Gianni Balestro

Biographic Data

ID8536514
NAMEGianni Balestro
GIVEN NAMESGianni
FAMILY NAMEBalestro
SIGNATUREBALESTRO G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Turin
ORCID0000-0001-5215-4659
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Tectonic setting of the Susa and Lanzo Valleys Ophiolites (Western Alps)

    Open AccessMarcello De Togni, Marco Gattiglio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2026

    The 1:30,000 scale geological map of the Viù Valley (∼200 km2) depicts the tectonic architecture of the Susa and Lanzo Valleys Ophiolites (SLVO), a slice of the Jurassic Ligurian-Piedmont oceanic lithosphere stacked in the Western Alps. The SLVO successions (i.e. serpentinite, metagabbro, metabasalt and metasediments) were subducted, metamorphosed under high-pressure conditions, and exhumed during the Alpine orogeny. Detailed mapping and structur…

  • Tectonic relationships between the Paleozoic basement and the Mesozoic cover succession in the northern Dora-Maira Massif (Susa Valley, Western Alps)

    Open AccessGianni Balestro, Marco Gattiglio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2025

    The northernmost sector of the Dora-Maira Massif is a key area for studying the role of basement-cover detachment zones as markers for understanding the multistage tectonic evolution of orogenic belts. The 1:5,000 scale geological map highlights the tectonic relationships between the Paleozoic basement and Mesozoic cover successions, which are separated by the Bussoleno Detachment Shear Zone, representing the basement-cover interface, and are tec…

  • Disentangling the stratigraphic architecture of the Rivoli-Avigliana end moraine system (Western Alps, NW Italy)

    Open AccessGianfranco Fioraso, Giovanni Monegato et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2021

    The Rivoli-Avigliana end moraine system (Italian Western Alps) hosts an important stratigraphic archive of Pleistocene glaciations. A new geological map provides a 3D architecture of the system that reveals a complex architecture of glacial, alluvial and lacustrine units. Six glacial units were recognized. During the deposition of the four older glacial units (Early-Middle Pleistocene) the morphology of the valley outlet had a different drainage …

  • Geology of the Susa Shear Zone (Susa Valley, Western Alps)

    Open AccessStefano Ghignone, Marco Gattiglio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2020

    The 1:10,000 scale geological map of the Susa Shear Zone (SSZ) in the inner sector of the Western Alps, aims to describe the geological setting and tectonic evolution of a first-order Alpine shear zone, which drove exhumation and juxtaposition of different oceanic and continental margin units (i.e. the blueschist-facies External Piedmont Zone in its hanging wall and the eclogite-facies Internal Piedmont Zone and Dora Maira Massif in its footwall)…

  • Geology of the southern Dora-Maira Massif

    Open AccessGianni Balestro, Francesco Nosenzo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2020

    In the Valmala sector of the southern Dora Maira Massif (Western Alps), two different eclogite- and blueschist-facies units (i.e. the Rocca Solei and Dronero units, respectively), are separated by a shear zone (i.e. the Valmala Tectonic Unit), which peculiarly consists of mixed slices of ophiolitic and continental rocks. A detailed geological map at 1:10,000 scale allowed to point out that the tectonic slices within the Valmala Tectonic Unit cons…

  • Role of structural inheritance in the gravitational deformation of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex

    Open AccessGianfranco Fioraso, Gianni Balestro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2019

    Depending on its chemical and mineralogical composition, the serpentinite represents a peculiar rocky material, which plays a significant role in influencing pedogenetic weathering, vegetation ecology, geo-mechanical and tectonic processes, as well as gravitational slope failure. In serpentinite-bearing environments the response to gravitational stress is more effective than in other rock types. In the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps…

  • Geology of the Fontane talc mineralization (Germanasca valley, Italian Western Alps)

    Open AccessPaola Cadoppi, Giovanni Camanni et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2016

    The 1:5000 scale Geological Map of the Fontane talc mineralization (FTM) aims to give new information about the origin and geological structure of an important talc mineralization occurring in the axial sector of the Italian Western Alps. The FTM is hosted within a pre-Carboniferous polymetamorphic complex which was deformed and metamorphosed during both Variscan and Alpine orogenesis, and is part of the Dora-Maira continental crust. Field mappin…

  • Geological map of the Monviso massif (Western Alps)

    Open AccessGianni Balestro, Gianfranco Fioraso et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2013

    The 1:25,000 scale geological map of the Monviso massif encompasses an area of 61 km2, where different tectonic units of the Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex (i.e. the Basal Serpentinite Unit, the Lago Superiore Shear Zone, the Viso Mozzo Unit, the Forciolline Unit and the Vallanta Unit) and different Quaternary deposits (i.e. alluvial, gravitative, glacial and periglacial deposits) have been distinguished. The Monviso Meta-ophiolite Complex is an …

  • Geological map of the upper Pellice Valley (Italian Western Alps)

    Open AccessGianni Balestro, Gianfranco Fioraso et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2011

    Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The 1:25,000 scale geological map of the upper Pellice Valley (Italian Western Alps) encompasses an area of roughly 60 km2 where a composite stack of both oceanic and continental Alpine units crops out. The four units distinguished in the map correspond, from bottom to top, to the Dora Maira Unit, a slice of the Paleozoic European crust, the Giulian-Sea Bianca Unit, a succession …