Webinar Series on Geo-Science For Sustainable Development Episode: 6

Theme: The Architecture of the Metamorphic Core of the Himalayas

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Rodolfo Carosi graduated from Pisa University and has been a full professor at the Univerisity of Torino (Italy) since 2011. He specialized in structural geology and tectonics, with a special focus on the evolution of modern and ancient orogenic belts spanning from Himalaya, Antarctica, Alps, southern China, Albania, and Spain to Sardinia and Northern Apennines.

Aims of research include understanding the (1) growth and collapse of orogens, (3) continental transpression tectonics, (3) deformations, metamorphism, and exhumation of deep-seated rocks, (4) strain and kinematics of high-strain shear zones.

My expertise lies in Tectonics, Regional Geology (geological mapping and synthesis), and Structural analysis including microstructures, outcrop, and regional scale. Structural analysis is performed also by microstructural investigations, relations between deformation and metamorphism, finite strain, and vorticity of the flow. Recently quantitative-oriented studies include numerical simulation of high-strain shear zones and a mathematical approach to deformation.

I am mainly interested in field-oriented studies dealing with ductile and brittle deformation processes, the evolution of crustal-scale shear zones and faults and associated microstructural fabric development and fold/fault relationships, and geological field mapping. I am also interested in the application of U-Th- Pb geochronology and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology to continental tectonics. I am currently studying the structural evolution of the Greater Himalayan Sequence and Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence in central Himalaya, with emphasis on the models and timing of exhumation of the crystalline units. He is also involved in projects focussing on the Tectonic evolution of the Ross Orogen (Antarctica) and tectonic units in the Alps and  Northern Apennines.

He published more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and geological maps.