TABLE OF CONTENTS

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William Cavazza

Foreword

Silvana D'Angelo (*), Andrea Fiorentino (*) & Crescenzo Violante (**)

The investigation of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf, NE Brazil: side-scan sonar imagery, underwater photography, and surface-sediment data

Moab P. Gomes (*), Helenice Vital (*) (**), Patrícia P.B. Eichler (*) (***) & Barun K. Sen Gupta (****)

Habitat mapping of cold seeps associated with authigenic mineralization (Paola Ridge, southern Tyrrhenian Sea): combining seafloor backscatter with biogeochemistry signals

Marzia Rovere (*), Heba Rashed (**), Elena Pecchioni (**), Alessandra Mercorella (*), Alessandro Ceregato (*), Elisa Leidi (*), Fabiano Gamberi (*), Orlando Vaselli (**) & (***)

Coralligenous habitat in the Mediterranean Sea: a geomorphological description from remote data

Valentina Bracchi (*), Alessandra Savini (*), Fabio Marchese (*), Serena Palamara (*), Daniela Basso (*) & Cesare Corselli (*)

Comparison of supervised and unsupervised automatic classification methods for sediment types mapping using multibeam echosounder and grab sampling

Ibon Galparsoro (*), Xabier Agrafojo (*), Marc Roche (**) & Koen Degrendele (**)

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in active volcanic area of the Azores Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)

Letizia Di Bella (*), Virgilio Frezza (*), Aida Maria Conte (**) & Francesco Latino Chiocci (*)

Preliminary data on habitat characterization relevance for red coral conservation and management

Alessandro Cau (*), Enrico M. Paliaga (*), Rita Cannas (*), Giacomo Deiana (**), Maria C. Follesa, Flavio Sacco (*), Samuele Todde (**) & Paolo E. Orrù (**)

Technical Note - Habitat mapping of Romanian Natura 2000 sites. A case study, "Underwater Sulfurous Seeps, Mangalia"

Gheorghe-Viorel Ungureanu (*), (**), Alexandru-Vlad Lazăr (*), Robert Lazăr (*), Andrei-Daniel Balahură (*), Alexandru-Dan Ionescu (*), Dragos Micu (***) & Victor Niţă (***)

Textural features and isotope geochemistry of the Scillato travertine (north-central Sicily): genetic implications

Daniela Macaluso (*) & Giovanna Scopelliti (**)

Dinosaur and crocodylomorph footprints from the Hojedk Formation (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of north Kerman, Central Iran

Nasrollah Abbassi (*), Simone D'Orazi Porchetti (**), Alexander Wagensommer (***) & Mahdi Ghorbani Dehnavi (****)

ERT geophysical surveys contributing to the reconstruction of the geologicallandscape in high mountain prehistorical archaeological sites(Plan di Modzon, Aosta Valley, Italy)

Cesare Comina (*), Maria Gabriella Forno (*), (**), Marco Gattiglio (*),Franco Gianotti (*), Luca Raiteri (***) & Luigi Sambuelli (****)

Characteristics of Clays Stabilized with Lime-Silica Fume Mix

Mohammed Y. Fattah (*), Àamal A. Al-Saidi (**) & Maher M. Jaber (**)

A geoid model for Egypt based on GOCO03S and logarithmic covariance function

Raaed Mohamed Kamel Hassouna (*)

Determining the way-up of the Monte Facito Formation using new sedimentological data from the "La Cerchiara" succession,Southern Apennines

Giuseppe Palladino (*)

Paleocene palustrine and ephemeral alluvial facies in southern Sardinia (Italy)

Marco Murru (*), Concetta Ferrara (*) & Ruggero Matteucci (**)

Garnet growth in frictional melts of the Ivrea Zone (Italy)

Lidia Pittarello (*), (**), Gerlinde Habler (*), Rainer Abart (*) & Dieter Rhede (***)

The genus Iberomys (CHALINE, 1972) (Rodentia, Arvicolinae, Mammalia) in the Pleistocene of Italy

Juan Manuel López-García (*), Claudio Berto, Elisa Luzi, Chiara Dalla Valle, Sandra Bañuls-Cardona & Benedetto Sala