2025
Jacobs J., Rocchi S., Bach W., Masotta M., Rydland Pedersen L. E. (2025) : Serpentinite-Sediment Associations: Provenance Controlled by Competing Extensional-Contractional Tectonic Processes During the Evolution of the Northern Apennines (Eastern Elba Island, Tuscany): Basin Research, v. 37, no. 1. doi: 10.1111/bre.70012.
2024
2. Agostini S., Leone N., Smellie J.L., Rocchi S. (2024) : Magma differentiation, contamination/mixing and eruption modulated by glacial load – The volcanic complex of The Pleiades, Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 25, no. 7; doi: 10.1029/2024GC011509.
Rocchi I., Tomassini A, Masotta M., Petrelli M., Ágreda López M., Rocchi S. (2024) : Textures and Chemistry of Crystal Cargo ofthe Pleiades Volcanic Field, Antarctica: Potential Influence of Ice Load in Modulating the Plumbing System. Journal of Petrology, 65, egae051; doi:10.1093/petrology/egae051.
2023
Smellie, J.L., Rocchi, S., Di Vincenzo, G. (2023) : Controlling influence of water and ice on eruptive style and edifice construction in the Mount Melbourne Volcanic Field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica), Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1061515.
Vezzoni S., Rocchi S., Dini A. (2023) : Campiglia Marittima Skarn (Tuscany): A Challenging Example for the Evolution of Skarn-Forming Models, 13, 482, doi: 10.3390/min13040482.
Rocchi I., Masotta M., Rocchi S. (2023) : Petrology of iron and copper slags from historical smelting activity in southern Tuscany- Periodico di Mineralogia 92, 57-73.
2022
Rocchi I., Potysz A., Masotta M., Rocchi S. (2022) : Experimental weathering of historical slags exposed to rhizosphere-like organic acids and various pH conditions. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 243, 107109; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2022.107109.
Di Vincenzo G., Vezzoni S., Dini A., Rocchi. S. (2022) Timescale of a magmatic-hydrothermal system revealed by 40Ar–39Ar geochronology: the Mio-Pliocene Campiglia Marittima system (Tuscany, Italy). Scientific Reports 12, 7128; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10867-9.
Foresi L.M., Rocchi S., Aldinucci M., Capponi G., Casalini M., Conticelli S., Cornamusini G., Lucci F., Westerman D.S. (2022) : Itinerario 11 – Isole minori dell’Arcipelago Toscano, in: Conti P., Conticelli S., Conamusini G., Marroni eds. Guide Geologiche Regionali-Toscana, Società Geologica Italiana: 297-328.
Brogi A., Dini A., Liotta D., Pandeli E., Rocchi S., D’Orefice M., Foresi L.M., Graciotti R., Westerman D.S. (2022) : Itinerario 10 – sola d’Elba, in: Conti P., Conticelli S., Conamusini G., Marroni eds. Guide Geologiche Regionali-Toscana, Società Geologica Italiana: 269-295.
Dini A., Benvenuti M., Boschi C., Brogi A., Buracchi E., Cpezzuoli E., Casini A., Chiarantini L., Cornamusini G., Costagliola P., Costantini A., Foresi L.M., Lazzarotto A., Liotta D., Pagani G., Rielli A., Rocchi S., Ruggieri G., Talarico F., Tavarnelli E., Vezzoni S. (2022) : Itinerario 6 – Colline Metallifere, in: Conti P., Conticelli S., Conamusini G., Marroni eds. Guide Geologiche Regionali-Toscana, Società Geologica Italiana: 195-214.
2021
Rocchi, S., Smellie, J.L. (2021): Chapter 5.1b – Northern Victoria Land: Petrology. In: Smellie, J. L., Panter, K. S. and Geyer, A. (eds), Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 55, 383-413; doi.org/10.1144/M55-2019-19.
Smellie, J.L., Rocchi, S. (2021): Chapter 5.1a – Northern Victoria Land: Volcanology. In: Smellie, J. L., Panter, K. S. and Geyer, A. (eds), Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 55, 347-381; doi.org/10.1144/M55-2018-60.
2020
Peace A.L., Phethean J.J.J., Franke D., Foulger G.R., Schiffer C., Welford J.K., McHone G., Rocchi S., Schnabel M., Doré A.G. (2020): A review of Pangaea dispersal and Large Igneous Provinces – In search of a causative mechanism. Earth Science Reviews, 206: 102902; doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102902.
2019
Paoli G., Dini A., Petrelli M., Rocchi S. (2019) : HFSE‐REE Transfer Mechanisms During Metasomatism of a Late Miocene Peraluminous Granite Intruding a Carbonate Host (Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany). Minerals, 9: 682; doi:10.3390/min9110682.
Paoli G., Dini A., Rocchi S. (2019): Footprints of element mobility during metasomatism linked to a late Miocene peraluminous granite intruding a carbonate host (Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 118: 1617-1641; doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01723-9.
2018
Jacobs J., Paoli G., Rocchi S., Ksienzyk A.K., Sirevaag H., Elburg M.A. (2018) : Alps to Apennines zircon roller coaster along the Adria microplate margin. Nature Scientific Reports, 8(1), doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20979-w.
Del Carlo P., Di Roberto A., D’Orazio M., Petrelli M., Angioletti A., Zanchetta G., Maggi V., Daga R., Nazzari M., Rocchi S. (2018) : Late Glacial-Holocene tephra from southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina, Chile): A complete textural and geochemical fingerprinting for distal correlations in the Southern Hemisphere. Quaternary Science Reviews, 195: 153-170, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.028.
Breitkreuz C., Rocchi S., editors (2018) : Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems – Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Advances in Volcanology, Springer, 409 pp., ISBN 978-3-319-14083-4.
Rocchi S., Breitkreuz C. (2018) : Physical Geology of Shallow-Level Magmatic Systems—An Introduction, in: Breitkreutz, C., Rocchi, S. (Eds.), Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems – Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Springer Advances in Volcanology, 1-10; doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14083-4_32.
Westerman, D.S., Rocchi, S., Dini, A., Farina, F., Roni, E. (2018). Rise and Fall of a Multi-sheet Intrusive Complex, Elba Island, Italy, in: Breitkreutz, C., Rocchi, S. (Eds.), Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems – Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Springer Advances in Volcanology, 309-325; doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14083-4_5.
Westerman D.S., Rocchi S., Stevenson, C., Breitkreuz, C., Wilson, P. (2018) : Structures Related to the Emplacement of Shallow-Level Intrusions (2017) in: Breitkreutz, C., Rocchi, S. (Eds.), Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems – Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Springer Advances in Volcanology, 83-118; doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14083-4_31.
Smellie J.L., S. Rocchi Johnson J.S. Di Vincenzo G, Schaefer J.M. (2018) A tuff cone erupted under frozen-bed ice at 642 ka (MIS16) and overridden by polythermal ice at c. 20 ka (MIS2) (Harrow Peaks, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica). Bulletin of Volcanology, 80:12, doi: 10.1007/s00445-017-1185-x.
Vezzoni S. Rocchi S. Dini A. (2018) Lateral extrusion of a thermally weakened pluton overburden (Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107: 1343-1355, doi: 10.1007/s00531-017-1539-9.
2017
Paoli G, Stokke HH, Rocchi S, Sirevaag H, Ksienzyk AK, Jacobs J, Košler J (2017) Basement provenance revealed by U–Pb detrital zircon ages: a tale of African and European heritage in Tuscany, Italy. Lithos, 277: 376-387. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.11.017
2016
Levy R, Harwood D, Florindo F, Sangiorgi F, Tripati R, von Eynatten H, Gasson E, Kuhn G, Tripati A, DeConto R, Fielding C, Field B, Golledge N, McKay R, Naish T, Olney M, Pollard D, Schouten S, Talarico F, Warny S, Willmott V, Acton G, Panter K, Paulsen T, Taviani M, SMM incl. Rocchi S. (2016) : Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 3453-3458, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516030113.
Sabbatini A, Negri A, Bartolini A, Morigi C, Boudouma O, Dinelli E, Florindo F, Galeazzi R, Holzmann M, Lurcock PC, Massaccesi L, Pawlowski J, Rocchi S (2016) : Selective zircon accumulation in a new benthic foraminifer, Psammophaga zirconia, sp. nov. Geobiology 14: 404-416, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12179.
Sirevaag H, Jacobs J, Ksienzyk A, Rocchi S, Paoli G, Jørgensen H, Košler J (2016) : From gondwana to Europe: The journey of Elba Island (Italy) as recorded by U–Pb detrital zircon ages of Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks. Gondwana Research, 38: 273-288, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.12.006.
Vezzoni S, Dini A, Rocchi S (2016) : Reverse telescoping in a distal skarn system (Campiglia Marittima, Italy). Ore Geology Reviews 77: 176-193; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.03.001
Poli, G.. Christofides, G.. Koroneos A., Soldatos T., Papadopoulou L., Manetti P., Papadopoulos A., Rocchi S. (2016) : Petrogenesis of Eocene Agios Gregorious Plutonic complex (Mt. Athos, Greece): interplay between magma mixing, assimilation and fractional crystallization. Acta Vulcanologica, 25(2013): 121-151.
2015
Rocchi, S., Di Vincenzo, G., Dini, A., Petrelli, M., Vezzoni, S. (2015) : Time-space focused intrusion of genetically unrelated arc magmas in the early Paleozoic Ross-Delamerian Orogen (Morozumi Range, Antarctica). Lithos, 232: 84-99; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.; link to pdf
Westerman, D.S., Rocchi, S., Dini, A., Farina, F., Roni, E (2015) : Rise and Fall of a Multi-sheet Intrusive Complex, Elba Island, Italy, in: Breitkreutz, C., Rocchi, S. (Eds.), Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems – Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Springer; doi: 10.1007/11157_2014_5.
2014
Farina, F., Dini, A., Rocchi, S., and Stevens, G.,( 2014) : Extreme mineral-scale Sr isotope heterogeneity in granites by disequilibrium melting of the crust: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 399, p. 103-115, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.018. link to pdf
Mazzarini, F., Ruggieri, G., Isola, I., Boschi, C., Dini, A., Musumeci, G., Rocchi, S. (2014) :Fluid transfer and vein thickness distribution in high and low temperature hydrothermal systems at shallow crustal level in southern Tuscany (Italy). Annals of Geophysics, 57, 3, S0326; doi:10.4401/ag-6263.
Roni, E., Westerman, D.S., Dini, A., Stevenson, C. and Rocchi, S. (2014) : Feeding and growth of a dyke–laccolith system (Elba Island, Italy) from AMS and mineral fabric data. Journal of the Geological Society 171, 413-424, doi: 10.1144/jgs2013-019. link to pdf
Smellie J.L., Rocchi S., Wilch T.I., Gemelli M., Di Vincenzo G., McIntosh W., Dunbar N., Panter K., Fargo A., (2014) : Glaciovolcanic evidence for a polythermal Neogene East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geology, 42: 39-42; doi: 10.1130/g34787.1. link to pdf
Bracciali L., Pandolfi L., Rocchi S. (2014) : Chemical variations in the Western Tethys post-rift sediments through time: evidence from mafic-ultramafic provenance proxies recorded at basin-scale. Basin Research, 26: 461-485; doi: 10.1111/bre.12036. link to pdf
2013
Smellie J., Wilch T., Rocchi S. (2013) : ‘A‘ā lava-fed deltas: A new reference tool in paleoenvironmental studies. Geology, 41: 403-406, doi: 10.1130/g33631.1. link to pdf
Donatio D., Marroni M., Rocchi S. (2013) : Serpentinization history in mantle section from a fossil slow-spreding ridge sequence: evidences from Internal Ligurian ophiolites of Pomaia quarry (southern Tuscany, Italy). Ofioliti, 38: 15-28. link to pdf
Nyland, R.E., Panter, K.S., Rocchi, S., Di Vincenzo, G., Del Carlo, P., Tiepolo M., Field, B., Gorsevski, P. (2013) : Volcanic activity and its link to glaciation cycles: single-grain age and geochemistry of Early Miocene volcanic glass from ANDRILL AND-2A core, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 250: 106-128. link to pdf
2012
Di Roberto A., Del Carlo P., Rocchi S., Panter K.S. (2012) : Early Miocene volcanic activity and paleoenvironment conditions recorded in tephra layers of the AND-2A core (southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica). Geosphere, 8: 1342-1355. doi:10.1130/GES00754.1 link to pdf
Farina F., Stevens G., Dini A., Rocchi S. (2012) : Peritectic phase entrainment and magma mixing in the late Miocene Elba Island laccolith-pluton-dyke complex (Italy). Lithos, 153: 243-260. link to pdf
2011
Castelli D., Gaggero L., Mazzoleni P., Rocchi S. (2011) : The classification of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and the UNI/CEN terminology of natural stones. in: Giuliani A. (ed.) Rocce e minerali industriali, Aracne editrice, 65-73.
Smellie, J., Rocchi, S., Gemelli, M., Di Vincenzo, G., Armienti, P. (2011). A thin predominatly cold-based Late Miocene East Antarctic ice sheet inferred from glaciovolcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 307: 129-149; doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.008. link to pdf
Rocchi S., Bracciali L., Di Vincenzo G., Gemelli M., Ghezzo C. (2011) : Arc accretion to the early Paleozoic Antarctic margin of Gondwana in Victoria Land. Gondwana Research, 19: 594-607; doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.08.001. link to pdf
Smellie J., Rocchi S., Armienti P. (2011) : Late Miocene volcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: products of glaciovolcanic eruptions under different thermal regimes. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73: 1-25; doi: 10.1007/s00445-010-0399-y. link to pdf
2010
Da Mommio A., Iaccarino S., Vezzoni S., Dini A., Rocchi S., Brocchini D., Guideri S., Sbrilli L., (2010). Valorizzazione del geosito «Sezione Coquand», miniera del Temperino (Parco Archeominerario di San Silvestro , Campiglia Marittima). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali Memorie, Serie A 115, 55-72. pdf
Rocchi S., Westerman D.S., Dini A, Farina F. (2010) : Intrusive sheets and sheeted intrusions at Elba Island (Italy). Geosphere, 6:225-236; doi: 10.1130/GES00551.1. link to pdf
Rocchi S., Dini A., Mazzarini F., Westerman D.S. (2010) : Introduction: LASI III–Magma pulses and sheets in tabular intrusions: Geosphere, 6: 161-162; doi: 10.1130/GES00581.1. link to pdf
Farina F., Dini A., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., Westerman D.S. (2010) : Rapid incremental assembly of the Monte Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Tuscany) by downward stacking of magma sheets. Geological Society of America Bulletin,122: 1463-1479; doi: 10.1130/B30112.1. link to pdf
Di Vincenzo G., Bracciali L., Del Carlo P., Panter K., Rocchi S. (2010) : 40Ar–39Ar dating of volcanogenic products from the AND-2A core (ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica): correlations with the Erebus Volcanic Province and implications for the age model of the core. Bulletin of Volcanology, 72: 487-505; doi: 10.1007/s00445-009-0337-z. link to pdf
2009
Rocchi S., Di Vincenzo G., Ghezzo C., Bracciali L., Gemelli M. (2009) : The early Paleozoic Antarctic margin of Gondwana: a synthetic model after twenty years of investigations. Acta Vulcanologica, 20/21: 193-207.
Dini A., Rocchi S., Westerman D.S., Farina F. (2009) : The late Miocene intrusive complex of Elba Island: two centuries of studies from Savi to Innocenti. Acta Vulcanologica, 20/21: 11-32.
Del Carlo P., Panter K., Bassett, K., Bracciali L., Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S. (2009) : The upper lithostratigraphic unit of ANDRILL AND-2A core (Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica): local Pleistocene volcanic sources, paleoenvironmental implications and subsidence in the southern Victoria Land Basin. Global and Planetary Change, 69: 142-161; doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.09.002. link to pdf
Ferraccioli F., Armadillo E., Zunino A., Bozzo E., Rocchi S., Armienti P. (2009) : Magmatic and tectonic patterns over the Northern Victoria Land sector of the Transantarctic Mountains from new aeromagnetic imaging. Tectonophysics, 478: 43-61; doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.028. link to pdf
Nardini I., Armienti P., Rocchi S., Dallai L., Harrison D. (2009) : Sr-Nd-Pb-He-O isotope and geochemical constraints to the genesis of Cenozoic magmas from the West Antarctic rift. Journal of Petrology 50: 1359-1375; doi:10.1093/petrology/egn082. link to pdf
Rocchi S., Di Vincenzo G., Ghezzo C., Nardini I. (2009) : Granite-lamprophyre connection in the latest stages of the Early Paleozoic Ross Orogeny (Victoria Land, Antarctica). Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121, 801-819, doi: 10.1130/B26342.1. link to pdf
Gemelli M., Rocchi S., Di Vincenzo G., Petrelli M. (2009) : Accretion of juvenile crust at the Early Palaeozoic Antarctic margin of Gondwana: geochemical and geochronological evidence from granulite xenoliths. Terra Nova, 23: 151-161; doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00868.x. link to pdf
Bracciali L., Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S., Ghezzo C. (2009) : The Tiger Gabbro from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: the roots of an island arc within the early Palaeozoic margin of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society, London. 166: 711-724; doi: 10.1144/0016-76492008-098. link to pdf
Biagioni C., Bianucci G., Bonaccorsi E., Ciampalini A., Consoloni I., Donatio D., D’Orazio M., Frassi C., Gasperini D., Gini C., Gioncada A., Guelfi F., Landi S., Lezzerini M., Matteoni R., Pasero M., Perinelli C., Rocchi S., Roni E., Roverato M., Vezzoni S. (2009) : Approccio interattivo alle Scienze della Terra. L’esperienza del GEOLAB a Pisa. ANISN – Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Scienze Naturali, Le Scienze Naturali nella Scuola, 37(2): 52-55.
2008
Dini A., Westerman D.S., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., (2008): Magma emplacement in a transfer zone: the Miocene mafic Orano dyke swarm of Elba Island (Tuscany). In: K. Thomson and N. Petford (Editors), Structure and Emplacement of High-Level Magmatic Systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 302, pp. 131-148. link to pdf
Dini A., Mazzarini F., Musumeci G., Rocchi S. (2008). Multiple hydro-fracturing by boron-rich fluids in the Late Miocene contact aureole of eastern Elba Island (Tuscany, Italy). Terra Nova, 20(4): 318-326. link to pdf
Johnson J.S., Hillebrand C.-D., Smellie J.L., Rocchi S. (2008): The last deglaciation of Cape Adare, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 20: 581-587, doi:10.1017/S0954102008001417. link to pdf
Rocchi S., Dini A., Mazzarini F., Westerman D.S., Gemelli M. (2008) : LASI III Conference (Elba Island, 15-18 September 2008) – Field Guidebook, 133 pp.
Panter K.S., Talarico F., Bassett K., Del Carlo P., Field B., Frank T., Hoffmann S., Kuhn G., Reichelt L., Sandroni S., Taviani M., Bracciali L., Cornamusini G., von Eynatten H., Rocchi S. & the ANDRILL-SMS Science Team (2008) : Petrologic and Geochemical Composition of the AND-2A Core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 15: 147-192.
2007
Dini A., Corretti, A., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., Westerman D.S. (2007) : Sooty sweat stains or tourmaline spots? The Argonauts on the Island of Elba (Tuscany) and the spread of Greek trading in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Piccardi L., Masse, W.B. (Editors): Myth and Geology. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 273, 227-243.
Rocchi S., Mazzotti A., Marroni M., Pandolfi L., Costantini P., Bertozzi G., di Biase D., Federici F., Lô P.G., (2007): Detection of Miocene saucer-shaped sills (offshore Senegal) via integrated interpretation of seismic, magnetic and gravity data: Terra Nova, 19, 1-8, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00740.x. link to pdf
Bracciali L., Marroni M., Pandolfi L., Rocchi S. (2007): Geochemistry and Petrography of Western Tethys Cretaceous sedimentary covers (Corsica and Northern Apennines): from source areas to configuration of margins. in J. Arribas, S. Critelli, M. Johnsson eds., Sedimentary provenance: petrographic and geochemical perspectives, Geological Society of America Special Paper 420, 73-93, doi: 10.1130/2006.2420(06).
Armadillo E., Ferraccioli F., Zunino A., Bozzo E., Rocchi S., Armienti P. (2007): Aeromagnetic search for Cenozoic magmatism over the Admiralty Mountains Block (East Antarctica), USGS OF-2007-1047, Short research Paper 075, doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp075, 1-4. link to pdf
Smellie J.L., Rocchi S., Armienti P. (2007): Joint Italian-British petrological-palaeoenvironmental investigations of Neogene volcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land. Terra Antartica Reports, 13: 103-110.
2006
Rossetti F., Storti, F., Busetti M., Lisker F., Di Vincenzo G., Läufer A., Rocchi S., Salvini F. (2006) : Eocene initiation of Ross Sea dextral faulting and implications for East Antarctic neotectonics. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 119-126.
Rocchi S., LeMasurier, W.E., Di Vincenzo G. (2006) : Oligocene to Holocene erosion and glacial history in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, inferred from exhumation of the Dorrel Rock intrusive complex and from volcano morphologies. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118 (7/):991-1005; doi: 10.1130/B25675.1.
Dini A., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., Westerman D. S. (2006) : The Late Miocene Christmas-tree laccolith complex of the Island of Elba, Italy. In: Mapping Geology in Italy, Pasquarè G, Venturini C., Groppelli G. (Editors) SELCA, Firenze 2004, 249-258.
Rocchi S., Armienti P., Di Vincenzo G., Nardini I, Rossetti F., Storti F. (2006) : Tight Link between Cenozoic nagmatism an local-regional fault activity in the West Antarctic Rift. Terra Antartica Reports, 12, 73-80.
Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S., Rossetti F., Storti F. (2006) : Dating brittle faulting: exploiting the complementarity of the step-heating and in situ 40Ar-39Ar laser techniques to solve the complexity of Cenozoic pseudotachylytes from the West Antarctic Rift System. Terra Antartica Reports, 12, 49-56.
2005
Rocchi S., Armienti P., Di Vincenzo G. (2005) : No plume, no rift magmatism in the West Antarctic rift. in Foulger, G. R., Anderson, D. L., Natland, J. H., and Presnall, D. C., eds., Plates, Plumes & Paradigms, Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, 435-447.
LeMasurier, W.E., Rocchi S. (2005) : Terrestrial record of post-Eocene climate history in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler, 87A: 51-66.
2004
Folco L., Bland P.A., D’Orazio M., Franchi I. A., Kelley S.P. & Rocchi S. (2004) : Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early Solar System: evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68 (10): 2379-2397 – doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2003.11.023.
Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S., Rossetti F. Storti F. (2004) : 40Ar-39Ar dating of pseudotachylytes: the effect of clast-hosted extraneous argon in Cenozoic fault-generated friction melts from the West Antarctic Rift System. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 223: 349-364. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.042.
Dini, A., Rocchi S., Westerman S. (2004) : Reaction microtextures of REE-Y-Th-U accessory minerals in the Monte Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Italy): a possible indicator of hybridization processes. Lithos, 78: 101-118.
Westerman D.S., Dini A., Innocenti F. & Rocchi S. (2004) : Rise and fall of a nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex, Elba Island, Italy. In: Petford N., Breitkreutz C. (Editors): Physical geology of high-level magmatic systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 234, 195-213.
Dini A., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., Westerman D. S. (2004) : Geological map of central and western elba magmatic rocks: a historical perspective and new data. In: The “Regione Toscana” project of geological mapping, Morini D., Bruni P. (Editors): 61-66.
Rocchi S., Di Vincenzo G., Ghezzo C. (2004) : The Terra Nova Intrusive Complex, Victoria Land, Antarctica (with 1:50,000 geopetrographic map). Terra Antartica Reports, 10: 51 pp.
Perugini D., Poli G., Rocchi S. (2004) : Development of viscous fingering between enclaves and host magma: evidence from Vegetation Island (Terra Nova Intrusive Complex, Antarctica). Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00710-004-0064-2.
2003
Rocchi S., Storti F., Di Vincenzo G. & Rossetti F. (2003): Intraplate strike-slip tectonics as alternative to mantle plume activity for the Cainozoic rift magmatism in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica. Storti F, Holdswort R.E., Salvini F. (Editors) Intraplate strike-slip deformation belts. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 210: 145-158.
Di Vincenzo G., Viti C., Rocchi S. (2003) : The effect of chlorite interlayering on 40Ar-39Ar biotite dating: an 40Ar-39Ar laserprobe and TEM investigation of variably chloritised biotites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145: 643-658, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-003-0472-z.
Nardini I., Armienti P., Rocchi S., Burgess R. (2003) : Miocene alkaline volcanic rocks from Daniell Peninsula (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): new petrological and 40Ar-39Ar geochronological data. Terra Antartica, 10(1): 39-62.
Rocchi S., Dini A., Innocenti F., Tonarini S., Westerman D.S. (2003) : Elba Island: intrusive magmatism. Periodico di Mineralogia, 72: 73-104.
Rocchi S., Westerman D.S., Innocenti F. (2003) : Montecristo Island: intrusive magmatism. Periodico di Mineralogia, 72: 105-118.
Westerman D.S., Innocenti F., Rocchi S. (2003) : Giglio Island: intrusive magmatism. Periodico di Mineralogia, 72: 119-126.
Rocchi S., Dini A., Mazzarini F., Poli G. (2003) : Campiglia Marittima and Gavorrano intrusive magmatism. Periodico di Mineralogia, 72: 127-132.
Dini A., Rocchi S., Poli G. (2003) : Hidden granitoids from boreholes and seamounts. Periodico di Mineralogia, 72: 133-138.
Rocchi S., Capponi G., Crispini L., Di Vincenzo G., Ghezzo C., Meccheri M., Palmeri R. (2003) : Mafic rocks at the Wilson-Bowers terrane transition and within the Bowers terrane: implications for a geodynamic model of the Ross Orogeny. Terra Antartica Reports, 9: 145-148.
Westerman D.S., Dini A., Innocenti F. & Rocchi S. (2003) : When and where did hybridization occur? The case of the Monte Capanne Pluton, Italy. Atlantic Geology, 39: 147-162.
2002
Rocchi S., Fioretti A.M., & Cavazzini G. (2002): Petrography, geochemistry and geochronology of the Cenozoic Cape Crossfire, Cape King and No Ridge Igneous Complexes (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica). In: Antarctica at the close of a millennium, Proceedings Volume of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Gamble J.A., Skinner D.N.B. & Henrys S. editors, Royal society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35: 215-225.
Rocchi S., Armienti P., D’Orazio M., Tonarini S., Wijbrans J. R. & Di Vincenzo G. (2002): Cenozoic magmatism in the western Ross Embayment: role of mantle plume vs. plate dynamics in the development of the West Antarctic Rift System. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (B9): 2195, 10.129/2001JB000515.
Dini, A., Innocenti F., Rocchi S., Tonarini S. & Westerman S. (2002): The magmatic evolution of the late Miocene laccolith-pluton-dyke granitic complex of Elba Island, Italy. Geological Magazine, 139 (3), 257-279.
Rocchi S., Westerman S., Dini A. Innocenti F., & Tonarini S. (2002): Two-stage growth of laccoliths at Elba Island (Italy). Geology, 30 (11): 983-986.
Poli G, Perugini D., Rocchi S. & Dini A. (2002) : Miocene to Recent plutonism and volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (central Italy). Eurogranites 2002, European Network of Laboratories “Granites”, Field Meeting Guide, 15-21 settembre 2002: 361 pp.
2000
Folco L., Franchi I. A., D’Orazio M., Rocchi S., Schultz L. (2000) : A new martian meteorite from the Sahara: the shergottite Dar al Gani 489. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 35: 827-839.
1999
Innocenti, F. Rocchi, S. Trigila, R. (1999) : La classificazione delle rocce vulcaniche e subvulcaniche: schema operativo per il progetto CARG. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali. 106: 113-124.
Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S. (1999) : Origin and interaction of mafic and felsic magmas in an evolving late orogenic setting: the early Paleozoic Terra Nova Intrusive Complex, Antarctica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 137: 15-35.
1998
Dallai, L. Fioretti, A.M., Rocchi S. (1998) : Investigations on lower Palaeozoic intrusives of the Wilson Terrane. Terra Antartica Reports, 2: 9-13.
Fioretti A.M., Rocchi S., Balestrieri M.L. (1998) : Investigations on Palaeozoic Admiralty Igneous Complex and Cainozoic Meander Intrusives (Northern Victoria Land – Antarctica). Terra Antartica Reports, 2: 25-28.
Rocchi S., Tonarini S. Armienti P. Innocenti F., Manetti P. (1998) : Geochemical and isotopic structure of the early Palaeozoic active margin of Gondwana in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Tectonophysics, 284 (3-4): 261-281.
Rocchi S., Longaretti G. & Salvadori M. (1998) : Subsurface Mesozoic and Cenozoic magmatism in south-eastern Sicily: distribution, volume and geochemistry of magmas. Acta Vulcanologica, 10 (2): 395-408.
1997
Innocenti F., Westerman S., Rocchi S. & Tonarini S. (1997) : The Montecristo monzogranite (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): a collisional pluton in an extensional setting. Geological Journal, 32: 131-151.
Tonarini S., Rocchi S., Armienti P., Innocenti F. (1997) – Constraints on Timing of Ross Sea Rifting Inferred from Cenozoic Intrusions from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. in C.A. Ricci (ed.): The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes: 511-521.
Rocchi S. , Di Vincenzo G. & Ghezzo C. (1997) : Geopetrographic map of Terra Nova Intrusive Complex (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica). in C.A. Ricci (ed.): The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes: 1171-1174.
Di Vincenzo G., Rocchi S., Ghezzo C. & Andriessen P.A.M. (1997) : Felsic and mafic magmas in the Terra Nova Intrusive Complex (northern Victoria land, Antarctica). in C.A. Ricci (ed.): The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes: 253-260.
pre-1997
Rocchi S., Longaretti G., Ferrari L., Camiolo, D. (1996) – Evoluzione del magmatismo nel sottosuolo della Sicilia sud-orientale: dati sul chimismo dei clinopirosseni. Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 51, 1101-1113.
Rocchi S., Longaretti G., Ferrari L. (1995) – Evoluzione del magmatismo nel sottosuolo della Sicilia sud-orientale. Progetto Etna 1993-95, F. Ferrucci & F. Innocenti eds., 151-157.
Di Vincenzo G., Fioretti A.M., Rocchi S. (1994) : Investigation on Cambro-Ordovician granitoids of the Wilson Terrane, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. IX Spedizione ItaliAntartide, Field Data Reports, 12-15.
Armienti P., Pompilio M., Rocchi S. (1994) : Cenozoic magmatism between Campbell and Icebreaker Glaciers, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. IX Spedizione ItaliAntartide, Field Data Reports, 39-40.
Rocchi S., Tonarini S., Armienti P., Innocenti F., Manetti P. (1994) : Regional isotope patterns of Cambro-Ordovician granitods from the Wilson Terrane. Terra Antartica, 1: 37-39.
Tonarini S., Rocchi S. (1994) : Geochronology of Cambro-Ordovician Intrusives in Northern Victoria Land: a review. Terra Antartica, 1: 46-50.
Armienti P., Innocenti F., Pareschi M.T., Pompilio M., Rocchi S. (1991) : Crystal population density in not stationary volcanic systems: estimate of olivine growth rate in basalts of Lanzarote (Canary Islands). Mineralogy and Petrology, 44: 181-196.
Longaretti G., Rocchi S., Ferrari L. (1991) : Il magmatismo dell’avampaese Ibleo (Sicilia orientale) tra il Trias e il Quaternario: dati di sottosuolo dal Pleistocene al Miocene medio. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana, 47: 537-555.
Rocchi S. (1991) : Zircon typology of Cambro-Ordovician granitoids from North Victoria Land, Antarctica. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana, 46, 249-255.
Armienti P., Ghezzo C., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Rocchi S., Tonarini S. (1990) : Granite Harbour Intrusives from North Victoria Land between David and Campbell Glaciers: new geochronological data. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie , 1: 63-74.
Armienti P., Ghezzo C., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Rocchi S., Tonarini S. (1990) : Isotope geochemistry and petrology of granitoid suites from Granite Harbour Intrusives of the Wilson Terrane, North Victoria Land, Antarctica. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2: 103-123.
Longaretti G., Rocchi S. (1990) : Il magmatismo dell’avampaese Ibleo (Sicilia orientale) tra il Trias e il Quaternario: dati stratigrafici e petrologici di sottosuolo. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana, 45, 911-925.
Armienti P., Ghezzo C., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Rocchi S., Tonarini S. (1988) : Palaeozoic and Cainozoic intrusives of Wilson Terrane: geochemical and isotopic data. Memorie Società Geologica Italiana, 43: 67-75.