RICARD Yanick Vice-Président ENS de Lyon - Directeur de recherche - Senior scientist Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon CNRS/EnsLyon/Lyon1 e-mail:  ricard@ens-lyon.fr CV (short)  CV (long)

Recent publications

• Interplay between shear heating and grain size evolution in shear zones: M. Thielmann, A. Rozel, B.J.P. Kaus and Y. Ricard, Grain size assisted thermal runaway: Implications for intermediate-depth earthquake generation, 2015.

• What was the density of the magma ocean during crystallization: C.E. Boukaré, Y. Ricard and G. Fiquet, Thermodynamics of the MgO-FeO-SiO2 system up to 140 GPa: Application to the crystallization of Earth magma ocean, J. Geophys. Res. 2015.

• Waiting for the second version of the Treatise on Geophysics? : Y. Ricard, Physics of mantle convection, Treatise of Geophysics, Elsevier, 2015, and D. Bercovici, P. Tackley and Y. Ricard, Generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection, Treatise of Geophysics, Elsevier, 2015.

• The largest database of Rayleigh wave phase velocity measurements : S. Durand, E. Debayle and Y. Ricard, Rayleigh wave phase velocity and error maps up to the fitfh overtone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2015.

• How fast is slab detachment? : D. Bercovici, G. Schubert, and Y. Ricard, Abrupt tectonics and rapid slab detachment with grain damage, PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1415473112.