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Andréa Tommasi

Andréa Tommasi

Marine geologist

Andréa Tommasi is a geoscientist from Brazil[1] known for her research on geodynamics and terrestrial deformation. She is a recipient of the CNRS silver medal and an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

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Education and career

Tommasi earned her Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier in 1995. Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at the University of Leeds from 1997 until 1998. In 1998 she joined the faculty of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).[2] As of 2020, Tommasi is the research director of the Geosciences Laboratory at the University of Montpellier.[1]

In 2016, Tommasi was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for pioneering work on deformation mechanisms and microstructures within the Earth and their impact on plate tectonics".[3]

Research

Tommasi's early research was on deformation of rocks in the Dom Feliciano Belt in Brazil.[4][5] Her research includes the development of numerical models to study seismic anisotropy[6][7] and continental rifting.[8] Tommasi's research extends to locations around the globe including Siberia,[9] the Avacha volcano in Kamchatka,[10] Hawaii,[11] and the Southwest Indian Ridge.[12]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2016)[3]
  • CNRS 2020 silver medal (2020)[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Une bourse pour révolutionner la géodynamique". Université de Montpellier (in French). April 15, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-05-24. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  2. [2]
    "Andréa Tommasi | CNRS". www.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  3. [3]
    "Tommasi". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  4. [4]
    Tommasi, Andréa; Vauchez, Alain; Femandes, Luis A. D.; Porcher, Carla C. (1994). "Magma-assisted strain localization in an orogen-parallel transcurrent shear zone of southern Brazil". Tectonics. 13 (2): 421–437. Bibcode:1994Tecto..13..421T. doi:10.1029/93TC03319. ISSN 1944-9194.
  5. [5]
    Fernandes, L.A.D.; Tommasi, A.; Porcher, C.C. (1992-01-01). "Deformation patterns in the southern Brazilian branch of the Dom Feliciano Belt: A reappraisal". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 5 (1): 77–96. Bibcode:1992JSAES...5...77F. doi:10.1016/0895-9811(92)90061-3. ISSN 0895-9811.
  6. [6]
    Tommasi, Andréa (1998). "Forward modeling of the development of seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 160 (1–2): 1–13. Bibcode:1998E&PSL.160....1T. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00081-8.
  7. [7]
    Tommasi, Andréa; Tikoff, Basil; Vauchez, Alain (1999). "Upper mantle tectonics: three-dimensional deformation, olivine crystallographic fabrics and seismic properties". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 168 (1–2): 173–186. Bibcode:1999E&PSL.168..173T. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00046-1.
  8. [8]
    Tommasi, Andréa; Vauchez, Alain (2001-02-15). "Continental rifting parallel to ancient collisional belts: an effect of the mechanical anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 185 (1–2): 199–210. Bibcode:2001E&PSL.185..199T. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00350-2. S2CID 54618989.
  9. [9]
    Tommasi, Andréa; Vauchez, Alain; Ionov, Dmitri A. (2008). "Deformation, static recrystallization, and reactive melt transport in shallow subcontinental mantle xenoliths (Tok Cenozoic volcanic field, SE Siberia)". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 272 (1–2): 65–77. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.272...65T. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.020.
  10. [10]
    Soustelle, V.; Tommasi, A.; Demouchy, S.; Ionov, D. A. (2010-01-01). "Deformation and Fluid-Rock Interaction in the Supra-subduction Mantle: Microstructures and Water Contents in Peridotite Xenoliths from the Avacha Volcano, Kamchatka". Journal of Petrology. 51 (1–2): 363–394. doi:10.1093/petrology/egp085. ISSN 0022-3530.
  11. [11]
    Tommasi, Andréa; Mameri, Lucan; Godard, Marguerite (2020). "Textural and Compositional Changes in the Lithospheric Mantle Atop the Hawaiian Plume: Consequences for Seismic Properties" (PDF). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21 (8): e2020GC009138. Bibcode:2020GGG....2109138T. doi:10.1029/2020GC009138. ISSN 1525-2027. S2CID 219658482.
  12. [12]
    Bickert, M.; Cannat, M.; Tommasi, A.; Jammes, S.; Lavier, L. (2021). "Strain Localization in the Root of Detachment Faults at a Melt‐Starved Mid‐Ocean Ridge: A Microstructural Study of Abyssal Peridotites From the Southwest Indian Ridge" (PDF). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 22 (5). Bibcode:2021GGG....2209434B. doi:10.1029/2020GC009434. ISSN 1525-2027. S2CID 234807912.
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