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Francesco Mazzarini is affiliated with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in Geophysics. Subfields of study covered by their work include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary topics addressed in their research involve earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, planetary science and exploration, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, and rock mechanics and modeling.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Francesco Mazzarini encompass Ilaria Isola, Giovanni Musumeci, Domenico Granieri, Matteo Cerminara, and Benedetta Calusi.

Mazzarini's research findings have been published in various scientific venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Geothermics

Recent published papers include:

  • "Syn-Orogenic Exhumation of High-P Units by Upward Extrusion in an Accretionary Wedge: Insights From the Eastern Elba Nappe Stack (Northern Apennines, Italy)", 2021, Tectonics
  • "Shear wave splitting in the Alpine region", 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Recent volcano-tectonic activity of the Ririba rift and the evolution of rifting in South Ethiopia", 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • "Structural characterization and K-Ar illite dating of reactivated, complex and heterogeneous fault zones: lessons from the Zuccale Fault, Northern Apennines", 2022, Solid Earth
  • "High-P (P = 1.5-1.8 GPa) blueschist from Elba: Implications for underthrusting and exhumation of continental units in the Northern Apennines", 2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Best Publications

  • TINITALY/01: a new Triangular Irregular Network of Italy

    S. Tarquini;I. Isola;M. Favalli;F. Mazzarini

  • Evolution of the Main Ethiopian Rift in the frame of Afar and Kenya rifts propagation

    Marco Bonini;Giacomo Corti;Fabrizio Innocenti;Piero Manetti

  • Cenozoic geodynamics of the Ross Sea region, Antarctica: Crustal extension, intraplate strike-slip faulting, and tectonic inheritance

    Francesco Salvini;Giuliano Brancolini;Martina Busetti;Fabrizio Storti

  • The Pali Aike Volcanic Field, Patagonia: slab-window magmatism near the tip of South America

    Massimo D'Orazio;Samuele Agostini;Francesco Mazzarini;Fabrizio Innocenti

  • Slab window-related magmatism from southernmost South America: the Late Miocene mafic volcanics from the Estancia Glencross Area (̃52°S, Argentina Chile)

    M D'Orazio;S Agostini;F Innocenti;M.J Haller

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

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

  • The Yerer-Tullu Wellel volcanotectonic lineament: a transtensional structure in central Ethiopia and the associated magmatic activity

    T. Abebe;F. Mazzarini;F. Innocenti;P. Manetti

  • Fault architecture in the Main Ethiopian Rift and comparison with experimental models: Implications for rift evolution and Nubia–Somalia kinematics

    Andrea Agostini;Marco Bonini;Giacomo Corti;Federico Sani

  • Morphometry of scoria cones located on a volcano flank: A case study from Mt. Etna (Italy), based on high-resolution LiDAR data

    Massimilano Favalli;Dávid Karátson;Dávid Karátson;Francesco Mazzarini;Maria Teresa Pareschi

  • Coseismic ruptures of the 24 August 2016, Mw 6.0 Amatrice earthquake (central Italy)

    S. Pucci;P. M. De Martini;R. Civico;F. Villani

  • Evolution of an active lava flow field using a multitemporal LIDAR acquisition

    M. Favalli;A. Fornaciai;F. Mazzarini;A. Harris

  • A database of the coseismic effects following the 30 October 2016 Norcia earthquake in Central Italy.

    Fabio Villani;Riccardo Civico;Stefano Pucci;Luca Pizzimenti

  • Active strike-slip faulting in El Salvador, Central America

    Giacomo Corti;Eugenio Carminati;Francesco Mazzarini;Marvyn Oziel Garcia

  • The changing face of Mount Etna’s summit area documented with Lidar technology

    M. Neri;F. Mazzarini;S. Tarquini;M. Bisson

  • The origin of along‐rift variations in faulting and magmatism in the Ethiopian Rift

    Derek Keir;Ian D. Bastow;Giacomo Corti;Francesco Mazzarini

  • Lava flow identification and aging by means of lidar intensity: Mount Etna case

    Francesco Mazzarini;Maria Teresa Pareschi;Massimiliano Favalli;Ilaria Isola

  • Spatial distribution of cones and satellite-detected lineaments in the Pali Aike Volcanic Field (southernmost Patagonia): insights into the tectonic setting of a Neogene rift system

    Francesco Mazzarini;Massimo D’Orazio

  • Morphology of basaltic lava channels during the Mt. Etna September 2004 eruption from airborne laser altimeter data

    Francesco Mazzarini;Maria Teresa Pareschi;Massimiliano Favalli;Ilaria Isola

  • Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift.

    Giacomo Corti;Raffaello Cioni;Zara Franceschini;Federico Sani

  • Multiple hydro-fracturing by boron-rich fluids in the Late Miocene contact aureole of eastern Elba Island (Tuscany, Italy)

    A. Dini;F. Mazzarini;Giovanni Musumeci;Sergio Rocchi

  • Coseismic effects of the 2016 Amatrice seismic sequence: first geological results.

    W G Emergeo;S. Pucci;P.M. De Martini;R. Civico

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilaria Isola
Ilaria Isola National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Massimiliano Favalli
Massimiliano Favalli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Matteo Massironi
Matteo Massironi University of Padua
Giacomo Corti
Giacomo Corti National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Fabrizio Innocenti
Fabrizio Innocenti University of Pisa
Marco Bonini
Marco Bonini National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Francesco Salvini
Francesco Salvini Roma Tre University
Federico Sani
Federico Sani University of Florence
Marco Neri
Marco Neri National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Enzo Boschi
Enzo Boschi University of Bologna

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