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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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Upscaling local-scale transport processes in large-scale relief dynamics
Philippe Davy,Alain Crave +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the form and parameters of the macroscopic continent-scale erosion law, which comes from a spatial integration of local transport processes on the resulting topography and thus depends on the relief/drainage organization that results from the development of geomorphic instabilities such as differential incisions.
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Estimating uplift rate and erodibility from the area-slope relationship: Examples from Brittany (France) and numerical modelling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the local slope/drainage area relationship to derive the basic erosion and tectonic parameters from a topography and showed that the uplift information can be precisely calculated from the topographic analysis alone.
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How did the Messinian Salinity Crisis end
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the cause of the desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis and its re-flooding by using the numerical simulator EROS and showed that the dramatic sea-level fall in the Mediterranean has induced deep fluvial incision all around the desiccated basin.
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Fault growth model and the universal fault length distribution
Didier Sornette,Philippe Davy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple fault growth model was proposed to describe the power-law dependence of the fault length distribution observed both in nature and in laboratory models of the lithosphere.
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Did the Ebro basin connect to the Mediterranean before the Messinian salinity crisis
Julien Babault,Nicolas Loget,Jean Van Den Driessche,Sébastien Castelltort,Stéphane Bonnet,Philippe Davy +5 more
TL;DR: The connection between the Ebro basin and the Mediterranean Sea has been investigated in this paper, showing that this connection did not exist before the Messinian salinity crisis but is effective from the Pliocene because of progressive regressive erosion.