Publications

2023

Roy, S., Vassallo, R., Martinod, J., & Sue, C. (2023). Ten thousand years of paleo‐earthquakes record of the Magallanes‐Fagnano plate boundary Fault in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Tectonics, e2022TC007305.

2022

Courtial-Manent, L., Mugnier, J. L., Zerathe, S., Carcaillet, J., Vassallo, R., Ravanel, L., Tavernier L. & Buoncristiani, J. F. (2022). Late Holocene initiation of a deep rock slope failure in an alpine valley revealed by 10Be surface exposure dating (Chamonix, France). Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.10.001

Roattino T, Crouzet C, Vassallo R, Buoncristiani J-F, Carcaillet J, Gribenski N, Valla PG (2022). Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating. Quaternary Research 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.25

2021

Jean-François Ritz ; Stéphane Baize ; Laurence Audin ; Christine Authémayou ; Fabien Graveleau ; Caroline Kaub ; Pierre Lacan ; Frédérique Leclerc ; Christophe Larroque ; Kevin Manchuel ; Jean-Louis Mugnier ; Maria Ortuño ; Magali Rizza ; Riccardo Vassallo ; Pierre Antoine ; Pierre Arroucau ; Jérémy Billant ; Laurent Bollinger ; Matthieu Ferry ; Charlotte Fillon ; Laurent Geoffroy ; Hervé Jomard ; Pascal Le Roy ; Jean-Luc Locht ; Sébastien Migeon ; Clément Perrin ; Julie Perrot ; Gueorgui Ratzov ; Klaus Reicherter ; Olivier Soubigou ; Christophe Vergniault ; Marc Viaplana-Muzas ; Jérôme Van der Woerd. New perspectives in studying active faults in metropolitan France : the “Active faults France” (FACT/ATS) research axis from the Resif-Epos consortium. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Tome 353 (2021) no. S1, pp. 381-412. doi : 10.5802/crgeos.98. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.98/

2020

Guzmán, O., Díaz, M., Campos, C., González, A., Vassallo, R., Aranda, N., Conicelli, B., & González-Laprea, J., 2020. First ESR dating of quaternary sediments in Mérida Andes, Western Venezuela. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 103089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103089

Jouanne, F., Munawar, N., Mugnier, J. L., Ahmed, A., Awan, A. A., Bascou, P., & Vassallo, R., 2020. Seismic coupling quantified on inferred décollements beneath the western syntaxis of the Himalaya. Tectonics, 39(9), e2020TC006122. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006122

Vassallo, R., Mugnier, J. L., Jomard, H., Aranda, J. C., Malik, M. A., Jouanne, F., & Buoncristiani, J. F., 2020. Recurrence of large paleo-earthquakes in Kashmir Himalaya seismic gap (Riasi area, India). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 201, 104505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104505

Roy S., R. Vassallo, J. Martinod, M. C. Ghiglione, C. Sue, P. Allemand, 2020. Co‐seismic deformation and post‐glacial slip rate along the Magallanes‐Fagnano fault, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina, Terra Nova 32, 1, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12430

Prud’homme C., R. Vassallo, C. Crouzet, J. Carcaillet, J‐L. Mugnier, J. Cortés Aranda, 2020. Paired 10Be sampling of polished bedrock and erratic boulders to improve dating of glacial landforms : an example from the Western Alps, ESPL, DOI : 10.1002/esp.4790.

2019

Guzmán, O., Campos, C., Ruiz, M., Angel, I., Vassallo, R., Aranda, N., 2019. Geomorfología y sedimentología del sector medio del valle de pueblo llano, andes de Mérida, Venezuela. Revista Bases de la Ciencia, 4(3), Ecuador, p.1-18.

M. Poret, A. Finizola, T. Ricci, G.P. Ricciardi, N. Linde, G. Mauri, S. Barde-Cabusson, X. Guichet, L. Baron, A. Shakas, M. Gouhier, G. Levieux, J. Morin, E. Roulleau, F. Sortino, R. Vassallo, M.A. Di Vito, G.Orsi, 2019. The buried caldera boundary of the Vesuvius 1631 eruption revealed by present-day soil CO2 concentration, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 375, p. 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.01.029

2018

Pousse-Beltran L., R. Vassallo, F. Audemard, F. Jouanne, J. Oropeza, S. Garambois, J. Aray, 2018. Earthquake geology of the last millennium along the Boconó Fault, Venezuela, Tectonophysics 747-748, 40-53, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.09.010

Cortes-Aranda J., R. Vassallo, H. Jomard, L. Pousse-Beltran*, L. Astudillo, J.-L. Mugnier, F. Jouanne, M. Malik and J. Carcaillet, 2018. Late Quaternary out-of-sequence deformation in the innermost Kangra Reentrant, NW Himalaya of India : Seismic potential appraisal from 10Be dated fluvial terraces. JAES, 158, 140-152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.01.027.

Ritz J-F., Arzhannikova A., Vassallo R., Arzhannikov S., Larroque C., Michelot J-L. and Massault M., accepted at Tectonics. Characterizing the present-day activity of the Tunka and Sayan faults within their relay zone (western Baikal rift system, Russia).

2017

Pousse Beltran, L., R. Vassallo, F. Audemard, F. Jouanne, J. Carcaillet, E. Pathier, M. Volat, 2017. Pleistocene slip rates on the Boconó Fault along the North Andean Block plate boundary, Venezuela. Tectonics, 36, 1207–1231, doi:10.1002/
2016TC004305.

Mugnier J-L, V Vignon, R Jayangondaperumal, R. Vassallo, MA Malik, A Replumaz, RP Srivastava, F Jouanne, JF Buoncristiani, H Jomard, J Carcaillet. A complex thrust sequence in western Himalaya : The active Medlicott Wadia Thrust. Quaternary International (in press).

Cortés-Aranda J., Mugnier J.L., Jouanne F., Vassallo R., Carcaillet J., Alam A.A., 2017. Holocene shortening rates and seismic hazard assessment for the frontal Potwar Plateau, NW Himalaya of Pakistan : Insights from 10Be concentrations on fluvial terraces in the Mahesian Anticline. Quaternary International, 462, 75-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.032.

Mugnier J-L., F. Jouanne, R. Bhattarai, J. Cortes-Aranda, A. Gajurel, P. Leturmy, X. Robert, B. Upreti, and R. Vassallo,2017. Segmentation of the Himalayan megathrust around the Gorkha earthquake (25 April 2015) in Nepal, JAES, 141, pp. 236-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.040.

Jolivet M., A. Arzhannikova, A. Frolov, S. Arzhannikov, N. Kulagina, V. Akulova and R. Vassallo, 2017. Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous paleoenvironmental evolution of the Transbaikal basins (SE Siberia) : implications for the Mongol-Okhotsk orogeny, Bull. Soc. géol. France, 188, no 1-2, pp. 101-118.

V Vignon, J-L Mugnier, R Vassallo, P Srivastava, MA Malik, R Jayangondaperumal, F Jouanne, JF Buoncristiani, J Carcaillet, A Replumaz, H Jomard, 2017. Sedimentation close to the active Medlicott Wadia Thrust (Western Himalaya) : How to estimate climatic base level changes and tectonics, Geomorphology, 284, pp. 175-190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.040

2016

Pousse Beltran L., E. Pathier, F. Jouanne, R. Vassallo, C. Reinoza, F. Audemard,
M-P. Doin, M. Volat, 2016. Spatial and temporal variations in creep rate along the El Pilar
fault at the Caribbean-South American plate boundary (Venezuela), from InSAR,
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 121, 11, pp. 8276-8296

2015

Arzhannikova A.V., R. Vassallo, S.G. Arzhannikov, M. Jolivet, 2015. Morphotectonics and Paleoseismology of the eastern end of the Bolnay fault (Mongolia), Russian Geology and Geophysics 56 (2015) 1447–1453.

Carretier S., V. Regard, R. Vassallo, J. Martinod, F. Christophoul, E. Gayer, L. Audin, C. Lagane, 2015. A note on 10Be-derived mean erosion rates in catchments with heterogeneous lithology : examples from the western Central Andes, ESPL, DOI : 10.1002/esp.3748

Guillon H., J-L. Mugnier, J-F. Buoncristiani, J. Carcaillet, C. Godon, C. Prud’homme, P. Beek, R. Vassallo, 2015. Improved discrimination of subglacial and periglacial erosion using 10Be concentration measurements in subglacial and supraglacial sediment load of the Bossons glacier (Mont Blanc massif, France), ESPL, DOI : 10.1002/esp.3713

Rizza M., J.-F. Ritz, C. Prentice, R. Vassallo, R. Braucher, C. Larroque, A. Arzhannikova, S. Arzhannikov, S. Mahan, M. Massault, J.-L. Michelot, M. Todbileg, and ASTER Team, 2015. Earthquake Geology of the Bulnay Fault (Mongolia), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 1, doi : 10.1785/0120140119

Vassallo, R., J.-L. Mugnier, V. Vignon, M.A. Malik, R. Jayangondaperumal, P. Srivastava, F. Jouanne, J.Carcaillet, 2015. Distribution of the Late-Quaternary deformation in Northwestern Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., 411, 241-252, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.030

Carretier S., V. Regard, R. Vassallo , G. Aguilar, J. Martinod, R. Riquelme, F. Christophoul, R. Charrier, E. Gayer, M. Farías, L. Audin, C. Lagane, 2015. Differences in 10Be concentrations between river sand, gravel and pebbles along the western side of the central Andes, Quaternary Geochronology, 27, 33-51, doi:j.quageo.2014.12.002

2014

Guzman O., J-L. Mugnier, R. Vassallo, R. Koçic, F. Jouanne, 2014. Vertical slip rate of major active faults of Southern Albania from river terraces, Annals of Geophysics Special Volume “Earthquake Geology : Science, Society and Critical Facilities”, 56, 6, doi:10.4401/ag-6218.

Aguilar, G. A., S. Carretier, V. Regard, R. Vassallo, R. Riquelme, and J. Martinod, 2014. Grain size-dependent 10Be concentrations in alluvial stream sediment of the Huasco Valley, a semi-arid Andes region Quaternary Geochronology, Quaternary Geochronology, 19, 163-172, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2013.01.011

2013

Guzman O., R. Vassallo, F. Audemard, J-L. Mugnier, J. Oropeza, S. Yepez, J. Carcaillet, M. Alvarado, E. Carrillo, 2013. 10Be dating of river terraces of Santo Domingo river, on Southeastern flank of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela : tectonic and climatic implications, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 48, pp. 85-96.

Arzhannikova A.V., M. Jolivet, S.G. Arzhannikov, R. Vassallo, A. Chauvet, 2013. The time of the formation and destruction of the Meso-Cenozoic peneplanation surface in East Sayan, Russian Geology and Geophysics, Volume 54, Issue 7, pp. 685-694.

Carretier S., V. Regard, R. Vassallo, G. Aguilar, J. Martinod, R. Riquelme, E. Pepin, R. Charrier, G. Hérail, M. Farias, J-L. Guyot, G. Vargas, and C. Lagane, 2013. Slope and climate variability control of erosion in the Andes of Central Chile, Geology, 41, pp. 195-198. doi:10.1130/G33735.1

Jolivet M., S. Arzhannikov, A. Chauvet, A. Arzhannikova, R. Vassallo, N. Kulagina, and V. Akulova, 2013. Accommodating large scale crustal extension and compression into a single compressive stressfield : a key example from Southern Siberia, Gondwana Research, Volume 24, Issues 3–4, pp. 918-935.

Jolivet M., S. Arzhannikov, A. Arzhannikova, A. Chauvet, R. Vassallo, R. Braucher, 2013. Geomorphic Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution in the Oka-Jombolok region (East Sayan ranges, Siberia), Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Volume 62, pp. 117-133.

2012

Arzhannikov S., R. Braucher, M. Jolivet, A. Arzhannikova, R. Vassallo, A. Chauvet, D. Bourlès, F. Chauvet, 2012. History of late Pleistocene glaciations in the central Sayan-Tuva Upland (southern Siberia), Quaternary Science Reviews, 49, 16-32. JQSR-D-11-00289R1.

2011

Vassallo R., J-F. Ritz, and S. Carretier, 2011. Control of geomorphic processes on 10Be concentrations in individual clasts : complexity of the exposure history in Gobi-Altay range (Mongolia), Geomorphology, 135, 35-47. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.023

Rizza M., J.-F. Ritz, R. Braucher, R. Vassallo, C. Prentice, S. Mahan, S. McGill, A. Chauvet, S. Marco, M. Todbileg, S. Demberel and D. Bourlès, 2011. Slip rate and slip magnitudes of past earthquakes along the Bogd left-lateral strike-slip fault (Mongolia), Geophys. J. Int. doi : 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05075.x.

Arzhannikova A.V., S. G. Arzhannikov, M. Jolivet, R. Vassallo, and A. Chauvet, 2011. Morphotectonic Analysis of Pliocene–Quaternary Deformations in the Southeast of the Eastern Sayan, Geotectonics, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 142–156.

Arzhannikova A., S. Arzhannikov, M. Jolivet, R. Vassallo and A. Chauvet, 2011. Pliocene to Quaternary deformation in South East Sayan (Siberia) : Initiation of the Tertiary compressive phase in the southern termination of the Baikal Rift System, JAES, 40, 581-594, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.10.011.

2009

Carretier S., B. Poisson, R. Vassallo, E. Pepin and M. Farias, 2009. Tectonic interpretation of transient stage erosion rates at different spatial scales in an uplifting block, JGR, 114, F02003, doi:10.1029/2008JF001080.

2007

Vassallo R., J-F. Ritz, R. Braucher, M. Jolivet, A. Chauvet, C. Larroque, S. Carretier, D. Bourlès, C. Sue, M. Todbileg, N. Arzhannikova and S. Arzhannikov, 2007. Transpressional tectonics and stream terraces of the Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, Tectonics, vol. 26, TC5013, doi:10.1029/2006TC002081.

Jolivet M., J-F. Ritz, R. Vassallo, C. Larroque, R. Braucher, A. Chauvet, C. Sue, R. De Vicente, N. Arnaud, A Arzhannikova, S. Arzhannikov, M. Todbileg, 2007. The Mongolian summits : An uplifted, flat, old but still preserved erosion surface, Geology, vol. 35, issue 10, 871-874, doi:10.1130/G23758A.1.

Vassallo R., M. Jolivet, J-F. Ritz, R. Braucher, C. Larroque, C. Sue, M. Todbileg and D. Javkhlanbold, 2007. Uplift age and rates of the Gurvan Bogd system (Gobi-Altay) by apatite fission track analysis, EPSL, vol. 259, issues 3-4, 333-346, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.047.

2006

Ritz J-F., R. Vassallo, R. Braucher, E. Brown, S. Carretier and D. Bourlès, 2006. Using in situ-produced 10Be to quantify active tectonics in the Gurvan Bogd mountain range (Gobi-Altay, Mongolia), Geol. Soc. Am., Special Paper 415, 87-110.

2005

Vassallo R., J-F. Ritz, R. Braucher and S. Carretier, 2005. Dating faulted alluvial fans with cosmogenic 10Be in the Gurvan Bogd mountain (Gobi-Altay, Mongolia) : climatic and tectonic implications, Terra Nova, 17, 278-285, doi : 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00612.x.