Massimo Mattei's research while affiliated with Università Degli Studi Roma Tre and other places
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Publications (200)
It is unanimously acknowledged that the Corsica‐Sardinia microplate rotated counterclockwise (CCW) by 40–50° between 21 and 15 Ma, synchronous with Liguro‐Provençal Basin oceanic spreading. Conversely, 60–120° CCW rotations with respect to Europe from Sardinia (Permian dykes, volcanics and sediments, Mesozoic carbonates, and lower Eocene limestones...
The structural analysis of large intracontinental wrench faults is fundamental for deciphering the long‐term evolution of continental crust in complex areas in terms of their geodynamic evolution and large‐scale crustal block displacements. In this contribution, we demonstrate a pre‐Miocene dextral activity of the present‐day left‐lateral Great Kav...
The timing of Quaternary uplift evolution of the Simbruini range (Central Apennines, Italy) is poorly known due to the lack of reliable chronological constraints of the post‐orogenic continental clastic units, deposited after the upper Messinian thrust‐top facies, and tectonic events. In this regard, we identified the main geomorphic markers, inclu...
Abstract
The upper plate of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone experienced orogen-perpendicular to orogen-parallel extension from 25-22 to 10-9 Ma. Although such an extension occurred during widespread collisional deformation, it is not clear if it is a local feature or if represents a major phase of upper plate extension. In this study we combine...
High-MgO lamproite and lamproite-like (i.e., lamprophyric) ultrapotassic rocks are recurrent in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. They are associated in space and time with ultrapotassic shoshonites and high-K calc-alkaline rocks. This magmatism is linked with the geodynamic evolution of the westernmost sector of the Alpine-Himalaya collis...
The intermontane Tarom Basin of NW Iran (Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone) is located at the transition between the Iranian Plateau (IP) to the SW and the Alborz Mountains to the NE. This basin was filled by upper Cenozoic synorogenic red beds that retain first‐order information on the erosional history of adjacent topography, the vertical growth of t...
We present the geological map of the north-eastern margin of the Fucino Basin, which is
mainly characterized by Plio-Quaternary continental deposits that show transition from
deeper-water lacustrine environment, marginal lacustrine system, and fluvial facies. These deposits unconformably overlie upper Messinian Lago-Mare sediments and pre-orogenic...
Abstract
The intermontane Tarom Basin of NW Iran (Arabia-Eurasia collision zone) is located at the transition between the Iranian Plateau (IP) to the SW and the Alborz Mountains to the NE. This basin was filled by upper Cenozoic synorogenic red beds that retain first-order information on the erosional history of adjacent topography, the vertical gr...
The intermontane Tarom Basin of NW Iran (Arabia-Eurasia collision zone) is located at the transition between the Iranian Plateau (IP) to the SW and the Alborz Mountains to the NE. This basin was filled by upper Cenozoic synorogenic red beds that retain first-order information on the erosional history of adjacent topography, the vertical growth of t...
The Boiano Basin is one of the largest Quaternary intermontane basins of the central-southern Apennines within one of the most tectonically active areas of the Mediterranean region. In order to reconstruct its entire Quaternary stratigraphic, tec- tonic, and palaeoenvironment evolution, lithofacies and palaeomagnetic analyses have been performed on...
The measuring of 87Sr/86Sr in wine, grape, and bioavailable soil fraction samples with the same uncertainty of geological materials allows fully comparing the whole wine-production chain with the peculiar geochemical isotope signature of any geographic area. Indeed, this signature is the same as the final product inherited by the soil bioavailable...
The regional topography of the Central Apennines results from convergence between the African and Eurasian plates that led to the formation of a Neogene NE-verging imbricate fold and thrust belt. During the final stages of the orogenic deformations, the whole area was affected by strong uplift and by extensional faulting oriented along the main dir...
We present the preliminary results of a ~ 230 m deep borehole (CN1) drilled in the eastern part of the Paganica-San Demetrio-Castelnuovo Basin (PSC) (L’Aquila, central Italy), at the top of the Castelnuovo hill within the Valle Daria paleosurface (Fig. 1).
The PSC is a NW-SE trending graben bordered by active normal faults and filled by Plio-Quater...
In this study, an extensive paleomagnetic sampling (70 sites) was carried out in north-eastern Iran with the aim of reconstructing the rotation history of the outer margin of the Eurasia-Arabia collision area represented by the Ala-Dagh, Binalud and Kopeh-Dagh mountain belts. We sampled the red beds units from the Lower Cretaceous Shurijeh Fm. and...
In the Dolomites (Eastern Southern Alps, Italy), a diffuse Middle Triassic igneous activity is now present mostly as lava flow and pyroclastic successions, with rare shallow-depth intrusive bodies cropping out at Predazzo, Monzoni and Cima Pape areas. In this work, the emplacement modes of the Predazzo and Monzoni bodies were investigated by means...
Sr/⁸⁶Sr was determined on fresh red and white grapes, soils and rocks from three selected vineyards to verify the isotopic relationships between the fruit of the vine and geologic substrata of vineyards. ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr were determined on sampled grapes of four different harvest years and different grape varieties, on bioavailable fraction of soils, on w...
Few studies have detailed the thermal architecture of large-volume pyroclastic density current deposits, although such work has a clear importance for understanding the dynamics of eruptions of this magnitude. Here we examine the temperature of emplacement of large-volume caldera-forming ignimbrites related to magmatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions...
Study of the tectonically active L’Aquila
Basin offers new insights into both the creation
of the extensional intermontane basins
of the central Apennines of Italy and their
tectono-sedimentary evolution through
time. The combination of large mammal
remains, ostracods, molluscs, Mousterian
tools, and 14C dating allows better definition
of the onset...
The field trip is devoted to the observation and discussion of the volcanological, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of the most famous/infamous leucite-bearing and -free ultrapotassic rocks and their associated shoshonites and calc-alkaline terms, generated by recycling of sediments within the upper mantle via subduction.
Indeed, Cent...
In this study, we report an extensive paleomagnetic study (76 sites) carried out in the Alborz Mts. (northern Iran), with the aim of reconstructing the rotation history and the origin of curvature of this orogenic chain. The analyzed deposits are the sedimentary successions of the Upper Red Formation (Miocene), Lower Red Formation (Oligocene) and E...
Sedimentary basins in the interior of orogenic plateaus can provide unique insights into the early history of plateau evolution and related geodynamic processes. The northern sectors of the Iranian Plateau of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone offer the unique possibility to study middle-late Miocene terrestrial clastic and volcaniclastic sediments...
During the past few decades, palaeomagnetism has been used as a powerful tool for constraining kinematic models of curved orogenic systems, because of its great potential in quantifying vertical axis rotations and in discriminating between primary and secondary (orocline s.l.) arcs. The Mediterranean area has represented an attractive region to app...
87Sr/86Sr has been determined in wines, musts grape juices, soils and rocks from six selected vineyards of ‘Cesanese’ wine area. Cesanese is a monocultivar wine from a small region characterised by different geologic substrata, a key locality to test the influence of both substratum and winemaking procedure on the 87Sr/86Sr of wines. Experimental w...
We report on results from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses carried out on weakly deformed fine-grained sediments from the Northern Apennine orogenic system (Italy). We sampled 63 sites from pre-, syn- and post- orogenic sequences, which differ in age, composition, depositional environment, degrees of deformation and tectonic reg...
Recently high precision 87Sr/86Sr analyses have shown that Red wines keep the isotopic values of the vineyard substratum. Indeed, neither biological nor winemaking and aging processes are able to change the 87Sr/86Sr values through the oenological food chain from grapes to Red wine. In addition, 87Sr/86Sr of Red wines and those of rocks from the ge...
Paper conference at the General Assembly IUGG2015.
Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) techniques are applied to Permo-Triassic red beds from the Castilian Branch (Iberian Range, NE Spain) that were deposited in an extensional basin inverted during Cenozoic times. The main goal of this work is to characterize the tectonic evolution of the basinal stage by differentiating synsedimentary to e...
The Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP) extends in a wide area between the Bitlis/Zagros compressional zone and the Aegean extensional zone. The Neogene unit in the study area is Bozkır formation and Süleymanlı formation of Messinian to Pliocene age. The Bozkır formation deposited in the Çankırı Basin, which is localized in central Anatolia, bounded to...
In this study we use the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) and paleomagnetic data
for deciphering the origin of magnetic lineation in weakly deformed sedimentary rocks and for evaluating
oroclinal processes within the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. In particular, we have analyzed the Miocene
Upper Red Formation (URF) from the outer curved...
The increase in the world wine market has required continued improvements in viticultural
zoning in both old and young production regions. The many proposed zoning methods vary
according to the study area in which they are applied as well as to the perspective of the
authors. Thus, there is little agreement on which factors (climate, landscape, geo...
New 40Ar/39Ar ages and major and trace element geochemistry of the middle-late Miocene Cabo de Gata volcanic complex, southeast Spain, indicate that the volcanic activity of the Cabo de Gata volcanic zone developed over a short period through several pulses of geochemically and isotopically different parental magmas. The oldest volcanic rocks expos...
a b s t r a c t According to previous paleomagnetic analyses, the northward latitudinal drift of Iran related to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean resulted in the Late Triassic collision of Iran with the Eurasian plate and Cimmerian orogeny. The post-Cimmerian paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of Iran is instead less well known. Here we pr...
The geologic map of the Neogene Cabo de Gata volcanic zone is presented together with a comprehensive volcanic stratigraphy and structure based on logging, correlation and mapping. Volcanic rocks are interbedded with sedimentary rocks throughout the Cabo de Gata volcanic zone. The volcano-sedimentary succession of Cabo de Gata has been divided into...
This multidisciplinary study conducted in the area covered by sheet 348 “Antrodoco” of the Geological Map of Italy contributes to the knowledge on an undissected intermontane basin located at the transition between the Gran Sasso and the Laga structural–paleogeographic domains in the highly seismic Apennine axial zone. Geomorphological analysis is...
Iran has been considered since long time a key area for understanding tectonic processes in continental regions, where the formation is distributed over wide areas characterized by a complex faulting architecture. In this region, during the Cenozoic, shortening related to the Arabia-Eurasia convergence has been mainly localized in high mountain ran...
In this work, a wine-growing zone study was carried out to define
a new method aimed to verify whether the Cesanese DOC area
(Latium, Central Italy) is suitable for wine production and to develop
a general knowledge on the main factors that influence the quality of
wine.
In this study, the computation of bioclimatic indexes based on
Géoviticul...
Modern generations of apparent polar wander paths (APWPs) show the occurrence in North American and African coordinates of a major and rapid shift in pole position (plate shift) during the Middle to Late Jurassic (175-145 Ma) that alternative curves from the literature tend to underestimate. This Jurassic massive polar shift (JMPS), of vast and as-...
We report on an extensive paleomagnetic study (36 sites) of the Tuscan Nappe succession from the Northern Apennines Arc, aimed to reconstruct the tectonic evolution of the internal sector of this chain. We analyzed Eocene pelagic foreland ramp deposits (Scaglia Toscana Formation) and Oligocene–lower Miocene siliciclastic turbidites (Macigno and Fal...
Abstract The Miocene Cabo de Gata volcanic arc in SE Spain comprises a wide variety of volcanic facies and eruptive styles in subaqueous to subaerial environments. In the SW sector of the area, 5-100 m-thick, NNW-SSE-orientated dykes feed and intrude submarine hyaloclastite deposits. We analysed the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) of si...
The Quaternary Roman Volcanic Province extends for over 200 km along the Tyrrhenian margin of the Italian peninsula and is composed of several caldera complexes with significant associated geothermal potential. In spite of the massive programs of explorations conducted by the then state-owned ENEL and AGIP companies between the 1970s and 1990s, and...
Abstract Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) data reveal heterogeneous pyroclastic flow processes and variable flow directions within the intra-caldera setting of the Permian rhyolitic welded Ora ignimbrite. Magnetic fabric is primary, orientated during the pyroclastic flow emplacement, and is controlled by paramagnetic and ferromagnetic mi...
Submarine felsic volcanoes are dominated by hyaloclastic piles hundreds of meters thick, the origin of which, in terms of how and when they form, is far from being completely understood.
Here we present a study of the thermal remanent magnetization of the Miocene high-
K dacitic El Barronal hyaloclastites (Cabo de Gata, Spain), showing that their f...
The radiogenic isotopic compositions of inorganic heavy elements such as Sr, Nd and Pb of food chain may constitute a reliable geographic fingerprint being their isotopic ratios inherited by the geological substratum of the territory of production. The Sr isotope composition of geo-materials (i.e., rocks and soils) is largely variable, and it depen...
One of the major issues for understanding the tectonic evolution of
continental regions is how pre-existing discontinuities influence the
style and distribution of deformation, which is often not obviously and
uniquely connected to the plate-boundary kinematics. Iran represents one
of the most instructive regions to study continental deformation, a...
In the last 30 years the origin of the Northern Apennines curvature and
the amount and timing of CCW rotation of the Corsica-Sardinia block have
been the focus of a large number of paleomagnetic investigations. In the
Northern Apennines most of the paleomagnetic data were used to
reconstruct the curved shape of the chain and most of the scientific...
This monograph brings together the most significant results of two research projects whose common denominator was the study of the edaphic factors important for viticulture. The first project, entitled “Brolio”, was financed by Barone Ricasoli Spa Agricola, the wine cellars of Brolio, while the second, entitled “Issuovino”, was financed by the CRA,...
Iran has been considered since long time a key area for understanding
tectonic processes in continental regions, where deformation is
distributed over wide areas characterized by a complex faulting
architecture. In this region, during the Cenozoic, shortening related to
the Arabia-Eurasia convergence has been mainly localized in high
mountain range...
The Ordovician Tschigot granodiorite, hosted by the Texel complex,
underwent polyphase tectonometamorphic overprint during the Variscan and
Alpine orogenies. The main magmatic body forms a large sigma-like clast.
While the contact with the host rock is characterized by a strong and
coherent mylonitic foliation the internal part of the body is almos...
In Central Iran active strike-slip faults are concentrated along the
tectonic boundaries of different crustal blocks (Yazd, Tabas and Lut).
Deformation is mainly expressed by N-S right-lateral and E-W
left-lateral strike-slip faults, which accommodate deformation related
to the Arabia-Eurasia shortening by means of block rotation about
vertical axi...
In this paper, new paleomagnetic and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) data from Miocene continental units of
the Çankırı Basin are presented, with the main goal of providing additional constraints on its deformational and rotational history
during the Late Cenozoic. AMS data indicate a tectonic origin for the magnetic fabric, suggesting...
2) Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran Iran has been considered since long time a key area for understanding tectonic processes in continental regions, where deformation is distributed over wide areas characterized by a complex faulting architecture. In this region, during the Cenozoic, shortening related to the Arabia-Eurasia convergence has b...
3.4.1. Strontium isotope analysis.
The Index of Certain Origin: an intrinsic geochemical parameter that ties a wine to its terroir of origin.
INTRODUCTION
The quality of a wine depends upon the quality of the grapes. Only healthy, perfectly ripe grapes can yield quality wines, and therefore great wines are born more in the vineyard than the cellar...
We present paleomagnetic, rock magnetic and scanning electron microscope
data from three upper Messinian stratigraphic sections from the Adana
Basin (southern Turkey). The collected samples are from fine-grained
units, which were deposited during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (within
subchron C3r). Paleomagnetic results reveal an inconsistent polar...
Paleomagnetic results from Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary units in central Iran are used to reconstruct the history of Neogene tectonic deformation of this region. Paleomagnetic data show that in central Iran, crustal blocks bounded by sets of strike-slip faults are rotated to accommodate NNE-SSW shortening related to Arabia-Eurasia convergence. Cou...
Shortening related to the Arabia-Eurasia convergence in the Cenozoic has been – and is at present being – taken up mainly by displacements in the Zagros, Alborz, and Kopeh Dag thrust-and-fold belts of Iran, whereas the intervening, fault-bounded crustal blocks of Central Iran (Yazd, Tabas and Lut blocks) show little internal deformation. Central Ir...