List of works - Giulio Di Toro

A microstructural study of fault rocks from the SAFOD: Implications for the deformation mechanisms and strength of the creeping segment of the San Andreas Fault

scientific article published in September 2012

Active faulting and deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in carbonate rocks (Central Apennines, Italy) 

Active faulting and deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in carbonate rocks (central Apennines, Italy): a new "close-up" view

scholarly article

Along-strike architectural variability of an exhumed crustal-scale seismogenic fault (Bolfin Fault Zone, Atacama Fault System, Chile)

Amphibolite-facies pseudotachylytes in Premosello metagabbro and felsic mylonites (Ivrea Zone, Italy)

scientific article published in December 2012

An empirically based steady state friction law and implications for fault stability.

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Architecture of active extensional faults in carbonates: Campo Felice and Monte D'Ocre faults, Italian Apennines

Aseismic sliding of active faults by pressure solution creep: Evidence from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

article

Biomarker thermal maturity experiments at earthquake slip rates

scholarly article by Heather M. Savage et al published November 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Can pseudotachylytes be used to infer earthquake source parameters? An example of limitations in the study of exhumed faults

scientific article published in June 2005

Catastrophic emplacement of giant landslides aided by thermal decomposition: Heart Mountain, Wyoming

scholarly article by Thomas M. Mitchell et al published February 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Clast-cortex aggregates in experimental and natural calcite-bearing fault zones

Coseismic damage and softening of fault rocks at seismogenic depths

scholarly article

Coseismic extension recorded within the damage zone of the Vado di Ferruccio Thrust Fault, Central Apennines, Italy

article

Coseismic fault sealing and fluid pressurization during earthquakes

Coseismic recrystallization during shallow earthquake slip

scientific article

Detailed statistical analysis of the Gole Larghe Fault Zone fracture network (Italian Southern Alps) improves estimates of the energy budget for intraplate earthquakes in basement rocks

Determination of Parameters Characteristic of Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms During Seismic Faulting in Cohesive Rocks

scholarly article

Determination of parameters characteristic of dynamic weakening mechanisms during coseismic slip

Development of crystallographic preferred orientation during cataclasis in low-temperature carbonate fault gouge

scientific article published in September 2019

Dislocation Motion and the Microphysics of Flash Heating and Weakening of Faults during Earthquakes

scholarly article by Elena Spagnuolo et al published 22 July 2016 in Crystals

Dynamic weakening in carbonate-built seismic faults: insights from laboratory experiments with fast and ultra-localized temperature measurements 

Dynamic weakening of serpentinite gouges and bare surfaces at seismic slip rates.

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Earthquake Nucleation Size: Evidence of Loading Rate Dependence in Laboratory Faults

article

Earthquake Source Properties from Pseudotachylite

scholarly article by Nicholas M. Beeler et al published 25 October 2016 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Earthquake lubrication and healing explained by amorphous nanosilica

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Earthquake rupture dynamics frozen in exhumed ancient faults

scientific article published in August 2005

Earthquakes in the Mantle? Insights From Rock Magnetism of Pseudotachylytes

scholarly article

Effect of Fluid Viscosity on Fault Reactivation and Coseismic Weakening

scientific article

Effect of glass on the frictional behavior of basalts at seismic slip rates

scholarly article

Effect of water and rock composition on re-strengthening of cohesive faults during the deceleration phase of seismic slip pulses

Effect of water on the frictional behavior of cohesive rocks during earthquakes

scientific article (publication date: 6 December 2013)

Energy partitioning during seismic slip in pseudotachylyte-bearing faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Adamello, Italy)

scientific article published in May 2008

Estimate of earthquake power dissipation from exhumed ancient faults (Gole Larghe fault zone, Italy)

Evidence of dmisteinbergite (hexagonal form of CaAl2Si2O8) in pseudotachylyte: A tool to constrain the thermal history of a seismic event

article

Evidence of transient increases of fluid pressure in SAFOD phase III cores

article

Fast and Localized Temperature Measurements During Simulated Earthquakes in Carbonate Rocks

scholarly article

Fast and localized temperature measurements during simulated earthquakes in carbonate rocks

Fast-moving dislocations trigger flash weakening in carbonate-bearing faults during earthquakes

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Fault Roughness at Seismogenic Depths from LIDAR and Photogrammetric Analysis

article

Fault friction during simulated seismic slip pulses

Fault gouge graphitization as evidence of past seismic slip

scholarly article

Fault lubrication and earthquake propagation in thermally unstable rocks

scholarly article

Fault lubrication during earthquakes

scientific article (publication date: 24 March 2011)

Fault reactivation by fluid injection: insights from laboratory friction experiments with multiple reactivation sequences

Fault rocks associated with the reservoir-triggered seismicity of the Koyna-Warna area (India)

Fault welding by pseudotachylyte formation

scholarly article

Fault zone structure and seismic slip localization in dolostones, an example from the Southern Alps, Italy

article

Fault-healing and tribochemical processes in granodiorite under hydrothermal conditions

Field and experimental evidence of frictional melting in fluid-rich faults

Field, microstructural and phase characterization of mirror-like fault surfaces in bituminous dolostones (central Apennines, Italy)

Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone

scientific article published on 30 April 2021

Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone

Focal Mechanisms of Intraslab Earthquakes: Insights From Pseudotachylytes in Mantle Units

Fracture energy and breakdown work scaling with coseismic slip

Fracturing and rock pulverization along an exhumed seismogenic fault zone in dolostones: The Foiana Fault Zone (Southern Alps, Italy)

article

Friction and roughness of a melting rock surface

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

Friction behavior of gabbro under hydrothermal conditions

Friction during earthquakes: 25 years of experimental studies

Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates

scientific article published in January 2004

Frictional Instabilities and Carbonation of Basalts Triggered by Injection of Pressurized HO- and CO- Rich Fluids

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Frictional Properties of the Longmenshan Fault Belt Gouges From WFSD‐3 and Implications for Earthquake Rupture Propagation

scholarly article

Frictional evolution of gouge-bearing faults during multiple seismic slip velocity pulses

Frictional evolution, acoustic emissions activity, and off-fault damage in simulated faults sheared at seismic slip rates

scientific article

Frictional melt and seismic slip

scientific article published in 2008

Frictional melting of gabbro under extreme experimental conditions of normal stress, acceleration, and sliding velocity

scientific article published in 2011

Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault

Frictional properties and microstructural evolution of dry and wet calcite-dolomite gouges

Frictional properties and microstructural evolution of dry and wet calcite–dolomite gouges

scientific article published in 2021

Frictional properties of fault zone gouges from the J-FAST drilling project (Mw 9.0 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake)

scholarly article

Frictional strength, stability, and healing properties of basalt faults for CO2 storage purposes

From Submarine to Subaerial Out‐of‐Sequence Thrusting and Gravity‐Driven Extensional Faulting: Gran Sasso Massif, Central Apennines, Italy

scientific article published in 2019

From fault creep to slow and fast earthquakes in carbonates

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

From field geology to earthquake simulation: a new state-of-the-art tool to investigate rock friction during the seismic cycle (SHIVA)

scholarly article by Giulio Di Toro published in October 2010

G: Fracture energy, friction and dissipation in earthquakes.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab.

scientific article published on October 2008

Gouge graphitization and dynamic fault weakening during the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake

scholarly article

Grain Fragmentation and Frictional Melting During Initial Experimental Deformation and Implications for Seismic Slip at Shallow Depths

scientific article

Grain Size Sensitive Creep During Simulated Seismic Slip in Nanogranular Fault Gouges: Constraints From Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD)

scientific article published in October 2019

Inferring earthquake physics and chemistry using an integrated field and laboratory approach

scholarly article by Andre Niemeijer et al published June 2012 in Journal of Structural Geology

Influence of Effective Stress and Pore Fluid Pressure on Fault Strength and Slip Localization in Carbonate Slip Zones

scientific article published in 2020

Interplay between fluid flow and rock deformation in an exhumed hydrothermal fault-vein network

Introduction

Mantle earthquakes frozen in mylonitized ultramafic pseudotachylytes of spinel-lherzolite facies

scholarly article

Mechanical behaviour of fluid-lubricated faults

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Melting of fault gouge at shallow depth during the 2008 MW 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China

scholarly article

Microstructural evidence for seismic and aseismic slips along clay-bearing, carbonate faults

scientific article

Mirror-like fault surfaces in bituminous dolostones (Central Apennines, Italy)

Mirror-like faults and power dissipation during earthquakes

scholarly article by M. Fondriest et al published 6 September 2013 in Geology

Natural and experimental evidence of melt lubrication of faults during earthquakes

scientific article published in Science

Past seismic slip-to-the-trench recorded in Central America megathrust

Preface

Principal Slip Zones in Limestone: Microstructural Characterization and Implications for the Seismic Cycle (Tre Monti Fault, Central Apennines, Italy)

article

Production of nanoparticles during experimental deformation of smectite and implications for seismic slip

scholarly article

Pseudotachylyte Alteration and the Rapid Fade of Earthquake Scars From the Geological Record

scientific article published in 2020

Recent advances in the understanding of fault zone internal structure: a review

scholarly article by Christopher A. J. Wibberley et al published 2008 in Geological Society Special Publication

Record of mega-earthquakes in subduction thrusts: The black fault rocks of Pasagshak Point (Kodiak Island, Alaska)

scholarly article

Reflux esophagitis: a study of its etiology and physiopathology as a premise to therapeutic choice

scientific article

Rough faults, distributed weakening, and off-fault deformation

scientific article published in 2010

Scaling in natural and laboratory earthquakes

scholarly article by Stefan Nielsen et al published 20 February 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters

Seismicity preceding volcanic eruptions: New experimental insights

scholarly article

Slip localization by cataclasis and fluid-rock interaction in seismogenic crustal faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Italy)

Static stress drop associated with brittle slip events on exhumed faults

scientific article

Static versus dynamic fracturing in shallow carbonate fault zones

article by Michele Fondriest et al published March 2017 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Strain localization and the onset of dynamic weakening in calcite fault gouge

scholarly article

Structural Complexity and Mechanics of a Shallow Crustal Seismogenic Source (Vado di Corno Fault Zone, Italy)

scientific article

Structural Complexity and Mechanics of a shallow crustal Seismogenic Source (Vado di Corno Fault Zone, Italy)

Structural Evolution of a Crustal-Scale Seismogenic Fault in a Magmatic Arc: The Bolfin Fault Zone (Atacama Fault System)

scientific article published on 09 August 2021

Structural characterization of fault damage zones in carbonates (Central Apennines, Italy)

Structural evolution of a crustal-scale seismogenic fault in a magmatic arc: The Bolfin Fault Zone (Atacama Fault System)

Structure of a normal seismogenic fault zone in carbonates: The Vado di Corno Fault, Campo Imperatore, Central Apennines (Italy)

article

Subseismic to Seismic Slip in Smectite Clay Nanofoliation

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Supplementary material to "Frictional properties and microstructural evolution of dry and wet calcite-dolomite gouges"

TREAD daTa and pRocesses in sEismic hAzarD: a MSCA-Doctoral Networks project 2023-2027

The Relationship Between Microfracture Damage and the Physical Properties of Fault-Related Rocks: The Gole Larghe Fault Zone, Italian Southern Alps

article

The dynamics of earthquakes rupture : A view from the laboratory

The effect of water on strain localization in calcite fault gouge sheared at seismic slip rates

article published in 2017

The structure of an exhumed intraplate seismogenic fault in crystalline basement

scholarly article by Steven A.F. Smith et al published June 2013 in Tectonophysics

Thermal Weakening Friction During Seismic Slip: Experiments and Models With Heat Sources and Sinks

Thermoporomechanics of creeping landslides: The 1963 Vaiont slide, northern Italy

scholarly article

Thin pseudotachylytes in faults of the Mt. Abbot quadrangle, Sierra Nevada: Physical constraints for small seismic slip events

scientific article

Tsunamigenic earthquake simulations using experimentally derived friction laws

scientific article published in March 2018

Ultra-thin clay layers facilitate seismic slip in carbonate faults

scientific article

Volcanic drumbeat seismicity caused by stick-slip motion and magmatic frictional melting

Water Availability and Deformation Processes in Smectite‐Rich Gouges During Seismic Slip

scientific article

“Coseismic Foliations” in Gouge and Cataclasite

scientific article

List of works by Giulio Di Toro

A microstructural study of fault rocks from the SAFOD: Implications for the deformation mechanisms and strength of the creeping segment of the San Andreas Fault

Active faulting and deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in carbonate rocks (Central Apennines, Italy)&#160;

Active faulting and deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in carbonate rocks (central Apennines, Italy): a new "close-up" view

Along-strike architectural variability of an exhumed crustal-scale seismogenic fault (Bolfin Fault Zone, Atacama Fault System, Chile)

Amphibolite-facies pseudotachylytes in Premosello metagabbro and felsic mylonites (Ivrea Zone, Italy)

An empirically based steady state friction law and implications for fault stability.

Architecture of active extensional faults in carbonates: Campo Felice and Monte D'Ocre faults, Italian Apennines

Aseismic sliding of active faults by pressure solution creep: Evidence from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

Biomarker thermal maturity experiments at earthquake slip rates

Can pseudotachylytes be used to infer earthquake source parameters? An example of limitations in the study of exhumed faults

Catastrophic emplacement of giant landslides aided by thermal decomposition: Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Clast-cortex aggregates in experimental and natural calcite-bearing fault zones

Coseismic damage and softening of fault rocks at seismogenic depths

Coseismic extension recorded within the damage zone of the Vado di Ferruccio Thrust Fault, Central Apennines, Italy

Coseismic fault sealing and fluid pressurization during earthquakes

Coseismic recrystallization during shallow earthquake slip

Detailed statistical analysis of the Gole Larghe Fault Zone fracture network (Italian Southern Alps) improves estimates of the energy budget for intraplate earthquakes in basement rocks

Determination of Parameters Characteristic of Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms During Seismic Faulting in Cohesive Rocks

Determination of parameters characteristic of dynamic weakening mechanisms during coseismic slip

Development of crystallographic preferred orientation during cataclasis in low-temperature carbonate fault gouge

Dislocation Motion and the Microphysics of Flash Heating and Weakening of Faults during Earthquakes

Dynamic weakening in carbonate-built seismic faults: insights from laboratory experiments with fast and ultra-localized temperature measurements&#160;

Dynamic weakening of serpentinite gouges and bare surfaces at seismic slip rates.

Earthquake Nucleation Size: Evidence of Loading Rate Dependence in Laboratory Faults

Earthquake Source Properties from Pseudotachylite

Earthquake lubrication and healing explained by amorphous nanosilica

Earthquake rupture dynamics frozen in exhumed ancient faults

Earthquakes in the Mantle? Insights From Rock Magnetism of Pseudotachylytes

Effect of Fluid Viscosity on Fault Reactivation and Coseismic Weakening

Effect of glass on the frictional behavior of basalts at seismic slip rates

Effect of water and rock composition on re-strengthening of cohesive faults during the deceleration phase of seismic slip pulses

Effect of water on the frictional behavior of cohesive rocks during earthquakes

Energy partitioning during seismic slip in pseudotachylyte-bearing faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Adamello, Italy)

Estimate of earthquake power dissipation from exhumed ancient faults (Gole Larghe fault zone, Italy)

Evidence of dmisteinbergite (hexagonal form of CaAl2Si2O8) in pseudotachylyte: A tool to constrain the thermal history of a seismic event

Evidence of transient increases of fluid pressure in SAFOD phase III cores

Fast and Localized Temperature Measurements During Simulated Earthquakes in Carbonate Rocks

Fast and localized temperature measurements during simulated earthquakes in carbonate rocks

Fast-moving dislocations trigger flash weakening in carbonate-bearing faults during earthquakes

Fault Roughness at Seismogenic Depths from LIDAR and Photogrammetric Analysis

Fault friction during simulated seismic slip pulses

Fault gouge graphitization as evidence of past seismic slip

Fault lubrication and earthquake propagation in thermally unstable rocks

Fault lubrication during earthquakes

Fault reactivation by fluid injection: insights from laboratory friction experiments with multiple reactivation sequences

Fault rocks associated with the reservoir-triggered seismicity of the Koyna-Warna area (India)

Fault welding by pseudotachylyte formation

Fault zone structure and seismic slip localization in dolostones, an example from the Southern Alps, Italy

Fault-healing and tribochemical processes in granodiorite under hydrothermal conditions

Field and experimental evidence of frictional melting in fluid-rich faults

Field, microstructural and phase characterization of mirror-like fault surfaces in bituminous dolostones (central Apennines, Italy)

Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone

Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone

Focal Mechanisms of Intraslab Earthquakes: Insights From Pseudotachylytes in Mantle Units

Fracture energy and breakdown work scaling with coseismic slip

Fracturing and rock pulverization along an exhumed seismogenic fault zone in dolostones: The Foiana Fault Zone (Southern Alps, Italy)

Friction and roughness of a melting rock surface

Friction behavior of gabbro under hydrothermal conditions

Friction during earthquakes: 25 years of experimental studies

Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates

Frictional Instabilities and Carbonation of Basalts Triggered by Injection of Pressurized HO- and CO- Rich Fluids

Frictional Properties of the Longmenshan Fault Belt Gouges From WFSD‐3 and Implications for Earthquake Rupture Propagation

Frictional evolution of gouge-bearing faults during multiple seismic slip velocity pulses

Frictional evolution, acoustic emissions activity, and off-fault damage in simulated faults sheared at seismic slip rates

Frictional melt and seismic slip

Frictional melting of gabbro under extreme experimental conditions of normal stress, acceleration, and sliding velocity

Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault

Frictional properties and microstructural evolution of dry and wet calcite-dolomite gouges

Frictional properties and microstructural evolution of dry and wet calcite–dolomite gouges

Frictional properties of fault zone gouges from the J-FAST drilling project (Mw 9.0 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake)

Frictional strength, stability, and healing properties of basalt faults for CO2 storage purposes

From Submarine to Subaerial Out‐of‐Sequence Thrusting and Gravity‐Driven Extensional Faulting: Gran Sasso Massif, Central Apennines, Italy

From fault creep to slow and fast earthquakes in carbonates

From field geology to earthquake simulation: a new state-of-the-art tool to investigate rock friction during the seismic cycle (SHIVA)

G: Fracture energy, friction and dissipation in earthquakes.

Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab.

Gouge graphitization and dynamic fault weakening during the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake

Grain Fragmentation and Frictional Melting During Initial Experimental Deformation and Implications for Seismic Slip at Shallow Depths

Grain Size Sensitive Creep During Simulated Seismic Slip in Nanogranular Fault Gouges: Constraints From Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD)

Active faulting and deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in carbonate rocks (Central Apennines, Italy)

Dynamic weakening in carbonate-built seismic faults: insights from laboratory experiments with fast and ultra-localized temperature measurements