Ogata, K., Pogačnik, Ž., Tunis, G., Pini, G.A., Festa, A., and Senger, K. (2019) – A geophysical-geochemical approach to the study of the Paleocene Julian-Slovenian Basin “Megabeds” (Southern Alps - Northwestern Dinarides, Italy/Slovenia). Geosciences, 9(4), 155. http://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9040155 Balestro, G., Festa, A., Borghi, A., Castelli, D., Gattiglio, M., and Tartarotti, P. (2018) – Role of Late Jurassic intra- oceanic structural inheritance in the Alpine tectonic evolution of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex  (Western Alps). Geological Magazine, 155(2), 233-249. Doi: 10.1017/S0016756817000553. Capponi, G., Festa, A., and Rebay, G. (2018) – Birth and death of oceanic basins: geodynamic processes from rifting to  continental collision in Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean orogens. Geological  Magazine, 155(2), 229-232. Doi: 10.1017/S0016756817001066. 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, in press, 1-9. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.05.002. Mittempergher, S., Cerchiari, A., Remitti, F., and Festa, A. (2018) – From soft sediment deformation to fluid assisted  faulting in the shallow part of a subduction megathrust analogue: the Sestola Vidiciatico tectonic  Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy). Geological Magazine, 155(2), 438-450. Doi: 10.1017/S0016756817000668. Barbero, E., Festa, A., Fioraso G, and Catanzariti, R. (2017) - Geology of the Curone and Staffora Valleys (NW Italy):  field constraints for the Late Cretaceous – Pliocene tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Northern  Apennines. Journal of Maps, 13 (2), 879-891. Doi: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1398114. Tartarotti, P., Festa A., Benciolini, L., and Balestro, G., (2017) - Record of Jurassic mass transport processes through  the orogenic cycle: understanding chaotic rock units in the high-pressure Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (W- Alps). Lithosphere, 9(3), 399-407, doi:10.1130/L605.1 Alonso, J.L., Banchig, A.L., Voldman, G.G., Albanesi, G.L., Cardò, R., Fernandez, L.P., Martin-Merino, G., Ortega,  G., Suarez, A., Festa, A., Rodriguez Fernandez, L.R., and Ramos, V.A. (2016) – Relacion estructural  entre la Precordillera Central y Occidental en la seccion del Rio San Juan. Acta Geologica Lilloana. 28, 25-31. 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 Ogata, K., Pini, G.A., Festa, A., Pogačnik Ž., and Lucente, C.C. (2016) – Meso-scale kinematic indicators in exhumed  mass-transport deposits: definitions and implications. Submarine Mass Movements and Their  Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, v 41, Chapter 46, 461-468.  Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-319-20978-4, Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_46 Balestro, G., Festa, A., and Tartarotti, P. (2015) – Tectonic significance of different block- in-matrix structures in  exhumed convergent plate margins: examples from oceanic and continental HP rocks in Inner Western  Alps (NW Italy). International Geology Review, v. 57, no. 5-8, 581-605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2014.943307. Balestro, G., Festa, A., Dilek, Y., and Tartarotti, P. (2015) - Pre-Alpine Extensional Tectonics of a Peridotite-Localized  Oceanic Core Complex in the Late Jurassic, High-Pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps). Episodes,  38 (4), 266-282. Doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2015/v38i4/82421. EPISODES BEST PAPER AWARD 2016 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., Fioraso G, Bissacca E., and Petrizzo M.R. (2015) - Geology of the Villalvernia- Varzi Line between Scrivia  and Curone valleys (NW Italy). In: Zucali M., and Spalla, I., Structural Mapping in the Mediterranean:  bridging laboratory to lithosphere. Journal of Maps, 11 (1), 39-55. Doi: 10.1080/17445647.2014.959569. Festa, A., Ogata, K., Pini, G.A., Dilek, Y., and Codegone, G. (2015) - 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). International Geology Review,  v. 57, no. 5-8, 540-562. Doi: 10.1080/00206814.2014.931260. Rolfo, F., Benna, P., Cadoppi, P., Castelli, D., Favero-Longo, S.E., Giardino, M., Balestro, G., Belluso, E., Borghi, A., Cámara, F., Compagnoni, R., Ferrando, S., Festa, A., Forno, M.G., Giacometti, F., Gianotti, F., Groppo, C., Lombardo, B., Mosca, P., Perrone,  G., Piervittori, R., Rebay, G., and Rossetti, P. (2015) - The  Monviso Massif and the Cottian Alps as symbols of the Alpine chain and geological heritage in Piemonte,  Italy. Geoheritage, v. 7, issue 1, 65-84. DOI: 10.1007/s12371-014-0097-9. Scardia, G., Festa, A., Monegato, G., Pini, R., Rogledi, S., Tremolada, F., and Galadini, F. (2015) – Evidence for late Alpine tectonics in the Lake Garda area (northern Italy) and seismogenic implications. Geological  Society of America Bulletin, 127 (1/2), 113-130. Doi: 10.1130/B30990.1 Balestro, G., Lombardo, B., Vaggelli, G., Borghi, A., Festa, A., and Gattiglio, M. (2014) – Tectonostratigraphy of the Northern Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps). Italian Journal of Geosciences, 133 (3), 409- 426. Doi: 10.3301/IJG.2014.13 Festa, A., Accotto, C., Coscarelli, F., Malerba, E., and Palazzin, G. (2014) - Geology of the Aventino River Valley  (Eastern Majella, Central Italy). Journal of Maps, v. 10. Issue 4, 584-599. Doi: 10.1080/17445647.2014.899524 including a geological map at 1:25,000 scale. Festa, A., Dilek, Y., Gawlick, H-J, and Missoni, S. (2014) - Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and soft-sediment  deformation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated natural hazards. Marine  Geology, Special Issue 356, 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.09.001 Ogata, K., Mountjoy, J.J., Pini, G.A., Festa, A., and Tinterri, E. (2014) – Shear zone liquefaction in mass transport  deposit emplacement: A multi-scale integration of seismic reflection and outcrop data. Marine  Geology, Special Issue 356, 50-64. Doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.001 Ogata, K., Pogačnik, Ž., Pini, G.A., Tunis, G., Festa, A., Camerlenghi, A., and Rebesco, M. (2014) - The carbonate mass transport deposits of the Paleogene Friuli Basin (Italy/Slovenia): internal anatomy and inferred  genetic processes. Marine Geology, Special Issue 356, 88-110. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.06.014 Ogata, K., Pini, G.A., Festa, A., Pogačnik, Ž., Tunis, G., Mountjoy, J.J., Senger, K., and Strasser, M. (2014) – High- resolution studies of mass transport deposits: outcrop perspective for understanding modern submarine slope failure and associated natural hazards. In Lollino, G., Manconi, A., Locat, J., Huang, Y., and   Canals Artigas, M. (Eds.): Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, Volume 4, Marine and Coastal  Processes, 209-213 Springer International Publishing Switzerland, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08660-6_40 (ISBN: 978-3-319-08659). Festa, A., and Codegone G. (2013) - Geological map of the External Ligurian Units in western Monferrato (Tertiary  Piedmont Basin, NW Italy). Journal of Maps, v. 9, issue 1, 84-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2012.757711 including a geological map at 1:10,000 scale. Festa A., Dilek., Y., Codegone G., Cavagna, S., and Pini, G.A., (2013) - Structural Anatomy of the Ligurian Accretionary Wedge (Monferrato, NW-Italy), and Evolution of Superposed Mélanges. Geological Society  of America Bulletin, 125 (9/10), 1580-1598. Doi: 10.1130/B30847.1 Codegone G., Festa A., and Dilek Y. (2012a) - Formation of Taconic Mélanges and Broken Formations in the Hamburg Klippe, Central Appalachian Orogenic Belt, Eastern Pennsylvania. Tectonophysics, v.568-569, 215-229. Doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.017 Codegone G., Festa A., Dilek Y., and Pini G.A. (2012b) - Small-scale polygenic mélanges in the Ligurian accretionary complex, Northern Apennines, Italy, and the role of shale diapirism in superposed mélange evolution in orogenic belts. Tectonophysics, v. 568-569, 170-184. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.003. Dilek Y., Festa A., Ogawa Y., and Pini G.A. (2012) - Chaos and Geodynamics: Mélanges, Mélange-forming Processes and  Their Significance in the Geological Record. Tectonophysics, v. 568-569, 1-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.002 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, v. 568-569, 7-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.021 Pini G.A., Ogata K., Camerlenghi A., Festa A., Lucente C.C., and Codegone G. (2012) Sedimentary mélanges and  fossil mass-transport complexes: a key for better understanding submarine mass movements? In: Y Yamada et al., eds., Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, v. 31 (8), p. 585-594, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_52 (ISBN: 978-94-007-2161-6). Festa, A., (2011) - Tectonic,  sedimentary,  and  diapiric  formation  of  the  Messinian mélange: Tertiary Piedmont  Basin (northwestern Italy): In, Wakabayashi, J., and Dilek, Y., eds., Mélanges: Processes of Formation  and Societal Significance: Geological Society of America Special Paper 480, p. 215–232, doi:10.1130/2011.2480(10) Festa, A., Pini, G.A., Dilek, Y., and Codegone, G. (2010a) - Mélanges and mélange- forming processes: a  historical overview and new concepts: In, Dilek, Y., ed., Alpine Concept in Geology: International  Geology Review, v. 52, nos. 10-12, p. 1040-1105.. DOI: 10.1080/00206810903557704. #10 paper on 11.542 articles in the category “Geology” of WEB OF SCIENCE in the perion 201 Highest Cited papers in 2010-2014 Festa, A., Pini, G.A., Dilek, Y., Codegone, G., Vezzani, L., Ghisetti, F., Lucente, C.C., and Ogata, K. (2010b) -  Peri-Adriatic mélanges and their evolution in the Tethyan realm: In, Dilek, Y., ed., Eastern Mediterranean geodynamics (Part II): International Geology Review, v. 52, nos. 4-6, p. 369-406. DOI: 10.1080/00206810902949886. 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, accompanying by a CD-ROM 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 Festa, A., Dela Pierre, F., Irace, A., Piana, F., Fioraso, G., Lucchesi, S., Boano, P., and Forno, M.G., 2009, Note Illustrative della Carta Geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50,000. Foglio 156 Torino Est. ISPRA, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Litografia Geda, Nichelino, 143 p. ISBN: 9788824029445. Vezzani, L., Ghisetti, F., and Festa, A., 2009, Caratterizzazione strutturale dei principali sistemi di faglie dell’Abruzzo Aquilano. Geoitalia, 28, 4-12. DOI: 10.1474. ISSN 1724-4285. Dela Pierre, F., Festa A., and Irace, A., 2007, Interaction of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric processes in the origin of chaotic sediments: an example from the Messinian of the Torino Hill (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (9/10), 1107-1119. Doi: 10.1130/B26072.1 Others n. 30 papers have been published before 2008. Abouth n. 100 abstracts have been presented at international and national meetings. Significant Books Barbero, E., Dilek., Y., Festa, A., and Saccani, E. (2023) – Ophiolites and ophiolitic mélanges: Archives of Precambrian and Phanerozoic plate tectonics in orogenic belts. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 3 (2), http://doi.org/j.geogeo.2023.100191 Festa, A., Ogata, K., and Pini, G.A. (2020) – Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (3), 551-659. Ogata, K., Festa, A., and Pini, G.A., (2020) – Submarine Landslides: subaqueous mass transport deposits from outcrop to seismic profiles. Geophysical Monograph 246, First Edition, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley & Sons Inc., USA, 384 p., ISBN: 978-1-119-50058-2 Festa, A., Ogata, K., and Pini, G.A., (2019) – Mélanges: 100^th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept. Gondwana Research 74, 270 p., ISSN 1342-937X Capponi, G., Festa, A., and Rebay, G. (2018) – Birth and death of oceanic basins: geodynamic  processes from rifting to continental collision in Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean  orogens. Geological Magazine, 155(2), 320 pp. Doi: 10.1017/S0016756817001066. Festa, A., Dilek, Y., Gawlick, H-J, and Missoni, S. (2014) - Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and soft-sediment deformation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated  natural hazards. Marine Geology, Special Issue 356, 1-128. ISSN: 0025-3227. Dilek. Y., Festa A., Ogawa Y. and Pini G.A. (Eds) (2012) - Chaos and Geodynamics: Mélanges,  mélange formation and their significance in the geological record. Tectonophysics (Special Issue), vol. 568-569, 387 pp. Vezzani L., Festa, A. and Ghisetti, F. (Eds.) (2010) - Geology and Tectonic evolution of the   Central-Southern Apennines, Italy: Geological Society of America Special Paper 469, 58 p, accompanying by a CD-ROM 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

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.

My last significant publications are listed below. For most publications you can download the first page and read the abstract; for other ones it is possible to download the full text (see links below) according to the copyright rules of the different editors. If you are interested in receiving PDF copy of the full paper, please contact me at: andrea.festa@unito.it

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, 74, 7-30. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr2019.01.003 Fioraso, G., Balestro, G., Festa, A., and Lanteri, L. (2019) – Role of structural inheritance in the gravitational deformation of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex: the Pui-Orgiera serpentinite landslide (Varaita Vallaey, Western Alps). Journal of Maps, 15(2), 372-381. http://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1602854. Including a geological map at 1:10,000 scale Groppo, C., Ferrando, S., Gilio, M., Botta, S., Nosenzo, F., Balestro, G., Festa, A., and Rolfo, F. (2019) – What’s in the sandwich? New P-T constraints for the (U)HP nappe stack of southern Dora-Maria Massif (Western Alps). European Journal of Mineralogy, 31(4), 665-683. Doi: 10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2860

Balestro, G., Festa, A., and Dilek, Y. (2019) – Structural architecture of the Western Alpine Ophiolites, and the Jurassic seafloor spreading tectonics of the Alpine Tethys. Journal of the Geological Society, 176, 913- 930. Doi: 10.1144/jgs2018-099 Festa, A., Ogata, K., and Pini, G.A. (2019) – Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept.  Gondwana Research, 74, 1-6. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019-07.002.

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. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf2018.11.007. GEOSCIENCE FRONTIERS Best Paper Award 2020

Festa, A., Cavagna, S., Barbero, E., Catanzariti, R., and Pini, G.A. (2020) – Mid-Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate changes and gas hydrates dissociation. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (3), 575-586. Doi: 10.1144/jgs2019-020.

Ogata, K., Festa, A., Pini, G.A., and Alonso, J.L. (2020) – Submarine landslide deposits in orogenic belts: olistostromes and sedimentary mélanges. In: Ogata, K., Festa, A., and Pini, G.A. (Eds.) – Submarine Landslides: subaqueous mass transport deposits from outcrop to seismic profiles. Geophysical Monograph 246, First Edition, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley & Sons Inc., USA, 3-26.

Ogata, K., Festa, A., and Pini, G.A. (2020) – Submarine Landslides: subaqueous mass transport deposits from outcrop to seismic profiles. Geophysical Monograph 246, First Edition, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley  & Sons Inc., USA, 384 p., ISBN: 978-1-119-50058-2

Ogata, K., Festa, A., Pini, G.A., Pogačnik, Ž., and Lucente, C.C. (2019) – Substrate deformation and incorporation in sedimentary mélanges (olistostromes): Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and northwestern Dinarides (Slovenia). Gondwana Research, 74, 101-125. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr2019.03.001 Robustelli Test, C., Festa, A., Zanella, E., Codegone, G., and Scaramuzzo, E. (2019) – Distinguishing the mélange- forming processes in subduction-accretion complexes: constraints from the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS). Geosciences, 9(9), 381. http://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090381

Tartarortti, P., Guerini, S., Rotondo, F., Festa, A., Balestro, G., Bebout, G.E., Cannaò, E., Epstein, G.S., and Scambelluri, M. (2019) – Superposed sedimentary and tectonic block-in-matrix fabrics in a subducted serpentinite mélange (High-Pressure Zermatt-Saas Ophiolite, Western Alps). Geosciences, 9(8), 358. http://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9080358

Barbero, E., Festa, A., Saccani, E., Catanzariti, R., and D’Onofrio, R. (2020) – Redefinition of the Ligurian Units at the Alps-Apennines junction (NW Italy) and their role in the evolution of the Ligurian accretionary wedge: constraints from mélanges and broken formations. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (3), 562-574. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-022

Festa, A., Ogata, K., and Pini, G.A. (2020) – Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(3), 551-561. Doi: 10.1144/jgs2019-0212.

Geersen, J., Festa, A., and Remitti, F. (2020) – Structural constraints on the subduction of mass transport deposits in convergent margins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 500, 115-128. http://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-174.

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Balestro, G., Nosenzo, F., Cadoppi, P., Fioraso, G., Groppo, C., and Festa, A. (2020) – Geology of the southern Dora- Maira Massif: insights from a sector with mixed ophiolitic and continental rocks (Valmala Tectonic Unit, Western Alps). Journal of Maps, 16(2), 736-744. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1824825. Including a geological map at 1:10,000 scale.

Tartarotti, P., Martin, S., Festa, A., and Balestro, G. (2021) – Metasediments covering ophiolites in the HP Internal Belt of Western Alps: review of tectono-stratigraphic successions and constraints for the Alpine evolution.  Minerals, 11(4), 411. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040411.

Cerchiari, A., Remitti, F., Mittempergher, S., Festa, A., Lugli, S., and Cipriani, A. (2020) – Cyclical variations of fluid sources and stress state in a shallow megathrust zone mélange. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (3), 647-659. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-072.

De Togni, M., Gattiglio, M., Ghignone, S., and Festa, A. (2021) – Pre-Alpine tectono-stratigraphic reconstruction of the Jurassic Tethys in the high-pressure Internal Piedmont Zone (Stura di Lanzo Valley, Western Alps).  Minerals, 11(4), 361. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040361.

Balestro, G., Festa, A., Dilek, Y., and Tartarotti, P. (2015) - Pre-Alpine Extensional Tectonics of a Peridotite-Localized  Oceanic Core Complex in the Late Jurassic, High-Pressure Monviso ophiolite (Western Alps). Episodes, 38 (4), 266-282. 

Pavia, G., Dulai, A., Festa, A., Gennari, R., Pavia, M., and Carnevale, G. (2022) – Paleontology of the Upper Pliocene marine deposits of Rio Vaccaruzza - Villavernia (Piedmont, NW-Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 128(1), 129-200.

Festa, A., Barbero, E., Remitti, F., Ogata, K., and Pini, G.A. (2022) – Mélanges and chaotic rock units: implications for exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 1(2), 100030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geogeo.2022.100030.

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

Balestro, G., Festa, A., De Caroli, S., Barbero, E, Borghi, A., and Gianotti, F. (2022) – Multistage tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Canavese Intracontinental Suture Zone: new constraints on the tectonics of the Inner Wester Alps. Geoscience Frontiers, 13, 101448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf2022.101448.

Balestro, G., Festa, A., Cadoppi, P., Groppo, C., and Roà, M. (2022) – Orogenic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the European distal margin - Alpine Tethys transition zone in High-Pressure Units of the Southwestern Alps.  Geosciences, 12, 358. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12100358.

Barbero, E., Dilek, Y.,  Festa, A., and Saccani, E. (2023) – Ophiolites and ophiolitic mélanges: Archives of Precambrian and Phanerozoic plate tectonics in orogenic belts. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 3(2), 1001991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geogeo.2023.100191.

Pellerey, L., Zac, J., Tomek, F., and  Festa, A. (2023) – Magnetic fabric of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of ocean plates from seafloor spreading to emplacement into accretionary wedges. Journal of the Geological Society, 181 (2), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023- 141.

Nirta, G., Remitti. F., Barbero, E., and  Festa, A. (2023) – Offscraping and shallow ophiolite accretion in the Ligurian Accretionary Wedge (Tuscan Apennines): role of seafloor structural inheritance. Journal of the Geological Society, 181 (2), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-189.