P. Tapponnier

Institut de physique du globe de Paris — France

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

earthquake and tectonic studies(165), Geological and Geochemical Analysis(92), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(53), Geological and Geophysical Studies(46), High-pressure geophysics and materials(40)

Publications246 total

A reconstruction of the last 50 My of South-East Asia's tectonic history
Tectonophysics·2025Open Access
LGM glaciers in the SE Mediterranean? First evidence from glacial landforms and 36Cl dating on Mount Lebanon
Quaternary Science Reviews·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Block Tectonics Across Western Tibet and Multi‐Millennial Recurrence of Great Earthquakes on the Karakax Fault
Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth·2021· 21 citedOpen Access
Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust: Reply to Commentary
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·2021· 2 cited
Late Quaternary Extension Rates Across the Northern Half of the Yadong‐Gulu Rift: Implication for East‐West Extension in Southern Tibet
Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth·2020· 65 citedOpen Access
Late Quaternary Extension Rates Across the Northern Half of the Yadong-Gulu Rift – Implication for East-West Extension in Southern Tibet
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2020Open Access
Is There a Nascent Plate Boundary in the Northern Indian Ocean?
Geophysical Research Letters·2020· 18 citedOpen Access
Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·2020· 36 citedOpen Access
Source size and surface expression of the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2019
Discovery of a thick sedimentary basin along nascent plate boundary (re-activated fracture zones) in the Wharton Basin
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2019· 1 cited
A composite rupture model for the great 1950 Assam earthquake across the cusp of the East Himalayan Syntaxis
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·2019· 89 citedOpen Access
Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim Basin and surrounding ranges (Xinjiang, China): A regional overview
Earth-Science Reviews·2019· 101 cited
The 2018 Mw7.5 Palu earthquake, a gradually accelerating super-shear rupture stopped by stress shadows in a complex fault system
AGUFM·2018
Recent activity on the Main Boundary Thrust in western Nepal: implications for mechanics of the Himalayan thrust system
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
Paleoseismologic investigation revealed early events occurred along north Altyn Tagh fault near Shibaocheng, Gansu, China
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
Radiocarbon Dating of the 1934AD Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Surface Rupture Reveals Systematic Biases that Cause Artificially Aging of Historical events
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
DEM modelling of the Tertiary Deformation of the Pamir and adjacent blocks
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
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
AGUFM·2018
Structural and stratigraphic constraints on tsunamigenic rupture along the frontal Sunda megathrust from MegaTera bathymetric and seismic reflection data
AGUFM·2017
Paleoseismic investigation on the eastern end of the Altyn Tagh fault
AGUFM·2017
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Frequent Co-authors

Y. Gaudemer(11), J. van der Woerd(10), G. Peltzer(8), Rolando Armijo(7), F. J. Ryerson(7), E. Jacques(7), Robin Lacassin(6), Philippe Hervé Leloup(6), Bertrand Meyer(6), Nicolas Arnaud(6), Yann Klinger(6), Robert C. Finkel(6), Anne‐Sophie Mériaux(6), Vincent Courtillot(4), Guo Shunmin(4), Zhitai Chen(4), Isabelle Manighetti(4), Xiwei Xu(4), Marc W. Caffee(4), Cécile Lasserre(4)