Dr. Pierre Müller

Publications



2023. Concurrence of load-and-flame structures, balls-and-pillows, clastic injectites and shear deformation bands as indicator of seismicity in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate successions (Finale Ligure Basin, Italy).

Marine and Petroleum Geology, 155, 106345.

Mueller, P., Tamburelli, S., Menegoni, N., Perozzo, M., Amadori, C., Crispini, L., Federico, L., Seno, S., Maino, M.



2021. Hybrid event bed distribution in a mixed siliciclastic-calcareous turbidite succession: a cross-current perspective from the Bordighera Sandstone, Ligurian Alps, NW Italy.

Italian Journal of Geosciences, 140(2):1-21

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio.



2020. Progressive deformation patterns from an accretionary prism: structural evolution of the Helminthoid Flysch Nappe (Ligurian Alps, Italy).

Geosciences, 10(1), 1-26.

Pierre Mueller, Matteo Maino, Silvio Seno.



2020. The Role of the Down-Bending Plate as Detrital Source in Convergent Systems Revealed by U-Pb Dating of Zircon Grains: Insights from the Southern Andes and the Western Italian Alps.

Minerals, 10(7), 632-651.

Andrea Di Giulio, Chiara Amadori, Pierre Mueller, Antonio Langone



2019. Towards a Southern European Tethyan Palaeomargin provenance signature: Implications of sandstone detrital modes and detrital zircon U/Pb age distributions of the Upper Cretaceous Monte Bignone Sandstones (Ligurian Alps, NW Italy).

International Journal of Earth Sciences,109, 201-220.

Pierre Mueller, Antonio Langone, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2018. Detrital signatures of impending collision: The Late Cretaceous Bordighera Sandstone and its basal complex (Ligurian Alps, Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 377, 147-161.

Pierre Mueller, Antonio Langone, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2017. Hybrid event beds in the proximal to distal extensive lobe domain of the coarse-grained and sand-rich Bordighera turbidite system (NW Italy). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86, 908-931.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2014. Ichnology of the Miocene Jaraba Formation, Almazán Basin, NE Spain – Morphological characteristics and paleoenvironmental implications of distinct continental trace fossils. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen, 274(1), 55-71.

Pierre Mueller & Tom McCann





Conference contributions



2022. Tectono-stratigraphic reconstruction of the Pietra di Finale (Ligurian Alps, Italy): new insights from the discovery of soft-sediment deformation structures. In: Geosciences for a sustainable future, SGI SIMP - Torino 2022: https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2022.02

Michele Perozzo, Silvia Tamburelli, Pierre Mueller, Menegoni N., Matteo Maino, Laura Crispini, Silvio Seno



2022. Soft-sediment deformations in post-collisional calcarenites: a multi-scale descriptive approach". In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna

Silvia Tamburelli, Pierre Mueller, Chiara Amadori, Laura Crispini, Matteo Maino, Niccolò Menegoni



2019. “Dunoid” bedforms in deep-water sediments: Insights from scour-fill facies of the Western Ligurian Flysch complex. In: 34th IAS International Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2018. The role of the lower plate in providing provenance during Alpine convergence inception: Insights from the detrital signatures of the Western Ligurian Flysch accretionary complex. In: GeoBonn 2018 – Living Earth, Bonn, Germany.

Pierre Mueller, Antonio Langone, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2018. Axial hybrid event bed development in a pre-collisional low-efficiency turbidite system: the Bordighera Sandstones (NW Italy). In: GeoBonn 2018 – Living Earth, Bonn, Germany.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2017. Sedimentary facies, heterogeneity development and provenance of the sand-rich pre-collisional Bordighera turbidite system. In: Petroleum Geology Student Contest, Società Geologica Italiana, Roma, Italy. Extended Abstract doi: 10.3301/ABSGI/2017.02

Pierre Mueller



2017. Abrupt down-current shift from channelized sandbodies into a hybrid event bed dominated domain: the Bordighera turbidite system (NW Italy). In: Deepwater Depositional Systems: Advances and Applications, London.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2016. Determining reservoir heterogeneities in turbidite fans by integrated sedimentological and stochastic analyses – a comprehensive study of the Bordighera deep-sea-fan. In: Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., Suppl. N. 1 (Vol. 40), Napoli, Italy.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2016. Sedimentological characterization of the Bordighera deep-sea fan: deciphering facies distribution within a sand-rich submarine fan complex deposited in a convergent setting. In: 32nd IAS International Meeting of Sedimentology, Marrakesh, Morocco.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio



2015. Distribution of Hybrid Event Beds (HEBs) within a mixed siliciclastic-calcareous turbidite sequence: the Bordighera deep-sea fan (Late Cretaceous, Western Alps, Italy). In: Sedimentary Basins: Research, Modelling, Exploration, Jena, Germany.

Pierre Mueller, Marco Patacci, Andrea Di Giulio