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Luca Aldega is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their extensive work covers geophysics and related subfields, contributing to a deeper understanding of earthquake and tectonic processes, geological and geochemical analysis, and broader geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Their research portfolio includes a significant focus on:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Geological and geophysical studies worldwide
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research

Aldega's work spans important subfields such as geophysics, mechanics of materials, earth-surface processes, biomaterials, and artificial intelligence, encompassing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Earth sciences.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Eugenio Carminati
  • Andrea Billi
  • Giulio Viola
  • Manuel Curzi
  • Stefano M. Bernasconi

They have published extensively in reputable venues, with a concentration of publications in:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Recent published papers by Luca Aldega include:

  • Architecture and evolution of an extensionally-inverted thrust (Mt. Tancia Thrust, Central Apennines): Geological, structural, geochemical, and K-Ar geochronological constraints, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Disproving the Presence of Paleozoic-Triassic Metamorphic Rocks on the Island of Zannone (Central Italy): Implications for the Early Stages of the Tyrrhenian-Apennines Tectonic Evolution, 2020, Tectonics
  • Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Oman Mountains, Part of the Strait of Hormuz Syntaxis: New Structural and Paleothermal Analyses and U-Pb Dating of Synkinematic Calcite, 2020, Tectonics
  • Frictional controls on the seismogenic zone: Insights from the Apenninic basement, Central Italy, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • U-Pb age of the 2016 Amatrice earthquake causative fault (Mt. Gorzano, Italy) and paleo-fluid circulation during seismic cycles inferred from inter- and co-seismic calcite, 2021, Tectonophysics

Best Publications

  • Tectonic burial and 'young' (< 10 Ma) exhumation in the southern Apennines fold and thrust belt (Italy)

    S. Mazzoli;M. D'Errico;L. Aldega;S. Corrado

  • Thermal maturity of the axial zone of the southern Apennines fold‐and‐thrust belt (Italy) from multiple organic and inorganic indicators

    S Corrado;L Aldega;P Di Leo;Ciriaco Giampaolo

  • Detecting syn-orogenic extension and sediment provenance of the Cilento wedge top basin (southern Apennines, Italy): Mineralogy and geochemistry of fine-grained sediments and petrography of dispersed organic matter

    Sveva Corrado;Luca Aldega;Francesco Perri;Salvatore Critelli

  • Pliocene-quaternary thrusting, syn-orogenic extension and tectonic exhumation in the Southern Apennines (Italy): Insights from the Monte Alpi area

    S. Mazzoli;L. Aldega;S. Corrado;C. Invernizzi

  • Assessment of thermal evolution of Paleozoic successions of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

    Andrea Schito;Sveva Corrado;Matteo Trolese;Luca Aldega

  • Fluid flow within the damage zone of the Boccheggiano extensional fault (Larderello–Travale geothermal field, central Italy): structures, alteration and implications for hydrothermal mineralization in extensional settings

    Federico Rossetti;Luca Aldega;Luca Aldega;Francesca Tecce;Fabrizio Balsamo

  • Architecture and evolution of an extensionally-inverted thrust (Mt. Tancia Thrust, Central Apennines): Geological, structural, geochemical, and K–Ar geochronological constraints

    M. Curzi;L. Aldega;S.M. Bernasconi;F. Berra

  • Shallow burial and exhumation of the Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily, Italy): Insight from paleothermal and structural indicators

    Luca Aldega;Sveva Corrado;Lea Di Paolo;Roberta Somma

  • Overcoming pitfalls of vitrinite reflectance measurements in the assessment of thermal maturity: the case history of the lower Congo basin

    Andrea Schito;Sveva Corrado;Luca Aldega;Domenico Grigo

  • Clay mineral assemblages and vitrinite reflectance in the Laga Basin (Central Apennines, Italy): what do they record?

    Luca Aldega;Flavia Botti;Sveva Corrado

  • The Zagros fold-and-thrust belt in the Fars province (Iran): II. Thermal evolution

    Luca Aldega;Sabina Bigi;Eugenio Carminati;Fabio Trippetta

  • Reconstruction of maximum burial along the Northern Apennines thrust wedge (Italy) by indicators of thermal exposure and modeling

    Chiara Caricchi;L. Aldega;S. Corrado

  • The signature and mechanics of earthquake ruptures along shallow creeping faults in poorly lithified sediments

    Fabrizio Balsamo;Luca Aldega;Nicola De Paola;Igor Faoro

  • Control of folding and faulting on fracturing in the Zagros (Iran): The Kuh-e-Sarbalesh anticline

    Eugenio Carminati;Luca Aldega;Fabio Trippetta;Ali Shaban

  • Estimating original thickness and extent of the Semail Ophiolite in the eastern Oman Mountains by paleothermal indicators

    L. Aldega;E. Carminati;A. Scharf;F. Mattern

  • Structural evolution of the sedimentary accretionary wedge of the alpine system in Eastern Sicily: Thermal and thermochronological constraints

    Sveva Corrado;Luca Aldega;Maria Laura Balestrieri;Rosanna Maniscalco

  • Exhumation and reshaping of far-travelled/allochthonous tectonic units in mountain belts. New insights for the relationships between shortening and coeval extension in the western Northern Apennines (Italy)

    Mirko Carlini;Andrea Artoni;Luca Aldega;Maria Laura Balestrieri

  • Stratigraphy, structural setting and burial history of the Messinian Laga basin in the context of Apennine foreland basin system

    Sabina Bigi;Salvatore Milli;Sveva Corrado;Piero Casero

  • Unraveling Multiple Thermotectonic Events Accommodated by Crustal-Scale Faults in Northern Iberia, Spain: Insights From K-Ar Dating of Clay Gouges

    L. Aldega;G. Viola;A. Casas-Sainz;M. Marcén

  • Thermal evolution of the Kuh-e-Asmari and Sim anticlines in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt: Implications for hydrocarbon generation

    Luca Aldega;Sveva Corrado;Eugenio Carminati;Ali Shaban

  • Correlation of Diagenetic Data from Organic and Inorganic Studies in the Apenninic‐Maghrebian Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt: A Case Study from Eastern Sicily

    Luca Aldega;Sveva Corrado;Mario Grasso;Rosanna Maniscalco

  • Burial and exhumation of the western border of the Ukrainian Shield (Podolia): a multi‐disciplinary approach

    Andrea Schito;Benedetta Andreucci;Luca Aldega;Sveva Corrado

  • Zagros fold and thrust belt in the Fars province (Iran) I: Control of thickness/rheology of sediments and pre-thrusting tectonics on structural style and shortening

    Sabina Bigi;Eugenio Carminati;Luca Aldega;Fabio Trippetta

  • Pliocene-Quaternary thrusting, syn-orogenic extension and tectonic exhumation in the Southern Apennines (Italy): Insights from the Monte Alpi area. In: Styles of Continental Contraction (Mazzoli S. & Butler R.W.H., eds.)

    L. Aldega;S. Corrado;Maria Chiara Invernizzi;M. Zattin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sveva Corrado
Sveva Corrado Roma Tre University
Massimiliano Zattin
Massimiliano Zattin University of Padua
Stefano Mazzoli
Stefano Mazzoli University of Camerino
Eugenio Carminati
Eugenio Carminati Sapienza University of Rome
Guido Giordano
Guido Giordano Roma Tre University
Federico Rossetti
Federico Rossetti Roma Tre University
Andrea Billi
Andrea Billi National Research Council (CNR)
Javier Cuadros
Javier Cuadros Natural History Museum
Giulio Viola
Giulio Viola University of Bologna
Fabrizio Storti
Fabrizio Storti University of Parma

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