MENANT , Armel

Several decades of field, geophysical, analogue, and numerical modeling investigations have enabled documentation of the wide range of tectonic transport processes in accretionary wedges, which constitute some of the most dynamic plate boundary environments on Earth. Active convergent margins can exhibit basal accretion (via underplating)...

The long-lived subduction zone in the eastern Mediterranean region has been the locus of successive basal-accretion periods responsible for the formation of two main high pressure-low temperature (HP-LT) metamorphic belts recognized for a long time in the central Aegean domain (the Cycladic Blueschist Unit) and on Crete and Peloponnese (the...

Subduction margins are the loci of a wide range of deformation processes occurring at different timescales along the plate interface and in the overriding forearc crust. Whereas long-term deformation is usually considered as stable over Myr-long periods, this vision is challenged by an increasing number of observations suggesting a long-term...