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Giorgio Pennacchioni

Giorgio Pennacchioni

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
6209
World Ranking
5037
National Ranking
138

Overview

Giorgio Pennacchioni is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed significantly to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics, with additional work in mechanics of materials, atmospheric science, astronomy and astrophysics, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geophysical studies worldwide
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Rock mechanics and modeling
  • Planetary science and exploration

Giorgio Pennacchioni has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. The frequent publication venues are:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Lithos
  • Tectonics

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, they have worked closely with co-authors such as Giulio Di Toro, Giovanni Toffol, Alfredo Camacho, Rodrigo Gomila, and Luca Menegon.

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Earthquake nucleation in the lower crust by local stress amplification," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Temperature, fluid content and rheology of localized ductile shear zones in subsolidus cooling plutons," 2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • "High-stress creep preceding coseismic rupturing in amphibolite-facies ultramylonites," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Record of intermediate-depth subduction seismicity in a dry slab from an exhumed ophiolite," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Time-Lapse Record of an Earthquake in the Dry Felsic Lower Continental Crust Preserved in a Pseudotachylyte-Bearing Fault," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • Natural and Experimental Evidence of Melt Lubrication of Faults During Earthquakes

    Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Giulio Di Toro;Takehiro Hirose;Takehiro Hirose;Takehiro Hirose;Stefan Nielsen;Stefan Nielsen;Stefan Nielsen;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • The influence of grain boundary fluids on the microstructure of quartz-feldspar mylonites

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • The control of precursor brittle fracture and fluid–rock interaction on the development of single and paired ductile shear zones

    Neil S. Mancktelow;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Rare earth and trace element mobility in mid-crustal shear zones: insights from the Mont Blanc Massif (Western Alps)

    Yann Rolland;Stephen Cox;Anne-Marie Boullier;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Earthquake rupture dynamics frozen in exhumed ancient faults

    Giulio Di Toro;Stefan Nielsen;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Nucleation and initial growth of a shear zone network within compositionally and structurally heterogeneous granitoids under amphibolite facies conditions

    Giorgio Pennacchioni;Neil S. Mancktelow

  • Tertiary age and paleostructural inferences of the eclogitic imprint in the Austroalpine outliers and Zermatt–Saas ophiolite, western Alps

    G. V. Dal Piaz;G. Cortiana;A. Del Moro;S. Martin

  • Superheated friction-induced melts in zoned pseudotachylytes within the Adamello tonalites (Italian Southern Alps)

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Fault plane processes and mesoscopic structure of a strong-type seismogenic fault in tonalites (Adamello batholith, Southern Alps)

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Can pseudotachylytes be used to infer earthquake source parameters? An example of limitations in the study of exhumed faults

    Giulio Di Toro;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giordano Teza

  • Control of the geometry of precursor brittle structures on the type of ductile shear zone in the Adamello tonalites, Southern Alps (Italy)

    Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Energy partitioning during seismic slip in pseudotachylyte-bearing faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Adamello, Italy)

    Lidia Pittarello;Giulio Di Toro;Andrea Bizzarri;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Dissolution-precipitation creep of K-feldspar in mid-crustal granite mylonites

    Luca Menegon;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Richard Spiess

  • Brittle precursors of plastic deformation in a granite: an example from the Mont Blanc massif (Helvetic, western Alps)

    A Guermani;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Brittle-ductile-brittle deformation during cooling of tonalite (Adamello, Southern Italian Alps)

    G. Pennacchioni;G. Di Toro;P. Brack;L. Menegon

  • Evolution of quartz microstructure and c-axis crystallographic preferred orientation within ductilely deformed granitoids (Arolla unit, Western Alps)

    Luca Menegon;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Renee Heilbronner;Lidia Pittarello

  • Nucleation and growth of myrmekite during ductile shear deformation in metagranites

    Luca Menegon;Giorgio Pennacchioni;H. Stunitz

  • Salt-rich aqueous fluids formed during eclogitization of metabasites in the Alpine continental crust (Austroalpine Mt. Emilius unit, Italian western Alps)

    M Scambelluri;Giorgio Pennacchioni;P. Philippot

  • Ductile‐brittle transition in pre‐Alpine amphibolite facies mylonites during evolution from water‐present to water‐deficient conditions (Mont Mary nappe, Italian Western Alps)

    G. Pennacchioni;B. Cesare

  • Experimental observations on the effect of interface slip on rotation and stabilisation of rigid particles in simple shear and a comparison with natural mylonites

    Neil S Mancktelow;Laurent Arbaret;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Natural and Experimental Evidence of Melt Lubrication of Faults During Earthquakes

    G. di Toro;T. Hirose;S. Nielsen;G. Pennacchioni

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Di Toro
Giulio Di Toro University of Padua
Stefan Nielsen
Stefan Nielsen Durham University
Fabrizio Nestola
Fabrizio Nestola University of Padua
Mathias Göken
Mathias Göken University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marco Scambelluri
Marco Scambelluri University of Genoa
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Toshihiko Shimamoto
Toshihiko Shimamoto China Earthquake Administration
Åke Fagereng
Åke Fagereng Cardiff University
Anne-Marie Boullier
Anne-Marie Boullier Grenoble Alpes University
Stephen F. Cox
Stephen F. Cox Australian National University

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