Alain Vauchez

TL;DR: In this article, structural and geochemical data from the Lherz massif, the type-locality of lherzolite, were used to show that most of these massifs were formed through a refertilization process involving interaction of refractory, lithospheric mantle with upwelling asthenospheric partial melts.

TL;DR: The Borborema shear zone system is coeval with a high-temperature, medium-to low-pressure metamorphism, partial melting of the crust, and synkinematic magmatism involving both crustal and mantle-derived magmas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of deformation regime on the development of olivine lattice-preferred orientations (LPO) and associated seismic anisotropy within continental deformation zones is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the deformation of an anisotropic continental lithosphere in response to an axi-symmetric tensional stress field produced by an upwelling mantle plume was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a variety of tectonic models have been proposed which differ in: 1) the timing of strike-parallel motions, (early or during continental accretion or late after accretion was completed); 2) the geometric pattern of strike parallel displacement zones (low-angle or high-angle); and 3) the location of orogen parallel movement zones (in outboard terranes on the subducting plate, along the suture zone or within the continental hangingwall).