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Evaluation of the convection permitting regional climate model CNRM-AROME on the orographically complex island of Corsica
Meteorological processes over islands with complex orography could be better simulated by Convection Permitting Regional Climate Models (CP-RCMs)...
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Early Miocene (Aquitanian–Burdigalian) Clypeaster and Schizaster fauna (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida, Spatangoida) from Fırat Formation, Diyarbakır, Southeastern Anatolia
Species belonging to Clypeasteroida and Spatangoida orders are common and abundant in carbonate deposits of the Miocene sedimentary sequences of the...
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The Mediterranean Sea: A Laboratory to Characterize Micro-Continental Drift and Oceanic Basin Formation Processes
The sequence of processes that lead to the genesis of passive margins and their associated oceanic basins remains debated. Following the continental...
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The First Recorded Occurrences and the Distribution of Physalia physalis (Hydrozoa: Physaliidae) in Algerian Waters
Recently, there have been recorded findings of the pleustonic siphonophore Physalia physalis Linnæus, 1758, in different regions of Algeria. Several...
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Social Media in Risk Perception and Disaster Management: A Geographical Perspective
The advent of the last Technological Revolution has completely upset long-entrenched relations among spaces, places and communication flows, by...
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From Iberia to Laurion: Interpreting Changes in Silver Supply to the Levant in the Late Iron Age Based on Lead Isotope Analysis
The study of silver, which was an important means of currency in the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages (~ 1950–600 BCE), provides a large and...
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The Alps and Their Siblings
The Alps are a particularly complicated mountain range—but well researched. In this chapter we learn about the formation of the Penninic Ocean, the...
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Petrographic and geochemical investigations on the volcanic rocks used in the Punic-Roman archaeological site of Nora (Sardinia, Italy)
The research focuses on the geochemical and petrographic characterisation of volcanics that were used in the Roman city of Nora archaeological site....
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Old and new fossil birds from the Spanish Miocene
Now a long time ago, avian remains from the Vallès-Penedès Basin and from other Miocene localities inaugurated the study of the Neogene birds from...
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Contrasting decay of historical building stone: relationships between petrophysical features and frontal polymerization treatment suitability on medieval buildings of north Sardinia, Italy
Textural, physical–mechanical, and mineralogical–chemical properties influence the degradation of building stone. These properties also control the...
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Appendix
In the following section the compilation of geothermal waters from the literature study (Chap. 2) is listed. These analyses meet the accuracy...
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Macroeconomic impacts of climate change on the Blue Economy sectors of southern European islands
Island communities are among the first and most adversely affected by the impacts of global climate change. Islands are vulnerable to climate change...
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Pliocene and Pleistocene lagomorphs (Mammalia) from Northwest Africa: new discoveries
This work describes and interprets fossil lagomorphs from seven sites in the Maghreb the ages of which range from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary to...
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State of the art of the funerary archaeoentomological investigations in Italy
Archaeoentomology is a branch of environmental archaeology focusing on insects and other arthropods contributing, with other disciplines, to...
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Biomineralogy: Biomaterials
The subject of biomineralogy is the in vivo formation of minerals by living organisms. Biominerals are thus all mineral components that are formed by...
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Macroseismic intensity hazard maps for Italy based on a recent grid source model
Seismic hazard maps from probabilistic seismic hazard analysis or PSHA collect, at different sites, the values of the (site-specific) ground motion...
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A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Middle Jurassic of Sardinia (Italy) based on integrated palaeobotanical, palynological and lithofacies data assessment
During the Jurassic, Sardinia was close to continental Europe. Emerged lands started from a single island forming in time a progressively sinking...
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