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The Rich Palaeontological Heritage of SW Sardinia (Italy), a Possible Resource for a Geotourism Development
This paper overviews the rich and various palaeontological heritage of SW Sardinia (Italy). The most relevant fossiliferous localities were...
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Ag and Pb isotope systematics in galena ores from southern Sardinia and southern France flag potential silver sources in antiquity
While lead isotopes serve to determine potential ore provenance, silver isotopes help evaluate if a specific ore flagged by Pb isotopes has actually...
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Ordovician tectonics of the South European Variscan Realm: new insights from Sardinia
Although much is known about the Ordovician tectonics of the South European Variscides, aspects of their geodynamic evolution and palaeogeographic...
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Intensified exploitation of animal products in the Mediterranean Copper Age: isotopic evidence from Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia)
In this paper, dietary patterns are reconstructed across two phases represented at the Copper Age of Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia, Italy) via isotopic...
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Transtension or transpression? Tectono-metamorphic constraints on the formation of the Monte Grighini dome (Sardinia, Italy) and implications for the Southern European Variscan belt
This work presents an integrated structural, kinematic, and petrochronological study of the Monte Grighini dome within the Variscan...
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Alluvial fans at Cala Gonone (Sardinia), a fast develo** touristic village: origins, hazards and potential risks
The study area of Cala Gonone in NE Sardinia (Italy) consists of a wide terraced re-entrance/valley crowned inland by carbonate hills and, near the...
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The Anisian continental-marine transition in Sardinia (Italy): state of the art, new palynological data and regional chronostratigraphic correlation
The scarce evidence of paleontological records between the upper Permian and the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Western Europe could reflect (1) large...
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Syntectonic magmatism and reactivation of collisional structures during late-Variscan shearing (SW Sardinia, Italy)
The Arbus igneous complex (SW Sardinia, Italy) represents a good example of a short time lived post-collisional composite pluton emplaced at shallow...
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The Potential for Valorisation of Archaeo-geosites Through Climate Change: Exploratory Study of the Nora Site (Sardinia, Italy)
In the study of past cityscapes, the inclusion of geodiversity and geomorphological dynamics can help in understanding the history of a settlement...
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Studies on archaeological olive fruitstones from the Archaic and Punic periods (7th–3rd century bc) of Sardinia, Italy
Recent archaeological investigations in the lagunas di Santa Giusta and Mistras, waterlogged sites in central-west Sardinia, Italy, have enabled the...
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Climate change assessment: seasonal and annual temperature analysis trends in the Sardinia region (Italy)
Climate change is expected to have an impact on temperature variability and lead to a substantial increase in temperature values. This is...
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The Funtana Morimenta Ichnosite (Sardinia, Italy): a Potential Geotourist Attraction
The late Middle Pleistocene ichnosite of Funtana Morimenta (Gonnesa, Italy) provides a relevant scientific and didactic interest. In this site,...
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Dental developmental defects due to mercurial treatment in a child from sixteenth-century Alghero (Sardinia, Italy)
A child aged 3.5 to 4.5 years, exhumed from the cemetery of Alghero that is referable to the plague outbreak of 1582–83, showed remarkable dental...
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8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)
Knowledge about the vegetation history of Sardinia, the second largest island of the Mediterranean, is scanty. Here, we present a new sedimentary...
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Development of coral–sponge–microbialite reefs in a coated grain-dominated carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, eastern Sardinia, Italy)
The Late Jurassic is a peak time of diversification of reefs with corals, stromatoporoids, calcareous and siliceous sponges, and microbialites during...
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Giant Garnet Crystals in Wollastonite–Grossularite–Diopside-Bearing Marbles from Tamarispa (NE Sardinia, Italy): Geosite Potential, Conservation, and Evaluation as Part of a Regional Environmental Resource
The wollastonite–garnet–diopside-bearing marbles crop** out in the Migmatite Complex west to the Tamarispa and San Lorenzo villages share a common...
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The Devonian/Carboniferous boundary in Sardinia (Italy)
In Sardinia (Italy) two sections, located in the southeastern part of the island, expose the Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary: the Monte Taccu Section...
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Territorial Planning of Geological Mining Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia
The work describes the methodological approaches implemented by the Geological Mining Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia (Italy) in the...
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Granite- and andesite-hosted thermal water: geochemistry and environmental issues in northern Sardinia, Italy
Groundwater quality can be compromised by its interaction with deep thermal waters. In northern Sardinia, two different deep thermal-water-flow...
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Early metallurgy in Sardinia: characterizing the evidence from Su Coddu
This paper contextualizes analyses of a collection of metal artifacts and ostensible metallurgical slag from the prehistoric settlement of Su Coddu...
