GERBAULT , Muriel

Surface displacements solutions of elastic deformation around an inflating magma chamber generally assume that the associated internal overpressure is limited by the bedrock tensile strength. When considering stress equilibrium in the bedrock adjacent to a spherical or infinitely long cylinder, the gravity body force actually resists tensile...

Key Points: • The overpressure required for failure at the walls of a magma chamber depends on its geometry and on the effective bedrock strength. • Plastic shear bands (faults) initiate either from near the apex or the tip depending on the symmetry and elongation of an oblate chamber. • Elastic dilation at oblate chambers tip open concurrent...

The Maures-Tanneron Massif (MTM), together with Corsica and Sardinia, represent the Southeastern branch of the huge European Variscan belt. A continuous evolution from continental collision to exhumation is described from ca. 350 Ma to ca. 320 Ma, based on an extended compilation of available geological and geochronological data. This...

The Southern Andes margin hosts active and fossil volcanic, geothermal, and mineralized systems documenting intense geofluid migration through the crust. Fluid flow is also spatially associated with crustal faults that accommodate the bulk deformation arising from oblique plate convergence. Although recognized, the precise local mechanical...

Identifying the causes of flank destabilization of active volcanic edifices is key to prevent catastrophic events. The persistent seismicity recorded below the eastern flank of Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano (Réunion Island), both in between and during eruptive events, may give indications on the mechanical stability of this edifice....

Identifying the causes of flank destabilization of active volcanic edifices is key to prevent catastrophic events. The persistent seismicity recorded below the eastern flank of Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano (Réunion Island), both in between and during eruptive events, may give indications on the mechanical stability of this edifice....

Identifying the causes of flank destabilization of active volcanic edifices is key to prevent catastrophic events. The persistent seismicity recorded below the eastern flank of Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano (Réunion Island), both in between and during eruptive events, may give indications on the mechanical stability of this edifice....

The 2011-2012 Cordon-Caulle eruption was the largest subaerial eruption of the 21th century. An inflation captured from InSAR between 2007 and 2009 was related to a volume of magma injection too small to have triggered this eruption. Here, we benefit from SAR imagery acquired by ALOS-1, ENVISAT and SENTINEL-1 data, to analyze the temporal and...

In the Lesser Caucasus three main domains are distinguished from SW to NE: (1) the South Armenian Block (SAB), a Gondwanian-derived continental terrane; (2) scattered outcrops of ophiolites coming up against the Sevan-Akera suture zone; and (3) the Eurasian plate. The Armenian ophiolites represent remnants of an oceanic domain which disappeared...