Articulos arbitrados

Ferrari L., Flores Hernandez J.R., Hernandez Martinez D., 2024. A 20 años del pico del petróleo en México: análisis del sector hidrocarburos e implicaciones para el futuro energético nacional, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 

Gutiérrez-Navarro, R., Ferrari, L., Orozco-Esquivel, T., Hernández-Quevedo, G., & Maldonado, R. 2023. The Late Cretaceous batholithic massifs of Sierra La Laguna and Sierra La Trinidad, southern Baja California, Mexico: constraints on extensional structures from geology, geochronology, and thermobarometry. International Geology Review, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2196553

Enrique González-Torres, Luca Ferrari, Sergio Macías-Medrano y Javier Mancera-Alejándrez, 2023. Excursiones geológicas virtuales: una herramienta para la docencia y la difusión de la Geología de México. Ejemplo transecto Durango-Mazatlán, Revista Enseñanza y Comunicación de las Geociencias, 2(1), 52-59. 

Martini, M., Ferrari, L., & Ortega Rivera, A., 2023. 40Ar/39Ar muscovite geochronology of Arperos Basin inversion in Southern Mexico: new insights into cretaceous shortening initiation in southernmost North America. International Geology Review, 1-17.

Martínez, D. H., & Ferrari, L., 2022. Modelado espacial del potencial de energía solar en México a partir de Modelo Digital de Elevaciones ASTGTM V3. Terra Digitalis, 1-9. https://terradigitalis.igg.unam.mx/html/ojs3/index.php/terra_digitalis/article/view/102

Billarent-Cedillo A., Hernandez-Pérez, E., Levresse G., Inguaggiato C., Ferrari L., Inguaggiato S., López-Alvis J., Silva-Fragoso A., 2022. Mantellic degassing of helium in an extensional active tectonic setting at the front of a magmatic arc (central Mexico), Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02549.1

Godinez Tamay A., Castillo M., Ferrari L., Ortega Gutiérrez F., 2022. Knickpoint retreat and landscape preservation along main fault escarpments of the Mexican Basin and Range: The case of the southern sector of the Sierra Madre Occidental. (Mexico), Geomorphology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108361 

Sánchez A., González M., Ferrari L., 2022. Subsurface structure of the Mazatlán basin, southeastern Gulf of California, Mexico, from seismic reflection and well data. Tectonophysics, 858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229505

Castillo Reynoso, J. C., Ferrari, L., Cedillo, A. B., & Levresse, G. P., Inguaggiato C., 2022. Unraveling the Origin of Geothermal Heat in Absence of Recent Volcanism: The Santiago Papasquiaro Hydrothermal Area, Central-Eastern Sierra Madre Occidental, México. Central-Eastern Sierra Madre Occidental, México. Geothermics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102432

Silva-Fragoso A., Ferrari L., Norini G., Orozco-Esquivel T., Corbo-Camargo F., Bernal J.P., Castro C., Arrubarrena-Morenoe M., 2021. Geology and conceptual model of the Domuyo geothermal area, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107396

Valencia-Moreno, M., López-Martínez, M., Orozco-Esquivel, T., Ferrari, L., Calmus, T., Noury, M., & Mendívil-Quijada, H., 2021. The Cretaceous-Eocene Mexican Magmatic Arc: Conceptual framework from geochemical and geochronological data of plutonic rocks. Earth-Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103721

Billarent-Cedillo, A., Levresse, G., Ferrari, L., Inguaggiato, C., Inguaggiato, S., Hernández-Pérez, E., Hernandez Espriu, A., Corbo Camargo F., Carrera Hernandez J., Arias-Paz, A., 2021. Deciphering origins and pathways of low-enthalpy geothermal waters in the unconventional geothermal system of Juchipila graben (Central Mexico). Geothermics, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2021.102076

Arce J.L., Ferrari L., Morales Casique E., Vazquez Serrano A., Arroyo S.M., Layer P.W., Benowitz J., López-Martínez M., 2020. Early Miocene arc volcanism in the Mexico City Basin: Inception of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107104

Montoya Lopera P., Levresse G., Ferrari L., Rizzo A.L., Urquiza S., Mata L., 2020. Genesis of the telescoped Eocene silver and Oligocene gold San Dimas deposits, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: Constraints from fluid inclusions, oxygen - deuterium and noble gases isotopes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103427Ore Geology Reviews, 120.

Godínez-Tamay, A., Castillo, M., Ferrari, L., & Ortega-Gutiérrez, F. (2020). Assessing landscape response to tectonics in the Jalisco block and adjacent areas (west-central Mexico) using topographic analysis. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 98, 102469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102469

Montoya Lopera P., Levresse G., Ferrari L., Orozco Esquivel T., Hernández Quevedo G., Abdullin F., Mata L., 2019. New geological, geochronological and geochemical characterization of the San Dimas mineral system: evidence for a telescoped Eocene-Oligocene Ag/Au deposit in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Ore Geology Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103195

Chavez Álvarez J, Cerca Martinez M., López-Martinez M, Origel G., Ferrari L., 2019. The Eocene-Oligocene Nanchititla dike swarm, eastern Michoacán, México. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1698474

Montoya Lopera P., Ferrari L., Levresse G., Abdullin F., Mata L., 2019. New insights into the geology and tectonics of the San Dimas mining district, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Ore Geology Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.12.020

Ferrari L., Ocampo Tellez E., 2019. Tendencias globales en energía y perspectiva de México. In: Calva J.L. (coordinador), Futuro de la Energía en México. Juan Pablo Editor y Consejo Nacional de Universitarios. ISBN del volumen: 978-607-711-501-4.

Manea M., Manea V.C., Ferrari L., Orozco-Esquivel T., 2019. Delamination of sub-crustal lithosphere beneath the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico: Insights from numeric modelling, Journal of Geodynamics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2018.09.002

Ferrari L., Castillo Reynoso J.C., Orozco Esquivel T., Silva Fragoso A., 2018. Digital geologic map and geochronologic, geochemical and geothermal database of the south-eastern part of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico , Terra Digitalis, 2(2), 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igg.25940694.2018.2.53

Ferrari L., Orozco-Esquivel T., Navarro M., López-Quiroz P., Luna L., 2018. Digital Geologic Cartography and Geochronologic Database of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and Adjoining Area. Terra Digitalis, v. 3, no. 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igg.terradigitalis.2018.1.34 

Husker A., Ferrari L., Arango C., Corbo F., Arzate J., 2017. A geologic recipe for transient slip within the seismogenic zone: Insight from the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico. Geology,  DOI:https://doi.org/10.1130/G39202.

Hernandez Martínez D., Ferrari L., 2017. Evolución de la distribución de las reservas de hidrocarburos de las Provincias Petroleras Mexicanas. Terra Digitalis, v. 1, no. 2, 1-23. DOI: 10.22201/igg.terradigitalis.2017.2.25.80

Ferrari L., Orozco-Esquivel T., Bryan S.E., López-Martínez M., Silva Fragoso A., 2018. Cenozoic magmatism and extension in western Mexico: linking the Sierra Madre Occidental Silicic Large Igneous Province and the Comondú Group with the Gulf of California rift. Earth Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.006

Ferrari L., 2017. Geología y Biodiversidad: una Evolución Paralela. En: Cevallos- Ferriz S. y A. Huerta, eds.) Paleobiología: interpretando procesos de la vida pasada, Facultad de Ciencias UNAM.

Castillo M., Ferrari L., Muñoz Salinas E., 2017. Knickpoint retreat and landscape evolution of the Amatla.n de Cañas half-graben (northern sector of Jalisco Block, western Mexico). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 77, 108-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.05.003

Castellano J., Pérez Campos X., Valenzuela R., Husker A., Ferrari L., 2017. Crust and Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy Variations from the Coast to Inland in Central and Southern Mexico. Geophysical Journal International, 210 (1): 360-374, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx174

Balestrieri M.L., Ferrari L., Bonini M., Duque-Trujillo J., Cerca M., Moratti G., Corti G., 2017. Onshore and offshore apatite fission-track dating from the southern Gulf of California: insights into the time-space evolution of the rifting. Tectonophysics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.012

Cid Villegas G., Mendoza C., Ferrari L., 2017. Mexico Quaternary Fault Database. Terra Digitalis, vol. 1, no. 1, 1-18.

Manea, V.C., Manea, M., Ferrari, L., Orozco-Esquivel, T., Valenzuela R., Husker, A., Kostoglodov, V., 2017. A review of the geodynamic evolution of flat slab subduction in Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Tectonophysics, v. 695, p. 27–52.

Conticell S., Boari E., Burlamacchi L., Cifelli F., Moscardi F., Laurenzi M.A., Ferrari L., Francalanci L., Benvenuti M., Braschi E., Manetti P., 2015. Geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of Monte Amiata Volcano, Central Italy: evidence for magma mixing between high-K calc-alkaline and leucititic mantle-derived magmas. Italian Journal of Geosciences 06/2015; 134(2):266-290. DOI:10.3301/IJG.2015.12.

Duque-Trujillo J., Ferrari L., Orozco-Esquivel T., López-Martínez M., Lonsdale P., Bryan S.E., Kluesner J., Piñero-Lajas D., and Solari L., 2015. Timing of rifting in the Southern Gulf of California and its conjugate margins: insights from the plutonic record. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127; no. 5/6; p. 702–736; doi: 10.1130/B31008.1.

Ferrari L., 2015. La dificil transición hacia un mundo pospetrolero. In C. Estrada, coord.,: "La transición energética y el desarrollo de energías alternas", serie "Las Ciencias en la UNAM", Coordinación de la Investigación Científica. Vol. 7, pag. 27-34.

Duque-Trujillo J., Ferrari L., Norini G., and López Martínez M., 2014. Miocene faulting in the southwestern Sierra Madre Occidental, Nayarit, Mexico: kinematics and segmentation of the initial rifting in the southern Gulf of California. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 31, p. 283-302.

Ferrari, L., Bergomi, M., Martini, M., Tunesi, A., Orozco- Esquivel, M., López Martínez, M., 2014. Late Cretaceous - Oligocene magmatic record in southern Mexico: the case for a temporal slab window along the evolving Caribbean-North America-Farallon triple boundary. Tectonics, , v. 33, p. 1738–1765, DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003525

Castillo, M., Muñoz, E., Ferrari, L., 2014. Response of a landscape to tectonics using channel steepness indices (ksn) and OSL: A case of study from the Jalisco Block, Western Mexico. Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.06.017

Petrone C., Orozco-Esquivel, M.T., Ferrari L., 2014. Petrogenesis and geodynamic significance of silicic volcanism in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: role of gabbroic cumulates. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 167, DOI 10.1007/s00410-014-1006-6.

Ferrari, L., López-Martínez, M., Orozco-Esquivel, M.T., Bryan, S.E., Duque-Trujillo, J., Lonsdale, P., Solari, L., 2013. Late Oligocene to middle Miocene rifting and syn-extensional magmatism in the southwestern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: the beginning of the Gulf of California rift. Geosphere, v. 9, n. 5, p. 1161-1200

Murray, B., Busby, C., Ferrari, L., and Solari, L., 2013. Synvolcanic crustal extension during the mid-Cenozoic ignimbrite flare-up in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico:  Evidence from the Guazapares Mining District region, western Chihuahua, Geosphere, v. 9, n. 5, p.  1201-1235.

Ferrari L. 2013. Energías fósiles: diagnóstico, perspectivas e implicaciones económicas. Revista Mexicana de Física S, v. 59(2), p. 36-43.

Ferrari L., 2013. Energía finita en un planeta finito. Revista Digital Universitaria. V. 14, n. 9.

Bryan S.E., Ferrari, L., 2013. Large Igneous Provinces and Silicic Large Igneous Provinces: Progress in our understanding over the last 25 years. Geological Society of America Bulletin, invited review, v. 125, no. 7-8, p. 1053-1078, doi:10.1130/B30820.1

Manea, V.C., Manea, M., Ferrari, L., 2013. A geodynamical perspective on the subduction of Cocos and Rivera plates beneath Mexico and Central America. Tectonophysics, Invited review paper, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.12.039, (email me for a PDF)

Bryan, S.E., Orozco-Esquivel, M.T., Ferrari, L., and Lopez-Martinez, M., 2013. Pulling Apart the Mid to Late Cenozoic Magmatic Record of the Gulf of California: Is there a Comondú Arc? In: Gomez-Tuena A., Straub S.M., Zellmer G.F. (eds) Orogenic andesites and crustal growth. Geological Society, London, Special Publications,  doi 10.1144/SP385.8

Chávez J., Cerca M., Ferrari L., 2012. Physical and geological description of the Nanchititla dyke-swarm. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 29, p. 551-571.

Ferrari, L., Orozco-Esquivel, M.T., Manea, V., Manea, M., 2012. The dynamic history of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Mexico subduction zone. Tectonophysics, Invited review paper, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.018. PDF of Geologic map of Plate 1.

Ferrari L., Estrada Gasca C., 2012. Crisis energética mundial: diagnóstico y alternativas. En: J.L. Calva (Coord.), "Crisis energética mundial y futuro de la energía en México". Serie "Análisis Estratégico para el Desarrollo", Consejo Nacional de Universitarios, Vol. 8, p. 19-39.

Martini, M., Ferrari, L., 2011. Style and chronology of the Late Cretaceous shortening in the Zihuatanejo area (south-western Mexico): implications for the timing of the Mexican Laramide deformation. Geosphere, v. 7, 1469-1479, doi: 10.1130/GES00743.1. 

Serrano, L., Ferrari, L., López Martínez, M., Petrone, C.M., Jaramillo, C.M., 2011. An integrative geologic, geochronologic and geochemical study of Gorgona Island, Colombia: Implications for the formation of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 309, p. 324-336, 

doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.011.

Martini, M., Ferrari, L.,López Martínez, M., Valencia, V., 2010. Stratigraphic redefinition of the Zihuatanejo area, Southwestern Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 27, p. 412-430.

Sotuyo S., Delgado-Salinas A., Lewis G.P., ChaseM.W., Ferrari L., Oyama K., 2010. Filogeografía del complejo Caesalpinia hintonii: (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae: Poincianella). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, v. 81. p. 883- 894.

Mazzarini F., Ferrari L., Isola I., 2010. Self-similar clustering of cinder cones and crust thickness in the Michoacan- Guanajuato and Sierra de Chichinautzin volcanic fields, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Tectonophysics, v. 486, p. 55-64.

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, v. 2; no. 3; p. 172-187; DOI: 10.1130/L48.1.

Martini M., Ferrari L., López-Martínez M., Cerca-Martínez M., Valencia V., Serrano-Duran L., 2009. Cretaceous-Eocene magmatism and Laramide deformation in south-western Mexico: no role for terrane accretion. Geological Society of America Memoir "Backbone of the Americas", p. 151-182.

Cerca, M. Ferrari, L. Tolson, G, Corti G., Bonini M., 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 boundary, Geological Society London Special Publication, The Origin and Evolution of the Caribbean, 328, 105-130

Petrone C., Ferrari L., 2008. Quaternary adakite—Nb-enriched basalt association in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: is there any slab melt evidence? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 156, p. 73-89.

Bryan S., Ferrari L., Allen C., Petrone C., Ramos-Rosique A., Campbell I., 2008. New insights into large volume rhyolite generation at the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental Province, Mexico, revealed by U-Pb geochronology. Journal of Petrology, v. 49, p. 47-77.

Origel G., Blanco J., Ferrari L., 2008. Development and implementation of an electronic journal for publishing peer-reviewed GIS-based maps on the Web. In: Peterson M. (ed.), “International Perspective on Maps and the Internet”, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-72028-7. Pag. 359-376.

Cerca-Martínez M., Ferrari L., López-Martínez M., Martiny B., Iriondo A., 2007. Late Cretaceous shortening and early Tertiary shearing in the central Sierra Madre del Sur, southern Mexico: insights into the evolution of the Caribbean-North America plate interaction. Tectonics, vol. 26, No. 3, TC3007, 10.1029/2006TC001981.

Ferrari L., Morán D., González E., 2007. Actualización de Mapa Geológico de México escala 1:4,000,000. Nuevo Atlas Nacional de México, Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Ferrari L., Valencia-Moreno M., and Bryan S., 2007. Magmatism and tectonics of the Sierra Madre Occidental and its relation with the evolution of western margin of North America. GSA Special Paper 442, p. 1-39.

Gómez-Tuena A., Orozco-Esquivel M.T., Ferrari L., 2007. Igneous petrogenesis of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. GSA Special Paper 442, p. 129-181. This paper contains supplementary material (TMVB database).

Orozco-Esquivel M.T., Petrone C.M., Ferrari L., Tagami T., Manetti P., 2007. Geochemical and isotopic variability controlled by slab detachment in a subduction zone with varying dip: The eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Lithos, v. 93, p.149-174.

Jödicke H., Jording A., Ferrari L., Arzate J., Mezger K., Rüpke L., 2006. Fluids release from the subducted Cocos plate and partial melting of the crust deduced from magnetotelluric studies in Southern Mexico: Implications for the generation of volcanism and subduction dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, B08102, doi:10.1029/2005JB003739.

Petrone C.M., Francalanci L., Ferrari L., Schaaf P., and Conticelli S., 2006. The San Pedro-Cerro Grande Volcanic Complex (Nayarit, Mexico): inferences on volcanology and magmatological evolution. GSA Special Paper 402, p. 65-98.

Ferrari L., Valencia-Moreno M., Bryan S., 2005. Magmatismo y tectónica en la Sierra Madre Occidental y su relación con la evolución de la margen occidental de Norteamérica. Boletin de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Tomo LVII, n. 3.

Gómez-Tuena A., Orozco-Esquivel M.T., Ferrari L., 2005. Petrogenesis ignea de la Faja Volcánica Trans-Mexicana. Boletin de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Tomo LVII, n. 3.

Manea, M., Manea, V.C., Ferrari, L., Kostoglodov, V. and Bandy W., 2005. Structure and origin of the Tehuantepec Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letteres, v. 238, p. 64-77.

Ferrari L., Tagami T., Eguchi M., Orozco-Esquivel M.T., Petrone C.M., Jacobo-Albarrán J., López-Martínez M., 2005. Geology, geochronology and tectonic setting of late cenozoic volcanism along the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico: The eastern alkaline province revised. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 146, p. 284-306.

Ferrari L., 2004. Slab detachment control on volcanic pulse and mantle heterogeneity in Central Mexico. Geology, v. 32, p. 77-80.

Cerca M., Ferrari L., Bonini M., Corti G., and Manetti P., 2004. The role of crustal heterogeneity in controlling vertical coupling during Laramide shortening and the development of the Caribbean-North America transform boundary in southern Mexico: insights from analogue models. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, n. 227, p. 117-140.

Ferrari L., Petrone C.M., Francalanci L., Tagami T., Eguchi M., Conticelli S., Manetti P., Venegas-Salgado S., 2003. Geology of the San Pedro-Ceboruco graben, western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 20, p. 165-181.

Camprubi A., Ferrari L., Cosca M., Cardellach E., and Canals A., 2003. Ages of epithermal deposits in Mexico: Regional significance and links with the evolution of Tertiary volcanism. Economic Geology, v. 98, p. 1029-1037.

Petrone C.M., Francalanci L., Carlson R.W., Ferrari L., Conticelli S., 2003. Unusual coexistence of subduction-related and intraplate-type magmatism: Sr, Nd and Pb isotope and trace elements data from the magmatism of the San Pedro-Ceboruco graben (Nayarit, Mexico). Chemical Geology, v. 193, p. 1-15.

Ferrari L., Petrone C.M., Francalanci L., 2002. Generation of OIB-type volcanism in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt by slab rollback, astenosphere infiltration and variable flux-melting. Reply to a comment by Torres Alvarado et al., Geology, v. 30, p. 858-859.

Ferrari L., López-Martínez M., Rosas-Elguera J., 2002. Ignimbrite flare up and deformation in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental, western Mexico: implications for the late subduction history of the Farallon plate. Tectonics, v.21, n. 4, 17-1/24.

Chesley K., Ruiz J., Righter K., Ferrari L., and Gómez-Tuena A., 2002. Source Contamination versus Assimilation: An example from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Arc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 195, p. 211-221.

Rossotti A., Ferrari L., López-Martínez M., and Rosas Elguera J., 2002. Geology of the boundary between the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the Guadalajara region, western Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 19, p. 1-15.

Ferrari L., Petrone C.M., Francalanci L., 2001. Generation of OIB-type volcanism in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt by slab rollback, astenosphere infiltration and variable flux-melting. Geology, v. 29, p. 507-510. This paper includes additional material in the GSA Data Repository

Jording A., Ferrari L., Arzate J., Jödicke H., 2000. Crustal variations and terranes boundaries in southern Mexico as imaged by magnetotelluric transfer functions. Tectonophysics, v. 327, p. 1-13.

Ferrari L., Conticelli S., Vaggelli C., Petrone C., and Manetti P., 2000. Late Miocene mafic volcanism and intra-arc tectonics during the early development of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Tectonophysics, 318, 161-185.

Ferrari L. and Rosas-Elguera J., 2000. Late Miocene to Quaternary extension at the northern boundary of the Jalisco block, western Mexico: the Tepic-Zacoalco rift revised. Geological Society of America Special Paper #334, chapter 03, p 42-64.

Ferrari L., Pasquaré G., Venegas S. and Romero F., 2000. Geology of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt and adjacent Sierra Madre Occidental and Jalisco block. Geological Society of America Special Paper #334, chapter 04, p. 65-84.

Ferrari L., 2000. Avances en el conocimiento de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana durante la última década. Boletín de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, Tomo LIII, No. 1, p. 84-92.

Ferrari L., Lopez-Martinez M., Aguirre-Diaz G. and Carrasco-Nuñez G., 1999. Space-time patterns of Cenozoic arc volcanism in central Mexico: from the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexican Volcanic Belt. Geology, 27, 303-306. This paper includes additional material in the GSA Data Repository

Alaniz-Alvarez S., Nieto-Samaniego A.F., and Ferrari L., 1999. Effect of the Strain Rate in the Distribution of Monogenetic and Polygenetic Volcanism in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Reply to three comment by M. Suter; Contreras and Gomez-Tuena; Siebe et al., Geology, 27, 571-575.

Ferrari L., and Rosas-Elguera, J., 1999. Alkalic (OIB type) and calc-alkalic volcanism in the Mexican Volcanic Belt: a case for plume-related magmatism and propagating rifting at an active margin? Comment to the article by Marquez, A., Oyarzun, R., Doblas, M., Verma, S. P., Geology, v. 27, p 1055-1056.

Nieto-Samaniego A., Ferrari L., Alaniz-Alvarez S., Labarthe-Hernandez G., y Rosas-Elguera J., 1999. Variation of Cenozoic extension and volcanism accross the southern Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic province, Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111, 347-363.

Alaniz-Alvarez S., Nieto-Samaniego A.F., and Ferrari L., 1998. Effect of the Strain Rate in the Distribution of Monogenetic and Polygenetic Volcanism in the Tran Mexican Volcanic Belt. Geology, v. 26, p. 591-594.

Rosas-Elguera J., Ferrari L., Lopez-Martinez M. y Urrutia-Fucugauchi J., 1997. Stratigraphy andtectonics of the Guadalajara region and the triple junction area,western Mexico. International Geology Revie, v. 39, p. 125-140.

Rosas J., Ferrari L., Urrutia-Fucugauchi J. and Garduño V.H., 1996. The continental boundaries of the Jalisco block and their influence in the Neogene kinematics of western Mexico. Geology, v. 24, p. 921-924.

Ferrari L., Conticelli S., Burlamacchi L. and Manetti P., 1996. Volcanological evolution of the Mt. Amiata volcano, Southern Tuscany: new geological and petrochemical data. Acta Vulcanologica, v. 8 (1), p. 48-56

Ferrari L., 1995. Miocene shearing along the northern boundary of the Jalisco block and the opening of the southern Gulf of California. Geology, v. 23, p. 751-754.

Tibaldi A., Ferrari L. and Pasquarè G., 1995. Landslide triggered by earthquakes and their relations with faults and mountain slope geometry: an example from Ecuador. Geomorphology, v. 11, p. 215-226.

Ferrari L., Garduño V.H., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Pasquarè G. and Vaggelli G., 1994. A widespread mafic volcanic unit at the base of the Mexican Volcanic Belt between Guadalajara and Queretaro. Geofìsica Internacional, v. 33, p. 107-124.

Ferrari L., Garduño V.H., Pasquarè G. and Tibaldi A., 1994. Volcanic and tectonic evolution of Central Mexico: Oligocene to Present. Geofìsica Internacional, v. 33, p. 91-105.

Ferrari L., Pasquarè G., Venegas S., Castillo D. and Romero F., 1994. Regional tectonics of western Mexico and its implications for the northern boundary of the Jalisco Block. Geofìsica Internacional, v. 33, p. 139-151.

Ferrari L., Garduño V.H., Pasquarè G. and Tibaldi A., 1993. The Los Azufres caldera, Mexico: the result of multiple nested collapses. Reply to a comment by C. Robin and E. Pradal. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 56, 345-349.

Ferrari L. and Manetti P., 1993. Geodynamic framework of the Tyrrhenian volcanism: a review. Acta Vulcanologica, v. 3, p. 1-10.

Borgia A.,  Ferrari L. and Pasquarè G., 1992. Importance of gravitational spreading in the tectonic and volcanic evolution of Mount Etna. Nature, v. 357, p. 231-235.

Tibaldi A. and Ferrari L., 1992. Latest Pleistocene-Holocene tectonics of the Ecuadorian Andes. Tectonophysics, v. 205, p. 109-125.

Pasquarè G., Ferrari L., Garduño V.H., Tibaldi A. and Vezzoli L., 1991. Geology of the central sector of Mexican Volcanic Belt, States of Guanajuato and Michoacan. Geological Society of America Map and Chart series, MCH 072, con texto explicativo de 20 pp.

Tibaldi A. and Ferrari L., 1991. From latest Miocene thrusting to Quaternary transpression and transtension in the Interandean Valley, Ecuador. Journal of Geodynamics, v. 15, p. 59-84.

Ferrari L. and Tibaldi A., 1991. Recent and active tectonics of the North-eastern Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Geodynamics, v. 15, p. 39-48.

Tibaldi A. and Ferrari L., 1991. Multisource remotely-sensed data, field checks and seismology for the definition of active tectonics in the Ecuadorian Andes. International Journal Remote Sensing, v. 12, p. 2343-2358.

Ferrari L., Garduño V. H., Pasquarè G. and Tibaldi A., 1991. Geology of Los Azufres caldera, Mexico, and its relations with regional tectonics. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 47, p. 129-148.

Ferrari L., Tibaldi A., Brizzolara L. and Maffioli A., 1990. Eocene simple shear and Pliocene pure shear folding in the central-eastern Algerian Atlas. Terra Nova, p. 653-660.

Pasquarè G., Tibaldi A. and Ferrari L., 1990. Relationships between plate convergence and tectonic evolution in the Ecuadorian active thrust belt. In: Critical Aspects of Plate Tectonic Theory, S.S. Augusthitis (Ed.), Theophrastus Publications, Grecia, p. 365-387.