Cinzia G. Farnetani

Associate Professor

Present address:

Laboratoire de Dynamique des Fluides Géologiques

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

1, rue Jussieu

75238 Paris cedex 05, France

Bureau 459, Phone: +33 (0) 6 65 77 30 79

e-mail : cinzia@ipgp.fr

Academic background:

1988: Laurea in Scienze Geologiche, Universita' di Padova, Italy

1992: Master in Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, USA

1995: Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, USA

1996: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

1996-Present, Maitre de Conférences, Université Paris Cité

2016: HDR , Université Paris Cité

Research interests:

Beloved mantle plumes. Thermo chemical mantle convection. Mantle stirring processes. Interaction plume- lithosphere and melting processes. Internal structure of the Hawaiian plume. Magma ocean convection. Carbon in mantle plumes

Publications:

C.G. Farnetani and M. A. Richards, 1994. Numerical investigation of the mantle plume initiation model for flood basalt events, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 13813-13883.

C. G. Farnetani and M. A. Richards, 1995. Thermal entrainment and melting in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 251-267.

C. G. Farnetani, M. A. Richards, and M. S. Ghiorso, 1996. Petrological models of magma evolution and deep crustal structure beneath hotspots and flood basalt provinces, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 143, 81-94.

C. G. Farnetani, 1997. Excess temperature of mantle plumes: The role of chemical stratification across D'', Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1583-1586.

C. G. Farnetani, B. Legras and P. J. Tackley, 2002. Mixing and deformations in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 196, 1-15.

C. G. Farnetani and H. Samuel, 2003. Lagrangian structures and stirring in the Earth's mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 206, 335-348.

H. Samuel and C. G. Farnetani, 2003. Thermochemical convection and helium concentrations in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 207, 39-56.

C.G. Farnetani, H. Samuel, 2005. Beyond the thermal plume paradigm, Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 32, L07311, doi:10.1029/2005GL022360.

H. Samuel, C.G. Farnetani and D. Andrault, 2005. Heterogeneous lowermost mantle: Compositional constraints and seismological observables, AGU Monograph 160, Earth's deep mantle: Structure, composition and evolution, Edited by R.D. van der Hilst et al., 101-116.

C.R. Neal et al., 2008. Investigating Large Igneous Province formation and associated paleoenvironmental events, Scientific Drilling, 6, 4-18 .

C.G. Farnetani and A.W. Hofmann, 2009. Dynamics and internal structure of a lower mantle plume conduit. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 282, 314–322.

C.G. Farnetani and A.W. Hofmann, 2010. Dynamics and internal structure of the Hawaiian plume. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 295, 231–240.

A.W. Hofmann, C.G. Farnetani, M. Spiegelman, C. Class, 2011. Displaced helium and carbon in the Hawaiian plume. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 312, 226-236.

C.G. Farnetani, A.W. Hofmann, C. Class, 2012. How double volcanic chains sample geochemical anomalies from the lowermost mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 359-360, 240–247.

A.W. Hofmann, C.G. Farnetani, 2013. Two views of the Hawaiian plume structure, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14, 5308-5322, doi: 10.1002/2013GC004942.

K. Vilella, S-H. Shim, C.G. Farnetani, J. Badro, 2015. Spin state transition and partitioning of iron: Effects on mantle dynamics, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 417, 57-66.

A. Limare, K. Vilella, E.Di Giuseppe, C.G. Farnetani, E. Kaminski, E. Surducan, V. Surducan, C. Neamtu, L. Fourel, C. Jaupart, 2015. Microwave-heating laboratory experiments for planetary mantle convection, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 777, 50-67

L. Fourel, A. Limare, C. Jaupart, E. Surducan, C.G. Farnetani, E. Kaminski, C. Neamtu, V. Surducan, 2017. The Earth's mantle in a microwave oven: thermal convection driven by a heterogeneous distribution of heat sources, Exp Fluids, 58:90, DOI 10.1007/s00348-017-2381-3.

C.G. Farnetani, A.W. Hofmann, T. Duvernay, A. Limare, 2018. Dynamics of rheological heterogeneities in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 499, 74-82.

K. Vilella, A. Limare, C. Jaupart, C. G. Farnetani, L. Fourel, E. Kaminski, 2018. Fundamentals of laminar free convection in internally heated fluids at values of the Rayleigh–Roberts number up to 10e9, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 846, 966–998.

A. Limare, C. Jaupart, E. Kaminski, L. Fourel, C.G. Farnetani, 2019. Convection in an internally heated stratified heterogeneous reservoir, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 870, 67–105.

D. Weis , K. S. Harpp, L. N. Harrison, M. Boyet, C. Chauvel, C.G. Farnetani, V.A. Finlayson, K. K. M. Lee, R. Parai, A. Shahar, N. M. B. Williamson, 2023. Earth’s mantle composition revealed by mantle plumes, Nature Reviews earth & environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00467-0

B. Thomas , H. Samuel , C. G. Farnetani, J. Aubert, C. Chauvel, 2024. Mixing time of heterogeneities in a buoyancy-dominated magma ocean, Geophys. J. Int., 236, 764–777.

B. Thomas , H. Samuel , C. G. Farnetani, J. Aubert, C. Chauvel, 2024. The Influence of Rotation on the Preservation of Heterogeneities in Magma Oceans, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011891. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011891

Invited contributions to encyclopedia:

C.G., Farnetani, 2010. Les points chauds. Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris. La Science au présent 2010, 127-134.

C.G., Farnetani and A.W., Hofmann, 2011. Mantle plumes. Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, Deep Earth Structure and Processes; H. Gupta (Ed.), Springer.

C.G., Farnetani , 2022. Composition and geodynamics of the Earth, GIORNALE DI FISICA 10.1393/gdf/i2023-10519-2 vol. LXIV.

C.G., Farnetani , 2024. Plumes from the heterogeneous Earth’s mantle, EMU Notes in Mineralogy, vol. 21, Chapter 2, pp. 19–38.

C.G., Farnetani , 2025. Hotspots, Large Igneous Provinces and Global Mantle Dynamics. In: Structure and Dynamics of the Earth’s Interior 1, Coordinated by J. Monteux. ISTE, pp. 115-153.

Awards:

2004, Doornbos Memorial Prize, Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior, Garmisch, Germany (Thank you SEDI!)

Recent invited seminars:

2025-Oct: University of California at Berkeley, USA.

2025-Dec: ISTO-Orléans, France

(Image on the back page extracted from Achrome by Piero Manzoni)