Department of Earth Sciences

Selected research products

The scientific activity consists on more than 200 publications, including more than 80 papers (Scopus database), 10 books/special issues and 12 geological maps published on national and international journals with Impact Factor or peer review. For a complete list of publications see:

• Scopus (Elsevier): https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36795995600
• Web of Science (WOS) (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1854926)
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1INwDa8AAAAJ&hl=en
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Festa

The ten most significant publications are:

Remitti, F., Festa, A., Nirta, G., Barbero, E., and Mittempergher, S., 2024. Role of folding-related deformation in the seismicity of shallow accretionary prisms. Nature Geoscience, 17, 600-607. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01444-6

Di Napoli, M.L., Festa, A., and Barbero, M., 2022. Practical classification of geotechnically complex formations with block-in-matrix fabrics. Engineering Geology, 301, 106595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106595

Festa, A., Balestro, G., Borghi, A., De Caroli, S., and Succo, A., 2020. The role of structural inheritance in continental break-up and exhumation of Alpine Tethyan mantle (Canavese Zone, Western Alps). Geoscience Frontiers, 11, 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.11.007

Festa, A., Pini, G.A., Ogata, K., and Dilek, Y., 2019. Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes. Gondwana Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.01.003

Festa, A., Dilek, Y., Mittempergher, S., Ogata, K., Pini, G.A., and Remitti, F., 2018. Does subduction of mass transport deposits (MTDs) control seismic behavior of shallow-level megathrusts at convergent margins? Gondwana Research, 60, 186-193. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.05.002.

Festa, A., Ogata, K., Pini, G.A., Dilek, Y., and Alonso, J.L., 2016. Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: a global synthesis. Gondwana Research 39, 180-203, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.08.002

Festa A., Balestro, G., Dilek Y, and Tartarotti, P., 2015. A Jurassic oceanic core complex in the high-pressure Monviso ophiolite (western Alps, NW Italy). Lithosphere, 7, 646-652. Doi: 10.1130/L458.1.

Festa A., Dilek Y., Pini G.A., Codegone G., and Ogata K., 2012. Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: redefining and classifying mélanges. Tectonophysics 568-569, 7-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.021

Festa, A., Pini, G.A., Dilek, Y., and Codegone, G., 2010. Mélanges and mélange- forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts, International Geology Review 52(10-12),1040-1105. DOI: 10.1080/00206810903557704.

Vezzani L., Festa, A. and Ghisetti, F., 2010. Geology and Tectonic evolution of the Central-Southern Apennines, Italy: Geological Society of America Special Paper 469, 58 p, including the “Geological-Structural Map of the Central-Southern Apennines (Italy)” at 1:250.000 scale, Sheets 1 and 2. ISBN 978-0-8137-2469-0. DOI: 10.1130/2010.2469

Courses

• RILEVAMENTO GEOLOGICO I (MFN0625)
  Corsi di studi in Scienze Geologiche (L-34 R e LM-74)
• RILEVAMENTO GEOLOGICO II (MFN0651)
  Corsi di studi in Scienze Geologiche (L-34 R e LM-74)
• TETTONICA FRAGILE E APPLICAZIONI DI TERRENO (STE0119)
  Corsi di studi in Scienze Geologiche (L-34 R e LM-74)

Research topics

Andrea Festa is a field-based structural geologist working on the spatial and temporal relationships between tectonics and sedimentation, the processes of mélange formation at convergent margins, and the reconstruction of intra-oceanic tectonostratigraphic settings of exhumed ophiolitic belts.

He is an Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America and, he served as coordinator the Task Group on GeoHazards of the International Union of Geosciences (IUGS). He received the Episodes Best Paper Award 2016, the Geoscience Frontiers Best Paper Award 2020 and the Geosystems and Geoenvironment (Elsevier) Best Associate Editor Award 2023.

He has worked extensively in the Circum-Mediterranean Region, the U.S. Appalachians, U.S. Western Cordillera, and the Argentinean Andes.

He serves as Deputy Editor the Journal of the Geological Society, and as Associate Editor Gondwana Research, Geosystems and Geoenvironment, and Episodes. He has published more than 200 publications, including more than 80 papers, 10 books/special issues and 12 geological maps published on national and international journals with Impact Factor.

Research groups

• Mélanges, mélange forming processes and related natural hazards
• Role of structural-stratigraphic inheritances in the evolution of convergent margins
• Geological mapping

• Cartografia geologica
• Mélange, processi di formazione dei mélange e rischi naturali associati
• Ruolo delle eredità strutturali-stratigrafiche nell’evoluzione dei margini convergenti

Research projects

• Evidenze e ruolo di strutture ereditate nell'evoluzione strutturale di un margine convergente esumato (Alpi Occidentali - Appennino settentrionale)
• Geodinamica del sistema Alpi occidentali - Appennino settentrionale: vincoli strutturali all'evoluzione di un margine convergente esumato
• Anatomia strutturale di margini convergenti: casi di studio dalle Alpi occidentali e dall'Appennino settentrionale
• PROGEO - Piemonte (ORTO11Y7RH)

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Consiglio di Dipartimento
• Giunta
• Ricerca

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