Publications sorted by topics
Publications sorted by topics
SUBDUCTION ZONES DYNAMICS - What's going on with the slabs in the mantle? What is happening at the interface between tectonic plates ? What is the role of the overriding plate? What drives obduction processes ? How is the transition from ancient to modern-style tectonics ?
Auzemery A., Yamato P., Duretz T., Willingshofer E., Matenco L., and Porkoláb K. (2022), "Influence of magma-poor versus magma-rich passive margins on subduction initiation", Gondwana Research, v.103, p.172-186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.11.012 [PDF]
Poh J., Yamato P. , Duretz T., Gapais D. and Ledru P. (2021) "The transition from ancient to modern-style tectonics: Insights from lithosphere dynamics modelling in compressional regimes", Gondwana Research, v. 99, p.77-92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.06.016 [PDF]
Porkoláb K., Duretz T., Yamato P., Auzemery A. and E. Willingshofer E. (2021) "Extrusion of subducted crust explains the emplacement of far-travelled ophiolites", Nature Communications, v. 12, 1499, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21866-1
Auzemery A., Willingshofer E., Yamato P., Duretz T., and Sokoutis D. (2020) "Strain localization mechanisms for subduction initiation at passive margins", Global and Planetary Change, v.195, 103323, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103323. [PDF]
Hertgen S., Yamato P., Guillaume B., Magni V., Schliffke N., van Hunen J. (2020), "Influence of the thickness of the overriding plate on convergence zone dynamics", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v.21(2), doi:10.1029/2019GC008678
Soret M., Agard P., Dubacq B., Plunder A. and Yamato P. (2017), "Petrological evidence for stepwise accretion of metamorphic soles during subduction infancy (Semail ophiolite, Oman and UAE)", Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v.35, p.1051-1080, doi:10.1111/jmg.12267 [PDF]
Yamato P. and Brun J.P. (2017), "Metamorphic record of catastrophic pressure drops in subduction zones", Nature Geoscience, v.10, p.46-50, doi:10.1038/ngeo2852 [PDF]
Agard P., Yamato P., Soret M., Prigent C., Guillot S., Plunder A., Dubacq B., Chauvet A., and Monié P. (2016), "Plate interface rheological switches during subduction infancy: control on slab penetration and metamorphic sole formation", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.451, p.208-220, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.054 [PDF]
Duretz T., Agard P., Yamato P., Ducassou C., Burov E. and Gerya T.V. (2016), "Thermo-mechanical modeling of the obduction process based on the Oman ophiolite case", Gondwana Research, v.32, p.1-10, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.002 [PDF]
Rolland Y., Bosch D., Guillot S., de Sigoyer J., Martinod J., Agard P. and Yamato P., "Subduction & Orogeny: Introduction to the special volume", Journal of Geodynamics, v. 96, p.1-5, doi:10.1016/j.org.2016.03.006 [PDF]
Angiboust S., Wolf, S., Burov, E., Agard, P. and Yamato, P. (2012), "Effect of Fluid Circulation on Subduction Interface Tectonic Processes: Insights from Thermo-mechanical Numerical Modelling", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 357-358, p. 238-248, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.012 [PDF]
Angiboust S., Agard, P., Yamato, P. and Raimbourg, H. (2012), "Eclogite breccias in a subducted ophiolite: a record of intermediate-depth earthquakes?", Geology, v.40, p. 707-710, doi:10.1130/G32925.1 [PDF]
Angiboust S., Agard P., Raimourg H., Yamato P. and Huet B. (2011),"Subduction interface processes recorded by eclogite-facies shear zones (Monviso, W. Alps)", Lithos, v.127, p.222-238, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.004 [PDF]
Loiselet C., Braun J., Husson L., Le Carlier de Veslud C., Thieulot C., Yamato P. and Grujic D. (2010), "Subducting slabs: jellyfishes in the Earth’s mantle", Geochemistry Geophysical Geosystems, 11, Q08016, doi:10.1029/2010GC003172 [PDF]
Yamato P., Husson L., Braun J., Loiselet C. and Thieulot C. (2009), “Influence of surrounding plates on 3D subduction dynamics”, Geophysical Research Letters , 36, L07303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036942 [PDF]
Yamato P., Mouthereau F., Burov E. (2009), “Taiwan mountain building: insight from 2D thermomechanical modeling of a rheologically-stratified lithosphere”, Geophysical Journal International, 176, p. 307-326, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03977.x [PDF]
Burov E. and Yamato P. (2008), “Continental plate collision, P-T-t-z conditions and unstable vs. stable plate dynamics: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling”, Lithos, 25, p. 178-204, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.014 [PDF]
HP-LT ROCKS EXHUMATION MECHANISMS - How rocks buried at mantle depth can return back to the surface? What about the Pressure-to-depth conversion issue ? ... and some data from petrological studies...
Simon M., Pitra P., Yamato P., and Poujol M. (2023), "Isothermal compression of an eclogite from the Western Gneiss Region (Norway)", Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 41(1), 181-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12692 [PDF]
Luisier C., Tajčmanová L., Yamato P., and Duretz T. (2023), "Garnet microstructures suggest ultra-fast decompression of ultrahigh-pressure rocks", Nature Communications, 14, 6012, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41310-w
Gyomlai T., Yamato P. , and Godard G. (2023), "Petrological study of an eclogite-facies metagranite from the Champtoceaux Complex (La Picherais, Armorican Massif, France)", European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 589–611, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-589-2023
Bauville A. and Yamato P. (2021) "Pressure-to-depth conversion models for metamorphic rocks: Derivation and applications", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009280, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009280. [PDF]
Hertgen S., Yamato P., Morales L.F.G. and Angiboust S. (2017), "Evidence for brittle deformation events at eclogite-facies P-T conditions (example of the Mt. Emilius klippe, Western Alps)", Tectonophysics, v. 706-707, p. 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.03.28 [PDF]
Angiboust S., Yamato P., Hertgen S., Hyppolito T., Bebout G.E. and Morales L. (2017), "Fluid pathways and high pressure metasomatism in a subducted continental slice (Mt. Emilius klippe, W. Alps)", Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 35, p. 471-492, doi:10.1111/jmg.12241 [PDF]
Yamato P. and Brun J.P. (2017), "Metamorphic record of catastrophic pressure drops in subduction zones", Nature Geoscience, v.10, p.46-50, doi:10.1038/ngeo2852 [PDF]
Burov E., Francois T., Agard P., Le Pourhiet L., Meyer B., Tirel C., Lebedev S., Yamato P. and Brun J.-P. (2014), "Rheological and geodynamic controls on the mechanisms of subduction and HP/UHP exhumation of crustal rocks during continental collision: Insights from numerical models", Tectonophysics, v. 631, p.212-250, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.033 [PDF]
Burov E., Francois T., Yamato P. and Wolf S. (2014), "Mechanisms of continental subduction and exhumation of HP and UHP rocks", Gondwana Research, v. 25, p. 464-493, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.09.010 [PDF]
Husson L., Brun J.P., Yamato P. and Faccenna C. (2009), “Episodic slab rollback fosters exhumation of HP-UHP rocks”, Geophysical Journal International, 179, p.1292-1300, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04372.x [PDF]
Agard P., Yamato P., Jolivet L. and Burov E. (2009), “Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones: timing and mechanisms”, Earth-Science Reviews , 92, p. 53-79, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.11.02 [PDF]
Yamato P., Burov E., Agard P., Le Pourhiet L. and Jolivet L. (2008), “HP-UHP exhumation during slow continental subduction: Self-consistent thermodynamically and thermomechanically coupled model with application to the Western Alps”, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271, p. 63-74, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.049 [PDF]
Yamato P., Agard P., Goffé B., De Andrade V., Vidal O. and Jolivet L. (2007), “New, high- precision P-T estimates for Oman blueschists: Implications for obduction, nappe stacking and exhumation processes”, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, p 657-682, doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2007.00722.x [PDF]
Yamato P., Agard P., Burov E., Le Pourhiet L., Jolivet L. and Tiberi C. (2007), “Burial and exhumation in a subduction wedge: Mutual constraints from thermomechanical modeling and natural P-T-t data (Sch. Lustrés, western Alps)”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B07410, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004441 [PDF]
Agard P., Monié P., Gerber W., Omrani J., Molinaro M., Meyer B., Labrousse L., Vrielynck B., Jolivet L. and Yamato P. (2006), “Transient, synobduction exhumation of Zagros blueschists inferred from P-T, deformation, time, and kinematic constraints : Implications for Neotethyan wedge dynamics”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B11401, doi:10.1029/2005JB004103
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LITHOSPHERE AND MANTLE DYNAMICS - Are passive margins so passive? How upwellings and the associated mantle flow affect them? How collision zones modify mantle dynamics and can control the oceanic spreading rates?
Yamato P., Husson L., Becker T.W. and Pedoja K. (2013), "Passive margins getting squeezed in the mantle convection vice", Tectonics, v. 32, p.1559-1570, doi:10.1002/2013TC003375 [PDF]
Husson L., Yamato P. and Bézos A. (2015), "Ultraslow, slow, or fast spreading ridges: arm wrestling between plate tectonics and mantle convection", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.429, p.205-215, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.052 [PDF]
RHEOLOGY / Metamorphic transformation vs. deformation - What is the effective viscosity of a polyphase rock? How metamorphic reactions affect the rheology of the rocks ?
Cochet A., Yamato P., Baïsset M., Duretz T. and Labrousse L. (2025), "What controls finger-shaped transformation patterns ? a numerical approach to eclogitization", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26, e2025GC012457, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012457.
Baïsset M., Labrousse L., Yamato P., and Cochet A. (2025), "Stress-controlled reaction pattern in the layered lower crust: Field evidence", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 657, 119270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119270.
Baïsset M., Yamato P., and Duretz T. (2024), "Weakening induced by phase nucleation in metamorphic rocks: insights from numerical models", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011706, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011706.
Schmalholz S., Khakimova L., Podladchikov Y., Bras E., Yamato P. , and John T. (2024), "(De)hydration Front Propagation into Zero-Permeability Rock", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 25, e2023GC011422, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011422.
Bras E., Yamato P., Schmalholz S.M., Duretz T. and Podladchikov Y.Y. (2023), "Eclogitisation of dry and impermeable granulite by fluid flow with reaction-induced porosity: Insights from hydro-chemical modelling", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 617, 118256, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118256
Baïsset M., Labrousse L., Yamato P. , and Schubnel A. (2023), "Twinning and partial melting as early weakening processes in plagioclase at high-pressure: insights from Holsnøy (Scandinavian Caledonides, Norway)", Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 178:19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-01998-x [PDF]
Yamato P., Duretz T., Baïsset M., & Luisier C. (2022), "Reaction-induced volume change triggers brittle failure at eclogite facies conditions", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117520, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117520 [PDF]
Bras E., Baïsset M., Yamato P. , and Labrousse L. (2021), "Transient weakening during the granulite to eclogite transformation within hydrous shear zones (Holsnøy, Norway)", Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229026 [PDF]
Yamato P., Duretz T. and Angiboust S. (2019), "Brittle/ductile deformation of eclogites: Insights from numerical models", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2019GC008249[PDF]
Huet B., Yamato P., and Grasemann B. (2014), "The Minimized Power Geometric model: an analytical mixing model for calculating polyphase rock viscosities consistent with experimental data", Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JB010453 [PDF]
SHEAR ZONES DYNAMICS - How to model them? How is the thermal structure around crustal shear zones? What controls inverted metamorphism?
Bras E., Baïsset M., Yamato P. , and Labrousse L. (2021), "Transient weakening during the granulite to eclogite transformation within hydrous shear zones (Holsnøy, Norway)", Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229026 [PDF]
Duretz T., de Borst R., Yamato P., and L. Le Pourhiet (2020), "Towards robust and predictive geodynamic modelling: the way forward in frictional plasticity", Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086027, doi: 10.1029/2019GL086027
Duprat-Oualid S. and Yamato P. (2017), "On the meaning of peak temperature profiles in inverted metamorphic sequences", Geophysical Journal International, v.210, p. 130-147, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx129 [PDF]
Duprat-Oualid S., Yamato P. and Schmalholz S.M. (2015), "A dimensional analysis to quantify the thermal budget around lithospheric-scale shear zones", Terra Nova, v. 27, p.163-168, doi:10.1111/ter.12144 [PDF]
Duprat-Oualid S., Yamato P. and Pitra P. (2013), "Major role of shear heating in intracontinental inverted metamorphism: Inference from a thermo-kinematic parametric study", Tectonophysics, v. 608, p. 812-831, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.037 [PDF]
Fauconnier J., Labrousse L., Andersen T.B., Beyssac O., Duprat-Oualid S., and Yamato P. (2014), "Thermal structure of a major crustal shear zone, the basal thrust in the Scandinavian Caledonides", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 385, p. 162-171, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.038 [PDF]
FOLDING PROCESSES - What about the wavelength of the folds? Is it predictable?
Yamato P., Kaus B.J.P., Mouthereau F. and Castelltort S. (2011), "Dynamic constraints on the crustal-scale rheology of the Zagros fold belt, Iran", Geology, v.39, p. 815-818, doi:10.1130/G32136.1 [PDF]
MAGMA DYNAMICS - How behaves magma and crystals in dykes?
Yamato P., Tartèse R., Duretz T. and May D.A. (2012), "Numerical modelling of magma transport in dykes", Tectonophysics, v. 526-529, p. 97-109, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.015 [PDF] - [Corrigendum]
Yamato P., Duretz T., May D.A. and Tartèse R. (2015), "Quantifying magma segregation in dykes", Tectonophysics, v.660, p.132-147, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.030 [PDF]
GRANITES IN THE ARMORICAN MASSIF - When? How? Why? did they get here?
Tartèse R., Poujol M., Ruffet G., Boulvais P., Yamato P., and Košler J. (2011), "New U-Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar muscovite age constraints on the emplacement of the Lizio syn-tectonic granite (Armorican Massif, France)", Comptes Rendus Géoscience, v.343, p.443-453, doi:10.1016/j.crte.2011.07.005. [PDF]
Ballouard C., Boulvais P., Poujol M., Gapais D., Yamato P., Tartèse R. and Cuney M. (2015), "Tectonic record, magmatic history and hydrothermal alteration in the Hercynian Guérande leucogranite, Armorican Massif, France", Lithos, v. 220-223, p. 1-22, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.027 [PDF]
TECTONICS vs. SURFACE PROCESSES - How behaves a crustal wedge in 3D? surface slope vs. shape of river basins? How to deal with the free-surface in FD numerical models? How river incision can affect the flow of the lower continental crust?
Geffroy T., Yamato P., Steer P., Guillaume B., and Duretz T. (2025), "Deformation and exhumation in thick continental crusts induced by valley incision of elevated plateaux", Solid Earth, 16, 1289–1306, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1289-2025.
Braun J. and Yamato P. (2010), “Structural evolution of a three-dimensional, finite-width crustal wedge”, Tectonophysics, 484, p. 181-192, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.032 [PDF]
Castelltort S. and Yamato P. (2013), "The influence of surface slope on the shape of river basins: comparison between nature and numerical landscape simulations", Geomorphology, v. 191, p. 71-79, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.03.022 [PDF]
Duretz T., May D.A. and Yamato P. (2016), "A free surface capturing discretisation for the staggered grid finite difference scheme", Geophysical Journal International., v.204, p.1518-1530, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv526 [PDF]
Collignon M., Yamato P., Castelltort S. and Kaus B.J.P. (2016), "Modeling of wind gap formation and development of sedimentary basins during fold growth: application to the Zagros Fold Belt, Iran", Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v.41, p. 1521-1535, doi:10.1002/esp.3921 [PDF]