Christian BECK

Formation / Education :
Maîtrise, DEA, et Agrégation des S.V.T. (1969-1972) : Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud et
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Doctorat 3ème Cycle, Doctorat d’Etat / Habilitation (1975,1985) : Université des Sciences et
Techniques de Lille

Fonctions exercées / Positions :
Assistant et Maître de Conférences (1972-1987), Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille
Géologue, Ministère Vénézuélien de l’Energie et des Mines (1976-1977)
Professeur / Full Professor, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, depuis 1988
Conseiller Scientifique / Scientific Advisor, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
(2010-2014)
Président du Comité de Coopération Scientifique franco-sud-américain ECOS-Sud (Argentine, Chili,
Uruguay) (2012-2018)

Principales publications / Selected publications :
Beck, C., 1978. Polyphasic Tertiary tectonics of the Interior Range in the central part of the
Western Caribbean Chain, Guàrico State, northern Venezuela. Geol. en Mijnb., vol. 57, n° 2, pp. 99-104.
Beck, C., 1983. Essai sur l’évolution géodynamique des Caraïbes sud-orientales. Bulletin of the French
Geological Society, 7ème s., t. XXIV, 2:169-183.
Beck, C., 1986. Collision caraïbe, dérive andine, et évolution géodynamique mésozoïque-
cénozoïque des Caraïbes. Geodinamica Acta, vol. 27(3-4) :163-182.
Moore, J.C, Mascle A., Taylor E., and O.D.P. Leg 110 Shipboard Scientific Party : Alvarez,
F., Andréieff, P., Beck, C., Barnes, R., Behrmann, J.H., Blanc, G., Brown, K., Clark, M., Dolan, J., Fisher, A., Gieskes, J., Hounslow, M., McLellan, P., Moran, K., Ogawa, Y., Sakai, T., Schoonmaker, J., Vrolijk, P., Wilkens, R., Williams, C., 1987. Expulsion of fluids from depth along a subduction-zone décollement horizon. Nature, 326:785-788.
Beck C., Blanc G., Mascle A., Moore J.C., Taylor E. et l’équipe scientifique embarquée du
Leg O.D.P. 110 : Behrmann, J., Brown, K., Andréieff, P., Barnes R., Clark, M., Dolan, J., Fisher, A., Gieskes J., Hounslow M., McLellan P., Moran K., Ogawa Y., Sakai T., Schoonmaker J., Vrolijk, P., Wilkens, R., Williams C., 1988. Anatomie et physiologie d’un prisme d’accrétion sédimentaire : premiers résultats des forages du complexe de la Ride de la Barbade. Bulletin of the French Geological Society, t. IV, n° 1, pp. 129-140.
Behrmann J., Brown K., Moore J.C., Mascle A., Taylor E., Andréieff P., Barnes R., Beck C.,
Blanc G., Clark M., Dolan J., Fisher A., Gieskes J., Hounslow M., McLellan P., Moran K., Ogawa Y., Sakai T., Schoonmaker J., Vrolijk P., Wilkens R., Williams C., 1988. Evolution of structures and fabrics in the Barbados Accretionary Prism. Insights from Leg 110 of the Ocean Drilling Program. Journal of Structural Geology, 10(6):577-591.
Dolan J., Beck C., Ogawa Y., 1989. Upslope deposition of extremely distal turbidites : an
example from the Tiburon Rise, west-central Atlantic. (1989) Geology, vol. 17, pp. 990-994.
Moore, J.C., Mascle A., Taylor E., and ODP Leg 110 Shipboard Scientific Party ; Andréieff
P., Barnes R., Beck C., Behrmann J., Blanc G., Brown K., Clark M., Dolan J., Fisher A., Gieskes J., Hounslow M., McLellan P., Moran K., Ogawa Y., Sakai T., Schoonmaker J., Vrolijk P., Wilkens R., Williams C., 1989. Tectonics and hydrogeology of the northern Barbados Ridge : results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 110. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100(10):1578-1593.
Beck, C., Ogawa Y., Dolan, J., 1990. Eocene paleogeography of the southeastern Caribbean :
relations between sedimentation on the Atlantic abyssal plain at O.D.P. Site 672 and evolution of the South-America margin. Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, Sci. Results, College Station, TX, 110:7-16.
Capet, X., Chamley, C., Beck C., Holtzapfel, T., 1990. Clay mineralogy of O.D.P. Sites 671
and 672, Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex and Atlantic Abyssal Plain : paleoenvironmental and diagenetic implications. Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, Sci. Results, College Station, TX, 110:85-96.
Stéphan, J.F., Mercier de Lépinay, B., Calais, E., Tardy, M., Beck, C., Carfantan, J.C., Olivet,
J.L., Vila, J.M., Bouysse, P., Mauffret, A., Bourgois, J., Théry, J.M., Tournon, J., Blanchet, R., Dercourt, J., 1990. Paleogeodynamic maps of the Caribbean : 14 steps from Lias to Present. Bulletin of the French Geological Society, t. VI, n° 6, pp. 915-919, 14 pl. h. t..
Beck, C., Clabaut P., Dewez S., Vicaire O., Chamley H., Augris C., Hoslin R., Caillot A.,
1991. Sand bodies and sand transport paths at the English Channel-North Sea borders : morphology, hydrodynamics, and radioactive tracing. in "Environment of Epicontiental Seas", H. Chamley Edt., Oceanologica Acta, spec. iss., 11:111-121.
Lallemand, S., Glaçon, G., Lauriat-Rage, A., Filia-Medioni, A., Cadet, J.-P., Beck C., Sibuet,
M., Toshimmichi Iiyama, J., Petiot, G., Sakai, H., Taira, A., 1992. Sea-floor manifestations of fluid venting and related tectonics at the top of 2 000 meters deep ridge in the eastern Nankai accretionary wedge. in "Fluids in Subduction Zones", X. Le Pichon Edt., Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 109(3/4):333-346.
Tardy, M., Lapierre, H., Freydier, C., Coulon, C., Gill, J., Mercier de Lépinay, B., Beck, C.,
Martinez, J.R., Talavera, M.O., Ortiz, E., Stein, G., Bourdier, J.L., Yta, M., 1994. The Guerrero suspect terrane (western Mexico) and coeval arc terranes (Greater Antilles and Western Cordillera of Columbia) : a late Mezosoic intra-oceanic arc accreted to cratonal America during the Cretaceous. Tectonophysics, vol. 6, 3:174-185.
Beck, C., Manalt, F., Chapron, E., Van Rensbergen, P., and De Batist, M., 1996. Enhanced
seismicity in the early post-Glacial period : evidence from the post-Würm sediments of Lake Annecy, Northwestern Alps. Journal of Geodynamics, 22(112):155-171.
Beck, C., Deville, E., Blanc E., Philippe, Y., Tardy, M., 1998. Horizontal shortening control
of Middle Miocene marine siliciclastic accumulation (Upper Marine Molasse) in the southern termination of the Savoy Molasse Basin (northwestern Alps/southern Jura). In “Cenozoic Foreland Basins of Western Europe” (Eds. A. Mascle, C. Puigdefabregas, H.P. Luterbacher, M. Fernandez), The Geological Society, London, Spec. Publ., 134 :263-278.
Chapron, E., Beck, C., Pourchet, M., and Deconinck, J.-F., 1999. 1822 earthquake-triggered
homogenite in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps). Terra Nova, 11:86-92.
Van Rensbergen, P., De Batist, M., Beck, C., Chapron, E., 1999. High-resolution seismic
stratigraphy of glacial to interglacial fill of a deep glacigenic lake : Lake Le Bourget, Northwestern Alps, France. Sedimentary Geology, 128:99–129.
Manalt, F., Beck, C., Disnar, J.-R., Deconinck, J.-F.,and Recourt, P., 2001. Evolution of clay
mineral assemblages and organic matter in the Late glacial-Holocene sedimentary infill of Lake Annecy (northwestern Alps) : paleoenvironmental implications. CLIMASILAC Project. Journal of Paleolimnology, 25:179–192.
Arnaud, F., Lignier, V., Revel, M., Desmet, M., Beck, C., Pourchet, M., Charlet, F.,
Trentesaux, A., and Tribovillard, 2002. Flood and earthquake disturbance of 210Pb geochronology (Lake Anterne, NW Alps). Terra Nova, 14:225–232.
Armijo, R., Pondard, N., Meyer, B., Uçarkus, G., Mercier de Lépinay, B., Malavieille, J.,
Dominguez, S., Gutscher, M.-A., Schmidt, S., Beck, C., Çagatay, N., Çakir, Z., Imren, C., Eris, K., Natalin, B., Özalaybey, S., Tolun, L., Lefèvre, I., Seeber, L., Gasperini, L., Rangin, C., Emre, O., Sarikavak, K., 2005. Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart (North Anatolian Fault) : Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 6(6):1-29.

Carrillo, E., Audemard, F.A., Beck, C., Cousin, M., Jouanne, F., Cano, V., Castilla, R., Melo,
L., and Villemin, Th., 2006. A Late Pleistocene-Holocene natural seismograph along the Boconó Fault (Mérida Andes, Venezuela) : the moraine-dammed Los Zerpa paleo-lake. Bulletin of the French Geological Society, t. 1, 77:3-17.
Beck, C, Mercier de Lépinay, B., Schneider, J.-L., Cremer, M., Çağatay, N., Wendenbaum,
E., Boutareaud, S., Ménot, G., Schmidt, S., Weber, O., Eris, K., Armijo, R., Meyer, B., Pondard, N., Gutscher, M.-A., and the MARMACORE Cruise Party, J.-L. Turon, L. Labeyrie, E. Cortijo, Y. Gallet, H. Bouquerel, N. Gorur, A. Gervais, M.-H. Castera, L. Londeix, A. de Rességuier, A. Jaouen., 2007. Late Quaternary co-seismic sedimentation in the Sea of Marmara’s deep basins. in “Sedimentary Records of Catastrophic Events” (F. Bourrouilh-Le Jan, C. Beck, D. Gorsline, Eds.) Spec. Iss. Sedimentary Geology, 199:65–89.
Audemard, F., Ollarves, R., Bechtol, M., Díaz, G., Beck, C., Carrillo, E., Pantosti, D.,
Diederix, H., 2008. Trench investigation on the main strand of the Boconó fault in its central section, at Mesa del Caballo, Mérida Andes, Venezuela. Tectonophysics, 459:38–53.
Carrillo, E., Beck, C., Audemard, F.A., Moreno, E., Ollarves, R., 2008. Disentangling Late
Quaternary climatic and seismo-tectonic controls on Lake Mucubají sedimentation (Mérida Andes, Venezuela) in M De Batist and E. Chaprorn Eds. “Lake systems : sedimentary archives of climate change and tectonic”, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 259:284–300.
Beck, C., 2009. Late Quaternary lacustrine paleo-seismic archives in north-western Alps :
Examples of earthquake-origin assessment of sedimentary disturbances. Earth-Science Reviews, 96:327–344.
Audemard, F.A., Beck, C., Carrillo, E., 2010. Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations
along the active Boconó Fault in the central portion of the Mérida Andes, western Venezuela. Geomorphology, 124:167-177.
Jouanne, F., Audemard, F.A., Beck, C., VanWelden, A., Ollarves, R., Reinoza, C., 2011.
Present-day deformation along the El Pilar Fault in eastern Venezuela : Evidence of creep along a major transform boundary. Journal of Geodynamics, 51:398-410.
Beck, C., Reyss, J.-L., Leclerc, F., Moreno, E., Feuillet, N. and GWADASEIS Cruise
Scientific Party : L. Barrier, F. Beauducel, G. Boudon, V. Clément, C. Deplus, N. Gallou, J.-F. Lebrun, A. Le Friant, A. Nercessian, M. Paterne, J.-M. Saurel, T. Pichot, C. Vidal, 2012. Identification of deep subaqueous co-seismic scarps through specific coeval sedimentation in Lesser Antilles : implication for seismic hazard. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12:1–13, 2012 doi:10.5194/nhess-12-1-2012.
Campos, C., Beck, C., Crouzet, C., Demory, F., Van Welden, A., Eriş, K., 2013. Deciphering
hemipelagites from homogenites through aniotropy of magnetic suceptibility. Paloeseismic implications. Sedimentary Geology, 292 :1-14.
Beck, C., Campos, C., Eriş, K.K., Çağatay, N., Mercier de Lepinay, B., and Jouanne, F.,
2015. Estimation of successive coseismic vertical offsets using coeval sedimentary events – application to the southwestern limit of the Sea of Marmara’s Central Basin (North Anatolian Fault). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15:247-259, doi:10.5194/nhess-15-247-2015.
Beckers, A., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Beck, C., Bodeux, S., Tripsanas, E., Sakellariou, D., De
Batist, M., 2015. Active faulting at the western tip of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, from high-resolution seismic data. Marine Geology, 360:55–69
Colón, S., Audemard, F.A., Beck, C., Avila, J., Padrón, C., De Batist, M., Paolini, M., Leal,
A.F., Van Welden, A., 2015. The 1900 Mw 7.6 earthquake offshore north-central Venezuela : Is La Tortuga or San Sebastian the source fault ? Marine and Petroleum Geology, 67:498-511.
De La Taille, C., Jouanne, F., Crouzet, C., Beck, C., Jomard, H., De Rycker, K., Van Daele,
M., 2015. Impact of active faulting on the post LGM infill of Le Bourget Lake (western Alps, France), Tectonophysics, 664:31–49.
Reinoza, C., Jouanne, F., Audemard, F.A., Schmitz, M., Beck, C., 2015. Geodetic
exploration of strain along the El Pilar Fault in northeastern Venezuela. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JB011483.
Beckers, A., Beck, C., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Reyss, J.-L., Mortier, C., Albini, P., Rovida, A.,
Develle, A.L., Tripsanas, E., Sakellariou, D., Crouzet, C., Scotti, O., 2016. Sedimentary impacts of recent moderate earthquakes from the shelves to the basin floor in the western Gulf of Corinth. Marine Geology, 384:81-102.
Beckers, A., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Beck, C., Papatheodorou, G., de Batist, M., Sakellariou, D.,
Tripsanas, E., and Demoulin, A., 2018. Characteristics and frequency of large submarine landslides at the western tip of the Gulf of Corinth. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18:1411–1425, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1411-2018
Beck, C., Carrillo, E., Audemard, F., van Welden, A., Disnard, J.-R., 2019. Tentative
integration of paleoseismic data from lake sediments and from nearby trenches : the central section of the Bocono Fault (northern Venezuela). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 92:646–657.
Seibert, C., Feuillet, N., Ratzov, G., Beck, C., Cattaneo, A., 2020. Seafloor morphology and
sediment transfer in the mixed carbonatesiliciclastic environment of the Lesser Antilles forearc along Barbuda to St. Lucia. Marine Geology, 428:1-29, doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106242
De Gelder, G., Doan, M.L., Beck, C., Carlut, J., Seibert, C., Feuillet, N., Carter, G.D.O.,
Pechlivanidou, S., Robert L. Gawthorpe, R.L.. (2021) Micro-scale sedimentary signature of paleoearthquakes and paleotsunamis in the Corinth Rift (Greece). Submitted to Sedimentology.