Exploring the interactions between rift propagation and inherited crustal fabrics through experimental modeling

D Maestrelli, D Montanari, G Corti, C Del Ventisette… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continental rifting is a geodynamic process that involves the breakup of the crust and may
eventually evolve to seafloor spreading. Although it is often assumed to be a product of …

Normal fault reactivation during multiphase extension: Analogue models and application to the Turkana depression, East Africa

L Wang, D Maestrelli, G Corti, Y Zou, C Shen - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
We present crustal scale physical analogue models of multiphase rifting to provide new
constraints on the role exerted by faults formed during early extension on structures …

Analog and Numerical Modeling of Rift‐Rift‐Rift Triple Junctions

D Maestrelli, S Brune, G Corti, D Keir, AA Muluneh… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rift‐Rift‐Rift triple junctions are key features of emergent plate boundary networks
during fragmentation of a continent. A key example of such a setting is the Afar triple junction …

The relationship between inverted normal faults and pure thrusting during the tectonic inversion of the Domeyko Cordillera, northern Chile: Structural and seismic …

C López, C Del Ventisette, M Bonini, D Montanari… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The orogenic growth of the Domeyko Cordillera was induced by a positive tectonic
inversion. In this work, we have validated this interpretation from new field data, which were …

Modeling intra‐caldera resurgence settings: laboratory experiments with application to the los humeros volcanic complex (Mexico)

M Bonini, D Maestrelli, G Corti… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Scaled analogue models explored the role of different boundary conditions in intra‐caldera
resurgence processes. Models investigated the role of magma intrusion depth (ID)(Series 1) …

Exploring fault propagation and the role of inherited structures during caldera collapse through laboratory experiments

D Maestrelli, M Bonini, G Corti, C Del Ventisette… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Caldera collapse received large attention during the last decades and was widely studied
using various approaches, spanning from field-geology to numerical and analogue …

Influence of zones of pre‐existing crustal weakness on strain localization and partitioning during rifting: Insights from analog modeling using high‐resolution 3D digital …

EE Osagiede, M Rosenau, A Rotevatn… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pre‐existing crustal structures are known to influence rifting, but the factors controlling their
influence remain poorly understood. We present results of digital image correlation that …

3D-thrust fault pattern control on negative inversion: An analogue modelling perspective on central Italy

C Del Ventisette, M Bonini, D Maestrelli, F Sani… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the last decades, central Italy has been struck by severe seismic sequences. Some
authors have suggested that inherited thrust faults may have played an important role in …

Fault reactivation and growth at rift-related calderas

D Maestrelli, G Corti, M Bonini, D Keir… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Caldera collapses are paramount volcano-tectonic features because they form during
hazardous explosive volcanic eruptions, they are ideal sites for geothermal development …

A database of laboratory analogue models of caldera collapse testing the role of inherited structures

D Maestrelli, M Bonini, G Corti… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since caldera collapse deformation is extremely difficult to study in real time-due to the high
deformation rates that characterize this process and the difficult access to the caldera …