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Marco G. Malusà is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and is an active researcher primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on geophysics, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geology.

Their research topics encompass a broad spectrum of geological and geophysical phenomena. Key areas of study include:

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

Malusà's publication record includes numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Representative recent papers are:

  • "The Deep Structure of the Alps Based on the CIFALPS Seismic Experiment: A Synthesis," 2021, published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Transpressional structuring of the High Atlas belt, Morocco," 2020, published in Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Evidence for a serpentinized plate interface favouring continental subduction," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Zircon as a provenance tracer: Coupling Raman spectroscopy and U Pb geochronology in source-to-sink studies," 2020, published in Chemical Geology
  • "Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography," 2022, published in Geology

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Stefano Solarino
  • Elena Eva
  • Zhiyong Zhang
  • Anne Paul
  • Liang Zhao

Their work has appeared predominantly in several key scientific journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Tectonics
  • Tectonophysics
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • Hydraulic sorting and mineral fertility bias in detrital geochronology

    Marco G. Malusà;Alberto Resentini;Eduardo Garzanti

  • Bias in detrital zircon geochronology and thermochronometry

    Marco G. Malusà;Andy Carter;Marta Limoncelli;Igor M. Villa;Igor M. Villa

  • First seismic evidence for continental subduction beneath the Western Alps

    Liang Zhao;Anne Paul;Anne Paul;Stéphane Guillot;Stéphane Guillot;Stefano Solarino

  • Contrasting styles of (U)HP rock exhumation along the Cenozoic Adria-Europe plate boundary (Western Alps, Calabria, Corsica)

    Marco G. Malusà;Claudio Faccenna;Suzanne L. Baldwin;Paul G. Fitzgerald

  • Divergence in subduction zones and exhumation of high pressure rocks (Eocene Western Alps)

    Marco G. Malusà;Claudio Faccenna;Eduardo Garzanti;Riccardo Polino

  • Continuity of the Alpine slab unraveled by high-resolution P wave tomography

    Liang Zhao;Liang Zhao;Anne Paul;Marco G. Malusà;Xiaobing Xu

  • Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology

    Marco G. Malusà;Paul G. Fitzgerald

  • Miocene to Present differential exhumation in the Western Alps: Insights from fission track thermochronology

    Marco G. Malusà;Riccardo Polino;Massimiliano Zattin;Giulio Bigazzi

  • The Oligocene Alps: Domal unroofing and drainage development during early orogenic growth

    Eduardo Garzanti;Marco G. Malusà

  • Giant non-catastrophic landslides and the long-term exhumation of the European Alps

    Federico Agliardi;Giovanni B. Crosta;Paolo Frattini;Marco G. Malusà

  • Bias associated with detrital zircon geochronology and thermochronometry

    Marco G. Malusà;Andrew Carter;Marta Limoncelli;Igor Maria Villa

  • Forward compositional modelling of Alpine orogenic sediments

    Eduardo Garzanti;Alberto Resentini;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò

  • Slab breakoff: A critical appraisal of a geological theory as applied in space and time

    Eduardo Garzanti;Giuditta Radeff;Marco G. Malusà

  • Geology of the Western Alps-Northern Apennine junction area: a regional review

    Giancarlo Molli;Laura Crispini;Marco G. Malusà;Pietro Mosca

  • Post‐Variscan tectonics in eastern Anti‐Atlas (Morocco)

    Marco G. Malusà;Riccardo Polino;Andrea Cerrina Feroni;Alessandro Ellero

  • Detrital geochronology of unroofing magmatic complexes and the slow erosion of Oligocene volcanoes in the Alps

    Marco G. Malusà;Igor M. Villa;Giovanni Vezzoli;Eduardo Garzanti

  • The Deep Structure of the Alps based on the CIFALPS Seismic Experiment: A Synthesis

    M. G. Malusà;M. G. Malusà;S. Guillot;L. Zhao;A. Paul

  • Precollisional development and Cenozoic evolution of the Southalpine retrobelt (European Alps)

    Stefano Zanchetta;Marco G. Malusà;Andrea M. Zanchi

  • Strain partitioning in the axial NW Alps since the Oligocene

    Marco G. Malusà;Riccardo Polino;Massimiliano Zattin

  • The geologic interpretation of the detrital thermochronology record within a stratigraphic framework, with examples from the European Alps, Taiwan and the Himalayas

    Marco G. Malusà;Paul G. Fitzgerald

  • The cosmogenic record of mountain erosion transmitted across a foreland basin: Source-to-sink analysis of in situ 10Be, 26Al and 21Ne in sediment of the Po river catchment

    Hella Wittmann;Marco G. Malusà;Alberto Resentini;Eduardo Garzanti

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Liang Zhao
Liang Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stéphane Guillot
Stéphane Guillot Grenoble Alpes University
Anne Paul
Anne Paul Grenoble Alpes University
Giovanni Vezzoli
Giovanni Vezzoli University of Milano-Bicocca
Stéphane Schwartz
Stéphane Schwartz Grenoble Alpes University
Paul G. Fitzgerald
Paul G. Fitzgerald Syracuse University
Sergio Andò
Sergio Andò University of Milano-Bicocca
Qingchen Wang
Qingchen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rixiang Zhu
Rixiang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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