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  1. Evaluation of Aereal Block Proportion (ABP) for the mechanical characterization of bimunits using Electrical Resistivity Tomography 

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Andrea Festa

  2. Basement-cover tectonostratigraphic relationships in the northern Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps)

    Article • August 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Andrea Festa

  3. New geochronological data from mafic and felsic meta-intrusives of the Western Alpine Ophiolites: the missing magmatism of the Ligurian-Piedmont Ocean?

    Article • August 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Andrea Festa

  4. Role of folding-related deformation in the seismicity of shallow accretionary prisms

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2024, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2024, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geosciences, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geosystems and Geoenvironment, May 2022, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

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

    Article • Engineering Geology, May 2022, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA, February 2022, Milano University Press

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Engineering Geology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  14. 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 Subduction...

    Article • The Journal of Geology, September 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Minerals, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Minerals, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, February 2020, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2020, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

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

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, January 2020, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, December 2019, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, December 2019, Schweizerbart

    Andrea Festa

  23. Submarine Landslides

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Andrea Festa

  24. Submarine Landslide Deposits in Orogenic Belts

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

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

    Article • Geosciences, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Andrea Festa

  29. Superposed Sedimentary and Tectonic Block-In-Matrix Fabrics in a Subducted Serpentinite Mélange (High-Pressure Zermatt Saas Ophiolite, Western Alps)

    Article • Geosciences, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Andrea Festa

  30. Middle Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate changes and gas hydrates dissociation

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, July 2019, Geological Society

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  31. 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 • Journal of the Geological Society, May 2019, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, May 2019, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geosciences, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, February 2019, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  37. Birth and death of oceanic basins: geodynamic processes from rifting to continental collision in Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean orogens

    Article • Geological Magazine, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

  39. 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)

    Article • Geological Magazine, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Magazine, July 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Lithosphere, January 2017, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Gondwana Research, November 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  43. 3D Geological visualizations of geoheritage information in the Monviso Massif (Western Alps)

    Article • Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana, March 2016, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  45. Pre-Alpine Extensional Tectonics of a Peridotite-Localized Oceanic Core Complex in the Late Jurassic, High-Pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps)

    Article • Episodes, December 2015, International Union of Geological Sciences

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana, November 2015, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Lithosphere, August 2015, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Marine Geology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Marine Geology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Marine Geology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Italian Journal of Geosciences, October 2014, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

  53. 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)

    Article • International Geology Review, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, July 2014, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa, Dr. Roberta Pini

  55. 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 • International Geology Review, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geoheritage, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gisella Rebay, Professor Fernando Camara, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, August 2013, Geological Society of America

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Journal of Maps, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Andrea Festa

  61. 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

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Society of America Special Papers, August 2011, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • Geological Society of America Special Papers, September 2010, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa

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

    Article • International Geology Review, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  69. Peri-Adriatic mélanges and their evolution in the Tethyan realm

    Article • International Geology Review, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  70. 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 • Geological Society of America Bulletin, September 2007, Geological Society of America

    Andrea Festa