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Tamang S., Groppo C., Girault F., Perrier F., Rolfo F. (2024): Metamorphism of dolomitic and magnesitic rocks in collisional orogens and implications for orogenic CO2 degassing. Journal of Petrology, 65, egae021. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae021
 

Zhang C.W., Yang Y., Liu Y.C. Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2023): UHP metamorphism, decompression anatexis and retrogression of garnet-bearing metagranite and granitic gneiss from the Dabie orogeny during continental collision. Lithos, 456–457, 107339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107339 
 

Girault F., France-Lanord C., Adhikari L.B., Upreti B.N., Paudyal K.R., Gajurel A.P., Agrinier P., Losno R., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Thapa S., Tamang S., Perrier F. (2023): Crustal Fluids in the Nepal Himalaya and Sensitivity to the Earthquake Cycle. Himalaya, Dynamics of a Giant 3, Chapter 9,  coordinated by Rodolphe Cattin and Jean-Luc Epard. © ISTE Ltd 2022. Wiley. 312 pp. ISBN : 9781789451313

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Tamang S., Mosca P. (2023): Lithostratigraphy, Petrography and Metamorphism of the Lesser Himalayan Sequence. Himalaya, Dynamics of a Giant 2, Chapter 7,  coordinated by Rodolphe Cattin and Jean-Luc Epard. © ISTE Ltd 2022. Wiley. 268 pp. ISBN : 9781789451306
 

Nerone S., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2023): Equilibrium and kinetic approaches to understand the occurrence of the uncommon chloritoid + biotite assemblage. Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 305–320. https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-305-2023 
 

Thapa S. Girault F., Deldicque D., Losno R., France-Lanord C., Groppo C., Rolfo F. Tamang S. Rigaudier T., Debret B., Paudyal K.R., Adhikari L.B., Perrier F., (2023). Metric, kilometric and large-scale coherence of metamorphic conditions from graphitic phyllite in the Upper Lesser Himalaya of Nepal: Contribution to the estimation of carbon stored during Himalayan orogeny. Chemical Geology. 623, 121378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121378
 

Tamang S., Groppo C., Girault F., Rolfo F. (2023): Implications of garnet nucleation overstepping for the P-T Evolution of the Lesser Himalayan Sequence of Central Nepal. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 41, 271-297. http://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12695

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Frezzotti M.L. (2022): CO2 outgassing during collisional orogeny is facilitated by the generation of immiscible fluids. Communications Earth & Environment  3, 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00340-w

Rai S.R., Sachan H.K., Kharya A., Groppo C., Rolfo F.  (2022): P-T-fluid evolution of migmatites from the Leo Pargil gneissic dome, India: insights into partial melting and exhumation processes in North Himalayan Domes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 239, 105389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105389

 

Yang Y., Liu Y.C., Li Y., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2022): Magmatism and related metamorphism as a response to mountain-root collapse of the Dabie orogen: Constraints from geochronology and petrogeochemistry of metadiorites. GSA Bulletin, 134 7/8, 1877-1894. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36194.1
 

Groppo C., Rapa G., Frezzotti M.L., Rolfo F. (2021): The fate of calcareous pelites in collisional orogens. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 39, 181-207. https://doi:10.1111/JMG.12568​

Su H., Yang Y., Wang C., Liu Y., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2021): Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of Neoarchean (~2.6 Ga) alkaline ultrapotassic granitic gneisses from the southeastern margin of the North China Craton: Constraints from U-Pb dating, Hf isotope and petrogeochemistry. Lithos, 106324, 398-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106324 
 

Deng L., Liu Y., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Yang Y., Gu X., Wang A. (2021): New constraints on P–T–t path of high–T eclogites in the Dabie orogen, China. Lithos, 105933, 384-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105933 

Yang Y., Liu Y.C, Li Y., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2020): Zircon U-Pb Dating and Petrogenesis of Multiple Episodes of Anatexis in the North Dabie Complex Zone, Central China. Minerals, 10, 618. https://doi:10.3390/min10070618
 

Chandra Singh, P., Sachan, H.K., Kharya, A., Rolfo, F., Groppo, C., Singhal, S., Tiwari, S.K., Ranjan Rai, S. (2020): Tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Karakoram Terrane: Constrained from P–T–t–fluid history of garnet-bearing amphibolites from Trans Himalaya, Ladakh, India, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 196, 104293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104293
 

Li Y., Liu Y.C., Yang Y., Rolfo F. Groppo C. (2020): Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of Neoproterozoic meta-basites and meta-granitoids within the central Dabie UHP zone, China: Geochronological and geochemical constraints. Gondwana Research. 78, 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.08.005

Li Y., Yang Y., Liu Y.C., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2020): Muscovite Dehydration Melting in Silica‐Undersaturated Systems: A Case Study from Corundum‐Bearing Anatectic Rocks in the Dabie Orogen. Minerals, 10 (3), 213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/min10030213
 

Groppo C., Ferrando S., Gilio M., , Botta S., Nosenzo F., Balestro G., Festa A., Rolfo F. (2019):  What’s in the sandwich? New P–T constraints for the (U)HP nappe stack of southern Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps). European Journal of Mineralogy. 31, 665-683. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2860

Deng L.P., Liu Y.C., Yang Y., Groppo C., Rolfo F.,  Gu X.F. (2019):  Anatexis of high-T eclogites in the Dabie orogen triggered by exhumation and post-orogenic collapse. European Journal of Mineralogy. 31, 889-903. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2884 

Groppo C., Rolfo F., McClelland W.C., Coble M.A. (2019): Pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Aghil Range (western Tibetan Plateau): a missing piece of the Tibet-Pamir-Karakorum geopuzzle. Gondwana Research. 69, 122-143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.12.006
 

Girault F., Adhikari L.B., France-Lanord C., Agrinier P., Koirala B., Bhattarai M., Mahat S., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Bollinger L., Perrier F. (2018): Persistent CO2 emissions and hydrothermal unrest following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Nature Communications. 9, 2956. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05138-z
 

Deng L.P., Liu Y.C., Gu X.F., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2018): Partial melting of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks at convergent continental margins: Evidences, melt compositions and physical effects. Geoscience Frontiers. 9, 1229-1242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2017.08.002

Rapa G., Mosca P., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2018): Detection of tectonometamorphic discontinuities within the Himalayan orogen: structural and petrological constraints from the Rasuwa District, Central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 158, 266-286. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.02.021

Rolfo F., Groppo C. & Mosca P. (2017): Metamorphic CO2 production in calc-silicate rocks from the eastern Himalaya. Italian Journal of Geosciences. 136/1, 28-38. DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2015.36

Rapa G., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Petrelli M., Mosca P., Perugini D. (2017): Titanite-bearing calc-silicate rocks constrain timing, duration and magnitude of metamorphic CO2 degassing in the Himalayan belt. Lithos, 292-293. 364-378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.024

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Castelli D. & Mosca P. (2017): Metamorphic CO2 production in collisional orogens: petrologic constraints from phase diagram modeling of Himalayan, scapolite-bearing, calc-silicate rocks in the NKC(F)MAS(T)-HC system. Journal of Petrology. 58-1, 53-83. DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egx005

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Castelli D. & Mosca P. (2017): Corrigendum to: "Metamorphic CO2 production in collisional orogens: petrologic constraints from phase diagram modeling of Himalayan, scapolite-bearing, calc-silicate rocks in the NKC(F)MAS(T)-HC system". Journal of Petrology. 1-2. DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egx060

Sachan H.K., Kharya A., Singh P.C., Rolfo F., Groppo C., Tiwari S. (2017): A fluid inclusion study of blueschist-facies lithologies from the Indus suture zone, Ladakh (India): Implications for the exhumation of the subduction related Sapi-Shergol ophiolitic mélange. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 146, 185-195. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.05.025

Vezzoli G., Lombardo B., Rolfo F. (2017): Petrology of the Tista and Rangit river sands (Sikkim, India). Italian Journal of Geosciences. 136/1, 103-109. DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2016.04

Liu Y.C., Zhang P.G., Wang C.C., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Yang Y., Li Y., Deng L.P., Song B. (2017): Petrology, geochemistry and zirconology of impure calcite marbles from the Precambrian metamorphic basement at the southeastern margin of the North China Craton. Lithos. 290-291, 189-209. DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.08.011

Rolfo F., Groppo C., Balestro G., Castelli D., Ferrando S., Mosca P. (2017): Monviso – un itinerario geoturistico attraverso l’antico oceano Tetide. Progeo Piemonte. Itinerari Geoturistici. Area Geotematica 1A.
 

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Benna P. Forno M.G. (2017): I minerali rari del Parco del Po cuneese. Progeo Piemonte. Itinerari Geoturistici. Area Geotematica 1C.
 

Piana F., Fioraso G., Irace A., Mosca P., d’Atri A., Barale L., Falletti P., Monegato G., Morelli M., Tallone S., Vigna G.B. (2017): Geology of Piemonte region (NW Italy, Alps–Apennines interference zone). Journal of Maps, 13:2, 395-405. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1316218 (Editorial staff for thematics and geographical areas)
 

Lombardo B., Rolfo F., McClelland W.C. (2016): A review of the first eclogites discovered in the Eastern Himalaya. European Journal of Mineralogy. 28/6, 1099-1109. DOI: 10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2553
 

Rapa G., Groppo C. Mosca P., Rolfo F. (2016): Petrological constraints on the tectonic setting of the Kathmandu Nappe in the Langtang-Gosainkund-Helambu Regions, central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34, 999–1023. DOI:10.1111/jmg.12219

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Sachan H.K, Rai S.K. (2016): Petrology of blueschist from the Western Himalaya (Ladakh, NW India): exploring the complex behaviour of a lawsonite‐bearing system in a palaeo‐accretionary setting. Lithos, 252-253, 41-56. DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.02.014

 

Liu Y.C., Deng L.P., Gu X.F., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2016): Multistage metamorphic evolution and P-T-t path of high-T eclogite from the North Dabie Complex Zone during continental subduction and exhumation. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 90/2, 759-760. DOI: 10.1111/1755-6724.12707

 

Rolfo F., Groppo C. & Mosca P. (2015): Petrological constraints of the “Channel Flow” model in eastern Nepal. In: Mukherjee, S., Carosi, R., van der Beek, P. A., Mukherjee, B. K. & Robinson, D. M. (eds) Tectonics of the Himalaya. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 412, 177-197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP412.4  

 

Rolfo F., Benna P, Cadoppi P., Castelli D., Favero-Longo S.E., Giardino M., Balestro G., Belluso E., Borghi A, Cámara F., Compagnoni R., Ferrando S., Festa A., Forno M.G., Giacometti F., Gianotti F., Groppo C., Lombardo B, Mosca P., Perrone G., Piervittori R., Rebay G. & Rossetti P. (2015): The Monviso Massif and the Cottian Alps as symbols of the Alpine chain and geological heritage in Piemonte, Italy. Geoheritage, 7, 65-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-014-0097-9.

 

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Liu Y.C., Deng L.P., Wang A.D. (2015): P-T evolution of elusive UHP eclogites from the Luotian dome (north Dabie zone, China): how far can the thermodynamic modeling lead us? Lithos, 226, 183-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.11.013. 

 

Mosca P., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2015): Geodatabase strategy for a digital Geological map of the central-eastern Nepal Himalaya. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 34, 114-117, (doi: 10.33.01/ROL.2015.49)

 

Favero-Longo S.E., Matteucci E., Morando M., Rolfo F., Harris, T.B., Piervittori R. (2015): Metals and secondary metabolites in saxicolous lichen communities on ultramafic and non-ultramafic rocks of the Western Italian Alps. Australian Journal of Botany. 63(4), 276-291. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT14256

 

Forno M.G., Avondetto S., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2015): The Quaternary succession of the Bule` and Alpetto valleys (Monviso Massif, Piedmont) as a possible supply for prehistoric  jade axes raw material. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei, 26/4, 425-432. DOI 10.1007/s12210-015-0464-8

 

Balestro G., Cassulo R., Fioraso G., Nicolò G., Rolfo F., Bonansea E., Cadoppi P., Castelli D., Ferrando S., Festa A., Groppo C., Morelli M., Mortara G., Mosca P. (2015): IT applications for sharing geoheritage information: the example of the geological and geomorphological trail in the Monviso massif (NW Italy). Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 34, 85-88. (doi: 10.33.01/ROL.2015.42)

 

Liu Y.C., Wang C.C., Zhang P.G., Groppo C., Rolfo F., Wang A.D. (2015): Granulite facies metamorphism, partial melting and metasomatism in the Wuhe Complex at the southeastern margin of the North China Block. Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment, 37/1, 1-11, ISSN: 1672-6561 (in Chinese with English abstract).

 

Liu Y.C., Deng L.P., Gu X.F,  Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2015): Application of Ti-in-zircon and Zr-in-rutile thermometers to constrain high-temperature metamorphism in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China. Gondwana Research, 27, 410-423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.10.011. 

 

Rolfo F., Balestro G., Borghi A., Castelli D., Ferrando S., Groppo C., Mosca P., Rossetti P. (2015): The Monviso Ophiolite Geopark, a Symbol of the Alpine Chain and Geological Heritage in Piemonte, Italy. In: G. Lollino et al. (eds.), Engineering Geology for Society and Territory – Volume 8, 239-243. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09408-3_40

 

Rolfo F., Groppo C., Mosca P., Ferrando S., Costa E., Kaphle K.P. (2015): Metamorphic CO2 degassing in the active Himalayan orogen: exploring the influence of orogenic activity on the long-term global climate changes. In: G. Lollino et al. (eds.), Engineering Geology for Society and Territory – Volume 1, 21-25. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09300-0_5

 

Costa E., Destefanis E., Groppo C., Mosca P., Kaphle K.P., Rolfo F. (2015): Preliminary chemical and isotopic characterization of high-altitude spring waters from eastern Nepal Himalaya. In: G. Lollino et al. (eds.), Engineering Geology for Society and Territory – Volume 1, 99-104. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09300-0_19

 

Poretti G., Borghi A., D’atri A., Dino G.A., Ferrando S., Groppo C., Martire L., Accattino E., Favero Longo S.E., Piervittori R., Rolfo F. (2015): The Stone Bridges on the Po River at Turin (NW Italy): a Scientific Dissemination Approach for the Development of Urban Geological Heritage. In: G. Lollino et al. (eds.), Engineering Geology for Society and Territory – Volume 8, 207-211. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09408-3_33

 

Borghi A., Berra V., d'Atri A., Dino G., Gallo L., Giacobino E., Martire L., Massaro G., Vaggelli G., Bertok C., Castelli D., Costa E., Ferrando S., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2015): Stone materials used for monumental buildings in the historical centre of Turin (NW Italy): architectonical survey and petrographic characterization of Via Roma. In: Pereira, D., Marker, B. R., Kramar, S., Cooper, B. J. & Schouenborg, B. E. (eds.) Global Heritage Stone: Towards International Recognition of Building and Ornamental Stones. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 407, 201-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP407.20 

 

Montomoli C., Iaccarino S., Groppo C., Mosca P., Rolfo F., Carosi R. (eds.) (2014): 29th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop Abstract Volume. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences (Special Volume), 175 pp.

 

Rolfo F., Groppo C. & Gaetani M. (2014): A geological cross-section north of Karakorum, from Yarkand to K2. In: C. Montomoli, R. Carosi, R. Law, S. Singh, S.M. Rai (eds.), Geological field trips in the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, volume 47, paper 1. 

 

Mosca P., Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2014): The geology between Khimti Khola and Likhu Khola valleys: a field trip along the Numbur Cheese Circuit (central-eastern Nepal Himalaya). In: C. Montomoli, R. Carosi, R. Law, S. Singh, S.M. Rai (eds.), Geological field trips in the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, volume 47, paper 4. 

 

Proyer A., Rolfo F., Castelli D., Compagnoni R. (2014): Diffusion-controlled metamorphic reaction textures in an ultrahigh-pressure impure calcite marble from Dabie Shan, China. European Journal of Mineralogy. 26/1, 25-40.

 

Castelli D., Compagnoni R., Lombardo B., Angiboust S., Balestro G., Ferrando S., Groppo C., Hirajima T. & Rolfo F. (2014): Crust-mantle interactions during subduction of oceanic & continental crust. GFT – Geological Field Trips. Periodico semestrale del Servizio Geologico d'Italia - ISPRA e della Società Geologica Italiana. 6 (1.3), 1-73. ISSN: 2038-4947. DOI: 10.3301/gft.2014.03.

 

Liu Y.C., Deng L.P., Gu X.F,  Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2014): Multistage high-temperature metamorphism and partial melting of the North Dabie complex zone, central China, and their geodynamic processes and tectonic implications. Chinese Journal of Geology, 49/2, 355-367 (in Chinese with English abstract). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0563-5020.2014.02.002

 

Borghi A., A. d’Atri, L. Martire, D. Castelli, E. Costa, G. Dino, S.E. Favero Longo, S. Ferrando, G. Forno, L.M. Gallo, M. Giardino, C. Groppo, R. Piervittori, F. Rolfo, P. Rossetti & G. Vagelli (2014): Fragments of the Western Alpine chain as historic ornamental stones in Turin (Italy): a new geotouristic approach for the enhancement of urban geological heritage. Geoheritage, 6/1, 41-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-013-0091-7 

 

Groppo C., Rolfo F., Castelli D., Connolly J.A.D. (2013): Metamorphic CO2 production from calc-silicate rocks via garnet-forming reactions in the CFAS-H2O-CO2 system. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166, 1655–1675. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-013-0947-5 - SharedIt: http://rdcu.be/AzSY  

 

Mosca P., Groppo C., Rolfo F. (2013): Main geological features of the Rolwaling-Khumbu Himal between the Khimti Khola and Dudh Khosi valleys (eastern-central Nepal Himalaya). Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., 29, 112-115.

 

Liu Y.C., Wang A.D., Li S.G., Rolfo F., Li Y., Groppo C., Gu X.F. & Hou Z.H. (2013): Composition and geochronology of the deep-seated xenoliths from the southeastern margin of the North China Craton. Gondwana Research, 23, 1021-1039.

 

Proyer A., Rolfo F., Zhu Y.F., Castelli D., & Compagnoni R. (2013): Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the magnesite + aragonite stability field: evidence from two impure marbles from the Dabie-Sulu UHPM belt. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 31, 35-48.

 

Groppo C., Rolfo F. & Mosca P. (2012): The cordierite-bearing anatectic rocks of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (eastern Nepal): low-pressure anatexis, melt-productivity, melt loss and the preservation of cordierite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 31, 187-204.

 

Rolfo F. (2012): Ricerche geologico-petrografiche tra Himalaya, Karakorum e Asia centrale. In: Smiraglia C., Diolaiuti G., Zerboni A. (eds.), Ardito Desio e l’evoluzione delle Scienze della Terra. Atti della Giornata di Studi dedicata al Decennale della Scomparsa del Prof. Ardito Desio, Università degli Studi di Milano, 105-110. ISBN 978-88-907376-4-0.

 

Mosca P., Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2012): Structural and metamorphic features of the Main Central Thrust Zone and its contiguous domains in the eastern Nepalese Himalaya. In: (Eds.) G. Gosso, M.I. Spalla & M. Zucali, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 41, paper 2, doi: 10.3809/jvirtex.2011.00294.

 

Compagnoni R., Rolfo F., Groppo C., Hirajima T. & Turello R. (2012): Geological map of the Ultra-High Pressure Brossasco-Isasca Unit (Western Alps, Italy). Journal of Maps, 8:4, 465-472 (http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CyUiaGs9QcAspnbJacam/full)

 

Groppo C., Rolfo F. & Indares A. (2012): Partial melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines of Eastern Nepal: the effect of decompression and implications for the “channel flow” model. Journal of Petrology, 53/5, 1057-1088.

 

Mosca P., Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2011): Geological and structural architecture of the Kangchenjunga region in Eastern Nepal. Journal of Nepal Geological Society, 43 (Special issue), 1-12.

 

Compagnoni R., Rolfo F. & Castelli D. (2012): Jadeitite from the Monviso meta-ophiolite, western Alps: occurrence and genesis from a plagiogranite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24/2, 333-343.

 

Liu Y.C., Gu X.F., Rolfo F. & Chen Z.Y. (2011): Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and multistage exhumation of  eclogite of the Luotian dome, North Dabie Complex Zone (central China): Evidence from mineral inclusions and decompression textures. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 42, 607-617.

 

Groppo C., Rubatto D., Rolfo F. & Lombardo B. (2010): Early Oligocene partial melting in the Main Central Thrust Zone (Arun valley, eastern Nepal Himalaya). Lithos, 118, 287-301.

 

Groppo C., Rolfo F. & Lombardo B. (2009): P-T evolution across the Main Central Thrust Zone (eastern Nepal): hidden discontinuities revealed by petrology. Journal of Petrology, 50/6, 1149-1180.

 

Liu Y.C., Wang A.D., Rolfo F., Groppo C., Gu X.F. & Song B. (2009): Geochronological and petrological constraints on Paleoproterozoic granulite facies metamorphism in southeastern margin of the North China Craton. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 125-138.

 

Groppo C. & Rolfo F. (2008): Counterclockwise P-T evolution of the Aghil Range: metamorphic record of an accretionary melange between Kunlun and Karakorum (SW Sinkiang, China). Lithos, 105, 365-378.

 

Ferrando S., Rolfo F. & Lombardo B. (2007): Fluid evolution from metamorphic peak to exhumation in Himalayan granulitised eclogites, Ama Drime range, southern Tibet. European Journal of Mineralogy, 19, 439-461.

 

Castelli D., Rolfo F., Groppo C. & Compagnoni R. (2007): Petrogenesis of impure marbles from the UHP Brossasco-Isasca Unit (Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps): evidence for Alpine equilibration in the diamond-stability field and evaluation of pre-Alpine vs Alpine X(CO2) fluid evolution. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, , 25, 587-603.

 

Groppo C., Lombardo B., Rolfo F. & Pertusati P. (2007): Clockwise exhumation path of granulitized eclogites from the Ama Drime range (Eastern Himalayas). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 51-75.

 

Compagnoni R., Rolfo F., Manavella F. & Salusso F. (2007): Jadeitite in the Monviso meta-ophiolite, Piemonte Zone, Italian Western Alps. Periodico di Mineralogia, 76, 79-89.

 

Groppo C., Castelli D. & Rolfo F. (2007): HT, pre-Alpine relics in a spinel-bearing dolomite marble from the UHP Brossasco-Isasca Unit (Dora-Maira Massif, western Alps). Periodico di Mineralogia, 76, 155-168.

 

Compagnoni R., Rolfo F., Groppo C., Hirajima T. & Turello R. (2004): Mapping of Alpine rocks characterized by “HP” to “UHP” metamorphic overprint in the Southern Dora-Maira Massif  (Western Alps). In: G. Pasquarè & C. Venturini (Eds.), G. Groppelli (Ass. Ed.) Mapping Geology in Italy, APAT - Dipartimento Difesa del Suolo  Servizio Geologico d’Italia, Roma 2004 (2006), Map 34, 287-294, Printed by S.EL.CA. - Firenze.

 

Rolfo F. & Ferrando S. (2004) - Selected case studies in the HP and UHP terranes of Dabie Shan and Sulu (China). Periodico di Mineralogia Spec. Vol. "Advances in Metamorphic Petrology: browsing through Italian classic areas; case studies, and approaches", 73, 173-183.

 

Rolfo F., Compagnoni R. & Tosoni D. (2004) - Geology and petrology of the Austroalpine Châtillon Slice, Aosta Valley, Western Alps. Geodinamica Acta, 17, 91-105.

 

Rolfo F., Compagnoni R., Wu W. & Xu S. (2004) - A coherent lithostratigraphic unit in the coesite-eclogite complex of Dabie Shan, China: geologic and petrologic evidence. Lithos, 73, 71-94.

 

Mascle G.H., Tricart P., Torelli L., Bouillin J.P., Compagnoni R., Depardon S., Mascle J., Pecher A., Peis D., Rekhiss F., Rolfo F., Bellon H., Brocardi G., Lapierre H., Monié P. & Poupeau G. (2004) - Structure of the Sardinia Channel: crustal thinning and tardi-orogenic extension in the Apenninic-Maghrebian orogen; results of the Cyana submersible survey (SARCYA and SARTUCYA) in the western Mediterranean. Bull. Soc. géol. Fr., 175/6, 607-627.

 

Rolfo F. (2003) - CD-ROM supplement to: Carwell D.A. & Compagnoni R. (eds.): Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism. EMU Notes in Mineralogy, 5, Eötvös Univ. Press, Budapest.

 

Compagnoni R. & Rolfo F. (2003) - UHPM units in the Western Alps. In: Carwell D.A. & Compagnoni R. (eds.): Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism. EMU Notes in Mineralogy, 5, Eötvös Univ. Press, Budapest, 13-49.

 

Xu S., Liu Y., Chen G., Compagnoni R., Rolfo F., He M. & Liu H. (2003) - New finding of microdiamonds in eclogites from Dabie-Sulu region in central-eastern China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 48/10, 988-994.

 

Xu S., Liu Y., Wu W., Jiang L., Chen G., Compagnoni R. & Rolfo F. (2002) - Eclogite in the Northern Dabie Mountains: Petrography and Tectonic Implications. In: Chen Y. (ed) “80th Anniversary of the Geological Society of China (Academic Papers)”, Geology Press House, Beijing, 92-104 (in Chinese with English abstract).

 

Mascle G., Tricart P., Bouillin J.P., Compagnoni R., Depardon S., Mascle J., Pêcher A., Peis D., Rekhiss F., Rolfo F. & Torelli L. (2001) - Le Canal de Sardaigne: les plongées Cyana. Géologie Alpine, Mémoire H.S., 34, 7-114.

 

Mascle G., Tricart P., Torelli L., Bouillin J.P., Rolfo F., Lapierre H., Monié P., Depardon S., Mascle J. & Peis D. (2001) - Evolution of the Sardinia Channel (Western Mediterranean): new constraints from a diving survey on Cornacya seamount off SE Sardinia. Marine Geology, 179, 179-202. 

 

Rolfo F., Compagnoni R., Xu S. & Jiang L. (2000) - First report of felsic whiteschist in the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt of Dabie Shan, China. European Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 883-898. 

 

Lombardo B., Rolfo F. & Compagnoni R. (2000) - Glaucophane and barroisite eclogites from the Upper Kaghan Nappe: implications for the metamorphic history of the NW Himalaya. In: Khan M.A., Treloar P.J., Searle M.P. & Jan M.Q. (eds) “Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya”, Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 170, 411-430. 

 

Lombardo B. & Rolfo F. (2000) - Two contrasting eclogite types in the Himalayas: implications for the Himalayan orogeny. Journal of Geodynamics, 30, 1/2, 37-60. 

 

Compagnoni R. & Rolfo F. (1999) - Characteristics of UHP pelites, gneisses and other unusual rocks. International Geology Review, 41, 552-570. 

 

Bouillin J.P., Monie P., Rolfo F., Tricart P., Mascle G. & Torelli L. (1999) - Données géochronologiques 40Ar/39Ar sur les socles sarde et kabylo-péloritain submergés dans le Canal de Sardaigne (Méditerranéè occidentale). C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 328, 529-534. 

 

Rolfo F. (1998) - Evoluzione tettono-metamorfica di orogeni collisionali: l’esempio del Cristallino dell’Alto Himalaya, dell’Arco del Ladakh (Pakistan settentrionale) e del Dabie Shan (Cina centro-orientale). PhD thesis, Torino University, 157 pp. 

 

Rolfo F. (1998) - Tectonometamorphic Evolution of collisional orogens: the example of North-West Himalaya (Northern Pakistan) and of Dabie Shan (East-Central China). Plinius, 19, 217-222. 

 

Castelli D., Rolfo F., Compagnoni R. & Xu S.(1998) - Metamorphic veins with kyanite, zoisite and omphacite in the Zhu-Jia-Chong eclogite, Dabie Shan, China. Island Arc, 7, 159-173. 

 

Bouillin J.P., Poupeau G., Tricart P., Bigot-Cormier F., Mascle G., Torelli L., Compagnoni R., Mascle J., Pêcher A., Peis D., Rekhiss F. & Rolfo F. (1998) - Premières données thermo-chronologiques sur les socles sarde et kabylo-péloritain submergés dans le Canal de Sardaigne (Méditerranée occidentale). C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 326, 561-566. 

 

Rolfo F., Lombardo B., Compagnoni R., Le Fort P., Lemennicier Y. & Pêcher A. (1997) - Geology and Metamorphism of the Ladakh Terrane and Shyok Suture Zone in the Chogo Lungma - Turmik area (northern Pakistan). Geodinamica Acta, 10/5, 251-270. 

 

Lemennicier Y., Le Fort P., Lombardo B., Pêcher A. & Rolfo F. (1996) - Tectonometamorphic evolution of the central Karakorum (Baltistan - northern Pakistan). Tectonophysics, 260, 119-143. 

 

Villa I., Ruffini R., Rolfo F. & Lombardo B. (1996) - Diachronous metamorphism of the Ladakh Terrain at the Karakorum - Nanga Parbat - Haramosh junction (NW Baltistan, Pakistan). Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrogrographische Mitteilungen, 76, 245-264. 

 

Castelli D., Rolfo F. & Rossetti P. (1995) - Petrology of ore-bearing rodingite veins from the Balangero asbestos mine (Western Alps). In: B. Lombardo (ed.) Studies on metamorphic rocks and minerals of the western Alps. Bollettino Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali, Torino, 13/2, 153-189. 

 

Le Fort P., Lemennicier Y., Lombardo B., Pêcher A., Pertusati P., Pognante U. & Rolfo F. (1995) - Preliminary geological map and description of the Himalaya-Karakorum junction in Chogo Lungma to Turmik area (Baltistan, northern Pakistan). Journal of the Geological Society of Nepal Special Issue, 11, 17-38. 

 

Mascle G., Tricart P., Bouillin J.P., Depardon S., Mascle J., Peis D., Rolfo F. & Torelli L. (1994) - Campagne CYACUM, Programme SARCYA. Rapport scientifique du Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, URA CNRS 69 (LGCA), 22 pp. 
 

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