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Salvatore Critelli

Salvatore Critelli

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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Salvatore Critelli is a researcher affiliated with the University of Calabria in Italy, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly activity spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Archeology.

Their research topics cover earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Recent publications by Salvatore Critelli include:

  • "History of western Tethys Ocean and the birth of the circum-mediterranean orogeny as reflected by source-to-sink relations" (2023, International Geology Review)
  • "Sedimentary history and palaeogeography of the Cenozoic clastic wedges of the Malaguide Complex, Internal Betic Cordillera, southern Spain" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Provenance, paleogeographic and paleotectonic interpretations of Oligocene-Lower Miocene sandstones of the western-central Mediterranean region: A review" (2022, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences X)

Salvatore Critelli frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Journal of Maps
  • Journal of Palaeogeography
  • Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana
  • Italian Journal of Geosciences

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Francesco Muto, Sara Criniti, Manuél Martı́n-Martı́n, Dario Civile, and Massimo Zecchin.

The researcher has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Neogene-Quaternary strike-slip tectonics in the central Calabrian Arc (southern Italy)

    Carlo Tansi;Francesco Muto;Salvatore Critelli;Giulio Iovine

  • Paleogeographic and paleotectonic evolution of the Himalayan Range as reflected by detrital modes of Tertiary sandstones and modern sands (Indus transect, India and Pakistan)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Salvatore Critelli;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Sedimentary recycling, provenance and paleoweathering from chemistry and mineralogy of Mesozoic continental redbed mudrocks, Peloritani mountains, southern Italy

    Giovanni Mongelli;Salvatore Critelli;Francesco Perri;Maurizio Sonnino

  • Interpretation of neovolcanic versus palaeovolcanic sand grains: an example from Miocene deep-marine sandstone of the Topanga Group (Southern California)

    Salvatore Critelli;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Provenance of Mesozoic to Cenozoic circum-Mediterranean sandstones in relation to tectonic setting

    Salvatore Critelli

  • The interplay of lithospheric flexure and thrust accomodation in forming stratigraphic sequences in the southern Apennines foreland basin system, Italy

    Salvatore Critelli

  • Provenance of the Lower Tertiary Murree redbeds (Hazara-Kashmir Syntaxis, Pakistan) and initial rising of the Himalayas

    Salvatore Critelli;Eduardo Garzanti

  • Detrital modes and provenance of Miocene sandstones and modern sands to the Southern Apennines thrust-top basins (Italy)

    Salvatore Critelli;Emilia Le Pera

  • Interpreting provenance relations from sandstone detrital modes, southern Italy foreland region: Stratigraphic record of the Miocene tectonic evolution

    Salvatore Critelli;Francesco Muto;Francesco Perri;Vincenzo Tripodi

  • The effects of source rocks and chemical weathering on the petrogenesis of siliciclastic sand from the Neto River (Calabria, Italy): implications for provenance studies

    Emilia Le Pera;Josè Arribas;Salvatore Critelli;and Amparo Tortosa

  • Triassic redbeds in the Malaguide Complex (Betic Cordillera — Spain): Petrography, geochemistry and geodynamic implications

    Francesco Perri;Salvatore Critelli;Agustín Martín-Algarra;Manuel Martín-Martín

  • Compositional and Geochemical Signatures for the Sedimentary Evolution of the Middle Triassic–Lower Jurassic Continental Redbeds from Western-Central Mediterranean Alpine Chains

    Salvatore Critelli;Giovanni Mongelli;Francesco Perri;Agustin Martín-Algarra

  • The Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Crotone Basin (southern Italy): Interplay between sedimentation, tectonics and eustasy in the frame of Calabrian Arc migration

    Massimo Zecchin;Mauro Caffau;Dario Civile;Salvatore Critelli

  • The effects of source lithology, transport, deposition and sampling scale on the composition of southern California sand

    Salvatore Critelli;Emilia Le Pera;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Characterization of granitoid and gneissic weathering profiles of the Mucone River basin (Calabria, southern Italy)

    L Borrelli;F Perri;Salvatore Critelli;G. Gullà

  • The Recycled Orogenic Sand Provenance from An Uplifted Thrust Belt, Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain

    Salvatore Critelli;José Arribas;Emilia Le Pera;Amparo Tortosa

  • Sandstone Petrology and Provenance of the Siwalik Group (Northwestern Pakistan and Western-Southeastern Nepal)

    Salvatore Critelli;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Weathering profiles in granitoid rocks of the Sila Massif uplands, Calabria, southern Italy: New insights into their formation processes and rates

    Fabio Scarciglia;Salvatore Critelli;Luigi Borrelli;Sabrina Coniglio

  • Weathering and pedogenesis in the Sila Grande Massif (Calabria, South Italy): From field scale to micromorphology

    Fabio Scarciglia;Emilia Le Pera;Salvatore Critelli

  • Detrital Modes in a Late Miocene Wedge-Top Basin, Northeastern Calabria, Italy: Compositional Record of Wedge-Top Partitioning

    Mirko Barone;Rocco Dominici;Francesco Muto;Salvatore Critelli

  • ‘Verrucano’ and ‘Pseudoverrucano’ in the Central-Western Mediterranean Alpine Chains: palaeogeographical evolution and geodynamic significance

    V. Perrone;A. Martín-Algarra;S. Critelli;F. A. Decandia

  • Sedimentary evolution of the Mesozoic continental redbeds using geochemical and mineralogical tools: the case of Upper Triassic to Lowermost Jurassic Monte di Gioiosa mudrocks (Sicily, southern Italy)

    Francesco Perri;Salvatore Critelli;Giovanni Mongelli;Robert L. Cullers

  • Sedimentary Provenance and Petrogenesis: Perspectives from Petrography and Geochemistry

    José Arribas;Mark J. Johnsson;Salvatore Critelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Perri
Francesco Perri University of Calabria
Francesco Muto
Francesco Muto University of Calabria
Giovanni Mongelli
Giovanni Mongelli University of Basilicata
Massimo Zecchin
Massimo Zecchin National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Raymond V. Ingersoll University of California, Los Angeles
Piero Manetti
Piero Manetti University of Florence
Rosanna De Rosa
Rosanna De Rosa University of Calabria
William Cavazza
William Cavazza University of Bologna
Sveva Corrado
Sveva Corrado Roma Tre University
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca

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