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  1. The last interglacial transgression in Italy: the breath of the Italian coasts documented by 461 sites

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  2. Reoccupation of late Quaternary relative sea level indicators in a tectonically quasi-stable coastal area in Southern Italy (Cilento headland): Insights into the Last Interglacial stillstands

    Article • Geomorphology, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  3. Active extension in the axial zone of the southern Apennines (Italy) is driven by the remobilization of inverted normal faults

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  4. Remobilization of inverted normal faults drives active extension in the axial zone of the southern Apennine mountain belt (Italy)

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2025, Geological Society

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  5. Tectonic implications of raised Quaternary relative sea‐level indicators along the NE border of the Campania Plain (southern Italy)

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  6. Morphostructural evidence of crustal-scale, active along-strike segmentation of the Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy

    Article • Tectonophysics, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  7. Evaluation of sediment budgets in catchments prone to flash flood-related debris flows: A case study from the southern Apennines (Italy)

    Article • Geomorphology, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  8. Morphotectonic and seismological evidence of active tectonics in the Umbria-Marche Apennines, central Italy

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  9. A new geomorphological method for the evaluation of debris flow magnitude: a case study from the southern Apennines (Italy)

    Article • June 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  10. Detecting differential surface uplift at the orogen scale by topography and river network features: the Southern Apennines case study (Italy)

    Article • June 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  11. Marine terraces in the Tyrrhenian Sea margin of the Southern Apennines (Italy): new constraints on differential vertical motions from dated paleoshorelines 

    Article • June 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  12. Late Quaternary uplift and sea level fluctuations along the Tyrrhenian margin of Basilicata - northern Calabria (southern Italy): New constraints from raised paleoshorelines

    Article • Geomorphology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  13. Development and deformation of marine terraces: Constraints to the evolution of the Campania Plain Quaternary coastal basin (Italy)

    Article • Geomorphology, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  14. Fault motion reversals predating the M w 6.3 2009 L'Aquila earthquake: insights from synthetic aperture radar data

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, March 2021, Geological Society

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  15. The MS 6.9, 1980 Irpinia Earthquake from the Basement to the Surface: A Review of Tectonic Geomorphology and Geophysical Constraints, and New Data on Postseismic Deformation

    Article • Geosciences, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  16. Active Deformation and Relief Evolution in the Western Lurestan Region of the Zagros Mountain Belt: New Insights From Tectonic Geomorphology Analysis and Finite Element Modeling

    Article • Tectonics, November 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  17. Finite element modelling of inter-seismic deformation associated with Arabia-Eurasia plate convergence in western Lurestan (Iran)

    Article • October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  18. Active deformation and relief evolution in the western Lurestan region of the Zagros mountain belt: new insights from tectonic geomorphology analysis and finite element modeling

    Article • July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  19. GEOTOURISM as a Tool for Learning: A Geoitinerary in the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni Geopark (Southern Italy)

    Article • Resources, June 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  20. Geomorphology of Naples and the Campi Flegrei: human and natural landscapes in a restless land

    Article • Journal of Maps, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  21. The Mountain Front Flexure in the Lurestan region of the Zagros belt: Crustal architecture and role of structural inheritances

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  22. Constraining mountain front tectonic activity in extensional setting from geomorphology and Quaternary stratigraphy: A case study from the Matese ridge, southern Apennines

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  23. Do moderate magnitude earthquakes generate seismically induced ground effects? The case study of the M w = 5.16, 29th December 2013 Matese earthquake (southern Apennines, Italy)

    Article • International Journal of Earth Sciences, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giancarlo Ciotoli, Dr Alessandra Ascione

  24. Quaternary evolution of the Southern Apennines coastal plains: a review

    Article • Geologica Carpathica, February 2017, Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  25. Decoding the role of tectonics, incision and lithology on drainage divide migration in the Mt. Alpi region, southern Apennines, Italy

    Article • Geomorphology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  26. Quaternary deformation in SE Sicily: Insights into the life and cycles of forebulge fault systems

    Article • Lithosphere, July 2015, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  27. Active tectonics of the outer northern Apennines: Adriatic vs. Po Plain seismicity and stress fields

    Article • Journal of Geodynamics, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  28. Low-angle normal faulting and focused exhumation associated with late Pliocene change in tectonic style in the southern Apennines (Italy)

    Article • Tectonics, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  29. Seismic imaging of a fluid storage

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Alessandra Ascione, Professor Aldo Zollo

  30. The 2013 Marche offshore earthquakes: new insights into the active tectonic setting of the outer northern Apennines

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, March 2014, Geological Society

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  31. Soil gas across seismic surface rupture zone

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Giancarlo Ciotoli, Dr Alessandra Ascione

  32. Tectonic-geomorphological map of the middle Aterno River valley (Abruzzo, Central Italy)

    Article • Journal of Maps, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  33. Tufa and travertines of southern Italy: deep-seated, fault-related CO2as the key control in precipitation

    Article • Terra Nova, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  34. A decoupled kinematic model for active normal faults: Insights from the 1980, MS = 6.9 Irpinia earthquake, southern Italy

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, June 2013, Geological Society of America

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  35. Subduction and continental collision events in the southern Apennines: constraints from two crustal cross-sections

    Article • Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana, April 2013, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  36. Tectonic evolution of Pliocene–Pleistocene wedge-top basins of the southern Apennines: new constraints from magnetic fabric analysis

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, March 2012, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  37. The Pliocene-Quaternary wedge-top basins of southern Italy: an expression of propagating lateral slab tear beneath the Apennines

    Article • Basin Research, December 2011, Wiley

    Sabatino Ciarcia, Dr Alessandra Ascione

  38. The Plio-Quaternary uplift of the Apennine chain: new data from the analysis of topography and river valleys in Central Italy

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  39. Evolution of the late Quaternary San Gregorio Magno tectono‐karstic basin (southern Italy) inferred from geomorphological, tephrostratigraphical and palaeoecological analyses: tectonic implications

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  40. Late Tertiary–Quaternary tectonics of the Southern Apennines (Italy): New evidences from the Tyrrhenian slope

    Article • Tectonophysics, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  41. Late Quaternary faulting within the Southern Apennines seismic belt: new data from Mt. Marzano area (Southern Italy)

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione

  42. Vertical movements on the eastern margin of the Tyrrhenian extensional basin. New data from Mt. Bulgheria (Southern Apennines, Italy)

    Article • Tectonophysics, December 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Alessandra Ascione