TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial. Consolidating the new deal of the Italian Journal of Geosciences

Angelo Camerlenghi(1), William Cavazza(2) Raffaello Cioni(3), Sandro Conticelli(4), Giovanni Battista Crosta(5),Elisabetta Erba(6), Claudio Faccenna(7), Stefano Mazzoli(8) & Daniela Pantosti (9)

Going over 30 years of geological and paleontological studies on the Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy)

Massimiliano Ghinassi(*) & Mario Sagri(**)

The Plio-Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine Upper Valdarno Basin (central Italy): stratigraphy and Basin fill evolution

Francesco Fidolini(*), Massimiliano Ghinassi(**), Maurizio Magi(*), Mauro Papini(*) & Mario Sagri(*)

Depositional environments of the Plio-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy)

Massimiliano Ghinassi(*), Francesco Fidolini(**), Maurizio Magi(**) & Mario Sagri(**)

Compression-to-extension record in the Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy): structural and thermochronological constraints

Marco Bonini (*), Giovanna Moratti (*), Federico Sani (**) & Maria Laura Balestrieri (*)

Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Upper Valdarno Basin: new insights from the lacustrine S. Barbara Basin

Andrea Brogi(*), Francesco Fidolini(**) & Domenico Liotta(*)

Just a few: rodents and lagomorphs in the Plio-Pleistocene fossil record of the Upper Valdarno Basin

Lorenzo Rook(*) & Chiara Angelone(**)

The Upper Valdarno Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate record: an historical overview, with notes on palaeobiology and stratigraphic significance of some important taxa

Lorenzo Rook(*), Roman Croitor(**), Massimo Delfino(***), (****), Marco P. Ferretti(*), Gianni Gallai(*) & Marco Pavia(***)

Non-marine molluscs, Upper Valdarno, central Italy, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Palaeoecology, Biochronology, Sedimentary features.

Daniela Esu(*) & Massimiliano Ghinassi(**)

Climate and vegetation in the Upper Valdarno Basin (central Italy) as a response to Northern Hemisphere insolation forcing and regional tectonics in the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene

Adele Bertini(*)

Integrating sedimentological and palaeopedological data for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: examples from the Plio-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Francesco Fidolini(*) & Anna Andreetta(**)