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Alberto Collareta, Simone Casati and Andrea Di Cencio
The extinct ?false mako? shark, Parotodus benedenii (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), is essentially known from large, robust teeth that are widespread but overall rare in Oligocene to Pliocene deposits worldwide. More than 150 years after its description, thi...
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Mattia Marini, Luca Maria Foresi, Viviana Barbagallo, Michelangelo Bisconti, Agata Di Stefano, Giovanni Muttoni and Ivan Martini
A c. 31 m thick section straddling the fossil find of an Early Pliocene baleen whale (?Brunella?, hereafter), made in 2007 in the sedimentary fill of the Middle Ombrone Basin of Tuscany, is investigated for depositional age and environment combining pala...
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Agata Di Stefano, Natale Maria D?Andrea, Salvatore Distefano, Salvatore Urso, Laura Borzì, Niccolò Baldassini and Viviana Barbagallo
The quantitative analysis of the calcareous nannofossil content yield in the 600 m thick succession drilled at ODP Site 1123 (offshore New Zealand), considered as a reference section for the Southern Ocean region, allowed the recognition of 43 bioevents ...
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Olivier Merle, Pierre Boivin, Eric Langlois, François-Dominique de Larouzière, Yves Michelin and Cécile Olive
The tectono-volcanic ensemble of the Chaîne des Puys and the Limagne fault, which is part of the West European rift, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2018 as the Chaîne des Puys?Limagne fault tectonic arena. This site includes (1) the w...
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Farah Nefzaoui, Mohamed Fethi Ben Hamouda, Paula Maria Carreira, José Manuel Marques and Hans G. M. Eggenkamp
The key processes responsible for the rise in groundwater salinization in the Mio?Pliocene aquifer system of Sousse (Tunisia, eastern coastline) were identified through a multidisciplinary approach based on the use of geochemical, stable (2H, 13C, 18O an...
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Eya Ben Saad, Mohsen Ben Alaya, Jean-Denis Taupin, Nicolas Patris, Najet Chaabane and Radhia Souissi
The Mediterranean coastal aquifer system of the Grombalia basin (NE Tunisia) offers immense potential as a source of fresh water for agriculture, industry, and drinking water supply. Nonetheless, due to its intricate hydrogeological characteristics and t...
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Roberto Bizzarri and Angela Baldanza
Pliocene (?)?early Pleistocene shallow marine deposits, varying from gravel to sand to clay, characterize the southernmost sector of the Valdichiana Basin, between Orte and Città della Pieve, across Tuscany, Umbria and Latium (Central Italy). Facies asso...
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Zhen Yang, Guangxue Zhang, Guozhang Fan, Yintao Lu, Dali Shao, Songfeng Liu and Weiwei Wang
The evolution and mechanisms of tectonic subsidence in the Xisha area are poorly investigated, especially the spatiotemporal distribution features and reasons for the variations in tectonic subsidence. In this study, multi-channel seismic data and strati...
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Olive L. Ponyalou, Michael G. Petterson and Joseph O. Espi
Feni is located at the southeastern end of the NW-trending Tabar?Lihir?Tanga?Feni (TLTF) volcanic island chain, in northeastern Papua New Guinea. This island chain is renowned for hosting alkaline volcanics, geothermal activity, copper?gold mineralizatio...
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Silvia Rescic, Fabio Fratini and Daniela Pittaluga
The Tuscan Archipelago lies between the Ligurian Sea to the north and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south and between Corsica to the west and the Tuscan coast to the east. It is made up of seven major islands, Elba, Giglio, Capraia, Montecristo, Pianosa, Gia...
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