Pierre Dèzes

portrait Dr. Pierre Dèzes
Chief Science Officer

Platform Geosciences
SCNAT
Haus der Akademien
Laupenstrasse 7
CH-3008 Bern
Switzerland


Mailing Address:

Platform Geosciences
SCNAT
Haus der Akademien
House of Academies, Postfach
CH-3001 Bern
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (0) 31 306 93 25
Phone2: +41 (0) 31 306 93 00
Fax: +41 (0) 31 306 93 09
E-mail: pierre.dezes(at)scnat.ch
URL Institution: geosciences.ch
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Pierre Dèzes (up to ten) :

  • Dèzes, P., Vannay, J.-C., Steck, A., Bussy, F. and Cosca, M. (1999): Synorogenic extension; quantitative constraints on the age and throw of the Zanskar Shear Zone (NW Himalaya). Geological Society of America Bulletin vol. 111/3, p. 364-374. (10.1130/0016-7606(1999)?111<0364:SEQCOT>?2.3.CO;2)


  • Dèzes, P. (1999): Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Central Himalayan domain in Southeast Zanskar (Kashmir, India). Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne), vol. 32, 145pp. (available on-line)


  • Dèzes, P., Schmid, S. and Ziegler, P.A., (2004): Evolution of the European Cenozoic Rift System: Interaction of the Alpine and Pyrenean orogens with their foreland lithosphere. Tectonophysics, vol. 389/1-2, p. 1-33. (Tectonophysics Most Cited Author 2003-2007 Award) (doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.06.011)



  • Ziegler, P., Dèzes, P. (2006): Crustal Evolution of Western and Central Europe. In: D. Gee & R.A. Stephenson (Editors), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society of London, Memoirs 32, p. 43-56.


  • Ziegler, P.A. and Dèzes, P. (2007) Neogene uplift of Variscan Massifs in the Alpine foreland: Timing and controlling mechanisms Global and Planetary Change, V. 58, Issues 1-4, p. 237-269 doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.12.004


  • For the rest, see: Google Scholar




Expertise of Pierre Dèzes:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic LithosphereTectonics
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism

Last update: 10/19/23
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