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Alberto Zanetti is affiliated with the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics, where they have published extensively. Zanetti's work also covers areas such as Artificial Intelligence applied in geosciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist contributes to a range of topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological Formations and Processes Exploration, Geological Modeling and Analysis, and broader themes related to geological formations and processes.

Zanetti has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators including Alessio Sanfilippo, Mattia Bonazzi, Abimbola Chris Ogunyele, György Hetényi, and Tommaso Giovanardi.

Their publications can be found regularly in several established venues, with a particular concentration in the journal Lithos. Other publication outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geosciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Gondwana Research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Zanetti include:

  • CO2 electrolysis - Complementary operando XRD, XAS and Raman spectroscopy study on the stability of CuxO foam catalysts, 2020, Journal of Catalysis
  • Early-Stage Melt-Rock Reaction in a Cooling Crystal Mush Beneath a Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge (IODP Hole U1473A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge), 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Crystal-mush reactivation by magma recharge: Evidence from the Campanian Ignimbrite activity, Campi Flegrei volcanic field, Italy, 2020, Lithos
  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of a giant agpaitic magma reservoir: The Late Cretaceous Poços de Caldas potassic alkaline complex (SE Brazil), 2021, Lithos
  • The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms and Sources of Mantle Metasomatism: Major and Trace Element Compositions of Peridotite Xenoliths from Spitsbergen in the Context of Numerical Modelling

    Dimitri Ionov;Jean-Louis Bodinier;Samuel S.B. Mukasa;Alberto Zanetti

  • The Finero phlogopite-peridotite massif: an example of subduction-related metasomatism

    Alberto Zanetti;Maurizio Mazzucchelli;Giorgio Rivalenti;Riccardo Vannucci

  • Trace-Element Partitioning Between Amphibole and Silicate Melt

    Massimo Tiepolo;Roberta Oberti;Alberto Zanetti;Riccardo Vannucci

  • Nb and Ta incorporation and fractionation in titanian pargasite and kaersutite: Crystal-chemical constraints and implications for natural systems

    M. Tiepolo;R. Vannucci;R. Oberti;S. Foley

  • Melt/peridotite interaction in the Southern Lanzo peridotite: Field, textural and geochemical evidence

    Giovanni Piccardo;Alberto Zanetti;Othmar Müntener

  • Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic affinity of the Yungbwa ophiolite, SW Tibet

    Christine Miller;Martin Thöni;Wolfgang Frank;Ralf Schuster

  • Partitioning of rare earth elements, Y, Th, U, and Pb between pargasite, kaersutite, and basanite to trachyte melts: Implications for percolated and veined mantle

    Massimo Tiepolo;Riccardo Vannucci;Piero Bottazzi;Roberta Oberti

  • Distinct site preferences for heavy and light REE in amphibole and the prediction of (Amph/L)D(REE)

    P. Bottazzi;M. Tiepolo;R. Vannucci;A. Zanetti

  • Metasomatism and Melting in Carbonated Peridotite Xenoliths from the Mantle Wedge: The Gobernador Gregores Case (Southern Patagonia)

    Angela Laurora;Maurizio Mazzucchelli;Giorgio Rivalenti;Riccardo Vannucci

  • Fractionation of Nb and Ta from Zr and Hf at Mantle Depths: the Role of Titanian Pargasite and Kaersutite

    M. Tiepolo;P. Bottazzi;S. F. Foley;R. Oberti

  • Eclogitisation of gabbroic rocks: Redistribution of trace elements and Zr in rutile thermometry in an Eo-Alpine subduction zone (Eastern Alps)

    C. Miller;A. Zanetti;M. Thöni;J. Konzett

  • Infiltration metasomatism at Lherz as monitored by systematic ion-microprobe investigations close to a hornblendite vein

    A. Zanetti;R. Vannucci;P. Bottazzi;R. Oberti

  • Metasomatism in the Lithospheric Mantle beneath Middle Atlas (Morocco) and the Origin of Fe- and Mg-rich Wehrlites

    N. Raffone;G. Chazot;C. Pin;R. Vannucci

  • Ophiolitic Peridotites of the Alpine-Apennine System: Mantle Processes and Geodynamic Relevance

    Giovanni B. Piccardo;Othmar Müntener;Alberto Zanetti;Thomas Pettke

  • SHRIMP U–Pb Zircon Triassic Intrusion Age of the Finero Mafic Complex (Ivrea–Verbano Zone, Western Alps) and its Geodynamic Implications

    Alberto Zanetti;Maurizio Mazzucchelli;Silvano Sinigoi;Tommaso Giovanardi

  • Trace-element partitioning in olivine: modelling of a complete data set from a synthetic hydrous basanite melt

    Alberto Zanetti;Massimo Tiepolo;Roberta Oberti;Riccardo Vannucci

  • Origin of LREE-depleted amphiboles in the subcontinental mantle

    R. Vannucci;G. B. Piccardo;Giorgio Rivalenti;A. Zanetti

  • The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Morocco

    Andrea Marzoli;Hervé Bertrand;Nasrrddine Youbi;Nasrrddine Youbi;Sara Callegaro

  • Sm–Nd isotope systematics of high-REE accessory minerals and major phases: ID-TIMS, LA-ICP-MS and EPMA data constrain multiple Permian–Triassic pegmatite emplacement in the Koralpe, Eastern Alps

    M. Thöni;Ch. Miller;A. Zanetti;G. Habler

  • Timing of high‐pressure metamorphism and exhumation of the eclogite type‐locality (Kupplerbrunn–Prickler Halt, Saualpe, south‐eastern Austria): constraints from correlations of the Sm–Nd, Lu–Hf, U–Pb and Rb–Sr isotopic systems

    M. Thöni;C. Miller;J. Blichert-Toft;M. J. Whitehouse

  • Determination of hydrogen in silicates by secondary ion mass spectrometry

    Luisa Ottolini;Piero Bottazzi;Alberto Zanetti;Riccardo Vannucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Riccardo Vannucci
Riccardo Vannucci University of Pavia
Maurizio Mazzucchelli
Maurizio Mazzucchelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Massimo Tiepolo
Massimo Tiepolo University of Milan
Othmar Müntener
Othmar Müntener University of Lausanne
Giovanni B. Piccardo
Giovanni B. Piccardo University of Genoa
Roberta Oberti
Roberta Oberti National Research Council (CNR)
Luisa Ottolini
Luisa Ottolini University of Pavia
Elisabetta Rampone
Elisabetta Rampone University of Genoa
Riccardo Tribuzio
Riccardo Tribuzio University of Pavia
György Hetényi
György Hetényi University of Lausanne

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