TABLE OF CONTENTS

Assessment of the risk of pollution from Arsenic on human health as a function of its speciation in intestinal fluids

Michele Amadori & Patrizia Macera (*)

Using Tephrochronology and palynology to date the MIS 13 lacustrine sediments of the Mercure basin (Southern Apennines - Italy)

Paola Petrosino (*), Elda Russo Ermolli (*), Paola Donato (**), Brian Jicha (***), Gaetano Robustelli (**) & Raffaele Sardella (****)

Geoheritage and sport climbing activities: using the Montestrutto cliff (Austroalpine domain, Western Alps) as an example of scientific and educational representativeness

Irene Bollati (*), Michele Zucali (*), Cristina Giovenco (*) & Manuela Pelfini (*)

First report of Lutra simplicidens (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) in the Early Pleistocene of the Upper Valdarno (Italy) and the origin of European otters

Marco Cherin (*) & Lorenzo Rook (**)

An analytical model for the geotherm in the Basilicata oil fields area (southern Italy)

Antonella Megna (*), Stefania Candela (**), Stefano Mazzoli (***) & Stefano Santini (**)

The amount of pure shear and thinning in the Hercynian continental lower crust exposed in the Serre Massif (Calabria, southern Italy): an application of the vorticity analysis to quartz c-axis fabrics

Vincenzo Festa (*)

Architecture of the western margin of the North Adriatic foreland: the Schio-Vicenza fault system

Marco Pola (*), Angelo Ricciato (**), Roberto Fantoni (***), Paolo Fabbri (*) & Dario Zampieri (*)

Land mollusc palaeocommunity dynamics related to palaeoclimatic changes in the Upper Pleistocene alluvial deposits of Marche Apennines (central Italy)

Carmine D’Amico (*) (**), Daniela Esu (***) & Mauro Magnatti (****)

The significance of Longobucco Unit (Calabria-Peloritani Arc) in the evolution of the Ionian and Alpine Oceans

Leonsevero Passeri (*), Gloria Ciarapica (*), Letizia Reggiani (**) & David C. Rutledge (***)

The role of sediment grain-size, mineralogy, and beach morphology on plant communities of two Mediterranean coastal dune systems

Duccio Bertoni (*), Cristian Biagioni (**), Giovanni Sarti (**), Daniela Ciccarelli (***) & Matteo Ruocco (****)

Morphological and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Lagoon of Papas, southwestern Greece, during the Holocene (*)

Leonidas Stamatopoulos (1), Giuseppe Aiello (2), Diana Barra (2), Tommaso De Pippo (2), Carlo Donadio (2), (3) & Alessio Valente (4)

Applied stratigraphy and carbonate petrography of the Arabescato Orobico dimension stone from the Bergamasc Alps (Calcare Rosso, Italy)

Gabriele Vola (*) & Flavio Jadoul (**)

SCG: A Computer Application for Single Clinopyroxene Geothermobarometry

Mohammad Sayari (*) & Mortaza Sharifi