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Carmelo Monaco

Carmelo Monaco

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44
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7793
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119

Overview

Carmelo Monaco is affiliated with the University of Catania in Italy. Their research career spans a range of topics primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a dominant focus on Geophysics. Other notable subfields include Archeology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's work covers multiple intersecting topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, maritime and coastal archaeology, geology and paleoclimatology research, and coastal and marine dynamics.

Monaco has contributed to research published in a variety of academic venues, frequently in:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Tectonics
  • Geosciences

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Giovanni Barreca
  • Luciano Scarfì
  • Fabrizio Pepe
  • Giorgio De Guidi
  • Felix Groß

Significant recent publications by Monaco include:

  • "The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake" (2021), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Comparing impact effects of common storms and Medicanes along the coast of south-eastern Sicily" (2021), published in Marine Geology
  • "Structural and tectono-stratigraphic review of the Sicilian orogen and new insights from analogue modeling" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Slab Detachment, Mantle Flow, and Crustal Collision in Eastern Sicily (Southern Italy): Implications on Mount Etna Volcanism" (2020), published in Tectonics
  • "Relative Sea-Level Rise Scenario for 2100 along the Coast of South Eastern Sicily (Italy) by InSAR Data, Satellite Images and High-Resolution Topography" (2021), published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Markers of the last interglacial sea-level high stand along the coast of Italy: Tectonic implications

    Luigi Ferranti;Fabrizio Antonioli;Barbara Mauz;Alessandro Amorosi

  • Active faulting in the Calabrian arc and eastern Sicily

    Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici

  • Recent and active tectonics in the Calabrian arc (Southern Italy)

    Luigi Tortorici;Carmelo Monaco;Carlo Tansi;Ornella Cocina

  • Holocene relative sea-level changes and vertical movements along the Italian and Istrian coastlines

    Fabrizio Antonioli;Luigi Ferranti;Alessandro Fontana;Alessandro Amorosi

  • Late Quaternary slip rates on the Acireale-Piedimonte normal faults and tectonic origin of Mt. Etna (Sicily)

    Carmelo Monaco;Paul Tapponnier;Luigi Tortorici;Pierre-Yves Gillot

  • Quaternary normal faulting in southeastern Sicily (Italy): a seismic source for the 1693 large earthquake

    Marcello Bianca;Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici;Licio Cernobori

  • Faulting and earthquake triggering during the 1783 Calabria seismic sequence

    Eric Jacques;Carmelo Monaco;Paul Tapponnier;Luigi Tortorici

  • Large boulder deposits by tsunami waves along the Ionian coast of south-eastern Sicily (Italy)

    Giovanni Scicchitano;Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici

  • GPS velocity and strain fields in Sicily and southern Calabria, Italy: updated geodetic constraints on tectonic block interaction in the central Mediterranean

    Mimmo Palano;Luigi Ferranti;Carmelo Monaco;Mario Mattia

  • Structural evolution of the Lucanian Apennines, southern Italy

    CarmeLo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici;Werter Paltrinieri

  • From collisional to rifted basins: an example from the southern Calabrian arc (Italy)

    Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici;Rinaldo Nicolich;Licio Cernobori

  • Pleistocene strike-slip tectonics in the Lucanian Apennine (southern Italy)

    Stefano Catalano;Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici;Carlo Tansi

  • Active faulting and seismicity along the Siculo–Calabrian Rift Zone (Southern Italy)

    S. Catalano;G. De Guidi;C. Monaco;G. Tortorici

  • Active transpression in the northern Calabria Apennines, southern Italy

    L. Ferranti;E. Santoro;M.E. Mazzella;C. Monaco

  • Presentazione della carta geologica del bacino del Fiume Agri (Basilicata)

    S Carbone;S Catalano;S Lazzari;F Lentini

  • Tectonic control on the eruptive dynamics at Mt. Etna Volcano (Sicily) during the 2001 and 2002–2003 eruptions

    Carmelo Monaco;Stefano Catalano;Ornella Cocina;Giorgio De Guidi

  • The contribution of regional uplift and coseismic slip to the vertical crustal motion in the Messina Straits, southern Italy: Evidence from raised Late Holocene shorelines

    Luigi Ferranti;Carmelo Monaco;Fabrizio Antonioli;Laura Maschio

  • Fault activity and marine terracing in the Capo Vaticano area (southern Calabria) during the Middle-Late Quaternary

    Giuseppe Tortorici;Marcello Bianca;Giorgio de Guidi;Carmelo Monaco

  • Neogene‐Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern Apennines

    S. Catalano;C. Monaco;L. Tortorici;W. Paltrinieri

  • Active faulting on the island of Crete (Greece)

    Riccardo Caputo;Stefano Catalano;Carmelo Monaco;Gino Romagnoli

  • Tectonic role of ophiolite‐bearing terranes in the development of the Southern Apennines orogenic belt

    Carmelo Monaco;Luigi Tortorici

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Ferranti
Luigi Ferranti University of Naples Federico II
Luigi Tortorici
Luigi Tortorici University of Catania
Fabrizio Antonioli
Fabrizio Antonioli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Giuseppe Mastronuzzi
Giuseppe Mastronuzzi University of Bari Aldo Moro
Pierfrancesco Burrato
Pierfrancesco Burrato National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Marco Anzidei
Marco Anzidei National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Marco Taviani
Marco Taviani Schmidt Ocean Institute
Mimmo Palano
Mimmo Palano University of Catania
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck Australian National University
Alessandro Amorosi
Alessandro Amorosi University of Bologna

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