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Antonio Cattaneo is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysical and sedimentological processes.

Their primary fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Within these, Cattaneo has contributed extensively to subfields such as Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Mechanics of Materials.

Key topics explored in Cattaneo's work cover a range of geological and geophysical themes. These include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Antonio Cattaneo has published numerous articles in specialized peer-reviewed journals. Recent representative papers include:

  • Contourite and mixed turbidite-contourite systems in the Mozambique Channel (SW Indian Ocean): Link between geometry, sediment characteristics and modelled bottom currents, 2021, Marine Geology
  • The impact of internal waves on upper continental slopes: insights from the Mozambican margin (southwest Indian Ocean), 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Factors controlling margin instability during the Plio-Quaternary in the Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea), 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Siliciclastic and bioclastic contouritic sands: Textural and geochemical characterisation, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Post-LGM multi-proxy sedimentary record of bottom-current variability and downslope sedimentary processes in a contourite drift of the Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily), 2021, Marine Geology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • C. Seibert
  • K. Jitsuno
  • Rui Bao
  • Michael Strasser
  • Ken Ikehara

Cattaneo's research is often published in venues such as Marine Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Sedimentology, Geological Society London Special Publications, and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Marine Geology stands out with the greatest number of publications.

Best Publications

  • Transgressive deposits: a review of their variability

    Antonio Cattaneo;Ronald J Steel

  • Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project

    M. Canals;G. Lastras;R. Urgeles;J.L. Casamor

  • Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach

    Nabil Sultan;Pierre Cochonat;M Canals;Antonio Cattaneo

  • The late-Holocene Gargano subaqueous delta, Adriatic shelf: Sediment pathways and supply fluctuations

    Antonio Cattaneo;Annamaria Correggiari;Leonardo Langone;Fabio Trincardi

  • The modern Po Delta system: Lobe switching and asymmetric prodelta growth

    Annamaria Correggiari;Antonio Cattaneo;Fabio Trincardi

  • Coastal dynamics under conditions of rapid sea-level rise: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene evolution of barrier–lagoon systems on the northern Adriatic shelf (Italy)

    Joep E.A. Storms;Gert Jan Weltje;Guido J. Terra;Antonio Cattaneo

  • The Western Adriatic shelf clinoform: energy-limited bottomset

    Antonio Cattaneo;Fabio Trincardi;Alessandra Asioli;Annamaria Correggiari

  • THE LATE QUATERNARY TRANSGRESSIVE RECORD IN THE ADRIATIC EPICONTINENTAL SEA BASIN WIDENING AND FACIES PARTITIONING

    A. Cattaneo;F. Trincardi

  • Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: Towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy

    John J. Lowe;Simon Blockley;Fabio Trincardi;Alessandra Asioli

  • 26th December 2004 great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake: Co-seismic and post-seismic motions in northern Sumatra

    Jean-Claude Sibuet;Claude Rangin;Xavier Le Pichon;Satish Singh

  • TEPHRA LAYERS IN LATE QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS OF THE CENTRAL ADRIATIC SEA

    N Calanchi;A Cattaneo;E Dinelli;G Gasparotto

  • Tectonic expression of an active slab‐tear from high‐resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore Sicily (Ionian Sea)

    Marc-André Gutscher;Stephane Dominguez;Bernard Mercier de Lepinay;Luis Pinheiro

  • Evidence of soft sediment deformation, fluid escape, sediment failure and regional weak layers within the late Quaternary mud deposits of the Adriatic Sea

    Fabio Trincardi;Antonio Cattaneo;Annamaria Correggiari;Domenico Ridente

  • Recent and active deformation pattern off the easternmost Algerian margin, Western Mediterranean Sea: New evidence for contractional tectonic reactivation

    Abdelaziz Kherroubi;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Abdelkarim Yelles;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Seafloor undulation pattern on the Adriatic shelf and comparison to deep-water sediment waves

    Antonio Cattaneo;Annamaria Correggiari;Tania Marsset;Yannick Thomas

  • Depositional Patterns in the Late Holocene Po Delta System

    Annamaria Correggiari;Antonio Cattaneo;Fabio Trincardi

  • Tectonic inheritance and Pliocene‐Pleistocene inversion of the Algerian margin around Algiers: Insights from multibeam and seismic reflection data

    Pierre Strzerzynski;Pierre Strzerzynski;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Antonio Cattaneo;Anne Domzig

  • Sea-level change and free gas occurrence influencing a submarine landslide and pockmark formation and distribution in deepwater Nigeria

    Vincent Riboulot;Vincent Riboulot;Antonio Cattaneo;Nabil Sultan;Sebastien Garziglia

  • A review of undulated sediment features on Mediterranean prodeltas: distinguishing sediment transport structures from sediment deformation

    Roger Urgeles;Antonio Cattaneo;Pere Puig;Camino Liquete

  • Morphology, distribution and origin of recent submarine landslides of the Ligurian Margin (North-western Mediterranean): some insights into geohazard assessment

    Sébastien Migeon;Antonio Cattaneo;Virginie Hassoun;Christophe Larroque

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Trincardi
Fabio Trincardi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Jacques Déverchère
Jacques Déverchère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nabil Sultan
Nabil Sultan French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Alessandra Asioli
Alessandra Asioli University of Padua
Gwenael Jouet
Gwenael Jouet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Roger Urgeles
Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council
Tommaso Tesi
Tommaso Tesi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Leonardo Langone
Leonardo Langone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
P. Montagna
P. Montagna National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Marc-André Gutscher
Marc-André Gutscher Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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