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Giulio Viola, Ph.D.
Senior Structural Geologist at NGU
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Adjunct Professor in Structural Geology and Tectonics at the "Institutt for Geologi og Bergteknikk" of NTNU, Trondheim's University.
Peer-reviewed publications:
Martin S., Bigazzi G., Zattin M., Viola G. and Balestrieri L., 1998: “Neogene kinematics of the Giudicarie fault (Central-Eastern Alps, Italy): new apatite fission-track data” Terra Nova, 10, 4, 217-222.
Mancktelow N., Stöckli D., Grollimund B., Müller W., Viola G., Seward D. and Villa I., 2001: “The DAV and Periadriatic fault systems in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window”, International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 90, 593-622.
Müller W., Prosser G., Mancktelow N., Villa I., Kelley S., Viola G. and Oberli F., 2001: “Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Periadriatic Fault System (Alps)”, International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 90, 623-653.
Viola G., Mancktelow N. and Seward D., 2001: “Late Oligocene - Neogene evolution of Europe-Adria collision: New structural and geochronological evidence from the Giudicarie fault system (Italian eastern Alps)”, Tectonics, 20, 999-1020.
Viola G., Mancktelow N., Seward D., Meier A. and Martin S., 2003: “The Pejo fault system: an example of multiple tectonic activity in the Italian Eastern Alps”, GSA Bulletin, 115, 5, 515-532.
Basson I. and Viola G., 2003: “Structural overview of selected Group II kimberlite dyke arrays in South Africa: implications for kimberlite emplacement mechanisms”, South African Journal of Geology, 106, 4, 375-394.
Viola G., Odonne F. and Mancktelow N., 2004: “Analogue modelling of inverse fault reactivation in strike-slip and transpressive regimes: application to the Giudicarie fault system, Italian eastern Alps”, Journal of Structural Geology, 26, 401-418.
Jelsma H., de Wit M., Thiart C., Dirks, P. Viola G., Basson I. and Anckar E., 2004: “Preferential distribution along transcontinental corridors of kimberlites and related rocks of Southern Africa”, South African Journal of Geology, 107, 1/2, 301-324.
Basson, I., and Viola G., 2004: “Passive kimberlite intrusion into actively dilating dyke-fracture arrays: evidence from fibrous calcite veins and extensional fracture cleavage”, Lithos, 76, 283-297.
Viola G. and Mancktelow N., 2005: “From XY tracking to buckling: axial plane cleavage fanning and folding during progressive deformation”, Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 409-417.
Viola G., Andreoli, M., Ben Avraham, Z., Stengel I, and Reshef M., 2005: “Offshore mud volcanoes and onland faulting in southwestern Africa: Neotectonic implications and constraints on the regional stress field”, EPSL, 231, 147-160.
Bird, P., Ben Avraham, Z., Schubert, J., Andreoli M. and Viola, G., 2006: "Patterns of stress and strain rate in southern Africa", Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 111, B08402, doi: 10. 1029/2005JB003882.
Viola, G., Mancktelow, N. and Miller J., 2006: "Cyclic frictional-viscous slip oscillations along the base of an advancing nappe complex: Insights into brittle-ductile nappe emplacement mechanisms from the Naukluft Nappe Complex, Central Namibia", Tectonics, 25, TC3016, doi:10.1029/2005TC001939.
Anczkiewicz R., Viola G., Thirlwall, M., Muentener, O. and Quong, N., 2007: “Structure and shearing conditions in the Day Nui Con Voi massif, northern Vietnam: Implications for the evolution of the Red River fault", Tectonics, 26, TC2002, doi:10.1029/2006TC001972.
Wilson, C. J. L., Russel-Head D. S., Kunze K. and Viola G., 2007: “The analysis of quartz c-axis fabrics using a modified optical microscope”, Journal of Microscopy, 227, 30-41.
Kounov, A., Niedermann, S., de Wit, M., Viola, G., Andreoli, M. and Erzinger J., 2007: " Present denudation rates at selected sections of the South African escarpment and the elevated continental interior based on cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne ", South African Journal of Geology, 110, 235-248.
Viola G. and Venvik Ganerød G., 2007: Oskarshamn site investigation: "Structural analysis of brittle deformation zones in the Simpevarp-Laxemar area, Oskarshamn, southeast Sweden, Report from Phase 1", SKB P-07-41. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB. Available on line from www.skb.se.
Viola G. and Venvik Ganerød G., 2007: Oskarshamn site investigation: "Structural characterization of deformation zones (faults and ductile shear zones) from selected drill cores and outcrops from the Laxemar area – Results from Phase 2", SKB P-07-227. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB. Available on line from www.skb.se.
Sandstad J.S, and Viola G., 2007: Reconnaissance structural geological mapping and field XRF-analyses of the Ulveryggen copper deposit, Finnmark, Norway. NGU Report 2007.064.
Engvik, A.K., Tveten, E., Bingen, B., Viola, G., Erambert, M., Feito, P. and de Azavedo, S., 2007: "PT-t evolution and decompressional textures of Pan-African high-pressure granulites, Lurio Belt, northeastern Mozambique", Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 9, 935-952.
Viola G. and Anczkiewicz R., 2008: “Exhumation history of the Red River shear zone in northern Vietnam: New insights from zircon and apatite fission-track analysis”, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 33, 78-90.
Viola G., Sandstad J.S, Nilsson L.P. and Heincke B., 2008: Structural and ore geological studies in the northwestern part of the Repparfjord Window, Kvalsund, Finnmark, Norway, 93 pp. NGU Report 2008.029.
Miller, J.A., Viola, G. and Mancktelow, N., 2008: "Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope constraints on the mechanisms of nappe emplacement and fluid rock interaction along the subhorizontal Naukluft Thrust, central Namibia", Journal of the Geological Society of London, 165, 739-753.
Bingen, B., Nordgulen, Ø. and Viola G., 2008: “A four-phase model for the Sveconorwegian orogeny, SW Scandinavia”, Norwegian Journal of Geology, 88, 43-72.
Viola, G., Henderson, I.C., Bingen, B., Thomas, R., Smethurst, M.A. and De Azavedo, S., 2008: “Growth and collapse of a deeply eroded orogen: Insights from structural, geophysical and geochronological constraints on the Pan-African evolution of NE Mozambique”, Tectonics, 27, TC5009, doi:10.1029/2008TC002284.
Viola G. and Venvik Ganerød G., 2008: Oskarshamn site investigation: "Structural characterization of deformation zones (faults and ductile shear zones) from selected drill cores from the Laxemar area – Results from Phase 3", SKB P-08-07. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB. Available on line from www.skb.se.
Kounov A., Viola G., de Wit M. And Andreoli M., 2008: “Mid Cretaceous paleo-Karoo River valley across the Knersvlakte (NW coast of South Africa): Evidence from apatite fission-track analysis”, South African Journal of Geology, 111, 407-418.
B. Bingen, J. Jacobs, G. Viola, I.H.C. Henderson, Ø. Skår, R. Boyd, R.J. Thomas, A. Solli, R.M. Key and E. Daudi, 2008: "Geochronology of the Precambrian crust in the Mozambique Belt of NE Mozambique, and implications for Gondwana assembly", Precambrian Research, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2009.01.05.
Viola G., 2008: Ductile and brittle deformation history of the Laxemar-Simpevarp area; an independent analysis based on local and regional constraints. SKB R-08-124. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB. Available on line from www.skb.se.
Kounov, A, Viola, G., de Wit, M. and Andreoli, M., 2009: "Denudation along the Atlantic passive margin: New insights from apatite fission-track analysis on the Western coast of South Africa", in "Thermochronological methods: from paleotemperature constraints to landscape evolution models", Lisker, F., Ventura, B. and Glasmacher, U.A.,( eds), Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 324, 287-306.
Viola, G., Venvik Ganerød G. and Wahlgren, C.-H., 2009: "Unravelling 1.5 Gyr of brittle deformation history in the Laxemar-Simpevarp area, SE Sweden: a contribution to the Swedish site investigation study for the disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste", Tectonics, 28, TC5007, doi:10.1029/2009TC002461.
Viola, G. & Henderson, I.H.C., 2010, "Inclined transpression at the toe of an arcuate thrust: an example from the Precambrian "Mylonite Zone" of the Sveconorwegian orogen", in Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R.E., Krabbendam, M. & Strachan, R. A. (eds.) "Continental tectonics and Mountain building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne", Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 335, 707-727, doi: 10.1144/SP335.29.
Boyd, R. Nordgulen, Ø, 8 others, Viola, G., and 12 more, 2010: "The geology and geochemistry of the East African Orogen in NE Mozambique", South African Journal of Geology, 113, 87-129.
Macey, P.H., 9 others, Viola, G., and 12 more, 2010: "Mesoproterozoic geology of the Nampula subprovince, northern Mozambique: Tracing fragments of Mesoproterozoic crust in the heart of Gondwana", Precambrian Research, 2010, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.07.005.
Dufréchou. G., Odonne, F. and Viola, G., 2011: "Analogue models of second order faults genetically linked to a circular strike-slip fault system", Journal of Structural Geology, 33, 1193-1205.
Viola, G., Henderson, I.H.C., Bingen B., and Hendriks B.W.H., 2011: "The Grenvillian-Sveconorwegian orogeny in Fennoscandia: back thrusting and extensional shearing along the "Mylonite Zone", Precambrian Research, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.06.005.
Saintot, A., Stephens, M.B., Viola, G. and Nordgulen, Ø., 2011: "Brittle tectonic evolution and paleostress field reconstruction in the southwestern part of the fennoscandian Shield, Forsmark, Sweden", Tectonics, 30, TC4002, doi:10.1029/2010TC002781.
Viola, G., Mattila, J., Zwingmann, H., Todd, A. and Raven M., 2011: "Structural and K/Ar illite geochronological constraints on the brittle deformation history of the Olkiluoto region, southwest Finland", Posiva OY, Working Report 2011-37.
Viola, G., Kounov, A., Andreoli, M. and Mattila, J.: "Brittle tectonic evolution along the western margin of South Africa: more than 500 Myr of continued reactivation", Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.10.009, in press.