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Massimo D'Orazio

Massimo D'Orazio

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D-Index
42
Citations
4634
World Ranking
5385
National Ranking
151

Overview

Massimo D'Orazio is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and has contributed extensively to fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Frequent publication venues for D'Orazio include:

  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Minerals
  • PLoS ONE

Collaborations are a significant part of D'Orazio's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Cristian Biagioni
  • J. Gattacceca
  • F. M. McCubbin
  • J. N. Grossman
  • M. Komatsu

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Massimo D'Orazio include:

  • The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111 (2023), published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110 (2022), published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109 (2021), published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Neandertals on the beach: Use of marine resources at Grotta dei Moscerini (Latium, Italy) (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • Sulfide melts in ore deposits from low-grade metamorphic settings: Insights from fluid and Tl-rich sulfosalt microinclusions from the Monte Arsiccio mine (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy) (2020), published in Ore Geology Reviews

Best Publications

  • The Pali Aike Volcanic Field, Patagonia: slab-window magmatism near the tip of South America

    Massimo D'Orazio;Samuele Agostini;Francesco Mazzarini;Fabrizio Innocenti

  • Cenozoic magmatism in the western Ross Embayment: Role of mantle plume versus plate dynamics in the development of the West Antarctic Rift System

    Sergio Rocchi;Pietro Armienti;Massimo D'Orazio;Sonia Tonarini

  • Slab window-related magmatism from southernmost South America: the Late Miocene mafic volcanics from the Estancia Glencross Area (̃52°S, Argentina Chile)

    M D'Orazio;S Agostini;F Innocenti;M.J Haller

  • Subduction-like fluids in the genesis of Mt. Etna magmas: evidence from boron isotopes and fluid mobile elements

    Sonia Tonarini;Pietro Armienti;Massimo D’Orazio;Fabrizio Innocenti

  • Carbonatites in a subduction system: The Pleistocene alvikites from Mt. Vulture (southern Italy)

    Massimo D'Orazio;Fabrizio Innocenti;Sonia Tonarini;Carlo Doglioni

  • Human exposure to thallium through tap water: A study from Valdicastello Carducci and Pietrasanta (northern Tuscany, Italy).

    Beatrice Campanella;Massimo Onor;Alessandro D'Ulivo;Roberto Giannecchini

  • Textural and trace element evolution of pyrite during greenschist facies metamorphic recrystallization in the southern Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy): Influence on the formation of Tl-rich sulfosalt melt

    Luke Leslie George;Cristian Biagioni;Massimo D'Orazio;Nigel J. Cook

  • The late Pleistocene pyroclastic deposits of the Campanian Plain: New insights into the explosive activity of Neapolitan volcanoes

    M.A. Di Vito;R. Sulpizio;G. Zanchetta;M. D'Orazio

  • The Quaternary calc-alkaline volcanism of the Patagonian Andes close to the Chile triple junction: geochemistry and petrogenesis of volcanic rocks from the Cay and Maca volcanoes (̃45°S, Chile)

    M D'Orazio;F Innocenti;P Manetti;M Tamponi

  • Thallium-rich pyrite ores from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy:constraints for their origin and environmental concerns

    Massimo D’Orazio;Cristian Biagioni;Andrea Dini;Simone Vezzoni

  • Spatial distribution of cones and satellite-detected lineaments in the Pali Aike Volcanic Field (southernmost Patagonia): insights into the tectonic setting of a Neogene rift system

    Francesco Mazzarini;Massimo D’Orazio

  • The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade

    Daniela Comelli;Massimo D'orazio;Luigi Folco;Mahmud El-Halwagy

  • Tephrostratigraphy and tephrochronology of lakes Ohrid and Prespa, Balkans

    R Sulpizio;Giovanni Zanchetta;Massimo D'Orazio;H Vogel

  • Serpentinization of mantle peridotites along an uplifted lithospheric section, Mid Atlantic Ridge at 11° N

    Chiara Boschi;Enrico Bonatti;Marco Ligi;Daniele Brunelli

  • A new martian meteorite from the Sahara: The shergottite Dar al Gani 489

    Luigi Folco;I. A. Franchi;Massimo D'Orazio;Sergio Rocchi

  • Thallium pollution in water, soils and plants from a past-mining site of Tuscany: Sources, transfer processes and toxicity

    Massimo D'Orazio;Beatrice Campanella;Emilia Bramanti;Lisa Ghezzi

  • Microtektites from Victoria Land Transantarctic Mountains

    L. Folco;P. Rochette;N. Perchiazzi;M. D'Orazio

  • Gebel Kamil: The iron meteorite that formed the Kamil crater (Egypt)

    Massimo D’Orazio;Luigi Folco;Antonio Zeoli;Carole Cordier

  • Phenocryst/matrix trace-element partition coefficients for hawaiite-trachyte lavas from the Ellittico volcanic sequence (Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy)

    M. D'Orazio;P. Armienti;S. Cerretini

  • Kamil Crater (Egypt): Ground truth for small-scale meteorite impacts on Earth

    L. Folco;M. Di Martino;A. El Barkooky;M. D'Orazio

  • The Kamil Crater in Egypt

    Luigi Folco;Mario Di Martino;Ahmed El Barkooky;Massimo D'Orazio

  • Mount Etna pyroxene as tracer of petrogenetic processes and dynamics of the feeding system

    Pietro Armienti;Sonia Tonarini;Fabrizio Innocenti;Massimo D'Orazio

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Folco
Luigi Folco University of Pisa
Fabrizio Innocenti
Fabrizio Innocenti University of Pisa
Pierre Rochette
Pierre Rochette Aix-Marseille University
Sonia Tonarini
Sonia Tonarini National Research Council (CNR)
Pietro Armienti
Pietro Armienti University of Pisa
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Sergio Rocchi
Sergio Rocchi University of Pisa
Billy P. Glass
Billy P. Glass University of Delaware
Francesco Mazzarini
Francesco Mazzarini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Piero Manetti
Piero Manetti University of Florence

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