Specialisation Geology
Research interests Relationships between brittle structures and emplacement of volcanic activity on the Campanian margin (Piana Campana and Campi Flegrei), Plio-Quaternary kinematic evolution of the Tyrrhenian-Apennine system, deformation history of foreland basin sedimentary wedges in the Southern Apennine Chain, seismotectonics of the Southern Apennine Chain
Short curriculum vitae - Full Professor of Structural Geology;
- Head of the Philosophy Doctor Course;
- Head of the Department of Geological and Environmental Studies;
- Member of the Academic Senatus;
- Member of the Comitato di Consulenza dell’ARPA Campania
- Researcher at Università di Napoli"Federico II";
- Associate professor of Structural Geology (ssd D01C)at Università di Napoli "Federico II" since 1984 ;
- Associate professor of Geology (ssd D01C) at Università di Salerno since 1994 ;
- Associate professor of Geology (ssd D01C), Università del Sannio at Benevento since 1999;
- Full professor of Structural Geology (ssd GEO/03), Università del Sannio at Benevento since 2000.
Publications Mazzoli S., Zampetti V. & A. Zuppetta (2001) – Very low temperature, natural deformation of fine grained limestone: a case study from the Lucania region, southern Apennines, Italy. Geodinamica Acta 14 (2001), 213-229.
Massa B., Russo M., Torrente M.M., Zuppetta A. (2002) –Piegamenti sovrapposti nella Formazione di S. Giorgio (Appennino Sannita). Studi Geologici Camerti n.s., 2, 127-134.
Milia A., Torrente M.M., Russo M., Zuppetta A. (2003). Tectonics and crustal structure of the Campania continental margin: relationships with volcanism. Mineralogy And Petrology. vol. 79, pp. 33-47.
Torrente M.M., Milia A., Zuppetta A. (2003). Offshore debris avalanches at Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Italy): implications for hazard evaluation. Journal Of The Geological Society. vol. 160, pp. 309-317.
Di Bucci D., Massa B., Tornaghi M. & Zuppetta A. (2003) -Quaternary tectonics in the epicentral area of the 1688 Sannio earthquake (Benevento, Italy)- “La geologia del Mar Tirreno e degli Appennini” in memoria di Raimondo Selli e Renzo Sartori, Geologica Acta (S. I.), 2, 86.
Zuppetta A., Russo M. & S. Mazzoli (2004) – Miocene tectonic evolution of the southern Apennine thrust front (Italy): stratigraphic and structural constraints from the eastern Calabria-Lucania borderland area. Geodinamica Acta 17/2 (2004), 141-151.
Massa B., Di Bucci D., Mazzoli S. & Zuppetta A. - Quaternary tectonics in the 1688 Sannio earthquake area (Benevento, Italy)- Eds. Chatzipetros A.A. & Pavlides S.B., Proceedings5th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April 2004, 2, 939-941.
Massa B., Di Bucci D., Mazzoli S. & Zuppetta A. (2004) – Quaternary tectonics in the epicentral area of the 1688 Sannio earthquake (Benevento, Italy)- Studi Geologici Camerti, Special Issue 2004, 87-91.
Massa B., Di Bucci D., Tornaghi M. & Zuppetta A. (2005) – Geological survey of Quaternary deposits in the 1688 sannio earthquake epicentral area (Benevento, Italy)- Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana, Volume Speciale n. 4 (2005), 105-117.
Di Bucci D., Massa B., Tornaghi M. & Zuppetta A.. (2005) - Structural setting of the 1688 Sannio earthquake epicentral area (Southern Italy) from surface and subsurface data- "Ground effects of large earthquakes", Journal of Geodynamics, 40 (2005), 294–315.
Di Bucci D., Massa B. & Zuppetta A. (in press) - Relay ramps in active normal fault zones: a clue for the identification of seismogenic sources (1688 Sannio earthquake, Italy)- American Geological Society Bulletin, January/February 2006, v. 118, no. 1-2.
Scientific Committee

Dott. Lucio Amato

Prof. Vittorio Bovolin

Prof. Massimo D'Apuzzo

Dott.ssa Francesca D'Elia

Dott. Gianfranco Fornaro

Dott. Giovanni Macedonio

Prof. Luciano Picarelli

Prof. Maurizio Ribera D'Alcalà

Prof. Enrico Zambianchi

Prof. Agostino Zuppetta


Prof. Agostino Zuppetta