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A simple parameterization of strain localization in the ductile regime due to grain size reduction: A case study for olivine

scientific article published on 10 November 1999

Basement – Cover decoupling and progressive exhumation of metamorphic sediments at hot rifted margin. Insights from the Northeastern Pyrenean analog

scientific article published in August 2016

Brevard fault zone, southern Appalachians: A medium-angle, dextral, Alleghanian shear zone

scholarly article

Comment on “SKS splitting beneath continental rifts zones” by Gao et al

scientific article published on 10 May 1999

Complex, 3D strain patterns in a synkinematic tonalite batholith from the Araçuaí Neoproterozoic orogen (Eastern Brazil): Evidence from combined magnetic and isotopic chronology studies

scientific article published in June 2012

Conflicting structural and geochronological data from the Ibituruna quartz-syenite (SE Brazil): Effect of protracted “hot” orogeny and slow cooling rate?

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Connecting the Araçuaí and Ribeira belts (SE – Brazil): Progressive transition from contractional to transpressive strain regime during the Brasiliano orogeny

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Continental rifting parallel to ancient collisional belts: an effect of the mechanical anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle

scientific article published on 15 February 2001

Continental-scale rheological heterogeneities and complex intraplate tectono-metamorphic patterns: insights from a case-study and numerical models

scientific article published in September 1997

Deformation and melt transport in a highly depleted peridotite massif from the Canadian Cordillera: Implications to seismic anisotropy above subduction zones

scientific article published in December 2006

Deformation of a pervasively molten middle crust: insights from the neoproterozoic Ribeira-Araçuaí orogen (SE Brazil)

scientific article published on 21 July 2007

Deformation regime variations in an arcuate transpressional orogen (Ribeira belt, SE Brazil) imaged by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in granulites

scientific article published in October 2005

Deformation, Annealing, Melt‐Rock Interaction, and Seismic Properties of an Old Domain of the Equatorial Atlantic Lithospheric Mantle

scientific article published in April 2019

Deformation, hydration, and anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle in an active rift: Constraints from mantle xenoliths from the North Tanzanian Divergence of the East African Rift

scientific article published in January 2015

Deformation, static recrystallization, and reactive melt transport in shallow subcontinental mantle xenoliths (Tok Cenozoic volcanic field, SE Siberia)

article by Andrea Tommasi et al published July 2008 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Ductile duplexing at a bend of a continental-scale strike-slip shear zone: example from NE Brazil

EBSD-measured lattice-preferred orientations and seismic properties of eclogites

Fabrics of migmatites and the relationships between partial melting and deformation in high-grade transpressional shear zones: The Espinho Branco anatexite (Borborema Province, NE Brazil)

scientific article published in March 2013

Faults (shear zones) in the Earth's mantle

scientific article published in August 2012

Flow in the western Mediterranean shallow mantle: Insights from xenoliths in Pliocene alkali basalts from SE Iberia (eastern Betics, Spain)

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Fluid transfer into the wedge controlled by high-pressure hydrofracturing in the cold top-slab mantle

Fluid-assisted strain localization in the shallow subcontinental lithospheric mantle

article by Károly Hidas et al published October 2016 in Lithos

Focal mechanism of prehistoric earthquakes deduced from pseudotachylyte fabric

scholarly article

Heterogeneity and anisotropy in the lithospheric mantle

scientific article published in October 2015

High-temperature deformation in the Neoproterozoic transpressional Ribeira belt, southeast Brazil

scientific article published in July 2002

How long can the middle crust remain partially molten during orogeny?

scientific article

Hydrous melts weaken the mantle, crystallization of pargasite and phlogopite does not: Insights from a petrostructural study of the Finero peridotites, southern Alps

scientific article published in November 2017

Initiation and propagation of shear zones in a heterogeneous continental lithosphere

scientific article published in 1995

Intraplate continental deformation: Influence of a heat-producing layer in the lithospheric mantle

scientific article

Lithospheric anisotropy beneath the Pyrenees from shear wave splitting

scientific article published on 10 December 1998

Magma chambers at oceanic ridges: How large?

scholarly article

Magma-assisted strain localization in an orogen-parallel transcurrent shear zone of southern Brazil

scientific article published in April 1994

Microfabrics and zircon U–Pb (SHRIMP) chronology of mylonites from the Patos shear zone (Borborema Province, NE Brazil)

scientific article published in April 2014

Microstructure, texture and seismic anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle above a mantle plume: Insights from the Labait volcano xenoliths (Tanzania)

scholarly article by Alain Vauchez et al published April 2005 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Microstructures and seismic properties of south Patagonian mantle xenoliths (Gobernador Gregores and Pali Aike)

scientific article published in May 2014

Nature and Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle beneath the Hoggar Swell (Algeria): a Record from Mantle Xenoliths

scientific article published in November 2014

Orogen-parallel tangential motion in the Late Devonian – Early Carboniferous southern Appalachians internides

scientific article published in July 1993

Polygenetic evolution and longitudinal transport within the Henderson mylonitic gneiss, North Carolina (southern Appalachian Piedmont)

scholarly article

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Preface

scientific article published in July 1993

Preorogenic exhumation of the North Pyrenean Agly massif (Eastern Pyrenees-France)

scientific article published in March 2013

Relationships between lower and upper crust tectonic during doming: the mylonitic southern edge of the Velay metamorphic core complex (Cévennes-French Massif Central)

scientific article published in August 2006

Reply to comment by P. Olivier on “Preorogenic exhumation of the North Pyrenean Agly Massif (Eastern Pyrenees, France)”

scientific article published in August 2013

Rheological heterogeneity, mechanical anisotropy and deformation of the continental lithosphere

scientific article

Seismic anisotropy in ocean basins: Resistive drag of the sublithospheric mantle?

scientific article published on 15 October 1996

Seismic anisotropy in the eastern United States: Deep structure of a complex continental plate

scientific article published on 10 April 1997

Seismic properties of an asthenospherized lithospheric mantle: constraints from lattice preferred orientations in peridotite from the Ronda massif

Self-indentation of a heterogeneous continental lithosphere

scholarly article

Shear wave splitting in SE Brazil: an effect of active or fossil upper mantle flow, or both?

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Short wavelength lateral variability of lithospheric mantle beneath the Middle Atlas (Morocco) as recorded by mantle xenoliths

scholarly article by Hicham El Messbahi et al published May 2015 in Tectonophysics

Slow cooling and crystallization of the roots of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí hot orogen (SE Brazil): Implications for rheology, strain distribution, and deformation analysis

scientific article published in September 2019

Strain and deformation mechanisms in the Variscan nappes of Vendée, South Brittany, France

scientific article published in January 1987

Strain distribution across a partially molten middle crust: Insights from the AMS mapping of the Carlos Chagas Anatexite, Araçuaí belt (East Brazil)

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Strain transfer at continental scale from a transcurrent shear zone to a transpressional fold belt: The Patos-Seridó system, northeastern Brazil

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Structural reactivation in plate tectonics controlled by olivine crystal anisotropy

scientific article published on 24 May 2009

Subcontinental lithosphere reactivation beneath the Hoggar swell (Algeria): Localized deformation, melt channeling and heat advection

scientific article published in May 2015

Termination of a continental-scale strike-slip fault in partially melted crust: The West Pernambuco shear zone, northeast Brazil

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The Beni Bousera Peridotite (Rif Belt, Morocco): an Oblique-slip Low-angle Shear Zone Thinning the Subcontinental Mantle Lithosphere

scholarly article by Erwin C. Frets et al published 24 December 2013 in Journal of Petrology

The Late Neoproterozoic/Early Palaeozoic evolution of the West Congo Belt of NW Angola: geochronological (U-Pb and Ar-Ar) and petrostructural constraints

scientific article published on 20 February 2012

The development of discrete shear-zones in a granite: stress, strain and changes in deformation mechanisms

scientific article published in February 1987

Timing of crust formation, deposition of supracrustal sequences, and Transamazonian and Brasiliano metamorphism in the East Pernambuco belt (Borborema Province, NE Brazil): Implications for western Gondwana assembly

scientific article published in September 2006

Titanohematite lattice-preferred orientation and magnetic anisotropy in high-temperature mylonites

scientific article published on 30 April 2002

Transcurrent Shear Zones and Magma Emplacement in Neoproterozoic Belts of Brazil

scientific article published in 1997

Upper mantle anisotropy in SE and Central Brazil from SKS splitting: Evidence of asthenospheric flow around a cratonic keel

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Upper mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy in continental rifts

scholarly article

Upper mantle structure of the South American continent and neighboring oceans from surface wave tomography

scientific article published in August 2005

Upper mantle tectonics: three-dimensional deformation, olivine crystallographic fabrics and seismic properties

scientific article published in April 1999

Very high geothermal gradient during mantle exhumation recorded in mylonitic marbles and carbonate breccias from a Mesozoic Pyrenean palaeomargin (Lherz area, North Pyrenean Zone, France)

scientific article published in March 2016