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8. Curzi, M., Giuntoli, F., Vignaroli, G., Viola G. (2023). Constraints on upper crustal fluid circulation and seismogenesis from in-situ outcrop quantification of complex fault zone permeability. Scientific Reports, 13, 5548. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32749-4
9. Giuntoli, F. *, Viola, G., & Sørensen, B. E. (2022). Deformation Mechanisms of Blueschist Facies Continental Metasediments May Offer Insights Into Deep Episodic Tremor and Slow Slip Events. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024265
10. Giuntoli, F. *, Viola, G. (2022) A likely geological record of deep tremor and slow slip events from a subducted continental broken formation. Scientific Reports, 12, 4506. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08489-2
11. Giuntoli F. *, Viola G. (2021). Cyclic brittle-ductile oscillations recorded in exhumed high-pressure continental units: A record of deep episodic tremor and slow slip events in the Northern Apennines. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22. e2021GC009805, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009805
12. Vitale Brovarone A., Piccoli F., Frasca G., Giuntoli F. (2021). Fresh, pseudotachylyte-bearing mantle peridotites from the lawsonite eclogite-facies San Petrone unit, Alpine Corsica. Ofioliti, 46, 167-183, https://doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v46i2.545
13. Giuntoli F. *, Vitale Brovarone A., Menegon L. (2020). Feedback between high-pressure genesis of abiotic methane and strain localization in subducted carbonate rocks. Scientific Reports, 10, 9848, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66640-3
14. Giuntoli F. *, Menegon L., Warren C. J., Darling J., Anderson M. W. (2020). Protracted shearing at midcrustal conditions during large‐scale thrusting in the Scandinavian Caledonides. Tectonics, 39, e2020TC006267, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006267
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16. Giuntoli F. *, Menegon L., Warren C. (2018) Replacement reactions and deformation by dissolution and precipitation processes in amphibolites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 36, 1263–1286, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12445
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18. Giuntoli F. *, Lanari P., Burn M., Kunz B., and Engi M. (2018). Deeply subducted continental fragments – Part 2: Insight from petrochronology in the central Sesia Zone (western Italian Alps). Solid Earth, 9, 191-222, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-191-2018
19. Engi M., Giuntoli F., Lanari P., Burn M., Kunz B., and Bouvier A.-S. (2018). Pervasive eclogitization due to brittle deformation and rehydration of subducted basement: Effects on continental recycling? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007215
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