Gianluca Frasca

First Name | Gianluca |
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Last Name | Frasca |
Unit | Torino |
gianluca.frasca(at)igg.cnr.it | |
Role | Researcher |
Personal website | gianlucafrasca.weebly.com |
Research Gate Link | www.researchgate.net/profile/Gianluca_Frasca |
Google Scholar Link | scholar.google.fr/citations |
Twitter account | http://twitter.com/frasca_gianluca |
EDUCATION
- 2019-present, Researcher at IGG-CNR, Torino
- 2018-2019, Post-Doctoral fellow at EOST Strasbourg
- 2016-2018, Post-Doctoral fellow at CRPG Nancy
- 2015, PhD, Earth Sciences, Géosciences Montpellier and Rennes (Topomod ETN)
- 2011, MSc, Earth Sciences at “Università degli Studi di Torino”
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
My main research interests are in the mechanics of lithosphere deformation at rifted margins and subduction rollback systems. My research method is field-based (geological mapping, structural analysis) and aims at identifying information for modeling set-ups and kinematic/paleogeographic reconstructions (GPlates software)
In my analysis of large-scale dynamic systems, structural and stratigraphical field-derived datasets are integrated with microstructural, petrological and low-T/high-T geochronological studies, using GIS packages (ArcGis, QGis), optical microscopy, SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS, and classical thermobarometry
I address my scientific questions by a multidisciplinary approach, working in collaboration with modelers and scientists from other branches of geology such as geochemistry and paleontology
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Fieldwork experience in the Mediterranean region (Betics, Calabria, Pyrenees, Sardinia, W Alps, Rif)
Convener at EGU2019, Vienna, for the session "Cross-disciplinary investigations of extensional systems". TS6.4/GD5.7/GMPV7.26/SM1.25/ SSP3.30 (co-organized)
Supervision of students' master thesis (Master 1 and 2: Montpellier, Rennes, Nancy) (Tesi di Laurea: Torino) (2012-2014, 2017, 2020)
Ground logistics and scientific supervision during master and bachelor field courses (ENS, Nancy; Géosciences Montpellier; 2012-2015; 2017-2018, 2020)
"Qualification à Maître de conférences", French Habilitation to Assistant Professorships, 2017
AWARDS AND INVITATIONS
- Invited talks at GFZ Potsdam, Milano Bicocca, Torino, Pisa, BRGM Orléans, ISTO Orléans, CSIC Barcelona, SIG Bonn, CRPG Nancy (2016-2020)
- Premio GIGS (Gruppo Italiano di Geologia Strutturale), award for the best PhD thesis in Tectonics, 2016. Title of the PhD Thesis: “Tectonics of the Western Betics: From mantle extensional exhumation to westward thrusting”. Advisors: F. Gueydan, J.P Brun
- “Ugo Pognante'' award for the best master thesis on the Alpine orogen, 2011
- Erasmus Fellowship, Institutionen för Geologiska Vetenskaper, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., Brune, S., Ford, M. (2019) Formation of the Iberian-European convergent plate boundary fault and its effect on intraplate deformation in central Europe. G-Cubed, http://dx.doi:10.1029/2018GC007840
Gueydan, F., Frasca, G. (2017) Western Alboran Peridotite exhumation in an Oligocene-Miocene oblique continental rift system, in Bianchini, G., Bodinier, J.-L., Braga, R., and Wilson, M., eds., The Crust-Mantle and Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries: Insights from Xenoliths, Orogenic Deep Sections, and Geophysical Studies: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 526, 73-87, doi:10.1130/2017.2526(04)
Frasca, G., Gueydan, F., Poujol, M., Monié, P., Brun, J.-P., Parat, F., Pichat, A., Mazier, S. (2017) Fast switch from extensional exhumation to thrusting (Ronda Peridotites, South Spain). Terra Nova. 1-10. DOI: 10.1111/ter.12255
Frasca, G., Gueydan, F., Brun, J.-P., Monié, P. (2016) Deformation mechanisms in a continental rift up to mantle exhumation. Field evidence from the western Betics, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 76. 310-328. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.04.020
Frasca, G., Gueydan, F. and Brun, J.-P. (2015) Structural record of Lower Miocene westward motion of the Alboran Domain, Western Betics, Spain. Tectonophysics. 657. 1-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.05.01