19 peer-reviewed publications, of which 7 as first author. Latest update: 2024-09-23.

  1. Aretusini, S., Nuñez Cascajero, A., Cornelio, C., Barrero Echevarria, X., Spagnuolo, S., Tapetado, A., Vazquez, C., Di Toro, G., & Cocco, M. (2024). Mechanical Energy Dissipation During Seismic Dynamic Weakening in Calcite‐Bearing Faults. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. DOI
  2. Cornelio, C., Aretusini, S., Spagnuolo, E., Di Toro, G., & Cocco, M. (2024). Multiple Seismic Slip‐Rate Pulses and Mechanical and Textural Evolution of Calcite‐Bearing Fault Gouges. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. DOI
  3. Aretusini, S., Mittempergher, S., Remitti, F., Arletti, R., Polisi, M., De Paola, N., & Tesei, T. (2023). Heterogeneity‐driven localization and weakening in scaly clays from a fossil accretionary prism. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2023JB027332. DOI
  4. Magnarini, G., Aretusini, S., Mitchell, T. M., Pennacchioni, G., Di Toro, G., & Schmitt, H. H. (2023). Friction Experiments on Lunar Analogue Gouges and Implications for the Mechanism of the Apollo 17 Long Runout Landslide. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007520. DOI
  5. Wang, H., Li, H. B., Di Toro, G., Kuo, L. W., Spagnuolo, E., Aretusini, S., Si, J. L. & Song, S. R. (2023). Melting of fault gouge at shallow depth during the 2008 MW 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China. Geology, 51(4), pp.345-350. DOI
  6. Cocco, M., Aretusini, S., Cornelio, C., Nielsen, S. B., Spagnuolo, E., Tinti, E., & Di Toro, G. (2023). Fracture Energy and Breakdown Work During Earthquakes. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 51. DOI
  7. Cornelio, C., Spagnuolo, E., Aretusini, S., Nielsen, S., Passelègue, F., Violay, M., Cocco, M., & Di Toro, G. (2022). Determination of parameters characteristic of dynamic weakening mechanisms during seismic faulting in cohesive rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(7), e2022JB024356. DOI
  8. Kuo, L. W., Hung, C. C., Li, H., Aretusini, S., Chen, J., Di Toro, G., Spagnuolo, E., Di Felice, F., Wang, H., Si, J., & Sheu, H. S. (2022). Frictional Properties of the Longmenshan Fault Belt Gouges From WFSD‐3 and Implications for Earthquake Rupture Propagation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(5), e2022JB024081. DOI
  9. Aretusini, S., Núñez‐Cascajero, A., Spagnuolo, E., Tapetado, A., Vázquez, C., & Di Toro, G. (2021). Fast and localized temperature measurements during simulated earthquakes in carbonate rocks. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL091856. DOI
  10. Aretusini, S., Meneghini, F., Spagnuolo, E., Harbord, C. W., & Di Toro, G. (2021). Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-8. DOI
  11. Aretusini, S., Spagnuolo, E., Dalconi, M. C., Di Toro, G., & Rutter, E. H. (2019). Water availability and deformation processes in smectite‐rich gouges during seismic slip. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124.11, 10855-10876. DOI
  12. Aretusini, S., Plümper, O., Spagnuolo, E., & Di Toro, G. (2019). Subseismic to seismic slip in smectite clay nanofoliation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124.7, 6589-6601. DOI
  13. Rowe, C. D., Lamothe, K., Rempe, M., Andrews, M., Mitchell, T. M., Di Toro, G., White, J. C., & Aretusini, S. (2019). Earthquake lubrication and healing explained by amorphous nanosilica. Nature communications, 10.1, 1-11. DOI
  14. Savage, H. M., Rabinowitz, H. S., Spagnuolo, E., Aretusini, S., Polissar, J. P., & Di Toro, G. (2018). Biomarker thermal maturity experiments at earthquake slip rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 502, 253-261. DOI
  15. Murphy, S., Di Toro, G., Romano, F., Scala, A., Lorito, S., Spagnuolo, E., Aretusini, S., Festa, G., Piatanesi, A., & Nielsen, S. (2018). Tsunamigenic earthquake simulations using experimentally derived friction laws. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 486, 155-165. DOI
  16. Vannucchi, P., Spagnuolo, E., Aretusini, S., Di Toro, G., Ujiie, K., Tsutsumi, A., & Nielsen, S (2017). Past seismic slip-to-the-trench recorded in Central America megathrust. Nature Geoscience, 10.12, 935-940. DOI
  17. Kuo, L. W., Di Felice, F., Spagnuolo, E., Di Toro, G., Song, S. R., Aretusini, S., Li, H., Suppe, J., Si, J., & Wen, C. Y (2017). Fault gouge graphitization as evidence of past seismic slip. Geology, 45(11), 979–982. DOI
  18. Aretusini, S., Mittempergher, S., Plümper, O., Spagnuolo, E., Gualtieri, A. F., & Di Toro, G (2017). Production of nanoparticles during experimental deformation of smectite and implications for seismic slip. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 463, 221-331. DOI
  19. Fondriest, M., Aretusini, S., Di Toro, G., & Smith, S. A. (2015). Fracturing and rock pulverization along an exhumed seismogenic fault zone in dolostones: The Foiana Fault Zone (Southern Alps, Italy). Tectonophysics, 654, 56-74. DOI