Anatomy of an Orogen: The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins
Anatomy of an Orogen: The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins

Author: F. Vai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-21

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 9401598290

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This is the first book in English reviewing and updating the geology of the whole Apennines, one of the recent most uplifted mountains in the world. The Apennines are the place from which Steno (1669) first stated the principles of geology. The Apennines also represent amongst others, the finding/testing sites of processes and products like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, olistostromes and mélanges (argille scagliose), salinity crisis, geothermal fluids, thrust-top basins, and turbidites (first represented in a famous Leonardo's painting). As such, the Apennines are a testing and learning ground readily accessible and rich of any type of field data. A growing literature is available most of which is not published in widely available journals. The objective of the book is to provide a synthesis of current data and ideas on the Apennines, for the most part simply written and suitable for an international audience. However, sufficient details and in-depth analyses of the various complex settings have been presented to make this material useful to professional scholars and to students of senior university courses.

Possessing Nature
Possessing Nature

Author: Paula Findlen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994-09-16

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0520917782

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences Vol. VII
Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences Vol. VII

Author: Salvatore Milli

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 8868126176

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CONTENTS NABEEL HAMEED AL-SAIGH – Evidence of seismicity induced by water level changes at the Mosul Dam reservoir and implications on the hydraulic diffusivity ANDREA BENEDETTI – Twin embryos in the larger benthic foraminifer Nephrolepidina praemarginata FRANCESCO SCHIAVINOTTO – Nephrolepidina morgani (Lemoine and R. Douvillé, 1908) from the Oligo-Miocene of Decontra section (Majella, Central Apennines) RUGGERO MATTEUCCI – Drifted Nautilus shells from the Bajuni Islands (southern Somali coast of Indian Ocean) RICCARDO MANNI – Catalogue of the type fossils stored in the Palaeontological Museum of “ Sapienza” University of Rome

Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia
Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia

Author: Yildirim Dilek

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0813724090

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"The Mediterranean region and Asia provide a natural laboratory to investigate the driving forces of continental tectonics in an ongoing collisional orogen and the crustal and mantle response to various modes of deformation associated with plate boundary processes. The multidisciplinary research efforts in this region over the last fifteen years have produced a wealth of new data to better understand the interplay and feedback mechanisms between crustal and mantle processes and the dynamic landscape evolution in a complexly deforming area. A number of discrete collisional events between the Gondwana-derived continental fragments (i.e., Adria, Pelagonia, Arabia, India) and Eurasia controlled the geodynamics of the Mediterranean region and Asia during the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. This book is a collection of research papers, presenting new data, interpretations, and syntheses on various aspects of the collision-induced tectonic, magmatic, metamorphic, and geomorphic processes that have affected the evolution of this orogenic belt. It should help us better understand the mode and nature of tectonic and magmatic processes and crustal evolution in active collision zones, and the distribution and causes of seismic and volcanic events and their impact on landscape evolution."--Publisher's website.

Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences Vol. IX – 2017
Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences Vol. IX – 2017

Author: Salvatore Milli

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 8868129663

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CONTENTS SORAYA HADJZOBIR, UWE ALTENBERGER, CHRISTINA GÜNTER The Edough Massif garnetites: evidences for a metamorphosed paleo-garnet beach-sand placer (Cap de Garde, Annaba, Northeast Algeria) KHALID FATHI UBEID * AND KHALED AHMED RAMADAN Activity concentration and spatial distribution of radon in beach sands of Gaza Strip, Palestine SALVATORE MILLI , DANIELE E. GIRASOLI, DANIEL TENTORI, PAOLO TORTORA Sedimentology and coastal dynamics of carbonate pocket beaches: the Ionian-Sea Apulia coast between Torre Colimena and Porto Cesareo (Southern Italy) XIII GEOSED CONGRESS. Italian Association For Sedimentary Geology - A section of Italian Geological Society Abstracts XIII GEOSED CONGRESS. Italian Association For Sedimentary Geology - A section of Italian Geological Society Fieldtrip guide