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Alexandre Schubnel

EIC of JGR: Solid Earth

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The State of Stress in the Nankai Subduction Zone

by Alexandre Schubnel 4 August 202531 July 2025

The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three hundred years. But, how stressed is it right now? 

Images and diagrams of nano-scale cavities.
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Creep Cavitation May Lead to Earthquake Nucleation

by Alexandre Schubnel 22 May 202521 May 2025

Ultramylonites, rocks of ultrafine grainsize, bring records of nanometer-scale cavities generated at the base of seismogenic crust along Japan’s largest on‐land fault.

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120 Years of Geodetic Data on Kīlauea’s Décollement

by Alexandre Schubnel 26 November 202426 November 2024

A new study explores the deformation and stress changes of Kīlauea’s décollement from 1898 to 2018 by collating an unprecedented 120 years of geodetic data.

Photo of Alexandre Schubnel with a cover of JGR: Solid Earth.
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Introducing the new Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Solid Earth

by Alexandre Schubnel 28 February 202428 February 2024

Learn about the person taking the helm of JGR: Solid Earth and his vision for the coming years.

Harry Green II
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Harry W. Green II (1940–2017)

by P. C. Burnley, W.-P. Chen, L. F. Dobrzhinetskaya, Z.-M. Jin, H. Jung, R. Liebermann, M. Martins-Green, Alexandre Schubnel, Y. Wang and J. Zhang 2 May 201822 September 2022

By keenly probing mantle rheology, interactions of deformations and phase transitions, and microscopic features, he made major contributions to petrology, mineralogy, and earthquake science.

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