Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

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