Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones

Dr. João C. Duarte works in tectonics, geodynamics and marine geology. He is currently at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the research group on Continental Margins and the Deep Ocean Frontier and the EarthSystems Doctoral School from the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL). He also holds an Adjunct Position at Monash University. João has published more than 30 papers and edited an AGU monograph entitled “Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards” and an Elsevier special volume on the “200 years of geodynamic modelling”. He was awarded in 2015 the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council, and in 2017 he was awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). João is also passionate about science communications and he regularly collaborate with science magazines and other media.

1. Franz Lotze and the origin of the idea of Transform Faulting in Central Europe 2. Global characteristics of oceanic transform fault structure and seismicity 3. Topographic and morphologic evidences of deformation at oceanic transform faults: far field and local field stresses 4. Reactivation of Oceanic Fracture Zones in Large Intraplate Earthquakes? 5. Mineralization at oceanic transform faults and fracture zones 6. Seismic Behavior on Oceanic Transform Faults at the East Pacific Rise 7. Structural reorganization of the India-Arabia plate boundary (Owen Fracture Zone, NW Indian Ocean) 2.4 million years ago 8. Tsunamigenic Potential of the Gloria Strike-Slip Fault in the NE Atlantic: A Review 9. Continental transform faults: congruence and incongruence with normal plate kinematics 10. The San Andreas Fault System: Complexities along a Major Transform Fault System and Relation to Earthquake Hazards 11. Spatial and temporal distributions of deformation in strike-slip faults: The Karakoram Fault in the India-Asia collision zone 12. Stretching Transforms – Mediterranean examples from the Betic-Alborán, Tyrrhenian-Calabrian and Aegean-Anatolia regions 13. Strike-slip faulting in the Calabrian accretionary wedge: using analog modeling to test the kinematic boundary conditions of geodynamic models 14. Plio-Quaternary extension and strike-slip tectonics in the Aegean 15. Strike-slip fault systems along the northern Caribbean plate boundary 16. Morphotectonics of the Sea of Marmara: basins and highs on the North Anatolian continental transform plate boundary 17. Tectonic segmentation of the Dead Sea Fault system: a review of geophysical evidence 18. On seismicity and structural style of oceanic transform faults: a field geological perspective from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus