TABLE OF CONTENTS

The challenge of the new millennium

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)

Subterraniphyllum and free-living Neogoniolithon (coralline algae) from the Oligocene reef facies of Costa d'Ovada (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, Alessandria, NW Italy)

Grazia Vannucci(*), Massimiliano Testa(**), Michele Piazza(*) & Paolo Pastorino(***)

Notes on the co-seismic stress field evolution during the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) aftershock sequence

Mauro Alberti(*)

Le litofacies permiane e triassiche della formazione di M. Facito auctt. nell'area di M. Facito (successione di Lagonegro, Appennino meridionale)

Leonsevero Passeri(*) & Gloria Ciarapica(*)

Structural and petrographic analysis at the north-eastern margin of the Oligocene Traversella pluton (Internal Western Alps, Italy)

Davide Zanoni(*)

First record of ammonites in the Bonarelli Level (uppermost Cenomanian) of the Umbria-Marche Succession

Ugo Donatelli(*), Mario Tramontana(*) & F. Venturi(**)

The Monte Penna thrust (southern Tuscany, Italy): geometry and kinematic of a collisional structure affecting the Tuscan Nappe during the Northern Apennines orogenic building

Andrea Brogi(*), (**) & Lorenzo Fabbrini(*)

The study of large erratic boulders casts new light on some glacial palaeogeography problems in the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy)

Paolo Roberto Federici(*) (withthecollaborationofBarbaraFontanini)

Mass-transport deposits in confined wedge-top basins: surficial processes shaping the messinian orogenic wedge of Northern Apennine of Italy

Andrea Artoni(*), Massimo Bernini(*), Giovanni Papani(*), Francesca Rizzini(*), Giulia Barbacini(*), (**), Massimo Rossi(**), Sergio Rogledi(**) & Manlio Ghielmi(**)

Rhodolith-rich lithofacies of the Porto Badisco Calcarenites (upper Chattian, Salento, southern Italy)

Marco Brandano(1), Michele Morsilli(2), Grazia Vannucci(3), Mariano Parente(4), Francesca Bosellini(5) & Guillem Mateu-Vicens(6)

Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene succession of the Apricena-Lesina-Poggio Imperiale quarrying district (western Gargano, southern Italy)

Giulio Pavia(*), Carlo Bertok(*), Giuliano Ciampo(**), Valentino Di Donato(**), Luca Martire(*), Federico Masini(***), Marco Pavia(*), Nicoletta Santangelo(**), Emma Taddei Ruggiero(**) & Marta Zunino(*)

Late Quaternary buried lagoons in the northern Campania plain (southern Italy): evolution of a coastal system under the influence of volcano-tectonics and eustatism

Nicoletta Santangelo(*), Giuliano Ciampo(*), Valentino Di Donato(*), Paola Esposito(*), Paola Petrosino(*), Paola Romano(*), Elda Russo Ermolli(**), Antonio Santo(***), Francesco Toscano(*) & Igor Villa(****)