La Rift Valley Etiopica - Pagina di Giacomo Corti

Lista di pubblicazioni (2025-2015):

Tortelli G., Gioncada A., Pagli C., Barfod D.N., Corti G., Sani F., Mark D., Dymock R.C., Gebru E.F., Keir D. (2025). New 40Ar-39Ar dating of the Afar Stratoid series shows progressive rift localisation in Afar (Ethiopia). Communications Earth and Environment, in stampa.

Zwaan F., Muluneh A.A., Liu J. Kosari E., Rosenau M., Corti G., Sani F. (2025). Local strain reorientation explains deformation of rift-oblique tectonic lineaments along the Main Ethiopian Rift. Teκτoniκa, in stampa.

Corti G., Maestrelli D., Bonini M., Sani F. (2025). Off-rift volcanism during continental rifting: Observations and models with a focus on the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 226, 105590, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2025.105590.

Erbello A., Dupont-Nivet G., Kidane T., Nowaczyk N., Sudo M., Melnick D., Bookhagen B., Brune S., Corti G., Gecho G., Strecker M.R. (2025). Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa. Tectonophysics, 230599, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230599

Sauvalle, R., Scaillet B,, Prouteau G., Scaillet S. Cioni T. Franceschini Z., Frascerra D. Sani F., Corti G., Melaku A., Andújar J. (2024). Phase equilibrium constraints on the pre-eruptive conditions of alkaline basalts of the Main Ethiopian Rift and their bearing on the production of peralkaline rhyolites. Journal of Petrology, 65, egae112, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae112

Franceschini Z., Cioni R., Scaillet S., Prouteau G., Corti G., Sani F., Mondanaro A., Frascerra D., Melaku A.A., Scaillet B., Oppenheimer C., Duval F. (2024). Pulsatory volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift and its environmental consequences. Communications Earth and Environment, 5:568, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01703-1

Muluneh A. Brune S., Pagli C., La Rosa A., Keir D., Neuharth D., Corti G. (2024). To rotate or to link? The connection between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden rifts in central Afar. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108732.https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108732

Vendeville B.C., Corti G., Boussarsar M., Ferrer O. (2024). An alternative experimental configuration to generate wrench zone above a viscous layer. Journal of Structural Geology, 184, 105166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105166

Maestrelli D., Sani F., Keir D., Pagli C., La Rosa A., Atnafu Muluneh A., Brune S., Corti G. (2024). Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a Rift-Rift-Rift triple junction. Geology, 52, 362–366, https://doi.org/10.1130/G51909.1

Maestrelli D., Corti G., Bonini M., Keir D., Facincani P., Vannucchi P., Del Ventisette C., Montanari D., Sani F. (2024). Fault reactivation and growth at rift-related calderas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 636, 118700, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118700

Nigussie W., Alemu A., Mickus K., Keir D., Demissie Z., Muhabaw Y., Muluneh A.A., Corti G., Yehualaw E. (2023). Subsurface structural control on geothermal resources in a magmatic rift: Gravity and magnetic study of the Tulu Moye Geothermal Prospect, Main Ethiopian Rift. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1181533

Bragagni A., Braschi E., Orlando A., Guarnieri L., Corti G., Tommasini S. (2023). Time-space variations in the East African Rift magmatism: the role of different mantle domains. Italian Journal of Geosciences, 142, 83-101,
https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2023.08.

Benvenuti M., Corti G., Keir D., Sani F. (2023). Transverse tectonics control on the Late Quaternary development of the Central Main Ethiopian Rift. Italian Journal of Geosciences, 142, 42-56, https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2023.05.

Maestrelli D., Brune S., Corti G., Keir D., Sani F. (2022): Analog and Numerical modeling of Rift-Rift-Rift Triple junctions. Tectonics, 41, e2022TC007491. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007491.

Saccorotti G., Bruni R., Bonini M., Corti G., Keir D., Sani F. (2022). Recent seismic sequences and activation of normal fault systems in the Mugello Basin and surrounding areas (Northern Apennines, Italy). Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:879160. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.879160.

Corti G., Maestrelli D., Sani F. (2022). Large-to local-scale control of pre-existing structures on continental rifting: examples from the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa.Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:808503, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.808503.

Sternai P., Muller V.A.P., Jolivet L., Garzanti E., Corti G., Pasquero C., Sembroni A., Faccenna C. (2021). Effects of asthenospheric flow and orographic precipitation on continental rifting.Tectonophysics, 820, 229120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229120

Maestrelli D., Corti G., Bonini M., Montanari D., Sani F. (2021). Caldera collapse and tectonics along the Main Ethiopian rift: reviewing possible relationships.Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 353, S2, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.63.

Milazzo F., Cavozzi C., Corti G., Maestrelli D., Storti F. (2021). Centrifuge modeling of thrust systems in the brittle crust: Role of frictional décollement geometry. Journal of Structural Geology, 153, 104450.

Luzzi E., Rossi A.P., Massironi M., Pozzobon R., Corti G., Maestrelli D. (2021). Caldera collapse as the trigger of Chaos and fractured craters on the Moon and Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092436. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092436

Meletti C., Marzocchi W., D’Amico V., Lanzano G., Luzi L., Martinelli F., Pace B., Rovida A., Taroni M., Visini F., Akinci A., Anzidei M., Avallone A., Azzaro R., Barani S., Barberi G., Barreca G., Basili R., Bird P., Bonini M., Burrato P., Busetti M., Camassi R., Carafa M.M.C., Cavaliere A., Cecere G., Cheloni D., Chioccarelli E., Console R., Corti G., D'agostino N., Dal Cin M., D'ambrosio C., D’amico M., D’amico S., Devoti R., Esposito A., Faenza L., Falcone G., Felicetta C., Fracassi U., Franco L., Galvani A., Gasperini P., Gee R., Gómez Capera A.A., Iervolino I., Kastelic V., CG Lai, M Locati, B Lolli, FE Maesano, Marchesini A., Mariucci M.T., Martelli L., Massa M., Metois M., Monaco C., Montone P., Moschetti M., Murru M., Pacor F., Pagani M., Pasolini C., Peresan A., Peruzza L., Pietrantonio G., Poli M.E., Pondrelli S., Puglia R., Rebez A., Riguzzi F., Roselli P., Rotondi R., Russo E., Sani F., M Santulin, G Selvaggi, D Scafidi, J Selva, V Sepe, E Serpelloni, Slejko D., Spallarossa D., Stallone A., Tamaro A., Tarabusi G., Tiberti M.M., Tuvè T., Valensise G., Vallone R., Vannoli P., Vannucci G., Varini E., Zanferrari A., Zuccolo E. (2021). The new Italian Seismic Hazard Model (MPS19) Annals of Geophysics, 64, 1, SE112, 2021, doi:10.4401/ag-8579

Visini F., Pace B., Meletti C., Marzocchi W., Akinci A., Azzaro R., Barani S., Barberi G., Barreca G., Basili R., Bird P., Bonini M., Burrato P., Busetti M., Carafa M.M.C., Cocina O., Console R., Corti G., D’Agostino N., D’Amico S., D’Amico V., Dal Cin M., Falcone G., Fracassi U., Gee R., Kastelic V., Lai C.G., Langer H., Maesano F.E., Marchesini A., Martelli L., Monaco C., 7, Murru M., Peruzza L., Poli M.E., Pondrelli S., Rebez A., Rotondi R., Rovida A., Sani F., Santulin M., Scafidi D., Selva J., Slejko D., Spallarossa D., Tamaro A., Tarabusi G., Taroni M., Tiberti M.M., Tusa G., Tuvè T., Valensise G., Vannoli P., Varini E., Zanferrari A., Zuccolo E. (2021). Earthquake Rupture Forecasts for the MPS19 Seismic Hazard Model of Italy.Annals of Geophysics, 64, 2, SE220, 2021; doi:10.4401/ag-8608

La Rosa A., Pagli C., Wang H., Doubre C., Leroy S., Sani F., Corti G., Ayele A., Keir D. (2021). Plate-boundary kinematics of the Afrera linkage zone (Afar) from InSAR and seismicity.Journal of Geophysical Research, 126, e2020JB021387. https://doi. org/10.1029/2020JB021387

Wang L., Maestrelli D., Corti G., Zou Y., Shen C. (2021). Normal fault reactivation during multiphase extension: analogue models and application to the Turkana depression, East Africa. Tectonophysics, 811, 228870, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228870

Muluneh A.A., Keir D.., Corti G. (2021). Thermo-rheological properties of the Ethiopian lithosphere and evidence for transient fluid induced lower crustal seismicity beneath the Ethiopian Rift. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:610165.doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.610165.

La Rosa A., Keir D., Doubre C., Sani F., Corti G., Leroy S., Ayele A., Pagli C. (2021). Lower crustal earthquakes in the March 2018 sequence along the Western Margin of Afar.Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009614. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009614

Maestrelli D., Bonini M., Corti G., Del Ventisette C., Moratti G., Montanari D. (2021). Exploring fault propagation and the role of inherited structures during caldera collapse through laboratory experiments. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 414, 107232, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107232

Bonini M., Maestrelli D., Corti G., Del Ventisette C., Moratti G., Carrasco-Núñez G., Giordano G., Lucci F., Norini G., Piccardi L., Urbani S., Montanari D. (2021). Modelling intra-caldera resurgence settings: Laboratory experiments with application to the Los Humeros Volcanic Complex (Mexico). Journal of Geophysical Research, 126, e2020JB020438. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020438

Maestrelli D., Bonini M., Corti G., Del Ventisette C., Moratti G., Montanari D. (2021). A database of laboratory analogue models of caldera collapse testing the role of inherited structures). Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:618258. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.618258

Maestrelli D., Montanari D., Corti G., Del Ventisette C., Moratti G., Bonini M. (2020). Exploring the interactions between rift propagation and inherited crustal fabrics through experimental modelling. Tectonics, 39, e2020TC006211. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006211.

Zwaan F., Corti G., Keir D., Sani, F. (2020). An analogue modeling study of marginal flexure in Afar, East Africa: implications for passive margin formation. Tectonophysics, 796, 228595.

Franceschini Z., Cioni R., Scaillet S., Corti G., Sani F., Isola I., Mazzarini F., Duval F., Erbello A., Muluneh A., Brune S. (2020). Recent volcano-tectonic activity of the Ririba rift and the evolution of rifting in South Ethiopia.Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 402, 106989.

Siegburg M. Bull J.M., Nixon C.W., Keir D., Gernon T.M., Corti G., Bekele Abebe B., Sanderson D.J., Ayele A. (2020). Quantitative constraints on faulting and fault slip-rates in the northern Main Ethiopian Rift.Tectonics, 39, e2019TC006046. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC006046

Corti G., Sani F., Florio A.A., Greenfield T., Keir D., Erbello A., Muluneh A.A., Ayele A. (2020). Tectonics of the Asela-Langano margin, Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa).Tectonics, 39, e2020TC006075. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006075.

Muluneh A.A., Brune S., Illsley-Kemp F., Corti G., Keir D., Glerum A., Kidane T., Mori J. (2020). Mechanism for deep crustal seismicity: Insight from modeling of deformation process at the Main Ethiopian Rift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC008935. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008935.

Farolfi G., Keir D., Corti G., Casagli N. (2020). Spatial forecasting of seismicity provided from Earth observation by space satellite technology. Scientific Reports, 10:9696 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66478-9.

Collanega L., Corti G., Breda A., Massironi M., Keir D. (2020). 3D extension at plate boundaries accommodated by interacting fault systems. Scientific Reports, 10:8669| https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65599-5.

Zwaan F., Corti G., Sani F., Keir D., Muluneh A., Illsley-Kemp F. Papini M. (2020). Structural analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: evidence for multiphase rotational rifting. Tectonics,39, e2019TC006043,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC006043.

Zwaan F., Corti G., Keir D., Sani F. (2020). A review of tectonic models for the rifted margin of Afar: implications for continental break-up and passive margin formation. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 164, 103649, 1-22.

Corti G., Nencini R., Skyttä P. (2020). Modelling the influence of pre-existing brittle fabrics on the development and architecture pull-apart basins.Journal of Structural Geology, 131, 103937, 1-15.

Bonini M., Cerca M., Moratti G., López-Martínez M., Corti G., Gracia-Marroquín D. (2019). Strain partitioning in highly oblique rift settings: Inferences from the southwestern margin of the Gulf of California (Baja California Sur, México). Tectonics, 38, 4426–4453.

Del Ventisette C., Bonini M., Agostini A., Corti G., Maestrelli D., Montanari D. (2019). Using different grain-size granular mixtures (quartz and K-feldspar sand) in analogue extensional models. Journal of Structural Geology, 129, 103888, 1-12.

La Rosa A., Pagli C., Keir D., Sani F., Corti G., Wang H., Posee D. (2019). Observing Oblique Slip During Rift Linkage in Northern Afar.Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10782–10790, https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019GL084801.

Norini G., Carrasco–Núñez G., Corbo-Camargo F., Lermo J., Hernández Rojas J., Castro C., Bonini M., Montanari D., Corti G., Moratti G., Piccardi L., Chavez G., Zuluaga M.C., Ordaz C., Ramirez M., Cedillo F. (2019). The structural architecture of the Los Humeros volcanic complex and geothermal field. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 381, 312-329.

Boone S.C., Balestrieri M.L., Kohn B.P., Corti G., Gleadow A.J.W., Seiler C. (2019). Tectono-thermal evolution of the Broadly Rifted Zone, Ethiopian Rift.Tectonics, 38, 1070–1100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005210..

Corti G., Cioni R., Franceschini Z., Sani F., Scaillet S., Molin P., Isola I., Mazzarini F., Brune S., Keir D., Erbello A., Muluneh A., Illsley-Kemp F., Glerum A. (2019). Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift.Nature Communications, 10: 1309, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09335-2

Sani F., Bonini M., Corti G., Moratti G. (2019). Extension direction re-orientation in the oceanic rift of Iceland, and comparison with continental rifts.Tectonophysics, 756, 25-42.

Skyttä P., Piippo S., Kloppenburg A., Corti G. (2019). The 2.45 Ga break-up of the Archaean continent in Northern Fennoscandia: Rifting dynamics and the role of inherited structures within the Archaean basement.Precambrian Research, 324, 303-323.

Bastow I.D., Booth A.D., Corti G., Keir D., Magee C., Jackson C.A-L., Warren J., Wilkinson J., Lascialfari M. (2018). The Development of Late-Stage Continental Breakup: Seismic Reflection and Borehole Evidence from the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia.Tectonics, 37, 2848–2862, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004798.

De Matteo A., Corti G., van Wyk de Vries B., Massa B., Mussetti G. (2018). Fault-volcano interactions with broadly distributed stretching in rifts.Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Reseearch, 362, 64-75.

Corti G., Zeoli A., (2018). Analogue modelling of the influence of ice shelf collapse on the flow of ice sheets grounded below sea-level. Annals of Geophysics, 61, 3, OC332, doi: 10.4401/ag-7356.

Muluneh A.A., Kidane T., Corti G., Keir D. (2018). Constraints on fault and crustal strength of the Main Ethiopian Rift from formal inversion of earthquake focal mechanism data. Tectonophysics, 731-732, 172-180.

Corti G., Sani F., Agostini S., Philippon M., Sokoutis D., Willingshofer E. (2018). Off-axis volcano-tectonic activity during continental rifting: insights from the transversal Goba-Bonga lineament, Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa). Tectonophysics, 728-729, 75-91.

Corti G., Molin P., Sembroni A., Bastow I.D., Keir D. (2018). Control of pre-rift lithospheric structure on the architecture and evolution of continental rifts: insights from the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa. Tectonics, 37, 477-496, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004799.

Martínez F., Montanari D., Del Ventisette C., Bonini M., Corti G. (2018). Basin inversion and magma migration and emplacement: Insights from basins of northern Chile. Journal of Structural Geology, 114, 310-319.

Bonini M., Cerca M., Moratti G., López-Martínez M., Corti G., Gracia-Marroquín D. (2017). Early Miocene shortening in the lower Comondú Group in Baja California Sur (México). Tectonophysics, 719-720, 135-147.

Balestrieri M.L., Ferrari L., Bonini M., Duque-Trujillo J., Cerca M., Moratti G., Corti G. (2017). Onshore and offshore apatite fission-track dating from the southern Gulf of California: insights into the time-space evolution of the rifting. Tectonophysics, 719-720, 148-161.

Santulin M., Tamaro A., Rebez A., Slejko D., Sani F., Martelli L., Bonini M., Corti G., Poli M.E., Zanferrari A., Marchesini A., Busetti M., Dal Cin M., Spallarossa D., Barani S., Scafidi D., Barreca G., Monaco C. (2017). Seismogenic zonation as a branch of the logic tree for the new Italian seismic hazard map - MPS16: a preliminary outline.Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, 58, 313-342.

Montanari D., Bonini M., Corti G., Agostini A., Del Ventisette C. (2017). Forced folding above shallow magma intrusions: Insights on supercritical fluid flow from analogue modelling. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 345, 67-80.

Brune S., Corti G., Ranalli G. (2017). Controls of inherited lithospheric heterogeneity on rift linkage: Numerical and analogue models of interaction between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rifts across the Turkana depression. Tectonics, 36, doi:10.1002/ 2017TC004739.

Martelli L., Santulin M., Sani F., Tamaro A., Bonini M., Rebez A., Corti G., Slejko D. (2017). Seismic hazard of the Northern Apennines based on 3D seismic sources. Journal of Seismology, 21, 1251–1275.

Montanari D., Agostini A., Bonini M., Corti G., Del Ventisette C. (2017). The use of empirical methods for testing granular materials in analogue modeling. Materials, 10, 635; doi:10.3390/ma10060635.

Ferrer O., Dooley T.P., Corti G., Vidal-RoyoO.,. Hearon IV T.E., Reber J., Graveleau F. (2017). Introduction to Special Section: Analog modeling as an aid to structural interpretation. Interpretation, 5(1), SDi-SDii.

Minissale A., Corti G., Tassi F., Darrah T., Vaselli O., Montanari D., Montegrossi G., Yirgu G., Selmo E., Teclu A. (2017). Geothermal potential and origin of natural thermal fluids in the northern Lake Abaya area, Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 336, 1-18.

Philippon M., Corti G. (2016). Obliquity along plate boundaries. Tectonophysics, 693, 171–182.

Sani F., Vannucci G., Boccaletti M., Bonini M., Corti G., Serpelloni E. (2016). Insights into the fragmentation of the Adria Plate. Journal of Geodynamics, 102, 121-138.

Erbello A., Corti G., Agostini A., Sani F., Kidane T., Buccianti A. (2016). Modeling along-axis variations in fault architecture in the Main Ethiopian Rift: implications for Nubia-Somalia kinematics. Journal of Geodynamics, 102, 24-38.

Bonini M., Delle Donne D., Corti G., Sani F., Piccardi L., Vannucci G., Genco R., Martelli L., Ripepe M. (2016). Seismic sources and stress transfer interaction among axial normal faults and external thrust fronts in the Northern Apennines (Italy): A working hypothesis based on the 1916-1920 time-space cluster of earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 680, 67-89.

Balestrieri M.L., Bonini M., Corti G., Sani F., Philippon M. (2016). A refinement of the chronology of rift-related faulting in the Broadly Rifted Zone, southern Ethiopia, through apatite fission-track analysis. Tectonophysics, 671, 42–55.

Martínez F., Bonini M., Montanari D., Corti G. (2016). Tectonic inversion and magmatism in the Lautaro Basin, northern Chile, Central Andes: A comparative approach from field data and analogue models. Journal of Geodynamics, 94–95, 68–83.

Piccardi L., Dobrev N., Moratti G., Corti G., Tondi E., Vannucci G., Matova M., Spina V. (2016). Overview and new data on the active tectonics of Bulgaria: towards a comprehensive seismotectonic map. Acta Vulcanologica, 25, 67-82.

Sani F., Bonini M., Montanari D., Moratti G., Corti G., Del Ventisette C. (2016). The structural evolution of the Radicondoli–Volterra Basin (southern Tuscany, Italy): Relationships with magmatism and geothermal implications. Geothermics, 59, 38-55.

Molin P., Corti G. (2015). Topography, river network and recent fault activity at the margins of the Central Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa). Tectonophysics, 664, 67–82, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.045.

Corti G., Dooley T.P. (2015). Lithospheric-scale centrifuge models of pull-apart basins. Tectonophysics, 664, 154–163, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.004.

Corti G., Agostini A., Keir D., Van Wijk J., Bastow I.D., Ranalli G. (2015). Magma-induced axial subsidence during final-stage rifting: implications for the development of seaward dipping reflectors. Geosphere, 11, 563–571, DOI: 10.1130/GES01076.1.

Keir D., Bastow I.D., Corti G., Mazzarini F., Rooney T.O. (2015). The origin of along-rift variations in faulting and magmatism in the Ethiopian rift. Tectonics, 34, 464-477, DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003698.

Corti G., Bastow I.D., Keir D., Pagli C., Baker E. (2015). Rift-related morphology of the Afar Depression. In: Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia, Billi P. (Ed.)., Series: World Geomorphological Landscapes, Springer, 251-274.

Corti G., Costagliola P., Bonini M., Benvenuti M., Pecchioni E., Vaiani A., Landucci F. (2015). Modelling the failure mechanisms of Michelangelo’s David through small-scale centrifuge experiments. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 16, 26–31.

Philippon M., Willingshofer E., Sokoutis D., Corti G., Sani F., Bonini M., Cloetingh S. (2015). Slip re-orientation in oblique rifts. Geology, 43, 147–150.

Del Ventisette C., Gigli G., Bonini M., Corti G., Montanari M., Santoro S., Sani F., Fanti R., Casagli N. (2015). Insights from analogue modelling into the factors triggering the Vaiont landslide. Geomorphology, 228, 52–59.