Luca Claude Malatesta

Active hazardous slow faults drive drainage evolution in the Atacama Desert

This is a preprint of manuscript soon to be sumbitted to a peer-review journal. The Atacama Desert of the Central Andean forearc is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where extremely low erosion rates preserve geomorphic markers over Myr timescales. Between 19°S and 20°S, subt...

Generation and Preservation of Submarine Terraces: Insights From Records Imprinted on the Topography of Dokdo Volcano

Abstract Marine terraces archive sea‐level and tectonic history, yet their relationship to individual highstands remains contentious. While most studies focus on subaerial terraces in uplifting settings, submerged terraces in subsiding settings are less explored. We develop a 1‐D...