Main research activities
- Sedimentary Geological Mapping
- High-resolution stratigraphical analyses of the northern Apennines post-collisional basins
- Depositional architecture and stratigraphy of turbidite systems in foreland basins
- Depositional architecture, stratigraphy and sedimentology of fluvial-lacustrine and transitional marine systems
- Cave terrigenous sedimentology
- Continental carbonates: calcareous tufa, travertines, speleothems
- Urban Geology, Geodiversity and Geosites
- Clast provenance studies
- Depositional evolution and relationships between sedimentation and tectonics in the orogenic and post-orogenic systems
Main techniques and metodologies
- Analitycal techniques (Microscopy, Catodoluminescence, etc.)
- Geological Mapping
- Cyclostratigraphy
- Physical stratigraphy and facies analysis
- Biostratigraphy
- Quantitative sedimentary petrography
- Geometric morphometry
- Stable isotopes
Main research areas
- Tyrrhenian and Adriatic-Padan sides of the Northern Apennines
- Corsica; Northern Tyrrhenian Sea; Tuscan Archipelago
- Mediterranean and circumMediterranean area
- Central-Northern Ethiopya
- Western Turkey
- Corinto, Greece
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Yorkshire, England
- Ross Sea and Transantarctic Mountains (Victoria Land), Antarctica
Researchers