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Giacomo Corti is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive contributions in associated subfields such as Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Giacomo Corti are:

  • Large-to Local-Scale Control of Pre-Existing Structures on Continental Rifting: Examples From the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa (2022), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Normal fault reactivation during multiphase extension: Analogue models and application to the Turkana depression, East Africa (2021), Tectonophysics
  • Exploring the Interactions Between Rift Propagation and Inherited Crustal Fabrics Through Experimental Modeling (2020), Tectonics
  • Structural Analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: Evidence for Multiphase Rotational Rifting (2020), Tectonics
  • Earthquake Rupture Forecasts for the MPS19 Seismic Hazard Model of Italy (2021), Annals of Geophysics

Frequent collaborators include Derek Keir, Daniele Maestrelli, Federico Sani, Marco Bonini, and Ameha Muluneh. Their collaboration ranges over numerous publications reflecting a strong network of co-authorship in geosciences research.

Publication venues where Giacomo Corti has frequently contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Tectonics
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Tectonophysics
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)

The scholar has produced a significant number of works mainly situated in Geophysics within Earth and Planetary Sciences, totaling 97 publications in the field overall. The distribution of their research reflects broad engagement with tectonic and geological phenomena, emphasizing both observational studies and experimental modeling.

Best Publications

  • Continental rift evolution: From rift initiation to incipient break-up in the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

    Giacomo Corti

  • Analogue modelling of continental extension: a review focused on the relations between the patterns of deformation and the presence of magma

    Giacomo Corti;Marco Bonini;Sandro Conticelli;Fabrizio Innocenti

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

    Marco Bonini;Giacomo Corti;Fabrizio Innocenti;Piero Manetti

  • Tectonic inheritance and continental rift architecture: Numerical and analogue models of the East African Rift system

    Giacomo Corti;Jolante van Wijk;Jolante van Wijk;Sierd Cloetingh;Chris K. Morley

  • Evolution and characteristics of continental rifting: Analog modeling-inspired view and comparison with examples from the East African Rift System

    Giacomo Corti

  • Control of rift obliquity on the evolution and segmentation of the main Ethiopian rift

    Giacomo Corti

  • Recent and active tectonics of the external zone of the Northern Apennines (Italy)

    Mario Boccaletti;Giacomo Corti;Luca Martelli

  • Analogue benchmarks of shortening and extension experiments

    Guido Schreurs;Susanne J.H. Buiter;David Boutelier;Giacomo Corti

  • Evolution, pattern, and partitioning of deformation during oblique continental rifting: Inferences from lithospheric‐scale centrifuge models

    Andrea Agostini;Giacomo Corti;Antonio Zeoli;Genene Mulugeta

  • 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

  • Controls of inherited lithospheric heterogeneity on rift linkage: Numerical and analog models of interaction between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rifts across the Turkana depression

    Sascha Brune;Giacomo Corti;Giorgio Ranalli

  • Coexisting geodynamic processes in the Sicily Channel

    Giacomo Corti;Marco Cuffaro;Carlo Doglioni;Fabrizio Innocenti

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

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

  • Slip re-orientation in oblique rifts

    Melody Philippon;Melody Philippon;E. Willingshofer;D. Sokoutis;D. Sokoutis;G. Corti

  • Continental rift architecture and patterns of magma migration: A dynamic analysis based on centrifuge models

    Giacomo Corti;Marco Bonini;Dimitrios Sokoutis;Fabrizio Innocenti

  • Obliquity along plate boundaries

    Mélody Philippon;Giacomo Corti

  • Transition from continental break-up to punctiform seafloor spreading: How fast, symmetric and magmatic

    Giacomo Corti;Jolante Van Wijk;Jolante Van Wijk;Marco Bonini;Dimitrios Sokoutis

  • Distribution of Quaternary deformation in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

    Andrea Agostini;Andrea Agostini;Marco Bonini;Giacomo Corti;Federico Sani

  • Re-orientation of the extension direction and pure extensional faulting at oblique rift margins: Comparison between the Main Ethiopian Rift and laboratory experiments

    Giacomo Corti;Melody Philippon;Federico Sani;Derek Keir

  • Lithospheric-scale structures from the perspective of analogue continental collision.

    Dimitrios Sokoutis;Jean-Pierre Burg;Marco Bonini;Giacomo Corti

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Bonini
Marco Bonini National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Federico Sani
Federico Sani University of Florence
Derek Keir
Derek Keir University of Florence
Dimitrios Sokoutis
Dimitrios Sokoutis Utrecht University
Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari National Autonomous University of Mexico
Piero Manetti
Piero Manetti University of Florence
Francesco Mazzarini
Francesco Mazzarini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Fabrizio Innocenti
Fabrizio Innocenti University of Pisa
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Sascha Brune
Sascha Brune Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

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