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Ricardo A. Astini is affiliated with the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main themes of their work revolve around Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research. Additional topics include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, as well as Mine drainage and remediation techniques.

Ricardo A. Astini's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • "Were all trilobites fully marine? Trilobite expansion into brackish water during the early Palaeozoic" (2021) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Acidophilic microorganisms enhancing geochemical dynamics in an acidic drainage system, Amarillo river in La Rioja, Argentina" (2020) published in Chemosphere
  • "Physico-chemical and biological controls in a travertine system in the high Andes of northwestern Argentina" (2022) published in Sedimentary Geology
  • "Assessing the origin of pisoids within a travertine system in the border of Puna Plateau, Argentina" (2021) published in Sedimentology
  • "Microstratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental implications of a Late Quaternary high-altitude lacustrine record in the subtropical Andes" (2022) published in Sedimentology

Frequent collaborators include R. Agustin Mors, Fernando J. Gómez, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luís A. Buatois, and Beatriz G. Waisfeld.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentology, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Chemosphere.

Best Publications

  • The early Paleozoic evolution of the Argentine Precordillera as a Laurentian rifted, drifted, and collided terrane: A geodynamic model

    R. A. Astini;J. L. Benedetto;N. E. Vaccari

  • Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

    C. V. Rubinstein;Philippe Gerrienne;G. S. de la Puente;R. A. Astini

  • The Argentine Precordillera: A Traveler from the Ouachita Embayment of North American Laurentia

    William A. Thomas;Ricardo A. Astini

  • Ordovician accretion of the Argentine Precordillera terrane to Gondwana: a review

    William A. Thomas;Ricardo A. Astini

  • Ordovician back arc foreland and Ocloyic thrust belt development on the western Gondwana margin as a response to Precordillera terrane accretion

    Ricardo A. Astini;Federico M. Dávila

  • Global carbon isotopic events associated with mass extinction and glaciation in the late Ordovician

    James D Marshall;Patrick J Brenchley;Paul Mason;George A Wolff

  • U–Pb detrital zircon ages and Sm–Nd isotopic features in low-grade metasedimentary rocks of the Famatina belt: implications for late Neoproterozoic–early Palaeozoic evolution of the proto-Andean margin of Gondwana

    Gilda Collo;Ricardo A. Astini;Peter A. Cawood;Craig Buchan

  • Cretaceous Rifting, Alluvial Fan Sedimentation, and Neogene Inversion, Southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina

    C. J. Schmidt;R. A. Astini;C. H. Costa;C. E. Gardini

  • Ordovician K-bentonites in the Argentine Precordillera: relations to Gondwana margin evolution

    Warren D. Huff;Stig M. Bergström;Dennis R. Kolata;Carlos A. Cingolani

  • Transfer of the Argentine Precordillera terrane from Laurentia: Constraints from detrital-zircon geochronology

    William A. Thomas;Ricardo A. Astini;Paul A. Mueller;George E. Gehrels

  • Detrital zircons from late Paleozoic accretionary complexes in north-central Chile (28°-32°S): Possible fingerprints of the Chilenia terrane

    J. Álvarez;C. Mpodozis;C. Arriagada;Ricardo Alfredo Astini

  • Simple-shear conjugate rift margins of the Argentine Precordillera and the Ouachita embayment of Laurentia

    William A. Thomas;Ricardo A. Astini

  • Stratigraphical evidence supporting the rifting, drifting and collision of the Laurentian Precordillera terrane of western Argentina

    Ricardo A. Astini

  • Paleomagnetic confirmation of the Laurentian origin of the Argentine Precordillera

    A.E Rapalini;R.A Astini

  • Ages of pre-rift basement and synrift rocks along the conjugate rift and transform margins of the Argentine Precordillera and Laurentia

    William A. Thomas;Robert D. Tucker;Ricardo Alfredo Astini;Rodger E. Denison

  • Ordovician collision of the Argentine Precordillera with Gondwana, independent of Laurentian Taconic orogeny

    Willliam A. Thomas;Ricardo A. Astini;Germán Bayona

  • Preservation of large titanosaur sauropods in overbank fluvial facies: A case study in the Cretaceous of Argentina

    Bernardo J. González Riga;Ricardo A. Astini

  • El Paleozoico inferior y medio de la región de Los Colorados, borde occidental de la Cordillera Oriental (provincia de Jujuy)

    Ricardo A. Astini;Beatriz G. Waisfeld;Blanca A. Toro;Juan L. Benedetto

  • Microbialites in a high-altitude Andean lake: multiple controls on carbonate precipitation and lamina accretion

    Fernando Javier Gomez;Linda C. Kah;Julie K. Bartley;Ricardo Alfredo Astini

  • Origin and evolution of the Precordillera terrane of western Argentina: A drifted Laurentian orphan

    Ricardo A. Astini;William A. Thomas

  • Clay mineralogy and thermal history of the Neogene Vinchina Basin, central Andes of Argentina: Analysis of factors controlling the heating conditions

    Gilda Collo;Federico Miguel Davila;Julieta Nobile;Ricardo Alfredo Astini

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Thomas
William A. Thomas University of Kentucky
Philippe Steemans
Philippe Steemans University of Liège
Teresa E. Jordan
Teresa E. Jordan Cornell University
Márcio Martins Pimentel
Márcio Martins Pimentel University of Brasília
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Paul A. Mueller
Paul A. Mueller University of Florida
Luis A. Buatois
Luis A. Buatois University of Saskatchewan
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
William C. McClelland
William C. McClelland University of Iowa
Michael R. Kaplan
Michael R. Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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