ERRATA 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

Importance of continental subductions for the growth of the Tibetan plateau 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

How and when the Tibetan plateau developed has long been a puzzling question with implications for the current understanding of the behaviour of the continental lithosphere in convergent zones. We pre...

Updated seismotectonic zoning scheme of Metropolitan France, with reference to geologic and seismotectonic data 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

This work presents the seismotectonic zoning scheme of Metropolitan France developed by the IRSN (French Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety) within the framework of its seismic hazard as...

Spinel-free and spinel-poor dunite veins crosscutting the Wadi Rajmi ophiolite chromitite (northern Oman ophiolite) 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

Peculiar dunitic veins almost or totally free of spinels crosscut a podiform chromitite ore body in the Wadi Rajmi, northern Oman ophiolite. They probably originated from a komatiitic melt which was o...

Use of alumina phosphate waste to produce building materials 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

The generation of a fine fraction of sedimentary alumina phosphate before the manufacturing process of phosphoric acid –used as fertilizer– poses a crucial environmental issue related to the large qua...

Comments on the paper entitled: "New structural constraints on the southern Provence thrust belt (France): evidences for an Eocene shortening event li... 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

We discuss the Andreani et al.’s tectonic interpretation of both la Nerthe and L’Etoile ranges, which form the western part of the southern Provence thrust defined by Aubouin and Chorowicz [1967] . Re...

Reply to the comments of Jean Philip on the paper entitled: "New structural constraints on the southern Provence thrust belt (France): evidences for a... 30 May 2013 | 12:42 am

We reply to the comments of J. Philip regarding the structure of La Nerthe range (southern Provence, France) and the timing of the deformation. We first agree with J. Philip on the structural independ...

Tuned in to the Earth ... from the school EduSismo: the French educational seismological network 25 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm

Earthquakes are both troubling and fascinating because of their suddenness, the terrible destruction they can wreak and because they still remain unpredictable. This is why emphasis must be placed on ...

A suitable methodology for assessing impacts of successive rainfalls infiltration on road slope stability 25 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm

Water precipitation in road slopes, pavements, and shoulders may cause disturbances such as erosion, increase of the water table level, decrease of the carriageway bearing capacity, and so on. Roads a...

Flooding in Jamaica with assessment of riverine inundation of Port Maria, St Mary 25 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm

Flash flooding, from extreme rainfall is one of the major natural disasters affecting Jamaica and other small island states of the Caribbean. Flooding in Jamaica is mainly riverine, coastal and depres...