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Luca C Malatesta

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Rift tectonics modulated by the efficiency of river erosion; Olive, J.-A., Malatesta, L. C., Behn, M. D., Buck, W. R., 2022, , PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.2115077119 Link

The influence of rock uplift rate on the formation and preservation of individual marine terraces during multiple sea level stands; Malatesta, L. C., Finnegan, N. J., Huppert, K. L., Carreño, E.; 2022; Geology, doi:10.1130/G49245.1 Link

Quantification of Gravitational Mass Wasting and Controls on Submarine Scarp Morphology Along the Roseau Fault, Lesser Antilles; Hughes, A., Escartín, J., Olive, J.-A., Billant, J., Deplus, C., Feuillet, N., Leclerc, F., Malatesta, L. C.; 2021 , JGR Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/ 2020JF005892 Link

Co-location of the downdip end of seismic coupling and the continental shelf break; Malatesta, L. C., Bruhat, L., Finnegan, N. J., Olive, J.-A.; 2021; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB019589. doi:10.1029/2020JB019589  Link

Contrasting river incision in north and south Tian Shan piedmonts due to different glacial imprint of high range topography; Malatesta, L. C. and Avouac J.-P.; Geology; doi.org/10.1130/G40320.1. Link

Late Pleistocene acceleration of deformation across the northern Tianshan piedmont (China) evidenced from the morpho-tectonic evolution of the Dushanzi anticline; J. Charreau, D. Saint-Carlier, J. Lavé, S. Dominguez, P.-H. Blard, J.-P. Avouac, N. D. Brown, L. C. Malatesta, S. Wang, E. J. Rhodes; 2018; Tectonophysics, v. 730, p. 132-140; doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.02.016. Link

Lag and mixing during sediment transfer across the Tian Shan piedmont caused by climate-driven aggradation-incision cycles; Malatesta, L. C., Avouac, J.-P., Brown, N. D., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Pan, J., Chevalier, M.-L., Rhodes, E., Saint-Carlier, D., Zhang, W., Charreau, J., Lavé, J., Blard, P.-H.; 2017; Basin Research; doi: 10.1111/bre.12267. Link

Formation of waterfalls by intermittent burial of active faults; Malatesta, L. C. and Lamb, M. P.; 2017; GSA Bulletin, v. 130, p. 522-536, doi:10.1130/B31743.1. Link

Denudation outpaced by crustal thickening in the eastern Tianshan; Charreau, J., Saint-Carlier, D., Dominguez, S., Lavé, J., Blard, P.-H., Avouac, J.-P., Jolivet, M., Chen, Y., Wang, S. L., Malatesta, L. C., Rhodes, E., ASTER Team; 2017; Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 479, p. 179-191, ISSN 0012-821X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.025. Link

Autogenic entrenchment patterns and terraces due to coupling with lateral erosion in incising alluvial channels; Malatesta, L. C., and Prancevic, J.P., 2017; Journal Of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 122, p. 335–355, doi: 10.1002/2015JF003797. Link

​Modes of extensional faulting controlled by surface processes; Olive, J. A., Behn, M. D. & Malatesta, L. C.; 2014; Geophysical Research Letters, v. 41, p. 6725–6733.​ Link

Dating the Irrigation System of the Samarkand Oasis: A Geoarchaeological Study; Malatesta, L. C., Castelltort, S., Mantellini, S., Picotti, V., Hajdas, I., Simpson, G., Berdimuradov, A.E., Tosi, M., and Willett, S.D; 2012; Radiocarbon, v. 54, p. 91–105, doi: 10.2458/rc.v54i1.15839. Link

recent conferences abstracts

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​Relationship between shelf and seismogenic zone in the morphology of the Oregon Coastline
; Malatesta L. C., Finnegan N. J., Bruhat L., AGU Fall Meeting 2017, AGU2017-EP53B-1719
A model to quantify sediment mixing across alluvial piedmonts with cycles of aggradation and incision; Malatesta L. C., Berger Q., Avouac J.-P., EGU General Assembly 2017, link to poster (OSPP Award)

Incision in alluvial piedmonts indirectly records climate forcing after modulation by glaciation in the E. Tian Shan range; Malatesta L. C., Avouac J.-P., Brown N. D., Breitenbach S., Chevalier M.-L., Pan J., Rhodes E., Saint-Carlier D., and Zhang W., EGU General Assembly 2017, link to poster

Recent invited talks

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​Preservation of climatic and environmental signals in and across alluvial piedmonts, US Geological Service, Santa Cruz, February 2018

Preservation of climatic and environmental signals in and across alluvial piedmonts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, February 2018

Interpretation of terraces and preservation of environmental signals across alluvial piedmonts, Max Planck Institut, Mainz, January 2018

Formation of waterfalls due to intermittent burial of active faults, US Geological Survey, November 2017

Interpretation of Terraces and Preservation of Environmental Signals Across Alluvial Piedmonts, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, September 2017

Formation of waterfalls by intermittent burial of active faults, UC Santa Cruz, June 2017

Interpretation of Terraces and Preservation of Environmental Signals Across Alluvial Piedmonts, UC Santa Cruz, May 2017

Impact of climate and tectonics on the morphodynamics of alluvial piedmonts, USC, September 2016

Sediment transfer in the north Tian Shan piedmont, Imperial College London, April 2016

Record and transfer of climatic and tectonic signals across an alluvial piedmont, UCLA, February 2016

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Aggradation and incision cycles in the north alluvial piedmont of the Chinese Tian Shan: consequences for sediment transfer, GFZ Potsdam, January 2016
 

​Field guide

Sedimentology in the Pyrenees led by Sébastien Castelltort at ETH Zurich, graphic ressources by Luca Malatesta, Google Earth field guide (file download from Dropbox, 21 MB)
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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29257.54886

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Sunset over the Swiss Alps, © Luca C Malatesta
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