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Luca Pandolfi

Luca Pandolfi

Luca Pandolfi publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luca Pandolfi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Luca Pandolfi D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luca Pandolfi sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Luca Pandolfi is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio is primarily focused on Geophysics, with additional work in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Among recent publications, Luca Pandolfi has contributed to studies on geological formations and tectonic settings, including:

  • THE AYLI DAG OPHIOLITE SEQUENCE (CENTRAL-NORTHERN TURKEY): A FRAGMENT OF MIDDLE JURASSIC OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE WITHIN THE INTRA-PONTIDE SUTURE ZONE, 2020, CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
  • New evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-related seamounts in the Middle East sector of the Neo-Tethys: Constraints from geochemistry, petrology, and mineral chemistry of the magmatic rocks from the western Durkan Complex (Makran Accretionary Prism, SE Iran), 2021, Lithos
  • The Ganj Complex reinterpreted as a Late Cretaceous volcanic arc: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the North Makran domain (southeast Iran), 2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • The western Durkan Complex (Makran Accretionary Prism, SE Iran): A Late Cretaceous tectonically disrupted seamounts chain and its role in controlling deformation style, 2021, Geoscience Frontiers
  • Early Cretaceous Plume-Ridge Interaction Recorded in the Band-e-Zeyarat Ophiolite (North Makran, Iran): New Constraints from Petrological, Mineral Chemistry, and Geochronological Data, 2020, Minerals

Luca Pandolfi frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
  • Minerals
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Journal of Maps

Collaborations have been significant within Luca Pandolfi's career, with recurrent co-authors including:

  • Michèle Marroni
  • Maria Di Rosa
  • Edoardo Barbero
  • Morteza Delavari
  • Asghar Dolati

Best Publications

  • Geochemistry and Petrography of Western Tethys Cretaceous sedimentary covers (Corsica and Northern Apennines): from source areas to configuration of margins

    Laura Bracciali;Michele Marroni;Pandolfi Luca;Rocchi Sergio

  • Geodynamic evolution of ophiolites from Albania and Greece (Dinaric-Hellenic belt): one, two, or more oceanic basins?

    Valerio Bortolotti;Marco Chiari;Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the External Liguride units (Northern Apennines, Italy): insights in the pre-collisional history of a fossil ocean-continent transition zone

    Michele Marroni;Giancarlo Molli;Giuseppe Ottria;Luca Pandolfi

  • Interaction between Mid‐Ocean Ridge and Subduction Magmatism in Albanian Ophiolites

    Valerio Bortolotti;M. Marroni;L. Pandolfi;Gianfranco Principi

  • Mesozoic to Tertiary tectonic history of the Mirdita ophiolites, northern Albania

    Valerio Bortolotti;Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi;Gianfranco Principi

  • COMPARISON AMONG THE ALBANIAN AND GREEK OPHIOLITES: IN SEARCH OF CONSTRAINTS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE MESOZOIC TETHYS OCEAN

    Valerio Bortolotti;Marco Chiari;Marta Marcucci;Michele Marroni

  • Geology and petrology of ophiolitic sequences in the central Mirdita region (northern Albania)

    V. Bortolotti;A. Kodra;M. Marroni;F. Mustafa

  • Biochronology and palaeoenvironmental changes from the Middle Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene in Central Italy

    Carmelo Petronio;Luca Bellucci;Edoardo Martiinetto;Luca Pandolfi

  • Anatomy of the Ligure-Piemontese subduction system: evidence from Late Cretaceous-middle Eocene convergent margin deposits in the Northern Apennines, Italy

    Michele Marroni;Francesca Meneghini;Luca Pandolfi

  • The architecture of an incipient oceanic basin: a tentative reconstruction of the Jurassic Liguria-Piemonte basin along the Northern Apennines–Alpine Corsica transect

    Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • Continental Margin Ophiolites of Neotethys: Remnants of Ancient Ocean-Continent Transition Zone (OCTZ) Lithosphere and their Geochemistry, Mantle Sources and Melt Evolution Patterns

    Emilio Saccani;Yildirim Dilek;Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • The processes of underthrusting and underplating in the geologic record: structural diversity between the Franciscan Complex (California), the Kodiak Complex (Alaska) and the Internal Ligurian Units (Italy)

    F. Meneghini;F. Meneghini;M. Marroni;J.C. Moore;L. Pandolfi

  • THE EXTERNAL LIGURIAN UNITS (NORTHERN APENNINE, ITALY): FROM RIFTING TO CONVERGENCE OF A FOSSIL OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION ZONE

    Michele Marroni;Giancarlo Molli;A Montanini;G Ottria

  • A Revised Subduction Inception Model to Explain the Late Cretaceous, Double-Vergent Orogen in the Precollisional Western Tethys: Evidence From the Northern Apennines

    Michele Marroni;Francesca Meneghini;Luca Pandolfi

  • Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the External Liguride units (Northern Apennines, Italy): insights in the pre-collisional history of a fossil ocean-continent transition zone

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  • THE JURASSIC ASSOCIATION OF BACKARC BASIN OPHIOLITES AND CALC-ALKALINE VOLCANICS IN THE GUEVGUELI COMPLEX (NORTHERN GREECE): IMPLICATION FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE VARDAR ZONE

    Emilio Saccani;Valerio Bortolotti;Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • New insights into the geodynamics of Neo-Tethys in the Makran area: Evidence from age and petrology of ophiolites from the Coloured Mélange Complex (SE Iran)

    Emilio Saccani;Morteza Delavari;Asghar Dolati;Michele Marroni

  • The deformation history of an accreted ophiolite sequence: the Internal Liguride units (Northern apennines, Italy)

    Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • Geodynamic Implications of Jurassic Ophiolites Associated with Island-Arc Volcanics, South Apuseni Mountains, Western Romania

    Valerio Bortolotti;Michele Marroni;Ionel Nicolae;Luca Pandolfi

  • Debris flow and slide deposits at the top of the Internal Liguride ophiolitic sequence, Northern Apennines, Italy: A record of frontal tectonic erosion in a fossil accretionary wedge

    Michele Marroni;Luca Pandolfi

  • Deformation history of the ophiolite sequence from the Balagne Nappe, northern Corsica: insights in the tectonic evolution of Alpine Corsica

    M. Marroni;L. Pandolfi

  • TRIASSIC MORB MAGMATISM IN THE SOUTHERN MIRDITA ZONE (ALBANIA)

    Valerio Bortolotti;Marco Chiari;Alaudin Kodra;Marta Marcucci

  • Geology and petrology of the ophiolitic sequences in the Mirdita region, northern Albania

    V. Bortolotti;A. Kodra;Michele Marroni;F. Mustafa

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Marroni
Michele Marroni University of Pisa
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Emilio Saccani
Emilio Saccani University of Ferrara
Giancarlo Molli
Giancarlo Molli University of Pisa
Fabrizio Marra
Fabrizio Marra National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Sergio Rocchi
Sergio Rocchi University of Pisa
Riccardo Tribuzio
Riccardo Tribuzio University of Pavia
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi
Massimiliano Rinaldo Barchi University of Perugia
David Lordkipanidze
David Lordkipanidze Georgian National Museum
Luigi Beccaluva
Luigi Beccaluva University of Ferrara

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