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Leone Melluso is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Geophysics. Their research spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

Their work covers multiple research topics related to geological and geochemical processes. Key areas include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Melluso has contributed to a number of publications, predominantly in the journal Lithos, which features five of their papers. Other journals that have published their work include Geochemistry, Science Advances, Journal of African Earth Sciences, and Geological Society London Special Publications.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Melluso include:

  • The petrogenesis of chemically zoned, phonolitic, Plinian and sub-Plinian eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius, Italy: Role of accessory phase removal, independently filled magma reservoirs with time, and transition from slightly to highly silica undersaturated magmatic series in an ultrapotassic stratovolcano (2022, Lithos)
  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of a giant agpaitic magma reservoir: The Late Cretaceous Poços de Caldas potassic alkaline complex (SE Brazil) (2021, Lithos)
  • Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas (2023, Science Advances)
  • The geochemistry of recent Nyamulagira and Nyiragongo potassic lavas, Virunga Volcanic Province, and implications on the enrichment processes in the mantle lithosphere of the Tanzania-Congo craton (2022, Lithos)
  • Early Cretaceous ultramafic-alkaline-carbonatite magmatism in the Shillong Plateau-Mikir Hills, northeastern India - a synthesis (2022, Mineralogy and Petrology)

Melluso regularly collaborates with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Vincenzo Morra, Ciro Cucciniello, Vincenza Guarino, Roberto dè Gennaro, and Celestino Grifa.

Best Publications

  • Potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism in the circum-Tyrrhenian region: Significance of carbonated pelitic vs. pelitic sediment recycling at destructive plate margins

    Riccardo Avanzinelli;Michele Lustrino;Massimo Mattei;Leone Melluso

  • Isotope geochemistry (Sr–Nd–Pb) and petrogenesis of leucite-bearing volcanic rocks from “Colli Albani” volcano, Roman Magmatic Province, Central Italy: inferences on volcano evolution and magma genesis

    Elena Boari;Riccardo Avanzinelli;Riccardo Avanzinelli;Leone Melluso;Guido Giordano

  • Geochronology and petrology of Cretaceous basaltic magmatism in the Kwanza basin (western Angola), and relationships with the Paranà-Etendeka continental flood basalt province

    A. Marzoli;A. Marzoli;L. Melluso;V. Morra;P.R. Renne

  • Constraints on the Mantle Sources of the Deccan Traps from the Petrology and Geochemistry of the Basalts of Gujarat State (Western India)

    L. Melluso;L. Beccaluva;P. Brotzu;A. Gregnanin

  • The Breccia Museo formation, Campi Flegrei, southern Italy: geochronology, chemostratigraphy and relationship with the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption

    Lorenzo Fedele;Claudio Scarpati;Marvin Lanphere;Leone Melluso

  • Mantle sources and crustal input as recorded in high-Mg Deccan Traps basalts of Gujarat (India)

    Leone Melluso;John J. Mahoney;Luigi Dallai

  • Petrogenesis of coexisting SiO2-undersaturated to SiO2-oversaturated felsic igneous rocks: The alkaline complex of Itatiaia, southeastern Brazil

    P. Brotzu;Celso B. Gomes;L. Melluso;L. Morbidelli

  • The role of lower continental crust and lithospheric mantle in the genesis of Plio–Pleistocene volcanic rocks from Sardinia (Italy)

    Michele Lustrino;Leone Melluso;Vincenzo Morra

  • Evidence of crystallization in residual, Cl–F-rich, agpaitic, trachyphonolitic magmas and primitive Mg-rich basalt–trachyphonolite interaction in the lava domes of the Phlegrean Fields (Italy)

    Leone Melluso;Roberto De' Gennaro;Lorenzo Fedele;Luigi Franciosi

  • Petrogenesis and evolution of Mt. Vulture alkaline volcanism (Southern Italy)

    L. Beccaluva;M. Coltorti;P. Di Girolamo;L. Melluso

  • U–Pb ages, Sr–Nd- isotope geochemistry, and petrogenesis of kimberlites, kamafugites and phlogopite-picrites of the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province, Brazil

    Vincenza Guarino;Fu Yuan Wu;Michele Lustrino;Leone Melluso

  • Leucite-bearing (kamafugitic/leucititic) and –free (lamproitic) ultrapotassic rocks and associated shoshonites from Italy: constraints on petrogenesis and geodynamics

    Sandro Conticelli;Marinella A. Laurenzi;Guido Giordano;Massimo Mattei

  • The Mt. Vulture volcanic complex (Italy): evidence for distinct parental magmas and for residual melts with melilite

    L. Melluso;V. Morra;P. Di Girolamo

  • Geochronology and Petrogenesis of the Cretaceous Antampombato–Ambatovy Complex and Associated Dyke Swarm, Madagascar

    Leone Melluso;Vincenzo Morra;Pietro Brotzu;Simone Tommasini

  • The Mount Pavagadh volcanic suite, Deccan Traps: Geochemical stratigraphy and magmatic evolution

    Hetu C. Sheth;Leone Melluso

  • Petrogenesis of the Early Cenozoic potassic alkaline complex of Morro de São João, southeastern Brazil

    P. Brotzu;L. Melluso;L. Bennio;C.B. Gomes

  • High-Mg subduction-related Tertiary basalts in Sardinia, Italy

    V. Morra;F.A.G. Secchi;L. Melluso;L. Franciosi

  • MAJOR- AND TRACE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF OLIVINE, PEROVSKITE, CLINOPYROXENE, Cr–Fe–Ti OXIDES, PHLOGOPITE AND HOST KAMAFUGITES AND KIMBERLITES, ALTO PARANAÍBA, BRAZIL

    Leone Melluso;Michele Lustrino;Excelso Ruberti;Pietro Brotzu

  • Petrogenesis of a basalt-comendite-pantellerite rock suite: the Boseti Volcanic Complex (Main Ethiopian Rift)

    Fiorenzo Ronga;Michele Lustrino;Andrea Marzoli;Leone Melluso

  • The crystallization of shoshonitic to peralkaline trachyphonolitic magmas in a H2O–Cl–F-rich environment at Ischia (Italy), with implications for the feeder system of the Campania Plain volcanoes

    L. Melluso;V. Morra;V. Guarino;R. de’ Gennaro

  • The transition from alkaline to tholeiitic magmas: a case study from the Orosei-Dorgali Pliocene volcanic district (NE Sardinia, Italy)

    Michele Lustrino;Leone Melluso;Vincenzo Morra

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Morra
Vincenzo Morra University of Naples Federico II
Michele Lustrino
Michele Lustrino Sapienza University of Rome
Sandro Conticelli
Sandro Conticelli University of Florence
Massimo D'Antonio
Massimo D'Antonio University of Naples Federico II
Andrea Marzoli
Andrea Marzoli University of Padua
Massimo Mattei
Massimo Mattei Roma Tre University
Fred Jourdan
Fred Jourdan Curtin University
John J. Mahoney
John J. Mahoney University of Hawaii at Manoa
Guido Giordano
Guido Giordano Roma Tre University
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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