Giacomo Corti Giacomo Corti received a degree in Geology at the University of Florence (1997) and a Ph.D. in Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Pisa (2003). His Ph.D. thesis focused on analogue modelling of continental extension with special reference to the relations between the patterns of deformation and the presence of magma. His research currently focuses on continental extensional tectonics, with special interest on the evolution of the East African Rift System; this research integrates field geological-structural studies, analogue modelling and geophysical data. His scientific interests also include the analogue modelling of deformation processes at various scales, including continental collision, strike-slip deformation, multiphase deformation, magma emplacement, geomorphic processes (e.g., ice flow dynamics). He is also involved in projects analyzing the active tectonics in the Northern Apennines, the Quaternary magmatism of the Tuscan Magmatic Province, the tectonics of Central America (El Salvador) and the processes of ice flow and meteorite accumulation in the Antarctic ice.

He is currently involved in many international cooperations with experimental modelling laboratories and other scientific institutions worldwide. He is the author or co-author of 54 peer-reviewed international publications, 3 geological maps, 4 national publications, 19 extended abstracts and more than 100 presentations at international or national congresses. He has been an invited speaker at both international (EGU Vienna, Riftlink Neustadt-Germany) and national congresses (SIMP, FIST). He is a Reviewer for international Journals (including: Nature Geoscience, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Tectonics, GCubed, Geophysical Journal International, Tectonophysics, Journal of Structural Geology, Geological Society of London Special Publications, etc.) and has acted a reviewer for projects of foreign research institutes (such as: National Science Foundation, USA; American Chemical Society, USA; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada; National Center for Scientific Research, France; Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland). He is Guest Editor of Tectonphysics for the special volume “Quantitative modelling of geological processes” (in press) and of the Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata, 49, 2 supplement (extended abstract of Geomod2008). He is the main organizer of GeoMod2008, the Third International Geological Modelling congress held in Florence on 21-26 Sept 2008. Giacomo Corti's list of publications (and citations) on Google Scholar Research gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giacomo_Corti/

List of recent publications (2013-2007):

Corti, G. Philippon, M., Sani F., Keir, D., Kidane, T. (2013). Re-orientation of the extension direction and pure extensional faulting at oblique rift margins: comparison between the Main Ethiopian Rift and laboratory experiments. Terra Nova, in press.

Corti G., Ranalli G., Agostini A., Sokoutis D. (2013). Inward migration of faulting during continental rifting: effects of pre-existing lithospheric structure and extension rate. Tectonophysics, 594, 137-148.

Corti G., Iandelli I., Cerca M. (2013). Experimental modeling of rifting at craton margins. Geosphere, 9(1), 138–154, doi:10.1130/GES00863.1.

Benvenuti M., Bonini M., Tassi F., Corti G., Sani F., Agostini A., Manetti P., Vaselli O. (2013).  Holocene lacustrine fluctuations and deep CO2 degassing in the northeastern Lake Langano Basin (Main Ethiopian Rift). Journal of African Earth Sciences, 77, 1–10.

Corti G., Manetti P. (2012). Geologia e paesaggi della rift valley in Etiopia. Edizioni CNR, Roma-Pacini Editore, Pisa, 160pp.

Corti G. (2012). Evolution and characteristics of continental rifting: analogue modeling-inspired view and comparison with examples from the East African Rift System. Tectonophysics, 522-523, 1-33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.010

Agostini A., Bonini M., Corti G., Sani F., Manetti P. (2011). Distribution of Quaternary deformation in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa. Tectonics, 30, TC4010, doi:10.1029/2010TC002833.

Boccaletti M., Corti G., Martelli, L. (2011). Recent and active tectonics of the external zone of the Northern Apennines (Italy), International Journal of Earth Sciences, 100, 1331-1348, doi: 10.1007/s00531-010-0545-y.

Corti G., Calignano E., Petit C., Sani F. (2011). Controls of lithospheric structure and plate kinematics on rift architecture and evolution: an experimental modeling of the Baikal Rift. Tectonics, 30, TC3011, doi:10.1029/2011TC002871.

Agostini A., Bonini M., Corti G., Sani F., Mazzarini F. (2011).  Fault architecture in the Main Ethiopian Rift and comparison with experimental models: implications for rift evolution and Nubia-Somalia kinematics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 301, 479-492.

Corti G., Ranalli G., Sokoutis D. (2010). Guest Editors of the special volume "Quantitative modelling of geological processes", Tectonophysics, Volume 484, Issues 1-4, Pages 1-194 (19 March 2010).

Corti G., Ranalli G., Sokoutis D. (2010). Preface to Quantitative modelling of geological processes. Tectonophysics, 484, 1-3.

Mazzarini F., Musumeci G., Montanari D., Corti G. (2010). Relations between deformation and upper crustal magma emplacement in laboratory physical models. Tectonophysics, 484, 139-146.

Montanari D., Corti G., Sani F., Del Ventisette C., Bonini M., Moratti G. (2010). Experimental investigation on granite emplacement during shortening. Tectonophysics, 484, 147-155.

Corti G., Ranalli G., Mulugeta G., Agostini A., Sani F., Zugu A. (2010). Control of the rheological structure of the lithosphere on the inward migration of tectonic activity during continental rifting. Tectonophysics, 490, 165-172.

Cerca M., Ferrari L., Corti G., Bonini M., Manetti P. (2010). Analogue model of inversion tectonics explaining the structural diversity of Late Cretaceous shortening in southwestern Mexico. Lithosphere, 2, 172-187.

Montanari D., Corti G., Simakin A. (2010). Magma chambers and localization of deformation during thrusting. Terra Nova, 22, 390-395.

Corti G., Manetti P., Abebe T., Bonini M., Mazzarini F. (2010). The volcano-tectonic activity of the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa: Insights into the evolution of continental rifting. Acta Vulcanologica, 20-21, 133-144.

Agostini A., Corti G., Zeoli A., Mulugeta G. (2009). Evolution, pattern and partitioning of deformation during oblique continental rifting: Inferences from lithospheric-scale centrifuge models. Geochemistry, Geosphysics, Geosystems (GCubed), 10, Q11015, doi:10.1029/2009GC002676.

Corti G., 2009. Continental rift evolution: from rift initiation to incipient break-up in the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa. Earth Science Reviews, 96, 1–53.

Cerca M., Ferrari L., Tolson G., Bonini M., Corti G., Manetti P. (2009). Analogue models of an early Cenozoic transpressive regime in southern Mexico: implications on the evolution of the Xolapa complex and the North American–Caribbean plate boundarys. In: The Origin and Evolution of the Caribbean Plate, K.H.. James, M.A.. Lorente, & J.L. Pindell (Eds.). Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 328, 179-193.

Sani F., M. Bonini, L. Piccardi, G. Vannucci, D. Delle Donne, M. Benvenuti, G. Moratti, G. Corti, D. Montanari, L. Sedda, C. Tanini (2009). Late Pliocene?Quaternary evolution of outermost hinterland basins of the Northern Apennines (Italy), and their relevance to active tectonics. Tectonophysics, 476, 336-356.

Sani F., M. Bonini, A. Cerrina Feroni, F. Mazzarini, G. Moratti, G. Musumeci, G. Corti, F. Iatta, A. Ellero (2009). Messinian-Early Pliocene crustal shortening along the Tyrrhenian margin of Tuscany, Italy. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana, Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana, 128, 593-604.

Corti G., Zeoli A., Belmaggio P., Folco L. (2008). Physical modelling of the influence of bedrock topography and ablation on ice flow and meteorite concentration in Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F01018, doi:10.1029/2006JF000708.

Corti G. (2008). Control of rift obliquity on the evolution and segmentation of the main Ethiopian rift. Nature Geoscience, 1, 258-262.

Deponti A., Zeoli A., Corti G. (2008). Numeric and Analogue Modelling of Ice Flow: A Preliminary Study. Terra Antarctica Reports, 14, 15-21.

Corti G., Bonini, M., Innocenti, F., Manetti, P., Piccardo, G.B., Ranalli, G. (2007). Experimental models of extension of continental lithosphere weakened by percolation of asthenospheric melts. Journal of Geodynamics, 43, 465–483.

Del Ventisette C., Montanari D., Sani F., Bonini M., Corti G. (2007). Reply to: Comment by J. Wickham on "Basin inversion and fault reactivation in laboratory experiments". Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 1417-1418.

Bonini M., Corti G., Del Ventisette C., Manetti P., Mulugeta G., Sokoutis D. (2007). Modelling the lithospheric rheology control on the Cretaceous rifting in West Antarctica. Terra Nova, 19, 360-366.

Corti, G., J. van Wijk, S. Cloetingh, and C. K. Morley (2007). Tectonic inheritance and continental rift architecture: Numerical and analogue models of the East African Rift system. Tectonics, 26, TC6006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006TC002086

Sokoutis D., Corti G., Bonini M., Brun J.-P., Cloetingh S. Mauduit T., Manetti P. (2007). Modelling the extension of heterogeneous hot lithosphere. Tectonophysics, 444, 63-79.