Mary

FORD

Professeur, Université de Lorraine

Tel : (33) 3 83 59 48 78 ; Fax : (33) 3 83 51 17 98

e-mail Mary Ford

Recherche/Research Interests

• Geometric and kinematic evolution of rifts (Upper Rhine Graben, Corinth Rift)

• Normal fault system linkage and displacement distribution

• Fault-related folds in extension (Rhine Graben)

• Reconstruction of rift and rift shoulder vertical movement histories

• Interaction between sedimentary processes and deformation (for example, Gilbert delta deposition in the hanging wall of active normal faults)

• Geometric and kinematic evolution of external fold and thrust belts and their foreland basins

• • 3D modelling of thrust-sheet-top basins and syn-sedimentary folds (Pyrenees, Alps)

• • Evolution of arcuate thrust systems and foreland basins

• • Critical wedge modelling

• 1998-present : Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Nancy, France

• 1999 : Habilitation, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland : Foreland basin systems : an Alpine Perspective.

• 1990-1998 : Oberassistent (Lecturer, Assistant Professor), Geological Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

• 1986-1990 : Lecturer and Senior lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, U.K.

• 1985-1986 : Senior Demonstrator, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool, U.K.

• 1985 : Doctorate (PhD) National University of Ireland, University College Cork. Title : Structural studies along a transect through the Variscides of west County Cork, Ireland

Publications CRPG

2018

Angrand, P., Ford, M., & Watts, A. B. (2018). Lateral Variations in Foreland Flexure of a Rifted Continental Margin: The Aquitaine Basin (SW France). Tectonics, 37.

  

Grool, A., Ford, M., Vergés, J., Huismans, R. S., Christophoul, F., & DIelforder, A. (2018). Insights into the crustal‐scale dynamics of a doubly vergent orogen from a quantitative analysis of its forelands : A case study of the Eastern Pyrenees. Tectonics, 37(2), 450–476.

  

2016

Ford, M., Hemelsdaël, R., Mancini, M., & Palyvos, N. (2016). Rift migration and lateral propagation: evolution of normal faults and sediment-routing systems of the western Corinth rift (Greece). Geological Society of London Special Publication, 439.

  

Ford, M., Hemmer, L., Vacherat, A., Gallagher, K., & Chrsitophoul, F. (2016). Retro-wedge foreland basin evolution along the ECORS line, eastern Pyrenees, France. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 173, 419–437.

  

Rougier, G., Ford, M., Chrsitophoul, F., & Bader, A. G. (2016). Stratigraphic and tectonic studies in the central Aquitaine Basin, northern Pyrenees: Constraints on the subsidence and deformation history of a retro-foreland basin. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 348(3-4), 224–235.

  

2014

Hemelsdaël, R., & Ford, M. (2014). Relay zone evolution: a history of repeated fault propagation and linkage, central Corinth rift, Greece. Basin Research, , 1–23.

  

Salles, L., Ford, M., & Joseph, P. (2014). Characteristics of axially-sourced turbidite sedimentation on an active wedge-top basin (Annot Sandstone, SE France). Marine and petroleum Geology, .

  

2012

Ford, M., Rohais, S., Williams, E. A., Bourlange, S., Jousselin, D., Backert, N., et al. (2012). Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the western Corinth rift (Central Greece). Basin Research, , 1–23.

  

2011

Durand-Riard, P., Salles, L., Ford, M., Caumon, G., & Pellerin, J. (2011). Understanding the evolution of syn-depositional folds: Coupling decompaction and 3D sequential restoration. Marine Geophysical Researches and Petroleum Geology, 28(8), 1530–1539.

  

Salles, L., Ford, M., Joseph, P., Le Carlier de Veslud, C., & Le Solleuz, A. (2011). Migration of a synclinal depocentre from turbidite growth strata: the Annot syncline, SE France. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 182(3), 199–220.

  

2009

Backert, N., Ford, M., & Malartre, F. (2009). Architecture and sedimentology of the Kerinitis Gilbert-type fan delta. Corinth Rift, Greece. Sedimentology, 57(2), 543–586.

  

2007

Bourgeois, O., Ford, M., Diraison, M., Le Carlier de Veslud, C., Gerbault, M., Pik, R., et al. (2007). Separation of rifting and lithospheric folding signatures in the NW-Alpine foreland. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96, 1003–1031.

  

Ford, M., Le Carlier de Veslud, C., & Bourgeois, O. (2007). Kinematic and geometric analysis of fault-related folds in a rift setting: The Dannemarie basin, Upper Rhine Graben, France. Journal of Structural Geology, 29(11), 1811–1830.

  

Rohais, S., Eschard, R., Ford, M., Guillocheau, F., & Moretti, I. (2007). Stratigraphic architecture of the Plio-Pleistocene infill of the Corinth Rift: Implications for its structural evolution. Tectonophysics, 440(1-4), 5–28.

  

2006

Ford, M., Duchêne, S., Gasquet, D., & Vanderhaeghe, O. (2006). Two-phase orogenic convergence in the external and internal SW Alps. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 815–826.

  

2005

Le Carlier de Veslud, C., Bourgeois, O., Diraison, M., & Ford, M. (2005). 3D stratigraphic and structural synthesis of the Dannemarie basin (Upper Rhine Graben). Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 176(5), 433–442.

  

2004

Ford, M. (2004). Depositional wedge tops: interaction between low basal friction external orogenic wedges and flexural foreland basins. Basin Research, 16, 361–375.

  

Ford, M. (2004). The significance of growth structures in foreland basin development. Basin Research, 16, 361–375.

  

Ford, M., & Lickorish, W. H. (2004). Foreland basin evolution around the western Alpine arc. In P. J. &. S. Lomas (Ed.), New perspectives on Turbidites, the Grès d'Annot Sandstones, SE France (pp. 39–63). Geological Society of London Special Publications, 221. London.

  

Malartre, F., Ford, M., & Williams, E. A. (2004). Preliminary biostratigraphy and 3D geometry of the Vouraikos Gilbert-type fan delta, Gulf of Corinth (Greece). Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 336(4-5), 269–280.

  

2002

Lickorish, W. H., Ford, M., Bürgisser, J., & Cobbold, P. R. (2002). Arcuate thrust systems in sandbox experiments: a comparison to the external arcs of the Western Alps. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114(9), 1189–1107.

  

2000

Diraison, M., Nivière, B., Le Carlier de Veslud, C., Winter, T., & Ford, M. (2000). Cenozoic-Pleistocene alpine signatures in the southern Upper Rhine Graben. In: (un)Coupled.Continental collision and the tectono-sedimentary evolution of forelands: mechanics of coupling and far-field deformation 45. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, , 221–222.

  

Friend, P. F., Williams, B. P. J., Ford, M., & Williams, E. A. (2000). Kinematics and dynamics of Old Red Sandstone Basins. In P. F. Friend, & B. P. J. Williams (Eds.), New perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone (pp. 29–60). Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 180.

  

Williams, E. A., Sergeev, S. A., Stössel, I., Ford, M., & Cobbold, P. (2000). U-Pb zircon geochronolgy and chronostratigraphy of the earliest Old Red Sandstone in the Munster Basin, SW Ireland. In P. F. Friend, & B. P. J. Williams (Eds.), New perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone (pp. 269–302). Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 180.

  

1999

Ford, M., Lickorish, W. H., & Kusznir, N. J. (1999). Tertiary foreland basin evolution in the southern Subalpine chains SE France basin. Basin Research, .

  

Seward, D., Ford, M., Williams, E. A., Meckel, L. D., & Bürgisser, J. (1999). Preliminary report on fission track studies in the Pelvoux area, SE France. Memorie di Scienze Geologiche (Université de Padoue), 51(1), 25–31.

  

1998

Bürgisser, J., & Ford, M. (1998). Overthrust shear deformation of a foreland basin : structural studies south-east of the Pelvoux massif, SE France. Journal of Structural Geology, 20(11), 1455–1475.

  

Lickorish, W. H., & Ford, M. (1998). Sequential restoration of the Southern Subalpine Chain, SE France : implications for late Alpine tectonics. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 134, 189–211.

  

Williams, E. A., Artoni, A., Ford, M., & Vergés, J. (1998). Alluvial gravel sedimentation in a contractional growth fold setting, Sant Llorenç de Morunys, South-eastern Pyrenees. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 134, 69–106.

  

1997

Ford, M., Williams, E. A., Artoni, A., Vergés, J., & Hardy, S. (1997). Progressive evolution of a fault propagation fold pair as recorded by growth strata geometries. Journal of Structural Geology, 19(3-4), 413–441.

  

Hardy, S., & Ford, M. (1997). Thishear above a propagating thrust : implications for fault propagation folding. Tectonics, 16(5), 841–854.

  

Williams, E. A., Ford, M., Stössel, I., & Sergeev, S. A. (1997). An Eifelian U-Pb zircon date for the Enagh Tuff Bed from the Old Sandstone of the Munster Basin in NW Iveragh, SW Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 154, 189–193.

  

Autres publications / Other publications

1998

Burgisser, J., & Ford, M. (1998). Overthrust shear deformation of a foreland basin ; structural studies southeast of the Pelvoux massif, SE France. Journal of Structural Geology, 20(11), 1455.

1997

Hardy, S., & Ford, M. (1997). Numerical modeling of trishear fault propagation folding. Tectonics, 16(5), 841–854.

Williams, E. A., Sergeev, S. A., Stossel, I., & Ford, M. (1997). An Eifelian U-Pb zircon date for the Enagh Tuff Bed from the Old Red Sandstone of the Munster Basin in NW Iveragh, SW Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, .

1995

Ford, M., & Stansbery, E., U. (1995). The geometry of a deformed carbonate slope-basin transition : The Ventoux-Lure fault zone, SE France. Tectonics, 14(6), 1393–1410.

Hungerbuhler, D., Steinmann, M., Winkler, W., Seward, D., Eguez, A., Heller, F., et al. (1995). An Integrated Study of Fill and Deformation in the Andean Intermontane Basin of Nabon (Late Miocene), Southern Ecuador. Sedimentary Geology, 96(3-4), 257–279.

1992

Ford, M., Klemperer, S. L., & Ryan, P. D. (1992). Deep-structure of Southern Ireland – a new geological synthesis using birps deep reflection profiling. Journal of the Geological Society, 149, 915–922.

1991

Ford, M., Brown, C., & Readman, P. (1991). Analysis and Tectonic Interpretation of Gravity-Data over the Variscides of Southwest Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, 148, 137–148.

1990

Bamford, M. L. F., & Ford, M. (1990). Flexural Shear in a Periclinal Fold from the Irish Variscides. Journal of Structural Geology, 12(1), 59–67.

Ford, M. (1990). The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Galley Head Culmination Zone – an Area of Enhanced Shortening Related to Basin Geometry within the Irish Variscides. Journal of the Geological Society Journal, 25(2), 145–159.

1987

Ford, M. (1987). Practical Application of the Sequential Balancing Technique – an Example from the Irish Variscides. Journal of the Geological Society, 144, 885–891.

1986

Cooper, M. A., Collins, D. A., Ford, M., Murphy, F. X., Trayner, P. M., & Osullivan, M. (1986). Structural Evolution of the Irish Variscides. Journal of the Geological Society, 143, 53–61.

Enseignement

• Dynamic Earth, structural geology, geological mapwork, orogens, basin geodynamics, techniques in structural geology for exploration geologists, field mapping, at ENSG

• Responsible for the Petroleum Geosciences Option at ENSG

Encadrement de thèses / Thesis Supervision

• Nicolas Backert (2008) : Early rifting history of the Gulf of Corinth : stratigraphic, biostratigraphic and tectonic studies south of Aegion

• Lise Salles (2009) : 3D interaction of turbidite sedimentation with active structures in a foreland basin setting. Gres d’Annot, SE France

• Pauline Durand-Riard (2010) : Development of new methodologies for 3D restoration and interpretation of complex geological structures in gOcad

• Romain Hemelsdaël (2016) : Evolution spatio-temporelle du couplage entre système fluviatile et rifting : étude du rift de Corinthe (Grèce)

• Paul Angrand (2017) : Évolution 3D d’un rétro-bassin d’avant-pays : le Bassin Aquitain, France

• Arjan Grool (2018) : From rift system to doubly vergent orogen : An evolutionary model based on a case study of the Eastern Pyrenees and controlling factors from numerical models