Publications, maps & communications

2024

32. B. Le Bayon, A. Plunder, R. J. Thomas, T. Fullgraf, N. Charles, V. Nyalugwe, S. D. Boger, P. Lach, D. Frei , Y. Lahaye. Crustal evolution of the northern Nyika Subdomain of the Palaeoproterozoic Ubendian belt in Malawi. Journal of African Earth Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105216 

2023

31. M. Sonnet**, L. Labrousse, J. Bascou, A. Plunder,  A. Nouibat and A. Paul. Assessing chemical and mineralogical properties of the Alpine slab based on field analogues and ambient noise tomography.  G3. Open access here:  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010784 

30.  C. Herviou**, P. Agard, A. Verlaguet, T. Gyomlai, G. Bonnet, K.Mendes, A. Plunder. Fractal distribution of subduction-related crack-seal veins (Schistes Lustrés, W. Alps): Implications for fluid flow and rupture processes at the downdip end of the seismogenic zone.  Journal of geophysical research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB026317 

29. Mendes** K., Agard P., Plunder A., and Herviou C. Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: evidence from a frozen-in plate interface. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51480.1 

28. Thomas, B., Boger, S.D., Fullgraf, T., Charles, N., Le Bayon, B., Frei, D., Plunder, A., Lahaye, Y., Le Roux, P., and Mumba, R. Two pulses of Mesoproterozoic intra-plate magmatism in the heart of the Palaeoproterozoic Ubendian Domain of northern Malawi. Journal of African Earth Sciences. Open acces here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X23000705

2022

27. Le Bayon, B., Padel, M., Baudin, T., Cagnard, F., Issautier, B., Tissoux, H., Prognon, C., Plunder, A., Grataloup, S., Lacquement F., Hertout, H., and J. Stephan-Perrey. The geological-event reference system, a step towards geological data harmonization. BSGF, open acces here: https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2022017

26. A. Plunder, L. Le Pourhiet, L. Räss, E. Gloaguen, M. Pichavant, and C. Gumiaux. Pegmatites as geological expressions of spontaneous crustal flow localisation. Lithos; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106652 

25. C. Herviou**, P. Agard, A. Plunder, K. Mendes, A. Verlaguet, D. Deldicque, N. Cubas. Subducted fragments of the Liguro-Piemont ocean, Western Alps: Spatial correlations and offscraping mechanisms during subduction. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229267 

24. P. Agard, M. Soret, G. Bonnet, D. Ninkabou, A. Plunder, C. Prigent and P. Yamato. Subduction and obduction processes: the fate of oceanic lithosphere revealed by blueschists, eclogites and ophiolites. In AGU Books: Compressional Tectonics: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building -Volume 2, Ed. Catlos, Cehmen, Dalziel). Open access here: https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10510507.1

23. P. C.Bandopadhyay, D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, D. Bandyopadhyay, A. Licht, E. L. Advokaat, A. Plunder, B. Ghosh, A. Dasgupta, J.P. Trabucho-Alexandreb, Paleogeography of the West Burma Block and the eastern Neotethys Ocean: constraints from Cenozoic sediments shed onto the Andaman-Nicobar ophiolites. Gondwana Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.10.011 

2021

22. D.J.J van Hinsbergen, B. Steinberger, C. Guilmette, M. Maffione, D. Gürer, K. Peters, A. Plunder, P.J. McPhee, C. Gaina, E.L. Advokaat, R..L.M Vissers and W. Spakman. A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation. Nature Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00780-7 

21. Bandyopadhyay D., Ghosh B., Guilmette C., Plunder A., Corfu, F., Advokaat, E.L., Bandopadhyay, P.C., and D.J.J. van Hinsbergen. Geochemical and geochronological record of the Andaman Ophiolite, SE Asia: from back-arc to forearc during subduction polarity reversal? Lithos. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105853 

2020

20. Mansard, N., Stünitz, H., Raimbourg, H., Précigout, J., Plunder, A. and Nègre, L. Relationship between microstructures and resistance in mafic assemblages that deform and transform. Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2020-98

19. B. Lefeuvre, P. Agard, A. Verlaguet, B. Dubacq and A. Plunder. Massive formation of lawsonite in subducted sediments from the Schistes Lustrés (W. Alps): Implications for mass transfer and decarbonation in cold subduction zones. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105629 

18.   A.  Plunder, D. Bandyopadhyay, M. Ganerød, E. L. Advokaat, B. Ghosh, P. Bandopadhyay and D. J.J. van Hinsbergen. History of subduction polarity reversal during arc-continent collision: constraints from the Andaman Ophiolite and its metamorphic sole.  Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005762 

17. Rodriguez, M., Huchon, P., Chamot-Rooke, N., Fournier, M., Delescluse, M., Smit, J., Plunder, A., Calvès, G., Ninkabou, D., Pubellier, M., François, T., Agard, P., and C. Gorini. Successive shifts of the India-Africa transform plate boundary during the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene interval: implications for ophiolite emplacement along transforms.  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104225

16. Bandyopadhyay, D., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Plunder, A., Bandopadhyay, P.C., Advokaat, E.L., Morishita, T., and Ghosh, B., in press, Andaman ophiolites; an overview, in: Ray, J.S., and Radhakrishna, M. (eds), “The Andaman Islands and Adjoining Offshore: Geology, Tectonics and Paleoclimate”, online here

2019

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2018

15. Agard, P., Plunder, A., Angiboust, S., Bonnet, G., and  J. Ruh. The subduction plate interface: rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales). Lithos, 320: 537-566

14. Plunder A., Thieulot, C., and D.J.J. van Hinsbergen The effect of obliquity on temperature in subduction zones: insights from 3D numerical modeling. Solid Earth, 9, 759–776, 2018 

13. Dubacq, B., and A. Plunder. Controls on trace element distribution in oxides and silicates, Journal of Petrology, 59:233-256

12. Gürer, D., Plunder, A., Kirst, F., Corfu, F., Schmid, S.M., and D. van Hinsbergen. A long-lived Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481:111-124.

2017

11. Soret, M., Agard P., Dubacq B., Plunder A., and Yamato P. Petrological evidence for stepwise accretion of metamorphic soles during subduction infancy (Semail ophiolite, Oman and UAE). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 35:1051-1080.

2016

10. Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C., Soret, M., Okay, A.I., and H. Whitechurch. Metamorphic sole formation, emplacement and blueschist overprint: early obduction dynamics witnessed by W. Turkey ophiolites. Terra Nova, 28:329-339

9. Agard, P., Yamato, P., Soret, M., Prigent, C., Guillot, G., Plunder, A., Dubacq, B., Chauvet, A., and P. Monié. Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451:208-220

8. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Maffione, M., Plunder, A., Kaymakcı, N., Ganerød, M., Hendriks, B.W.H., Corfu, F., Gürer, D. de Gelder, G.I.N.O., Peters, K., McPhee, P.J., Brouwer, F.M., Advokaat, E.L., and Vissers, R.L.M. Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey, Tectonics, 35:983-1014, open acces here

7. Delchini, S., Lahfid, A., Plunder, A., and A. Michard. Applicability of the RSCM geothermometry approach in a complex tectono-metamorphic context (Variscan orogen, Morocco). Lithos, 256–257:1-12, available on Lithos website. 

2015

6. Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C., Pourteau, A. and A.I. Okay. Accretion, underplating and exhumation along a subduction interface: From subduction initiation to continental subduction (Tavşanlı zone, W. Turkey). Lithos, 226:233-254 download here

2014

5. Pourteau A., Bousquet R., Vidal O., Plunder A., Düsterhöft E., Candan O. and R. Oberhänsli. Multistage growth of Fe-Mg-carpholite and chloritoid, from field evidence to thermodynamic modelling, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168:1090 available here

4. De Andrade, V., Ganne, J., Dubacq, D., Ryan, CG., Bourdelle, F., Plunder, A., Falkenberg, G., and J Thieme. Retrieving past geodynamic events by unlocking rock archives with μ-XRF and μ-spectroscopy. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014 open access here

2013

3. Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C and Okay, A.I., Geodynamics of the Tavşanlı zone, western Turkey : Insights into subduction/obduction processes, Tectonophysics, 608:884-903, download here

2. Angiboust, S., Agard, P., De Hoog, J.C.M., Omrani, J., and A. Plunder. Insights on deep, accretionary subduction processes from the Sistan ophiolitic “mélange”(Eastern Iran), Lithos, 56–159:139–158. available here

2012

1. Plunder A., Agard P., Dubacq B., Chopin C. and M. Bellanger. How continuous and precise is the record of P-T paths ? Insights from combined thermobarometry and thermodynamic modelling into subduction dynamics (Schistes Lustrés, W. Alps), Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30:323–346,download here

**PhD student

2024

• Back to the Otjosondu manganese deposit: an integrated structural, petrological and geochronological study. A. Plunder, B. Le Bayon, F. Cagnard, M. Poujol, N. Cogné and L. Bailly. EGU General Assembly 

• 3D Modelling of pegmatites migration at the onset of partial melting by M. Bergogne**, L. Le Pourhiet, L. Raess, Y. Podladchikov, I.  Utkin and A. Plunder.  EGU General Assembly

2023

• Caractérisation des propriétés sismiques du slab crustal alpin sur la base d'analogues de terrain. M. Sonnet**, L. Labrousse, J. Bascou, A. Plunder. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• Le référentiel des évènements géologiques : approche appliquée à l'histoire géologique de l'Anti-Atlas et du Haut Atlas de la région de Qal'at Mgouna, Maroc. M. Padel, J. Tuduri, T. Baudin, O. Blein, I. Bernachot, B. Le Bayon, A. Plunder, and F. Cagnard. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• Metamorphic petrology and U/Pb geochronology of the Otjosondu area, southern central zone, Damara belt, Namibia: an alternative way to understand a world-class manganese deposit. B. Le Bayon, A. Plunder, F. Cagnard, M. Poujol, N. Cogné, L. Bailly, J-P. Prian. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• Subduction continentale VS subduction océanique : même combat ? K. Mendes**, P. Agard, A. Plunder, C. Herviou. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• Tectonometamorphic and geochronological constraints of the Palaeoproterozoic northern Nyika subdomain (Ubendian belt, Malawi). A. Plunder, B. Le Bayon, R. Thomas, T. Fullgraf, N. Charles, V. Nyalugwe, P. Lach and S. Boger. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• “liThium and cRitical metals in hArd rocks: iNSights From geoenvironmentAl model and socIo-economics tRends” – Projet ANR TRANSFAIR. J. Melleton, E. Gloaguen, G. Dubreuil, B. Horanyi, A. Plunder, A. Peyrefitte, T. Jacob, A. Raingeard, F. Dubois, C. Ballouard, and F. Gaillard. 28ème réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Rennes 

• Geological evolution of northern Malawi: the final piece of the Ubendian jigsaw  R. Thomas, T. Fullgraf, A. Plunder, S. Boger, B. le Bayon, N. Charles. 29th Colloquium of African Geology. 

• Partial Melting of Hyperaluminous Metasediments: the Origin of Rare-Metal Granites and Pegmatites? Horányi B., Gaillard F., Gion A.M., Plunder A., Gloaguen E., Melleton J., Moradell-Casellas A., Garde J. Goldschmidt

• Subobduction: subduction plate boundary hiccups revealed by blueschists, eclogites and ophiolites. P. Agard, M. Soret, G. Bonnet, D. Ninkabou, A. Plunder, C. Prigent, and P. Yamato. EGU General Assembly 

• Plate interface frozen at the very end of continental subduction. K. Mendes, P. Agard, A. Plunder, and C. Herviou. EGU General Assembly 

• Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the high-pressure Quartzite-Phyllite Unit in the Aegean forearc, Peloponnese, Greece. V. Wicker, A. Plunder, L. Kerouedan, P. Bouilhol, M.-C. Caumon. Metamorphic Studies Group Research, Oxford, UK.

2022

• Seismic properties profiles of the alpine slab predicted by petrophysics versus ambient noise tomography lithospheric model. M. Sonnet**, L. Labrousse, J. Bascou, A. Plunder, A. Nouibat, L. Stehly, and A. Paul. EGU General Assembly 

• Tectono-metamorphic framework of the Rosebel and Armina unit, French Guiana. A. Plunder, G. Aergeerts, H. Suire, A. Lahfid, A. Heuret, A. Casanova  12th Inter Guiana Geological Conference    

2021

• Geophysical signature of the alpine slab: Field analogues and direct models. M. Sonnet**, L. Labrousse, J. Bascou, and A. Plunder. EGU General Assembly 

• A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering seafloor spreading and subduction initiation. D. J. J. van Hinsbergen, B. Steinberger, C. Guilmette, M. Maffione, D. Gürer, K. Peters, A. Plunder, P. McPhee, C. Gaina, E. Advokaat, R. Vissers, and W. Spakman. EGU General Assembly 

• Partial melting as an efficient mechanism to produce rare metal granite?  A. Plunder, E. Gloaguen, S. Erdmann, F. Gaillard, J. Garde, and J. Melleton. EGU General Assembly 

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