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Fabrizio Agosta is affiliated with the University of Basilicata in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on geophysics, with significant work also in earth-surface processes, mechanics of materials, environmental chemistry, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law related to geological sciences.

The scientist's publication record includes 52 works in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 43 concentrated in geophysics. Other notable subfields covered are earth-surface processes and mechanics of materials, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach within geological research.

Frequent research topics for Agosta encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques. Additional areas of study include hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological formations and processes, as well as methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Published research has appeared regularly in several journals, notably:

  • Journal of Structural Geology (7 publications)
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology (5 publications)
  • Geological Magazine (3 publications)
  • Geosciences (2 publications)
  • Tectonics (1 publication)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Agosta include Giacomo Prosser, Canio Manniello, Luca Smeraglia, Vincenzo La Bruna, and Andrea Billi.

Recent papers by Fabrizio Agosta include:

  • Outcrop-scale fracture analysis and seismic modelling of a basin-bounding normal fault in platform carbonates, central Italy, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Fault-controlled upwelling of low-T hydrothermal fluids tracked by travertines in a fold-and-thrust belt, Monte Alpi, southern apennines, Italy, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Pore network characteristics as a function of diagenesis: Implications for epigenic karstification in shallow-water carbonates, 2023, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Fracture stratigraphy and oil first migration in Triassic shales, Favignana Island, western Sicily, Italy, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Pressure solution-assisted diagenesis and thrusting-related deformation of Mesozoic platform carbonates, 2023, Journal of Structural Geology

Best Publications

  • Architecture and deformation mechanism of a basin-bounding normal fault in Mesozoic platform carbonates, central Italy

    Fabrizio Agosta;Atilla Aydin

  • From fractures to flow: A field-based quantitative analysis of an outcropping carbonate reservoir

    Fabrizio Agosta;Mauro Alessandroni;M. Antonellini;Emanuele Tondi

  • Physical properties of carbonate fault rocks, fucino basin (Central Italy): implications for fault seal in platform carbonates

    F. Agosta;M. Prasad;A. Aydin

  • Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy

    R. Civico;S. Pucci;F. Villani;L. Pizzimenti

  • Fluid conduits in carbonate‐hosted seismogenic normal faults of central Italy

    F. Agosta;F. Agosta;D. L. Kirschner

  • Deformation bands in porous carbonate grainstones: Field and laboratory observations

    Antonino Cilona;Patrick Baud;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta

  • Oblique normal faulting along the northern edge of the Majella Anticline, central Italy: Inferences on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation

    Fabrizio Agosta;Mauro Alessandroni;Emanuele Tondi;Atilla Aydin

  • Stable isotope evidence for contrasting paleofluid circulation in thrust faults and normal faults of the central Apennines, Italy

    F. Ghisetti;D. L. Kirschner;L. Vezzani;F. Agosta

  • Fluid flow numerical experiments of faulted porous carbonates, Northwest Sicily (Italy)

    Marco Antonellini;Antonino Cilona;Emanuele Tondi;Miller Zambrano

  • Development and distribution of bed-parallel compaction bands and pressure solution seams in carbonates (Bolognano Formation, Majella Mountain, Italy)

    Andrea Rustichelli;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta;Antonino Cilona

  • Structural properties of fractured and faulted Cretaceous platform carbonates, Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

    Irina Korneva;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta;Andrea Rustichelli

  • Inner structure and deformation mechanisms of normal faults in conglomerates and carbonate grainstones (Granada Basin, Betic Cordillera, Spain): Inferences on fault permeability

    Fabrizio Agosta;Patricia Ruano;Andrea Rustichelli;Emanuele Tondi

  • Failure modes in deep-water carbonates and their impact for fault development: Majella Mountain, Central Apennines, Italy

    Marco Antonellini;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta;Fabrizio Agosta;Atilla Aydin

  • Growth processes, dimensional parameters and scaling relationships of two conjugate sets of compactive shear bands in porous carbonate grainstones, Favignana Island, Italy

    Emanuele Tondi;Antonino Cilona;Fabrizio Agosta;A. Aydin

  • Fluid flow properties of basin-bounding normal faults in platform carbonates, Fucino Basin, central Italy

    Fabrizio Agosta;Fabrizio Agosta

  • The effects of rock heterogeneity on compaction localization in porous carbonates

    Antonino Cilona;Daniel Roy Faulkner;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta

  • Fracture stratigraphy and DFN modelling of tight carbonates, the case study of the Lower Cretaceous carbonates exposed at the Monte Alpi (Basilicata, Italy)

    Alessandro Giuffrida;Fabrizio Agosta;Andrea Rustichelli;Elisa Panza

  • Fracture simulation parameters of fractured reservoirs: Analogy with outcropping carbonates of the Inner Apulian Platform, southern Italy

    Alessandro Giuffrida;Vincenzo La Bruna;Paola Castelluccio;Elisa Panza

  • Geochemical traces of CO2-rich fluid flow along normal faults in central Italy

    Fabrizio Agosta;Andreas Mulch;Page Chamberlain;Atilla Aydin

  • Fracture stratigraphy and fluid flow properties of shallow-water, tight carbonates: The case study of the Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

    E. Panza;F. Agosta;A. Rustichelli;M. Zambrano

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino
Giacomo Prosser
Giacomo Prosser University of Basilicata
Sergio Vinciguerra
Sergio Vinciguerra University of Turin
Patrick Baud
Patrick Baud University of Strasbourg
Atilla Aydin
Atilla Aydin Stanford University
Claudio Di Celma
Claudio Di Celma University of Camerino
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar University of Granada
Daniel R. Faulkner
Daniel R. Faulkner University of Liverpool
Manika Prasad
Manika Prasad Colorado School of Mines
Christopher J. Spiers
Christopher J. Spiers Utrecht University

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