List of works - Andrea Festa

3D Geological visualizations of geoheritage information in the Monviso Massif (Western Alps)

scientific article

A Geophysical-Geochemical Approach to the Study of the Paleogene Julian—Slovenian Basin “Megabeds” (Southern Alps—Northwestern Dinarides, Italy/Slovenia)

scientific article published in 2019

A Jurassic oceanic core complex in the high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (western Alps, NW Italy)

article

Chaos and geodynamics: Mélanges, mélange-forming processes and their significance in the geological record

scientific article

Comparative Analysis of the Sedimentary Cover Units of the Jurassic Western Tethys Ophiolites in the Northern Apennines and Western Alps (Italy): Processes of the Formation of Mass-Transport and Chaotic Deposits during Seafloor Spreading and Subducti

scientific article published in September 2021

Cyclical variations of fluid sources and stress state in a shallow megathrust-zone mélange

article by Anna Cerchiari et al published 5 February 2020 in Journal of the Geological Society

Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

scientific article published in October 2019

Distinguishing the Mélange-Forming Processes in Subduction-Accretion Complexes: Constraints from the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS)

scientific article published on 31 August 2019

Does subduction of mass transport deposits (MTDs) control seismic behavior of shallow–level megathrusts at convergent margins?

article by Andrea Festa et al published August 2018 in Gondwana Research

Evidence for late Alpine tectonics in the Lake Garda area (northern Italy) and seismogenic implications

article

Formation of Taconic mélanges and broken formations in the Hamburg Klippe, Central Appalachian Orogenic Belt, Eastern Pennsylvania

scientific article

Fossil mantle-sediments interface recognized in the Western Alps metaophiolites: a key to unravel the accretion mechanism of the Jurassic Tethys ocean

scientific article

From soft sediment deformation to fluid assisted faulting in the shallow part of a subduction megathrust analogue: the Sestola Vidiciatico tectonic Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy)

scientific article

Geological map of the External Ligurian Units in western Monferrato (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy)

scientific article

Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Central-Southern Apennines, Italy

scientific article

Geology of the Aventino River Valley (eastern Majella, central Italy)

scientific article

Geology of the Curone and Staffora Valleys (NW Italy): field constraints for the Late Cretaceous – Pliocene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Northern Apennines

scientific article

Geology of the Villalvernia – Varzi Line Between Scrivia and Curone valleys (NW Italy)

scientific article

Geology of the southern Dora-Maira Massif: insights from a sector with mixed ophiolitic and continental rocks (Valmala tectonic unit, Western Alps)

scientific article published on 8 October 2020

High-Resolution Studies of Mass Transport Deposits: Outcrop Perspective for Understanding Modern Submarine Slope Failure and Associated Natural Hazards

scientific article

Interaction of tectonic, sedimentary, and diapiric processes in the origin of chaotic sediments: An example from the Messinian of Torino Hill (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, northwestern Italy)

article

Internal architecture of the frontal part of subduction accretionary prism: the role of folding in brittle diffuse deformation

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Late Oligocene–early Miocene olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) as tectono-stratigraphic constraints to the geodynamic evolution of the exhumed Ligurian accretionary complex (Northern Apennines, NW Italy)

article

Magnetic fabric of OPS mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of oceanic plates from sea-floor spreading to tectonic emplacement into accretionary wedges

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and soft-sediment deformation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated natural hazards

scientific article

Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

article

Meso-Scale Kinematic Indicators in Exhumed Mass Transport Deposits: Definitions and Implications

Metasediments Covering Ophiolites in the HP Internal Belt of the Western Alps: Review of Tectono-Stratigraphic Successions and Constraints for the Alpine Evolution

Mid-Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate change and the dissociation of gas hydrates

scientific article published in 2019

Mélanges and chaotic rock units: Implications for exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts

scientific article published in May 2022

Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

scientific article

Mélanges in flysch-type formations: Reviewing geological constraints for a better understanding of complex formations with block-in-matrix fabric

scientific article published in November 2021

Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

scientific article published in 2019

Offscraping and shallow ophiolite accretion in the Ligurian Accretionary Wedge (Tuscan Apennines): role of seafloor structural inheritance

scientific article published on 5 January 2024

Ophiolites and ophiolitic mélanges: Archives of Precambrian and Phanerozoic plate tectonics in orogenic belts

scientific article published in August 2023

Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: A global synthesis

scientific article published in 2016

PALAEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER PLIOCENE MARINE DEPOSITS OF RIO VACCARUZZA, VILLALVERNIA (PIEDMONT, NW ITALY) ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Peri-Adriatic mélanges and their evolution in the Tethyan realm

scientific article published in 2009

Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins

scientific article published in 2020

Practical classification of geotechnically complex formations with block-in-matrix fabrics

scientific article published in May 2022

Pre-Alpine Tectono-Stratigraphic Reconstruction of the Jurassic Tethys in the High-Pressure Internal Piedmont Zone (Stura di Viù Valley, Western Alps)

Pre-Alpine extensional tectonics of a peridotitelocalized oceanic core complex in the Late Jurassic, high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps)

scientific article

Pre-Orogenic Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the European Distal Margin-Alpine Tethys Transition Zone in High-Pressure Units of the Southwestern Alps

scientific article published on 27 September 2022

Record of Jurassic mass transport processes through the orogenic cycle: Understanding chaotic rock units in the high-pressure Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (Western Alps)

article

Redefinition of the Ligurian Units at the Alps–Apennines junction (NW Italy) and their role in the evolution of the Ligurian accretionary wedge: constraints from mélanges and broken formations

article by Edoardo Barbero et al published 31 May 2019 in Journal of the Geological Society

Role of Late Jurassic intra-oceanic structural inheritance in the Alpine tectonic evolution of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

scientific article

Role of structural inheritance in the gravitational deformation of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex: the Pui-Orgiera serpentinite landslide (Varaita Valley, Western Alps)

scientific article

Sedimentary Mélanges and Fossil Mass-Transport Complexes: A Key for Better Understanding Submarine Mass Movements?

article

Shear zone liquefaction in mass transport deposit emplacement: A multi-scale integration of seismic reflection and outcrop data

article

Significance of ophiolitic mélanges and chaotic rock units in the evolution of subduction complexes and orogenic belts

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Small-scale polygenetic mélanges in the Ligurian accretionary complex, Northern Apennines, Italy, and the role of shale diapirism in superposed mélange evolution in orogenic belts

scientific article

Structural anatomy of the Ligurian accretionary wedge (Monferrato, NW Italy), and evolution of superposed melanges

scientific article

Structural architecture of the Western Alpine Ophiolites, and the Jurassic seafloor spreading tectonics of the Alpine Tethys

scientific article published in 2019

Structural constraints on the subduction of mass-transport deposits in convergent margins

Submarine Landslide Deposits in Orogenic Belts

Substrate deformation and incorporation in sedimentary mélanges (olistostromes): Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and northwestern Dinarides (Slovenia)

article published in 2019

Tectonic significance of different block-in-matrix structures in exhumed convergent plate margins: examples from oceanic and continental HP rocks in Inner Western Alps (northwest Italy)

scientific article

Tectonic, sedimentary, and diapiric formation of the Messinian mélange: Tertiary Piedmont Basin (northwestern Italy)

scholarly article by Andrea Festa published August 2011 in Geological Society of America Special Papers

Tectonostratigraphy of the northern Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

The Monviso Massif and the Cottian Alps as Symbols of the Alpine Chain and Geological Heritage in Piemonte, Italy

article

The carbonate mass transport deposits of the Paleogene Friuli Basin (Italy/Slovenia): Internal anatomy and inferred genetic processes

article

The role of structural inheritance in continental break-up and exhumation of Alpine Tethyan mantle (Canavese Zone, Western Alps)

scientific article published in 2020

WITHDRAWN: Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

retracted scientific article

What’s in the sandwich? New P–T constraints for the (U)HP nappe stack of southern Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps)

scholarly article

List of works by Andrea Festa

3D Geological visualizations of geoheritage information in the Monviso Massif (Western Alps)

A Geophysical-Geochemical Approach to the Study of the Paleogene Julian—Slovenian Basin “Megabeds” (Southern Alps—Northwestern Dinarides, Italy/Slovenia)

A Jurassic oceanic core complex in the high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (western Alps, NW Italy)

Chaos and geodynamics: Mélanges, mélange-forming processes and their significance in the geological record

Comparative Analysis of the Sedimentary Cover Units of the Jurassic Western Tethys Ophiolites in the Northern Apennines and Western Alps (Italy): Processes of the Formation of Mass-Transport and Chaotic Deposits during Seafloor Spreading and Subducti

Cyclical variations of fluid sources and stress state in a shallow megathrust-zone mélange

Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

Distinguishing the Mélange-Forming Processes in Subduction-Accretion Complexes: Constraints from the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS)

Does subduction of mass transport deposits (MTDs) control seismic behavior of shallow–level megathrusts at convergent margins?

Evidence for late Alpine tectonics in the Lake Garda area (northern Italy) and seismogenic implications

Formation of Taconic mélanges and broken formations in the Hamburg Klippe, Central Appalachian Orogenic Belt, Eastern Pennsylvania

Fossil mantle-sediments interface recognized in the Western Alps metaophiolites: a key to unravel the accretion mechanism of the Jurassic Tethys ocean

From soft sediment deformation to fluid assisted faulting in the shallow part of a subduction megathrust analogue: the Sestola Vidiciatico tectonic Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Geological map of the External Ligurian Units in western Monferrato (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy)

Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Central-Southern Apennines, Italy

Geology of the Aventino River Valley (eastern Majella, central Italy)

Geology of the Curone and Staffora Valleys (NW Italy): field constraints for the Late Cretaceous – Pliocene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Northern Apennines

Geology of the Villalvernia – Varzi Line Between Scrivia and Curone valleys (NW Italy)

Geology of the southern Dora-Maira Massif: insights from a sector with mixed ophiolitic and continental rocks (Valmala tectonic unit, Western Alps)

High-Resolution Studies of Mass Transport Deposits: Outcrop Perspective for Understanding Modern Submarine Slope Failure and Associated Natural Hazards

Interaction of tectonic, sedimentary, and diapiric processes in the origin of chaotic sediments: An example from the Messinian of Torino Hill (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, northwestern Italy)

Internal architecture of the frontal part of subduction accretionary prism: the role of folding in brittle diffuse deformation

Late Oligocene–early Miocene olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) as tectono-stratigraphic constraints to the geodynamic evolution of the exhumed Ligurian accretionary complex (Northern Apennines, NW Italy)

Magnetic fabric of OPS mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of oceanic plates from sea-floor spreading to tectonic emplacement into accretionary wedges

Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and soft-sediment deformation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated natural hazards

Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

Meso-Scale Kinematic Indicators in Exhumed Mass Transport Deposits: Definitions and Implications

Metasediments Covering Ophiolites in the HP Internal Belt of the Western Alps: Review of Tectono-Stratigraphic Successions and Constraints for the Alpine Evolution

Mid-Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate change and the dissociation of gas hydrates

Mélanges and chaotic rock units: Implications for exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts

Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

Mélanges in flysch-type formations: Reviewing geological constraints for a better understanding of complex formations with block-in-matrix fabric

Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

Offscraping and shallow ophiolite accretion in the Ligurian Accretionary Wedge (Tuscan Apennines): role of seafloor structural inheritance

Ophiolites and ophiolitic mélanges: Archives of Precambrian and Phanerozoic plate tectonics in orogenic belts

Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: A global synthesis

PALAEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER PLIOCENE MARINE DEPOSITS OF RIO VACCARUZZA, VILLALVERNIA (PIEDMONT, NW ITALY) ⬇️

Peri-Adriatic mélanges and their evolution in the Tethyan realm

Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins

Practical classification of geotechnically complex formations with block-in-matrix fabrics

Pre-Alpine Tectono-Stratigraphic Reconstruction of the Jurassic Tethys in the High-Pressure Internal Piedmont Zone (Stura di Viù Valley, Western Alps)

Pre-Alpine extensional tectonics of a peridotitelocalized oceanic core complex in the Late Jurassic, high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps)

Pre-Orogenic Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the European Distal Margin-Alpine Tethys Transition Zone in High-Pressure Units of the Southwestern Alps

Record of Jurassic mass transport processes through the orogenic cycle: Understanding chaotic rock units in the high-pressure Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (Western Alps)

Redefinition of the Ligurian Units at the Alps–Apennines junction (NW Italy) and their role in the evolution of the Ligurian accretionary wedge: constraints from mélanges and broken formations

Role of Late Jurassic intra-oceanic structural inheritance in the Alpine tectonic evolution of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

Role of structural inheritance in the gravitational deformation of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex: the Pui-Orgiera serpentinite landslide (Varaita Valley, Western Alps)

Sedimentary Mélanges and Fossil Mass-Transport Complexes: A Key for Better Understanding Submarine Mass Movements?

Shear zone liquefaction in mass transport deposit emplacement: A multi-scale integration of seismic reflection and outcrop data

Significance of ophiolitic mélanges and chaotic rock units in the evolution of subduction complexes and orogenic belts

Small-scale polygenetic mélanges in the Ligurian accretionary complex, Northern Apennines, Italy, and the role of shale diapirism in superposed mélange evolution in orogenic belts

Structural anatomy of the Ligurian accretionary wedge (Monferrato, NW Italy), and evolution of superposed melanges

Structural architecture of the Western Alpine Ophiolites, and the Jurassic seafloor spreading tectonics of the Alpine Tethys

Structural constraints on the subduction of mass-transport deposits in convergent margins

Submarine Landslide Deposits in Orogenic Belts

Substrate deformation and incorporation in sedimentary mélanges (olistostromes): Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and northwestern Dinarides (Slovenia)

Tectonic significance of different block-in-matrix structures in exhumed convergent plate margins: examples from oceanic and continental HP rocks in Inner Western Alps (northwest Italy)

Tectonic, sedimentary, and diapiric formation of the Messinian mélange: Tertiary Piedmont Basin (northwestern Italy)

Tectonostratigraphy of the northern Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

The Monviso Massif and the Cottian Alps as Symbols of the Alpine Chain and Geological Heritage in Piemonte, Italy

The carbonate mass transport deposits of the Paleogene Friuli Basin (Italy/Slovenia): Internal anatomy and inferred genetic processes

The role of structural inheritance in continental break-up and exhumation of Alpine Tethyan mantle (Canavese Zone, Western Alps)

WITHDRAWN: Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

What’s in the sandwich? New P–T constraints for the (U)HP nappe stack of southern Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps)