoic ophiolites, sutures, and arge-scale tectonic movements in Afghanistan

Necking and fracking may explain stationary seismicity and full degassing in volcanic silicic spine extrusion

New U-Th/Pb constraints on timing of shearing and long-term slip-rate on the Karakorum fault

Numerical modeling of crustal block-and-fault dynamics, earthquakes and slip rates in the Tibet-Himalayan region

Oblique stepwise rise and growth of the Tibet plateau

On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup

On the growth of normal faults and the existence of flats and ramps along the El Asnam active fold and thrust system

Paleontological view of the ages of the Deccan Traps, the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, and the India-Asia collision

Phase velocity structure from Rayleigh and Love waves in Tibet and its neighboring regions

Post 4 Ma initiation of normal faulting in southern Tibet. Constraints from the Kung Co half graben

Preliminary early cretaceous paleomagnetic results from the Gansu Corridor, China

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

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

Propagation of rifting along the Arabia-Somalia Plate Boundary: The Gulfs of Aden and Tadjoura

Quaternary extension in southern Tibet: Field observations and tectonic implications

Relation of the tectonics of eastern China to the India-Eurasia collision: Application of slip-line field theory to large-scale continental tectonics

Reply to Comment on “Large-scale geometry, offset and kinematic evolution of the Karakorum fault, Tibetˮ

Seismic anisotropy beneath Tibet: evidence for eastward extrusion of the Tibetan lithosphere?

Seismic evidence for broken oceanic crust in the 2004 Sumatra earthquake epicentral region

September 2005 Manda Hararo-Dabbahu rifting event, Afar (Ethiopia): Constraints provided by geodetic data

Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake?

Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth

Slip-Partitioned Surface Breaks for the Mw 7.8 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, China

Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics

Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion

Sources of the large A.D. 1202 and 1759 Near East earthquakes

Spreading direction in the central South China Sea

Structural control and system-level behavior of the seismic cycle at the Nankai Trough

Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal

Structure and evolution of the Himalaya–Tibet orogenic belt

Successive deformation episodes along the Lungmu Co zone, west-central Tibet

Tectonic context of moderate to large historical earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles and mechanical coupling with volcanoes

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

Teleseismic Shear wave splitting and lithospheric anisotropy beneath and across the Altyn Tagh Fault

Teleseismic imaging of subducting lithosphere and Moho offsets beneath western Tibet

Tertiary diachronic extrusion and deformation of western Indochina: Structural and40Ar/39Ar evidence from NW Thailand

The 2012 Mw 8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near-orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults

The 2015 M w 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake: an infrequent fault rupture within the Crocker fault system of East Malaysia