TABLE OF CONTENTS

1:5,000 geological map of the upper Cretaceous intraplatform-basin succession in the "Gravina di Matera" canyon (Apulia Carbonate Platform, Basilicata, southern Italy)

Vincenzo Festa (*), Luisa Sabato (*)(**) & Marcello Tropeano (*)

Palaeoecology before ecology: the rise of actualism, palaeoenvironment studies and palaeoclimatology in the Italian panorama between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries

Marco Romano (*)(**)

Riverine influence in Sr isotope ratio of mollusk shells and relationship with foraminiferal assemblages in a Late Quaternary succession of the Po River Delta (Northern Italy)

Francesca Castorina (*) & Stefano Claudio Vaiani (**)

The Scaglia Toscana Formation of the Monti del Chianti: new lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data

Enrico Pandeli (*,**), Milvio Fazzuoli (*), Fabio Sandrelli (***), Roberto Mazzei (***), Simonetta Monechi (*), Marisa Nocchi (****), Ivan Martini (***) & Gigliola Valleri (*)

Triponzo: a thermal system in a cold area of the Apennines (Italy)

Beddini Giulio (*), Frondini Francesco (*), Caliro Stefano (**), Cardellini Carlo (*) & Rosiello Angelo (*)

Seismo-stratigraphic model of "La Bandita" area in the Palermo Plain (Sicily, Italy) through HVSR inversion constrained by stratigraphic data

Raffaele Martorana (*,**), Mauro Agate (*), Patrizia Capizzi (*), Francesca Cavera (*) & Antonino D'Alessandro (**)

New insights on the late Quaternary geologic evolution of the Ischia Island coastal belt based on high-resolution seismic profiles

Gemma Aiello

On the trail of Otto Hermann Wilhelm Abich: a journey through the Italian volcanoes

Marco Pantaloni (*), Fabiana Console (**) & Fabio Massimo Petti (***)

Wavelet analysis of δ18O and δ13C time-series from an Holocene speleothem record from Corchia Cave (central Italy): insights for the recurrence of dry-wet periods in the Central Mediterranean

Andrea Tognarelli (1), Giovanni Zanchetta (1,2), Eleonora Regattieri (1,3), Ilaria Isola (2), Russell N. Drysdale (5,6), Monica Bini (1,2) & John C. Hellstrom (7)

The Late Pleistocene Canis lupus (Canidae, Mammalia) from Avetrana (Apulia, Italy): reappraisal and new insights on the European glacial wolves

Beniamino Mecozzi (*,**) & Saverio Bartolini Lucenti (***,****)

First report of hybodont shark from the Toarcian Rosso Ammonitico Formation of Umbria-Marche Apennine Polino area, Terni, Central Italy)

Marco Romano (1,2,3), Paolo Citton (2,3,4), Angelo Cipriani (2,3) & Simone Fabbi (2,3,5)