Tasca Santimano

Assistant Professor

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Lithosphere scale geodynamics
  • Kinematics of deformation using physical scaled analogue models.
  • Understanding how students learn in order to design a more productive and engaging learning environment.

 
Publications

Andersen, J., Göğüş, O.H., Pysklywec, R., Uluocak, E. Ş., Santimano, T. (2024) Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation within an uplifting orogenic plateau. Nature Communications 15, 7899.

Andersen, J., Göğüş, O.H., Pysklywec, R., Santimano, T., Uluocak, E. Ş. (2022) Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes- Communications-Environment and Earth Science (Nature) 3, 150.

Santimano, T., Pysklywec, R. (2020) The influence of lithospheric mantle scars and Rheology on Intraplate deformation and Orogenesis: Insights from Tectonic analog models. Tectonics 39 (5)

Ritter, M.C., Santimano, T., Rosenau, M., Leever, K.A., Oncken, O. (2017) Sandbox Rheometry: Co-evolution of Stress and Strain in Riedel-and Critical Wedge-Experiments. Tectonophysics 722, 400-409

Riller, U., Clark, M., Daxberger, H., Doman, D., Lenauer, I., Plath, S., Santimano, T. (2017) Fault-slip analysis: its importance in terms of strain, heterogeneity and kinematics of brittle deformation. Journal of Structural Geology 101, 80-95

Santimano, T., Rosenau, M., Oncken, O. (2015) Intrinsic versus extrinsic variability of analogue sand-box experiments-insights from statistical analysis of repeated accretionary sand wedges experiments. Journal of Structural Geology 75, 80-100

Di Giuseppe, E., Corbi, F., Funiciello, F., Massmeyer, A., Santimano, T.N., Rosenau, M., Davaille, A. (2014) Characterization of Carbopol® hydrogel rheology for experimental tectonics and geodynamics. Tectonophysics 642, 29-45

Santimano, T., Riller, U. (2012) Kinematics of Tertiary to Pleistocene intracontinental deformation of upper crust in the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes, NW Argentina.  Tectonics 31 (4)

Santimano, T., Riller, U. (2012) Revisiting thrusting, reverse faulting and transpression in the southern Sudbury Basin, Ontario. Precambrian Research 200-203, 74-81

Dreuse, R., Doman, D., Santimano, T., Riller, U. (2010) Crater-floor topography and impact melt sheet geometry of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada. Terra Nova 22, (6)

Education

Ph.D. Geology/Earth Science, Free University of Berlin
M.Sc., Geology, McMaster University
H.B.Sc. Earth Science, Environmental Science, Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga