Cinzia G. Farnetani

Associate Professor
Geological fluid dynamics
Institute of Physics of the Globe of Paris
France

Biography

Associate Professor Academic background: 1988: Laurea in Scienze Geologiche, Universita' di Padova, Italy 1992: Master in Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, USA 1995: Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, USA 1996: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 1996-Present, Maitre de Conférences, Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII 2016: HDR

Research Intrest

Beloved mantle plumes. Thermo chemical mantle convection. Mantle stirring processes. Interaction plume- lithosphere and melting processes. Internal structure of the Hawaiian plume.

List of Publications
C. G. Farnetani, B. Legras and P. J. Tackley, 2002. Mixing and deformations in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 196, 1-15
C. G. Farnetani, 1997. Excess temperature of mantle plumes: The role of chemical stratification across D', Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1583-1586.
C. G. Farnetani, M. A. Richards, and M. S. Ghiorso, 1996. Petrological models of magma evolution and deep crustal structure beneath hotspots and flood basalt provinces, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 143, 81-94.
C. G. Farnetani and M. A. Richards, 1995. Thermal entrainment and melting in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 251-267
G. Farnetani and M. A. Richards, 1994. Numerical investigation of the mantle plume initiation model for flood basalt events, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 13813-13883.