Research and publications

• Tectonics
  67 publications

  The ML4 Réclère Sequence (Switzerland): Evidence for Interaction of Reverse and Strike-Slip Faults in the Basement of the Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt
  Jon Mosar, Tobias Diehl, Toni Kraft, Tania Toledo, Federica Lanza, Verena Simon, (2025) | Preprint

  Influence of Inherited Structures on Deformation Patterns in the Eastern Jura Fold and Thrust Belt: Insights from 3D Seismic Data
  Jon Mosar, Miller Zambrano, Stefano Mazzoli, (2025) | Preprint

  Tectonics in the Greater Caucasus (Georgia – Russia): From an intracontinental rifted basin to a doubly verging fold-and-thrust belt
  Marine and Petroleum Geology (2022) | Journal article

  Numerical modelling of current state of stress in the Geneva Basin and adjacent Jura fold-and-thrust belt (Switzerland and France).
  Sandra Borderie and Jon Mosar and Louis Hauvette and Adeline Marro and Anna Sommaruga and Michel Meyer, (2022) | Preprint

  The Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt: timing and kinematic of faulting and thrusting 
  Jon Mosar and Marc Schori and Sandra Borderie and Louis Hauvette and Adeline Marro and Omar Radaideh and Anna Sommaruga and Anina Ursprung, (2022) | Preprint

  Tectonics of the Western Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt: from the Geneva Basin to the Bienne Valley (France). Mapping and forward modelling.
  Adeline Marro and Anna Sommaruga and Louis Hauvette and Sandra Borderie and Marc Schori and Jon Mosar, (2022) | Preprint

  Pre-existing Basement Faults Controlling Deformation in the Jura Mountains Fold-and-Thrust Belt: Insights from Analogue Models
  Tectonophysics (2021) | Journal article

  Novel Bathymetry of Lake Afdera Reveals Fault Structures and Volcano-Tectonic Features of an Incipient Transform Zone (Afar, Ethiopia)
  Frontiers in Earth Science (2021) | Journal article

  Cenozoic Tectonic Deformation Along the Pontarlier Strike‐Slip Fault Zone (Swiss and French Jura Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt): Insights From Paleostress and Geomorphic Analyses
  Tectonics (2021) | Journal article

  The Development of the Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt: pre-existing Basement Structures and the Formation of Ramps
  Marc Schori, Jon Mosar (2021) | Thesis

  The Zirconometry and Thermochronology of Migmatized Gneisses of the Gondaray Metamorphic Complex (Greater Caucasus)
  Moscow University Geology Bulletin (2020) | Journal article

  Geodynamics, seismicity, and seismic hazards of the Caucasus
  Earth-Science Reviews (2020) | Journal article

  Tectonic paleostress and tectonic geomorphology in the close vicinity of the Pontarlier strike-slip fault system (Swiss and French Jura Fold-and-Thrust Belt)
  Jon Mosar (2020) | Thesis

  Tectonics controls on fluvial landscapes and drainage development in the westernmost part of Switzerland: Insights from DEM-derived geomorphic indices
  Tectonophysics (2019) | Journal article

  Tectonics of the Neuchâtel Jura Mountains: insights from mapping and forward modelling
  Swiss Journal of Geosciences (2019) | Journal article

  Comment on “Relict Basin Closure and Crustal Shortening Budgets During Continental Collision: An Example From Caucasus Sediment Provenance” by Cowgill et al. (2016)
  Tectonics (2018) | Journal article

  The role of precursory structures on Tertiary deformation in the Black Forest—Hegau region
  International Journal of Earth Sciences (2017) | Journal article

  Multi-scale imaging of a slow active fault zone: contribution for improved seismic hazard assessment in the Swiss Alpine foreland
  Swiss Journal of Geosciences (2017) | Journal article

  Seismotectonic analysis around the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland): a pilot study
  Swiss Journal of Geosciences (2017) | Journal article

  The role of the Triassic evaporites underneath the North Alpine foreland , in Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and Central Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential
  (2017), ISBN: 9780128094174 | Book chapter

  Optimizing event detection and location in low-seismicity zones: Case study from Western Switzerland
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2016) | Journal article

  Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan
  Geomorphology (2016) | Journal article

  The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution
  Comptes Rendus Geoscience (2016) | Journal article

  Multiple detachments during thin-skinned deformation of the Swiss Central Jura: a kinematic model across the Chasseral
  Swiss Journal of Geosciences (2015) | Journal article

  The Broye Graben System: A technically active graben in a compressional environment
  Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (2012) | Journal article

  Tectonics of the Préalpes Klippen and the subalpine molasse (canton Fribourg, Switzerland)
  Eva Matzenauer, Jon Mosar (2011) | Thesis

  Tectonics of the Eastern Greater Caucasus in Azerbaijan
  Martin Bochud, Jon Mosar (2011) | Thesis

  Tectonics of the Western Swiss molasse basin during Cenozoic times
  Tobias Ibele, Jon Mosar (2011) | Thesis

  The last erosional stage of the Molasse Basin and the Alps
  International Journal of Earth Sciences (2011) | Journal article

  Géologie des Alpes s.l. – Une perspective Helvétique actuelle
  Géochronique (2011) | Journal article

  Du Jura central aux Préalpes romandes – Une tectonique active dans l’avant-pays des Alpes.
  Géochronique (2011) | Journal article

  Alpine tectonics and paleotectonics in the wedges of St. Triphon,Paléotectonique et tectonique alpine dans l'écaille de St-Triphon
  Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (2010) | Journal article

  Cenozoic-Recent tectonics and uplift in the Greater Caucasus: A perspective from Azerbaijan
  Mosar, J. and Kangarli, T. and Bochud, M. and Glasmacher, U.A. and Rast, A. and Brunet, M. and Sosson, M. (Geological Society Special Publication, 2010) | Book

  Subductions, obduction and collision in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), new insights
  Sosson, M. and Rolland, Y. and Müller, C. and Danelian, T. and Melkonyan, R. and Kekelia, S. and Adamia, S. and Babazadeh, V. and Kangarli, T. and Avagyan, A. and Galoyan, G. and Mosar, J. (Geological Society Special Publication, 2010) | Book

  Subsidence and uplift mechanisms within the South Caspian Basin: Insights from the onshore and offshore Azerbaijan region
  Egan, S.S. and Mosar, J. and Brunet, M.-F. and Kangarli, T. (Geological Society Special Publication, 2009) | Book

  Surface processes versus kinematics of thrust belts: Impact on rate of erosion, sidementation, and exhumatics - Insights from analogue models
  Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France (2008) | Journal article

  Modern methods in structural geology and tectonics: A series of articles in honour of Martin Burkhard (1957-2006)
  Swiss Journal of Geosciences (2008) | Journal article

  Interactions between tectonics and surface processes in the Alpine foreland
  Cécile Bonnet, Jon Mosar (2007) | Thesis

  TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes
  Global and Planetary Change (2007) | Journal article

  Interactions between tectonics, erosion, and sedimentation during the recent evolution of the Alpine orogen: Analogue modeling insights
  Tectonics (2007) | Journal article

  Metamorphic core complexes and gneiss-cored culminations along the Mid-Norwegian margin: an overview and some current ideas
  Osmundsen, P.T. and Braathen, A. and Sommaruga, A. and Skilbrei, J.R. and Nordgulen, ?. and Roberts, D. and Andersen, T.B. and Olesen, O. and Mosar, J. (Norwegian Petroleum Society Special Publications, 2005) | Book

  Scandinavia’s North Atlantic passive margin
  (2003) | Journal article

  Scandinavia's North Atlantic passive margin
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2003) | Journal article

  Greenland - Norway separation: A geodynamic model for the North Atlantic
  Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift (2002) | Journal article

  Western Alps geological constraints on western Tethyan reconstructions
  Journal of the Virtual Explorer (2002) | Journal article

  North Atlantic sea-floor spreading rates: Implications for the Tertiary development of inversion structures of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea
  Journal of the Geological Society (2002) | Journal article

  Greenland – Norway separation: A geodynamic model for the North Atlantic
  (2002) | Journal article

  Cretaceous-Tertiary geodynamics: A North Atlantic exercise
  Geophysical Journal International (2001) | Journal article

  Reconstructions of the continents around the North Atlantic at about the 60th parallel
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2001) | Journal article

  Palaeotectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of the western Tethys and PeriTethyan domain (IGCP Project 369)
  Episodes (2001) | Journal article

  Subsurface structures in the Chablais Préalpes: New tectonic interpretations of the Préalpes Médianes nappe based on palinspastic lengths
  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (2000) | Journal article

  Subsurface structures in the Chablais Préalpes: new tectonic interpretations of the Préalpes Médianes nappe based on palinspastic lengths
  (2000) | Journal article

  Depth of extensional faulting on the Mid-Norway Atlantic passive margin
  (2000) | Journal article

  Present-day and future tectonic underplating in the western Swiss Alps: Reconciliation of basement/wrench-faulting and decollement folding of the Jura and Molasse basin in the Alpine foreland
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters (1999) | Journal article

  Subduction and obduction processes in the Swiss Alps
  Tectonophysics (1998) | Journal article

  Folds and thrusts in the Préalpes Médianes Plastiques romandes
  Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (1997) | Journal article

  Western Préalpes Médianes Romandes: Timing and structure. A review
  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (1996) | Journal article

  Structural geology east of Montreux, Prealpes medianes plastiques, Switzerland,Geologie structurale a l'est de Montreux (Prealpes medianes plastiques, Suisse)
  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (1994) | Journal article

  The Malatraix fold: fiction or reality? A historical and structural analysis in the Prealpes medianes plastiques, Vaud, Switzerland,Le pli de Malatraix: fiction ou realite? Une analyse historique et structurale dans les Prealpes medianes plastiques, Vaud, Suisse
  Bulletin - Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (1993) | Journal article

  Paleostress from the Prealpes Medianes (Switzerland)
  Annales Tectonicae (1992) | Journal article

  Paleostress form the Préalpes Médianes (Switzerland)
  (1992) | Journal article

  Geological structure of the Prealps medianes, Switzerland,Geologie structurale dans les Prealpes medianes (Suisse)
  Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae (1991) | Journal article

  Géologie structurale dans les Préalpes médianes (Suisse)
  (1991) | Journal article

  Alpine tectonics and Triassic palaeotectonics of the Prealpes Medianes on the right bank of the Rhone,Tectonique alpine et paleotectonique liasique dans les Prealpes Medianes en rive droite du Rhone
  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (1989) | Journal article

  Internal deformation in the Prealpes Medianes, Switzerland,Deformation interne dans les Prealpes medianes (Suisse)
  Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (1989) | Journal article

  Métamorphisme transporté dans les Préalpes.
  (1988) | Journal article

  Unterdevon-Stratigraphie und variskischer Gebirgsbau im Eislek/Nord-Luxemburg (Exkursion D am 26. und 27. April 1984)
  Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins (1984) | Journal article

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