Full Professor
Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences
Via Lucini 3
Tel: 00 39 031 326212
Fax: 00 39 031 326 230
E-mail: silvana.martin@uninsubria.it

Date and place of birth: February 7, 1954; Castelfranco Veneto (TV) - Italy

Citizenship: Italian
Domicile: Padova, via Piaggi, n.10 - Italy
Family: with Alberto Vernizzi;Two children, Matteo, 23 year old, Francesca, 16 years old

Position: Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Insubria in Como, Italy

Education: Study Diploma, Liceo Classico "Giorgione" of Castelfranco Veneto (TV), July 1973; 10° Piano Diploma (qualified teacher), Conservatorio "Pollini" of Padova, July 1977; Four years Degree in Geological Sciences, University of Padova, November 1978; 3° Cycle Diploma (Geology of the deep crust), University "Pierre et Marie Curie" (Paris VI), December 1982

Languages: Italian, French, English

Alpine geology
Dynamic evolution of the mountains, tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Variscan basement, granulites, relations between mountain uplift, erosion and for-deepe basins, geodynamics of subduction zones, faulting, study of metamorphic and magmatic basement, exhumation processes, mapping geological bodies and field work, rheology of the Alps and and fore-deep basins.

Analysis of the field data to prevent environmental damages
Surface and deep crust analysis for geological hazards evaluation and monitoring, rock landslides and debris flow study and control.

Archeometry
Archeometric research within and around old Cu, Fe and Mn mining areas of the Alps.

Recent Research at the University of Insubria

Lake Como: "Structural and morphobathimetric research
of Lake Como" financed by the National Institute of the Mountain Research. Project of the Environmental Group of Insubria (chemists, biologists and geologists).

Orogenic molasse: "Evaluation of the deformation and exhumation deposits of the Gonfolite Lombarda by applying apatite fission tracks". Geological part in the Leading Project of the University of Insubria, regarding radioactivity. This involves physicists, chemists and geologists.

Mining research: "Geological /environmental study of the Cu-Fe ore deposits and related hydrogeological problems in the Alps. Some arguments are parts of the INTEREG IIIA Project promoted by the Val d' Aosta Region and by INTEREG IIIB project ("The metal path ways in the Alps") encouraged by Lombardy, Slovenia, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Valle d’Aosta regions.

Rock-water: " Fault / water circulation in the basement
interaction of the western part of Lake Como". Project
promoted by the Regional Agency for the Environment
of the Lombardy regione.

Geological maps
Western Alps (Geological sheets: 1:50.000 Aosta, Chatillon, CARG-Regione Val d'Aosta);

Eastern Alps (Geological sheets: 1:50.000, Malé, Rabbi; CARG-Provincia Autonoma di Trento),

Southern Alps (Geological sheets: 1:50.000 Tione; CARG-Provincia Autonoma di Trento)

1983 – 1987: Field courses and assistance during laboratory of Geology

1987 – 2000: Annual undergraduate courses in Padova
University for students in Geosciences: "Geology laboratory", "Geology" and "Regional Geology"

2000 – present: Semestral undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Como University for students in Environmental Sciences: "Lithology and Geology", "Structural Geology applied to the Environment", "Geological and Environmental Risks and "Geology"

1987 – present: Supervision of several Degree theses and
PhD Dissertations

Appointments

Commissions
Member of PhD commissions for Insubria and
other Italian and Foreign universities (Paris, 1987;
Como, 2001; Torino, 2003)

Recruitment
Member of the National Commission for the recruitment of geologists (Trento Province 2001, Torino CNR 2001)
Member of Commission for recruitment of researchers (Roma, 2000)

Coordination
Scientific Coordinator of the Rabbi 1:50.000 sheet, Three year Project of the National Geological Survey (1998-2001), CARG of the Trento Province.

Field Director of the "Malé" e "Tione di Trento" 1:50.000 sheets, Five year National Geological Project of the Geological Survey (1992-1998), CARG of the Trento Province.

Field Director of the "Aosta "1:50.000 sheet. Five year National Project of the National Geological Survey (1996-2001), CARG of the Val d'Aosta

Visiting Positions
1997 May-June: Visiting scientist, University College of London

2005 November: Visiting scientist, University Carleton of Ottowa

Research Activities

1997 May
Convenor, "Fission-track analysis: theory and applications", annual meeting, Bologna

1998 May
Convenor, "Fission-track analysis: theory and applications", annual meeting, Firenze

1998 July
Organizer, "Evolution of the deep crust in theCentral and Eastern Alps", International Conference, with excursions in the Eastern Alps, Padova

1999 July
Organizer, "Fission-track analysis: theory and applications”, International Workshop with excursion in the Western Alps, Chatillon, Aosta

2001 December
Organizer, " Meeting on the Central Alps", Como

2004 August
Organizer, "Field trip -B02: The subducted Tethys in the Aosta Valley (Italian western Alps", during the 32_ International Geological Congress, Firenze.

S. Martin and J. R. Kienast, 1987. The HP-LT Manganiferous Quartzites Of Praborna, Piemonte Ophiolite Nappe, Italian Western Alps, Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt.,, 67, 339-360.

Post-Collisional Magmatism in the Ortler-Cevedale Massif (Northern Italy), 1988. G. V. Dal Piaz, A. Del Moro, S. Martin and G. Venturelli. Jahrb. Geol. Bundesanstalt, Wien, 131, 533-551.

S. Martin, G. Prosser and L. Santini, 1991. Alpine Deformation Along The Periadriatic Lineament In The Italian Eastern Alps. Annales Tectonicae, 5, 118-140.

S. Martin, G. Prosser and L. Morten, 1993. Tectono-magmatic evolution of sheeted plutonic bodies along the North Giudicarie line (Northern Italy), Geol. Rundsch., 82, 51-66.

G. Godard, S. Martin, G. Prosser, J. R. Kienast, and L. Morten, 1996. Variscan Migmatites, Eclogites and Garnet-Peridotites of the Ulten Zone, Eastern Austroalpine System, Tectonophysics, 259, 313-340.

G. V. Dal Piaz, S. Martin, I. M. Villa, G. Gosso and R. Marschalko , 1995. Late Jurassic blueschist facies pebbles from the Western Carpathians orogenic wedge and paleostructural implications for western Tethys evolution, Tectonics, 14, 4, 874-885.

S. Martin, G. Bigazzi, M. Zattin, G. Viola, M.L. Balestrieri, 1998. Neogenic Kinematics of the Giudicarie Fault (Central-Eastern Alps, Italy): New Apatite Fission-Track Data, Terra Nova 10, 217-221.

S. Martin, G. Godard, G. Prosser, A. Schiavo, D. Bernoulli and G. Ranalli. In S. Martin, G. Godard and Ranalli G Evolution of the Deep Crust at the junction Austroalpine/Southalpine: The Tonale Nappe, 1998. "Evolution of the deep crust in the Central and Eastern Alps", Padova, 5-12 luglio 1998, Mem. Sci. Geol., 50, 1-50.

G. Godard and S. Martin, 2000. Petrogenesis of kelyphites in garnet peridotites: a case study from the ulten zone, iIalian Alps. Journal of Geodynamics, 30, 117-145.

A. Del Moro, S. Martin and G. Prosser, 1999. Migmatites of the Ulten Zone (Ne Italy), a record of melt transfer In Deep Crust,. Journal of Petrology, 40, 275-283.

S. Martin, G. Godard, and G. Ranalli , 2000. Evolution of the deep crust in the Central and Eastern Alps", Journal Of Geodynamics, n. 1-2, 2000. Spec. Vol. of the Internat. Meeting. of Padova, 5-12 July 1998.
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G. Fellin, S. Martin and M. Massironi, 2002. Polyphase Tertiary kinematics and Quaternary fault reactivation in the central-eastern Alps (western Trentino), Journal of Geodynamics, 33, 307-323.

S. Martin and G. Cortiana, 2001. Influence of the whole-rock composition on crystallisation of sodic amphiboles (Piemonte nappe, Western Alps). Ofioliti, 26, 445-456.

A. Caporali , S. Martin, M. Massironi, 2002. The present day strain rate field in Italy and surrounding countries as inferred from geodetic data, Boll. di Geof. Teorica e Applicata, 43, 3-21.

M. Zattin, C. Stefani and S. Martin, 2003. Alpine exhumation determined by fission-tracks analysis and petrography of Tertiary sandstones of the Veneto foreland. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73, 1051-1061.

G. Viola, NS. Mancktelow, D. Seward, A. Meier and S. Martin, 2003. Pejo fault system: an example of multiple tectonic activity in the italian Eastern Alps.Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 115, 5, 515-532.

S.Tumiati, M. Thöni, P. Nimis, S. Martin, 2003. Mantle–crust interactions during Variscan subduction in the Eastern Alps (Nonsberg–Ulten Zone): geochronology and new petrological constraints. EPSL, 210, 509-526.

S. Martin, 2003, Tectonic setting and pre-alpine evolution of the Tonale nappe, Eastern Austroalpine, Italy. Mem. Sci. Geol., 54, 167-170.

P. Macera, D. Gasperini, K. Maffei, S. Martin and C. Piromallo, 2003. Tertiary magmatism in the Eastern Alps, Mem. Sci. Geol., 54, 119-122.

S. Tumiati, V. Mair, P. Nimis, S. Martin, G. Godard, B. Lavina, 2003. Proposal of the new mineral dissakisite-(La).IMA.

A. Caporali, S. Martin and M. Massironi, 2003. Average strain rate in the Italian crust inferred from a permanent GPS network - II. Strain rate versus seismicity and structural geology. Geophysical Journal International, 155, 254-268.

P. Macera, D. Gasperini, C. Piromallo, J. Blichert-Toft, D. Bosch, A. Del Moro, and S. Martin, 2003. Geodynamic implications of deep mantle upwelling in the source of Tertiary volcanics from the Veneto region (South-Eastern Alps)". Journal of Geodynamics, 36, 563-590

S. Tumiati, S. Martin 2003. Garnet-peridotite in the Italian Eastern Alps: 150 years of discoveries”, Mem. Sci. Geol., 55, 31-46.

S. Tumiati, G. Godard , S. Martin, P. Nimis, V. Mair and B. Boyer, 2005. Dissakisite-(La) from the Ulten zone peridotite (Italian Eastern Alps): A new end-member of the epidote group. American Mineralogist, 90, 7, 1117-1185.

S. Tumiati, P. Casartelli , A. Mambretti , S. Martin, P. Frizzo and M. Rottoli, 2005. “The ancient mine of Servette (Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Western Italian Alps): A mineralogical, metallurgical and charcoal analysis of furnace slags”. Archaeometry, 47/ 2, 317-340.

S. Martin, G. Godard and G. Rebay, 2004. "The subducted Tethys in the Aosta Valley (Italian Western Alps". 32 Internation Geological Congress, Florence , 48p.

S. Martin, G. Fellin, M. Massironi, N. Surian, G. Tommasi and S. Cocco, 2005. Recent surface tectonics in a very old and deeply-exhumed basement: the Bresimo valley, Western Trentino. Servizio geologico italiano, Atlante Geologico.

G. Ranalli, S. Martin and R. Mahatsente, 2005. Continental subduction and exhumation: an example from the Ulten Unit, Tonale nappe, Eastern Austroalpine. Geol. Soc. Lond. Sp. Pubbl. "Deformation, Rheology and Tectonics" 243, 159-174.

G. Malusà , R. Polino , M. Zattin, G. Bigazzi, 2005. S. Martin and F. Piana. " Miocene to Present different exhumation in the Western Alps: Insights from fission track thermocronology, Tectonics , 24, 23 pp., doi:10.1029/2004TC001782.