A5079306620- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Rock Mechanics and Modeling
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Building materials and conservation
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
- Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Landslides and related hazards
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
- Geological Modeling and Analysis
- Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
University of Catania
2016-2025
Instituto Geológico
2010
Abstract The IGCP 714 project “3GEO – Geoclimbing & Geotrekking in Geoparks ” is financed by the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) and supported Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). In this paper, we report on results first phase focused criteria to be adopted select geodiversity sites equipped for climbing or trekking. selection geoclimbing geotrekking routes aimed at combining multimedia tools outdoor activities Geosciences promotion conservation UNESCO Global Geoparks,...
The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen is an arcuate segment of the peri-Mediterranean orogenic Alpine nappe system that comprises whole Calabria and north-eastern sector Sicily. It Sila Catena Costiera Massifs in northern Calabria, Serre Aspromonte central southern Peloritani Mountains In Massifs, three tectonic complexes are recognisable: a) basal Apennine Complex, which consists carbonate platform sequences passive continental margin; b) intermediate Liguride made oceanic-derived units, affected...
Structural, petrologic, and thermobarometric data presented in this paper contribute to our understanding of the tectono-metamorphic evolution lowest tectonic slices Aspromonte Massif (southern Calabria, Italy), which crop out three main windows. Despite previously being considered different units, they exhibit following similar features: same evolution, analogous blasto-deformation relationships, absence Hercynian mineralogical assemblage relics. Similar P-T paths indicate early HP-LT...
Due to the ongoing development of new technologies, many instruments are available assist geological investigations at different scales. These techniques, including 3D outcrop modelling from aerial photogrammetry, and quantitative microstructural analysis useful in crystalline basement studies. This contribution combines traditional multiscale structural techniques migmatitic rocks Valpelline Series (Dent-Blanche Tectonic System, Western Alps). Conventional is integrated with extraction data...
This study focused on collecting structural data orientations of a crustal-scale shear zone (Palmi Shear Zone, PSZ, southern Calabria, Italy) by integrating various analytical and field-based techniques. The PSZ consists deformed metamorphic rocks (migmatitic biotitic paragneiss, marbles, skarns) showing multiple folding phases, Hercynian tonalites pegmatites (306-290 Ma), crosscut Late leucocratic dykes (ca. 290 Ma). Multi-sized clasts composed different lithologies are preserved clean...
Abstract The Alpine chain exposed in the Western Mediterranean area represents a front several kilometres width, dismembered by more recent tectonics and opening of Tyrrhenian Basin. In most exposures this mountain belt, relics older metamorphic rocks occur. deformational sequence events may be revealed recognition records associated with different structures. Within tract cropping out Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily), we distinguished two complexes characterized tectonometamorphic...
The petroleum industry has always been pursuing highly exploitable gas fields, which are often hosted in carbonate rocks. However, carbonates heterogeneous and show different fabrics structures as the result of sedimentation various environments, subsequent diagenesis deformation. In this study, a multi-scale multidisciplinary approach performed on classical reservoir rocks from subsurface Hyblean Plateau (Sicily, Italy). We aim at unravelling important debated role tectonic diagenetic...
Abstract This study presents new field and microstructural constraints into the batholith architecture supra- to subsolidus evolution of late Variscan granitoids at Capo Vaticano Promontory, part ∼13 km-thick Serre Batholith in southern Italy. A survey, assisted by petrographic analyses, produced first geological map area (1:140,000 scale), detailing magmatic unit relationships their petro-structural features. migmatitic border zone (MBZ) marks transition from lower-crustal paragneisses...
The source of high-intensity magnetic anomalies from cratons has long been debated, as it requires speculative rocks yielding 2-6 A/m magnetization. Magnetic properties the lower crust lithology are generally poorly constrained, considering their low exposure at surface. Here we report on and paleomagnetic investigation Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ), Western Alps, where both metamorphic intrusive Late Variscan-Permian ages spectacularly exposed. We sampled 312 oriented cores 39 sites along...
A petrological and geochemical study was performed on 5 selected samples of peridotites from two different sites (Finero Balmuccia) outcropping in the Ivrea Verbano Zone, with aim to investigate processes occurring deep lithosphere possible interaction lower crust.The Finero area fall harzuburgite (FIN1, FIN3, FIN4) field whereas those Balmuccia are lherzolithes (BALM1) werlhites (BALM4), highlighting respectively presence a more fertile primordial mantle for sites.The rocks featured by...
Investigating the main geochemical characteristics of lower continental crust is essential to understand its formation and evolution, identifying crustal differentiation processes possible crust-mantle interactions. We performed bulk rock (major trace elements), noble gases isotopes (He, Ne, Ar), fluid inclusions (Raman spectroscopy) analyses on metamorphic rocks from Ivrea-Verbano Zone (Southern Italian Alps). Specifically, we studied various lithologies (metapelite, metagabbro, mafic...
Abstract At the southern boundary of Rhodope Massif, NE Greece, Kavala Shear Zone (KSZ) represents an example Eastern Mediterranean deep-seated extensional tectonic setting. During Miocene time, deformation favoured syntectonic emplacement and subsequent exhumation plutonic bodies. This paper deals with strain-related changes in macroscopic, geochemical microstructural properties lithotypes collected along KSZ, comprising granitoids from pluton, aplitic dykes host rock gneisses. Moreover, we...
Abstract A strain gradient was mesoscopically recognized in sheared leucogneisses cropping out near Mount Montalto (Calabria, southern Italy) the Aspromonte–Peloritani Unit on basis of field observations. In order to investigate relationship between textural and physical anisotropy, a microstructural petrophysical study carried selected mylonites exhibiting different stages deformation. The main mineral assemblage is Qtz+Pl+Kfs+Wm, displaying S – C shear-band textures; mica-fish ribbon-like...
Late-Variscan granitoid rocks of trondhjemitic and granitic composition, intruded in migmatitic paragneisses the north-eastern Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy) at ~310 Ma ~300 Ma, respectively, exhibit a range deformation microstructures developed under shear regime decreasing temperatures. Non-coaxial is documented by sigmoidal feldspar porphyroclasts, mica fish, asymmetric boudins affecting tiny andalusite crystals. shearing during cooling constrained largely represented chessboard...
We investigate the intra- and inter-crystalline deformation processes involved in sheath fold development combining complementary fabric analysis techniques 3D modelling by neutron tomography. The investigated is a multi-layered sub-metre scale single-eye structure, developed metapsammites from Ben Hope Nappe, overlying Moine Thrust Zone of NW Scotland. Crystallographic Preferred Orientations (CPOs) quartz biotite were acquired through Neutron Diffractometer an SEM-EBSD system to compare...