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Philippe Davy
Researcher at University of Rennes
Publications - 177
Citations - 12065
Philippe Davy is an academic researcher from University of Rennes. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fracture (geology) & Lithosphere. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 167 publications receiving 10657 citations. Previous affiliations of Philippe Davy include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & École normale supérieure de Lyon.
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Scaling of fracture systems in geological media
E. Bonnet,Olivier Bour,Noelle E. Odling,Philippe Davy,Ian Main,Patience A. Cowie,Brian Berkowitz +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidelines for the accurate and practical estimation of exponents and fractal dimensions of natural fracture systems, including length, displacement and aperture power law exponents.
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Experiments on shortening of a 4-layer model of the continental lithosphere
Philippe Davy,P.R. Cobbold +1 more
TL;DR: Davy et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an experimental method for model-enhanced lithospheric deformation based on a simplified profile of lithosphere rheology where only four layers are considered: brittle crust, ductile crust, brittle mantle and ductile mantle.
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Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, Part 1: Boundary conditions and experiments scaled for gravity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reproduce lateral extrusion at a lithospheric scale, with a Mohr/Coulomb rheology for the upper and a viscous rheometry for the lower crust.
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Connectivity of random fault networks following a power law fault length distribution
Olivier Bour,Philippe Davy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical and numerical study of the connectivity of fault networks following power law fault length distributions, n(l) ∼ α l−a, as expected for natural fault networks.
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The Namche Barwa syntaxis: evidence for exhumation related to compressional crustal folding
Jean-Pierre Burg,Peter Nievergelt,Felix Oberli,Diane Seward,Philippe Davy,Jean-Christophe Maurin,Zhizhong Diao,Martin Meier +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the rapid exhumation of deep crustal levels in mountain systems is generally related to extension subsequent to thermal softening of a thickened continental lithosphere.