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  1. Recent mass transport deposits in the Gulf of Cagliari

    Article • Marine Geology, May 2025, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  2. Mélanges and chaotic rock units: Implications for exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts

    Article • Geosystems and Geoenvironment, May 2022, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  3. The Mesozoic palaeoenvironmental richness of the Trieste Karst

    Article • Geological Field Trips, December 2021, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  4. Mélanges in flysch-type formations: Reviewing geological constraints for a better understanding of complex formations with block-in-matrix fabric

    Article • Engineering Geology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  5. Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2020, Geological Society

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  6. Submarine Landslide Deposits in Orogenic Belts

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  7. Mass‐Transport Complexes of the Marnoso‐arenacea Foredeep Turbidite System (Northern Apennines, Italy)

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  8. Front Matter

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  9. Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  10. Substrate deformation and incorporation in sedimentary mélanges (olistostromes): Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and northwestern Dinarides (Slovenia)

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  11. Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Andrea Festa, Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  12. Middle Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate changes and gas hydrates dissociation

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, July 2019, Geological Society

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  13. A Geophysical-Geochemical Approach to the Study of the Paleogene Julian—Slovenian Basin “Megabeds” (Southern Alps—Northwestern Dinarides, Italy/Slovenia)

    Article • Geosciences, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  14. Does subduction of mass transport deposits (MTDs) control seismic behavior of shallow–level megathrusts at convergent margins?

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  15. Effects of dehydration and grinding on the mechanical shear behaviour of Ca-rich montmorillonite

    Article • Applied Clay Science, February 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  16. Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: A global synthesis

    Article • Gondwana Research, November 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  17. Meso-Scale Kinematic Indicators in Exhumed Mass Transport Deposits: Definitions and Implications

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  18. Understanding the Genesis of Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) for Safe Mining Planning: Anhovo Quarry, Western Slovenia

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  19. The carbonate mass transport deposits of the Paleogene Friuli Basin (Italy/Slovenia): Internal anatomy and inferred genetic processes

    Article • Marine Geology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  20. Shear zone liquefaction in mass transport deposit emplacement: A multi-scale integration of seismic reflection and outcrop data

    Article • Marine Geology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  21. Late Oligocene–early Miocene olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) as tectono-stratigraphic constraints to the geodynamic evolution of the exhumed Ligurian accretionary complex (Northern Apennines, NW Italy)

    Article • International Geology Review, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  22. Venting and seepage systems associated with mud volcanoes and mud diapirs in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea

    Article • Marine Geology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  23. High-Resolution Studies of Mass Transport Deposits: Outcrop Perspective for Understanding Modern Submarine Slope Failure and Associated Natural Hazards

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  24. Structural anatomy of the Ligurian accretionary wedge (Monferrato, NW Italy), and evolution of superposed melanges

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

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  25. Relationships between seep-carbonates, mud volcanism and basin geometry in the Late Miocene of the northern Apennines of Italy: the Montardone mélange

    Article • International Journal of Earth Sciences, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  26. Small-scale polygenetic mélanges in the Ligurian accretionary complex, Northern Apennines, Italy, and the role of shale diapirism in superposed mélange evolution in orogenic belts

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  27. Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  28. Mass transport-related stratal disruption within sedimentary mélanges: Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and south-central Pyrenees (Spain)

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  29. Chaos and geodynamics: Mélanges, mélange-forming processes and their significance in the geological record

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  30. Progressive development of block-in-matrix fabric in a shale-dominated shear zone: Insights from the Bobbio Tectonic Window (Northern Apennines, Italy)

    Article • Tectonics, January 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  31. First report of a polychelid lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Coleiidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Italy

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, January 2012, Schweizerbart

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  32. The Specchio Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy): An Ancient Mass Transport Complex Originated from Near-Coastal Areas in an Intra-Slope Setting

    Article • September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  33. Sedimentary Mélanges and Fossil Mass-Transport Complexes: A Key for Better Understanding Submarine Mass Movements?

    Article • September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  34. Late Miocene seep-carbonates and fluid migration on top of the Montepetra intrabasinal high (Northern Apennines, Italy): Relations with synsedimentary folding

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  35. Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

    Article • International Geology Review, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  36. Peri-Adriatic mélanges and their evolution in the Tethyan realm

    Article • International Geology Review, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini, Andrea Festa

  37. Use of Tmax as a thermal maturity indicator in orogenic successions and comparison with clay mineral evolution

    Article • Clay Minerals, March 2010, Mineralogical Society

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  38. Methane seepages recorded in benthic foraminifera from Miocene seep carbonates, Northern Apennines (Italy)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, December 2009, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  39. Mud volcanoes, olistostromes and Argille scagliose in the Mediterranean region

    Article • Sedimentology, January 2009, Wiley

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  40. Basin-wide mass-wasting complexes as markers of the Oligo-Miocene foredeep-accretionary wedge evolution in the Northern Apennines, Italy

    Article • Basin Research, March 2008, Wiley

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  41. The role of tectonic shear strain on the illitization mechanism of mixed-layers illite–smectite. A case study from a fault zone in the Northern Apennines, Italy

    Article • International Journal of Earth Sciences, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  42. Role of preexisting topography and overburden on strain partitioning of oblique doubly vergent convergent wedges

    Article • Tectonics, November 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  43. Effect of unbalanced topography and overloading on Coulomb wedge kinematics: Insights from sandbox modeling

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  44. Anatomy and emplacement mechanism of a large submarine slide within a Miocene foredeep in the northern Apennines, Italy: A field perspective

    Article • American Journal of Science, September 2003, American Journal of Science (AJS)

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  45. Thermal history and exhumation of the Northern Apennines (Italy): evidence from combined apatite fission track and vitrinite reflectance data from foreland basin sediments

    Article • Basin Research, December 2001, Wiley

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  46. Tectonosomes and olistostromes in the argille scagliose of the Northern Apennines, Italy

    Article • January 1999, Geological Society of America

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini

  47. Chapter C2 Integrated stratigraphy (biostratigraphy and geochronology) of the early miocene sequence from the emilian apennines (Italy)

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Prof Gian Andrea Pini