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Overview

Giacomo Prosser is affiliated with the University of Basilicata in Italy and focuses primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several key subfields, including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Mechanics of Materials, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics they explore cover a range of geological and geophysical phenomena. These include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Prosser's publication record features several papers notably contributing to the understanding of geological structures and processes in the southern Italian Apennines region. Selected recent papers include:

  • Cold subduction zone in northern Calabria (Italy) revealed by lawsonite-clinopyroxene blueschists, 2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Pressure solution-assisted diagenesis and thrusting-related deformation of Mesozoic platform carbonates, 2023, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Stratigraphic and Tectonic Setting of the Liguride Units Cropping Out along the Southeastern Side of the Agri Valley (Southern Apennines, Italy), 2021, Geosciences
  • Reconstruction of the structural setting of the north-eastern side of the high Agri Valley (Southern Apennines, Italy) based on detailed field mapping, 2023, Journal of Maps
  • Fracture stratigraphy of Mesozoic platform carbonates, Agri Valley, southern Italy, 2022, Geological Magazine

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Geosciences
  • Journal of Maps
  • Geological Magazine

Regular collaborators identified in their body of work encompass:

  • Fabrizio Agosta
  • Giuseppe Palladino
  • Canio Manniello
  • Mario Bentivenga
  • Francesco Cavalcante

The combination of topics covered and the publication venues suggests a research focus oriented towards tectonic and structural geological studies, high-pressure metamorphic environments, and the geological characterization of carbonate platforms and related processes. The consistent documentation of seismic and tectonic phenomena alongside geochemical approaches highlights an integrated methodology to investigating Earth's crustal dynamics and sedimentary basin evolution.

Best Publications

  • Alpine compressional tectonics in the Southern Alps. Relationships with the N-Apennines

    A. Castellarin;L. Cantelli;A. M. Fesce;J. L. Mercier

  • Lithium-isotope evidence for enhanced silicate weathering during OAE 1a (Early Aptian Selli event)

    Maria Lechler;Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann;Hugh C. Jenkyns;Giacomo Prosser

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Periadriatic Fault System (Alps)

    Wolfgang Müller;Giacomo Prosser;Neil S. Mancktelow;Igor M. Villa

  • Variscan migmatites, eclogites and garnet-peridotites of the Ulten zone, Eastern Austroalpine system

    G. Godard;S. Martin;G. Prosser;J.R. Kienast

  • Interplay between tectonics and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone basin, Calabria (southern Italy)

    F. Massari;D. Rio;M. Sgavetti;G. Prosser

  • Alpine compressional tectonics in the Southern Alps

    L Cantelli;A Castellarin;J Mercier

  • Anatomy and evolution of a Mediterranean-type fault bounded basin: the Lower Pliocene of the northern Crotone Basin (Southern Italy)

    Massimo Zecchin;Francesco Massari;Donatella Mellere;Giacomo Prosser

  • A new interpretation of terraces in the Taranto Gulf: the role of extensional faulting

    M. Bentivenga;M. Coltorti;G. Prosser;E. Tavarnelli

  • Fold uplift versus regional subsidence and sedimentation rate

    Carlo Doglioni;Giacomo Prosser

  • Composite sedimentary record of falling stages of Pleistocene glacio-eustatic cycles in a shelf setting (Crotone basin, south Italy)

    Francesco Massari;M. Sgavetti;Domenico Rio;A. D'alessandro

  • Strike‐slip movements and thrusting along a transpressive fault zone: The North Giudicarie line (Insubric line, northern Italy)

    Giacomo Prosser

  • Reading Pleistocene eustasy in a tectonically active siliciclastic shelf setting (Crotone peninsula, southern Italy)

    D. Rio;J. E. T. Channell;F. Massari;M. S. Poli

  • Architectural styles of prograding wedges in a tectonically active setting, Crotone Basin, Southern Italy

    Massimo Zecchin;Francesco Massari;Donatella Mellere;Giacomo Prosser

  • Thermal history vs. fabric anisotropy in granitoids emplaced at different crustal levels: an example from Calabria, southern Italy

    A. Caggianelli;G. Prosser;A. Rottura

  • 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

  • Late Cenozoic tectono-stratigraphic sequences of the Crotone Basin: insights on the geodynamic history of the Calabrian arc and Tyrrhenian Sea

    F. Massari;G. Prosser

  • Space-time evolution of cataclasis in carbonate fault zones

    Francesco Ferraro;Donato Stefano Grieco;Fabrizio Agosta;Giacomo Prosser

  • Geoheritage: the Foundation for Sustainable Geotourism

    Mario Bentivenga;Francesco Cavalcante;Giuseppe Mastronuzzi;Giuseppe Palladino

  • Thrust sequences and evolution of the external sector of a fold and thrust belt: An example from the Southern Apennines (Italy)

    Simone Piedilato;Giacomo Prosser

  • P–T–t path of the Hercynian low-pressure rocks from the Mandatoriccio complex (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy): new insights for crustal evolution

    A Langone;G Godard;Giacomo Prosser;A Caggianelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Agosta
Fabrizio Agosta University of Basilicata
Domenico Liotta
Domenico Liotta University of Bari Aldo Moro
Carlo Doglioni
Carlo Doglioni National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Massimo Tiepolo
Massimo Tiepolo University of Milan
Cecilia Viti
Cecilia Viti University of Siena
Hugh C. Jenkyns
Hugh C. Jenkyns University of Oxford
Domenico Rio
Domenico Rio University of Padua
Edoardo Del Pezzo
Edoardo Del Pezzo University of Granada

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