work in the Aegean

Introduction

The Aegean is a rich and interesting area for modeller because of the quantity of interacting processes both in space and time and because it is a particularly well studied area from seismological and geological aspects which brings together loads of data to constrains models to study what is going on at the brittle ductile transition in the continental crust.

One of my PhD projects was to understand the kinematics of the active faults in the Gulf of Corinth using thermomechanical and analogue models of the rifting at crustal and lithospheric scale. The results were published in four papers.

Within the EGEO project (founded by ANR and leaded by Laurent Jolivet), I was particularly interacting with two PhD students:

Emmanuel Lecomte who works on the mechanical properties of the low angle normal faults found in the detachment of the Cycladies trying to match micro-structures along those faults with there internal friction. Emmanuel Lecomte who works on the mechanical properties of the low angle normal faults found in the detachment of the Cycladies trying to match micro-structures along those faults with there internal friction.
Benjamin Huet, thermo-mechanical models are being run to understand the formation metamorphic core complex in the Cycladies back in the Miocene.

Within my EMERGENCE project (founded by UPMC),:

Nafi Traoré (Phd student) studies the influence of mechanically layered lithosphere on the topographic response to a propagating crack using Cast3m (in coll. with J. Frelat and IJLRDA) and will apply it to the North Anatolian Fault (in coll. With B. Meyer)

Introduction

Influence of nappe stacking at all the scale in the aegean

Influence of lateral variation in the nappe stack on the Formation of metamorphic core complexes in 3D

Reactivation of low angle faults in the brittle field

Localization of strike slip fault