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Massimiliano Ghinassi

Massimiliano Ghinassi

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D-Index
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3213
World Ranking
8511
National Ranking
337

Overview

Massimiliano Ghinassi is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work primarily addresses various aspects of geological formations and processes with a notable focus on hydrology and sediment transport processes. Additional research topics include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, soil erosion and sediment transport, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ghinassi include:

  • Andrea D'Alpaos
  • Alvise Finotello
  • Elena Bellizia
  • Davide Tognin
  • Alessandro Ielpi

Common publication venues where Ghinassi's research appears are:

  • Sedimentology
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geomorphology
  • Water Resources Research

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Massimiliano Ghinassi include:

  • "Remotely-sensed planform morphologies reveal fluvial and tidal nature of meandering channels" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Sediment-water flows in mountain streams: Recognition and classification based on field evidence" (2020), published in Geomorphology
  • "Three-Dimensional Flow Structures and Morphodynamic Evolution of Microtidal Meandering Channels" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Mechanisms of microplastics trapping in river sediments: Insights from the Arno river (Tuscany, Italy)" (2023), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Stable isotope evidence for rapid uplift of the central Apennines since the late Pliocene" (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • Planform architecture, stratigraphic signature and morphodynamics of an exhumed Jurassic meander plain (Scalby Formation, Yorkshire, UK)

    Alessandro Ielpi;Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • Downstream-migrating fluvial point bars in the rock record

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Alessandro Ielpi;Mauro Aldinucci;Milovan Fustic

  • Spatial variation of salt-marsh organic and inorganic deposition and organic carbon accumulation: Inferences from the Venice lagoon, Italy

    M. Roner;A. D'Alpaos;M. Ghinassi;M. Marani;M. Marani

  • Plan-form evolution of ancient meandering rivers reconstructed from longitudinal outcrop sections

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Wojciech Nemec;Mauro Aldinucci;Slavomir Nehyba

  • Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics.

    Alvise Finotello;Stefano Lanzoni;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Marco Marani;Marco Marani

  • Chute channels in the Holocene high-sinuosity river deposits of the Firenze plain, Tuscany, Italy

    Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • Gilbert‐type deltas recording short‐term base‐level changes: Delta‐brink morphodynamics and related foreset facies

    Katarina Gobo;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Wojciech Nemec

  • Changes in the wind-wave field and related salt-marsh lateral erosion: inferences from the evolution of the Venice Lagoon in the last four centuries.

    Laura Tommasini;Luca Carniello;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Marcella Roner

  • Reciprocal Changes In Foreset To Bottomset Facies In A Gilbert-Type Delta: Response To Short-Term Changes In Base Level

    Katarina Gobo;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Wojciech Nemec

  • Remotely-sensed planform morphologies reveal fluvial and tidal nature of meandering channels.

    Alvise Finotello;Andrea D’Alpaos;Manuel Bogoni;Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • The effects of differential subsidence and coastal topography on high-order transgressive regressive cycles: Pliocene nearshore deposits of the Val d'Orcia Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy

    Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • Arid climate 2.5 Ma in the Plio-Pleistocene Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy)

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Maurizio Magi;Mario Sagri;Brad S Singer

  • Sediment–water flows in mountain streams: Recognition and classification based on field evidence

    A. Brenna;N. Surian;M. Ghinassi;L. Marchi

  • Planview style and palaeodrainage of Torridonian channel belts: Applecross Formation, Stoer Peninsula, Scotland

    Alessandro Ielpi;Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • Morphometric convergence between Proterozoic and post-vegetation rivers

    Alessandro Ielpi;Robert H. Rainbird;Dario Ventra;Massimiliano Ghinassi

  • Aggradation and lateral migration shaping geometry of a tidal point bar: an example from salt marshes of the Northern Venice Lagoon (Italy).

    Lara Brivio;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Andrea D'Alpaos;Alvise Finotello

  • Pleistocene environments and human presence in the middle Atbara valley (Khashm El Girba, Eastern Sudan)

    Ernesto Abbate;Andrea Albianelli;Amel Awad;Paolo Billi

  • Inferring Fluvial Morphodynamics and Overbank Flow Control From 3D Outcrop Sections of a Pleistocene Point Bar, Dandiero Basin, Eritrea

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Paolo Billi;Yosief Libsekal;Mauro Papini

  • Morphodynamic evolution and stratal architecture of translating tidal point bars: Inferences from the northern Venice Lagoon (Italy)

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Andrea D'alpaos;Andrea Gasparotto;Luca Carniello

  • Stratal Architecture and Morphodynamics of Downstream-Migrating Fluvial Point Bars (Jurassic Scalby Formation, U.K.)

    Massimiliano Ghinassi;Alessandro Ielpi

  • The Plio-Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine Upper Valdarno Basin (central Italy): stratigraphy and Basin fill evolution

    Francesco Fidolini;Massimiliano Ghinassi;Maurizio Magi;Mauro Papini

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea D'Alpaos
Andrea D'Alpaos University of Padua
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Marco Marani
Marco Marani University of Padua
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Oriol Oms
Oriol Oms Autonomous University of Barcelona
Wojciech Nemec
Wojciech Nemec University of Bergen
Luca Carniello
Luca Carniello University of Padua
Federico Sani
Federico Sani University of Florence
Giorgio Cassiani
Giorgio Cassiani University of Padua
Nicola Surian
Nicola Surian University of Padua

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