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Michele Lustrino is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work mainly explores geophysical and geochemical phenomena, with a particular emphasis on geological and tectonic processes.

Lustrino's research spans several specialized subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence applications in Earth sciences, Atmospheric Science, Biomaterials, and Paleontology. The scientist's primary focus lies in geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials, among other areas.

Frequent publication venues highlight the scientist's presence in prominent journals such as:

  • Lithos
  • Gondwana Research
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Geology

Regular collaboration with several coauthors is noted, with the most frequent collaborators being:

  • Samuele Agostini
  • Sara Ronca
  • Francesca Innocenzi
  • Federico Rossetti
  • Lorenzo Fedele

Notable recent publications by Michele Lustrino include:

  • Strongly SiO2-undersaturated, CaO-rich kamafugitic Pleistocene magmatism in Central Italy (San Venanzo volcanic complex) and the role of shallow depth limestone assimilation, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Quaternary Melanephelinites and Melilitites from Nowbaran (NW Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran): Origin of Ultrabasic-Ultracalcic Melts in a Post-Collisional Setting, 2021, Journal of Petrology

Other important papers coauthored or associated with Lustrino's research interests include:

  • Long-lived, Eocene-Miocene stationary magmatism in NW Iran along a transform plate boundary, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Cenozoic porphyry and other hydrothermal ore deposits along the South Caucasus-West Iranian tectono-magmatic belt: A critical reappraisal of the controlling factors, 2022, Lithos
  • Petrological evolution of Karlıova-Varto volcanism (Eastern Turkey): Magma genesis in a transtensional triple-junction tectonic setting, 2020, Lithos

Best Publications

  • The circum-Mediterranean anorogenic Cenozoic igneous province

    Michele Lustrino;Marjorie Wilson

  • Geodynamic evolution of the central and western Mediterranean: Tectonics vs. igneous petrology constraints

    Eugenio Carminati;Michele Lustrino;Carlo Doglioni

  • How the delamination and detachment of lower crust can influence basaltic magmatism

    Michele Lustrino

  • The Central-Western Mediterranean: Anomalous igneous activity in an anomalous collisional tectonic setting

    Michele Lustrino;Svend Duggen;Claudio L. Rosenberg

  • Potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism in the circum-Tyrrhenian region: Significance of carbonated pelitic vs. pelitic sediment recycling at destructive plate margins

    Riccardo Avanzinelli;Michele Lustrino;Massimo Mattei;Leone Melluso

  • Weathering and Relative Durability of Detrital Minerals in Equatorial Climate: Sand Petrology and Geochemistry in the East African Rift

    Eduardo Garzanti;Marta Padoan;Sergio Andò;Alberto Resentini

  • Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta

    Eduardo Garzanti;Sergio Andò;Giovanni Vezzoli;Michele Lustrino

  • Beginning of the Apennine subduction system in central western Mediterranean: Constraints from Cenozoic “orogenic” magmatic activity of Sardinia, Italy

    Michele Lustrino;Vincenzo Morra;Lorenzo Fedele;Luigi Franciosi

  • Caveats on tomographic images

    Gillian R. Foulger;Giuliano F. Panza;Giuliano F. Panza;Irina M. Artemieva;Ian D. Bastow

  • Tectonics, magmatism and geodynamics of Italy: What we know and what we imagine

    Eugenio Carminati;Michele Lustrino;Marco Cuffaro;Carlo Doglioni

  • The role of lower continental crust and lithospheric mantle in the genesis of Plio–Pleistocene volcanic rocks from Sardinia (Italy)

    Michele Lustrino;Leone Melluso;Vincenzo Morra

  • U–Pb ages, Sr–Nd- isotope geochemistry, and petrogenesis of kimberlites, kamafugites and phlogopite-picrites of the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province, Brazil

    Vincenza Guarino;Fu Yuan Wu;Michele Lustrino;Leone Melluso

  • Petrogenesis of the Early Cenozoic potassic alkaline complex of Morro de São João, southeastern Brazil

    P. Brotzu;L. Melluso;L. Bennio;C.B. Gomes

  • Ancient Fungal Life in North Pacific Eocene Oceanic Crust

    Gabriela Schumann;Werner Manz;Joachim Reitner;Michele Lustrino

  • MAJOR- AND TRACE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF OLIVINE, PEROVSKITE, CLINOPYROXENE, Cr–Fe–Ti OXIDES, PHLOGOPITE AND HOST KAMAFUGITES AND KIMBERLITES, ALTO PARANAÍBA, BRAZIL

    Leone Melluso;Michele Lustrino;Excelso Ruberti;Pietro Brotzu

  • Early activity of the largest Cenozoic shield volcano in the circum-Mediterranean area: Mt. Karacadag, SE Turkey

    Michele Lustrino;Mehmet Keskin;Michele Mattioli;Vladimir A. Lebedev

  • Petrogenesis of a basalt-comendite-pantellerite rock suite: the Boseti Volcanic Complex (Main Ethiopian Rift)

    Fiorenzo Ronga;Michele Lustrino;Andrea Marzoli;Leone Melluso

  • Neogene volcanic activity of western Syria and its relationship with Arabian plate kinematics

    Michele Lustrino;Evgenii Sharkov

  • On the origin of EM-I end-member

    Michele Lustrino;Luigi Dallai

  • Compositional variations of Plio-Quaternary magmatism in the circum-Tyrrhenian area: Deep versus shallow mantle processes

    Angelo Peccerillo;Michele Lustrino

Frequent Co-Authors

Leone Melluso
Leone Melluso University of Naples Federico II
Vincenzo Morra
Vincenzo Morra University of Naples Federico II
Eugenio Carminati
Eugenio Carminati Sapienza University of Rome
Carlo Doglioni
Carlo Doglioni National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Giuliano F. Panza
Giuliano F. Panza Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Gillian R. Foulger
Gillian R. Foulger Durham University
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Alberto Zanetti
Alberto Zanetti Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources
Sergio Andò
Sergio Andò University of Milano-Bicocca
Giovanni Vezzoli
Giovanni Vezzoli University of Milano-Bicocca

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