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New stratigraphic data for the Poggio Carnaio Sandstone Fm (Northern Apennines; Italy)

Marco D'Errico(*), Angelida Di Staso(**), Simona Morabito(***) & Vincenzo Perrone(***)

Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Numidian Formation (Central-Northern Sicily): intra-formation variability and provenance evaluation

Giovanni Barbera(*), Germana Barone(*), Paolo Mazzoleni(*), Diego Puglisi(*), Hassan M. Khozyem(**) & Osama Mashaly(***)

Pliocene to Quaternary evolution of the Ofanto Basin in southern Italy: an approach based on the unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units

Paolo Giannandrea(*), Maria Marino(**), Maria Romeo(***) & Marcello Schiattarella(*)

The Permian succession of the Shaksgam Valley, Sinkiang (China)

Maurizio Gaetani(*) & Ernst Ja. Leven(**)

Tertiary volcanism in the Italian Alps (Giudicarie fault zone, NE Italy): insight for double alpine magmatic arc

Silvana Martin(*) & Patrizia Macera(**)

Carbonate intercalations in a terrigenous foredeep: late Miocene examples from the Simbruini Mts. and the Salto Valley (Central Apennines - Italy)

Simone Fabbi(*), Fabrizio Galluzzo(**), Rita Maria Pichezzi(**) & Massimo Santantonio(*)

Chemical and minero-petrographic features of Plio-Pleistocene fine-grained sediments in Calabria, southern Italy

Francesco Perri(*), Luigi Borrelli(**), Giovanni Gullà(**) & Salvatore Critelli(*)

Ichnocoenoses in the Macigno turbidite basin system, Lower Miocene, Trasimeno (Umbrian Apennines, Italy)

Paolo Monaco(*) & Tiziana Trecci(**)

Facies analysis and depositional architecture of shelf-type deltas in the Crati Basin (Calabrian Arc, south Italy)

Davide Fabbricatore(*), Gaetano Robustelli(**) & Francesco Muto(**)

Hydric dilatation of ignimbritic stones used in the church of Santa Maria di Otti (Oschiri, northern Sardinia, Italy)

Stefano Columbu(*), Anna Gioncada(**), Marco Lezzerini(**) & Marco Marchi(*)