The Inventory and Quantitative Assessment of Geodiversity as Strategic Tools for Promoting Sustainable Geoconservation and Geo-Education in the Peloritani Mountains (Italy)
Education Sciences,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
12(9), С. 580 - 580
Опубликована: Авг. 24, 2022
Most
methods
used
for
geoheritage
inventories
do
not
consider
the
quantitative
assessment
of
geodiversity
indicators;
consequently,
it
can
happen
that
some
geosites
are
wrongly
inventoried
as
sites
and
vice
versa
or
activities
scientific,
educational,
touristic
purposes
actually
should
be
planned
in
unprovided
with
requirements.
The
main
aim
present
paper
is
to
raise
awareness
type
sixteen
localities
Calabria–Peloritani
Arc
(Messina
province;
Italy)
suitable
scientific/educational/touristic
assets.
results
research
may
synthesized
follows:
(i)
identification
several
potential
international
significance;
(ii)
exclusion
from
any
possible
educational
initiatives;
(iii)
possibility
promote
initiatives
among
a
broader
public
sites,
best
addressed
postgraduate
geology
students
structural
geology,
tectonics,
stratigraphy,
and/or
PhD
young
researchers;
(iv)
planning
geo
route
devoted
geoknowledge
transfer
on
Alpine
thrust
tectonics
Miocene
block
rotations
involving
arc-like
structures
such
Paleozoic
Meso-Cenozoic
stratigraphy.
Язык: Английский
The offshore Alicante Basin: late Neogene basin development at the Internal–External Zone Boundary of the eastern Betics, SE Spain
Journal of Iberian Geology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
Macroinvertebrate-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the Upper Miocene Clypeaster -rich beds of the Djebel Murdjadjo (Oran, northwestern Algeria)
Historical Biology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 10
Опубликована: Авг. 4, 2024
Sclerobiont
communities
from
Messinian
Clypeaster-rich
beds
at
Terziza
(Djebel
Murdjadjo,
NW
Algeria)
are
described.
Endobionts
exclusively
composed
of
domichnial
structures
polychaete
annelids
(Caulostrepsis
isp.
Maeandropolydora
and
Trypanites
isp.),
clionid
sponges
(Entobia
geometrica,
E.
retiformis
Entobia
endolithic
bivalves
(Gastrochaenolites
torpedo
Gastrochaenolites
isp.).
Among
sclerozoans,
epibionts
represented
by
barnacles,
bryozoans,
juvenile
oysters,
serpulids,
vermetid
gastropods
(with
attachment
scar
Santichnus
mayorali).
Host
organisms
include
Ostrea
lamellosa,
Clypeaster,
Pecten.
The
studied
assemblage
is
ascribed
to
the
ichnofacies,
indicating
nearshore,
high-energy
deposition
influenced
storm
events,
post-mortem
bioerosion.
mark
initial
Mediterranean
marine
transgression
on
southern
flank
Murdjadjo
horst,
characterised
three
distinct
phases.
bioerosion
pattern
parallels
that
Tafna
basin,
suggesting
uniform
environmental
evolution
during
Early
Messinian.
Язык: Английский
The Origin of Sand and Its Colour on the South-Eastern Coast of Spain: Implications for Erosion Management
Water,
Год журнала:
2020,
Номер
12(2), С. 377 - 377
Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2020
Sand
colour
can
give
important
information
about
mineral
composition
and,
consequently,
sediment
source
areas
and
input
systems.
Beach
appearance,
which
is
mostly
linked
to
sand
colour,
has
a
relevant
economic
function
in
tourist
areas.
In
this
paper,
the
of
66
samples,
collected
along
both
natural
nourished
beaches
western
Mediterranean
coast
Spain,
were
assessed
CIEL*a*b*
1976
space.
The
obtained
results
showed
differences
between
artificially
beaches.
many
generally
differs
from
native
one
because
origin
injected
different.
coordinates’
range
is:
L*
(40.16–63.71);
a*
(−1.47–6.40);
b*
(7.48–18.06).
On
contrary,
for
beaches’
(47.66–70.75);
a*(0.72‒5.16);
(5.82–18.82).
Impacts
beach
nourishment
on
studied
at
San
Juan
beach,
most
popular
study
area.
Nourishment
works
performed
after
severe
erosion,
usually
anthropic
activities/structures
storm
events,
but
also
increase
width
hence
benefit
tourism.
Язык: Английский
Geogymkhana-Alicante (Spain): Geoheritage Through Education
Geoheritage,
Год журнала:
2020,
Номер
12(1)
Опубликована: Янв. 29, 2020
Язык: Английский
Scolicia, ichnotaxonomic practices, and the limits of behavioural convergence
Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
30(4), С. 338 - 361
Опубликована: Окт. 2, 2023
Many
studies
convincingly
documented
the
diagnostic
morphology
of
Scolicia,
establishing
a
functional
link
with
burrowing
activities
heart
urchins,
common
components
marine
mobile
faunas
that
emerged
during
Mesozoic
Marine
Revolution.
However,
this
ichnotaxon
has
been
repeatedly
mentioned
in
both
continental
successions
and
Paleozoic
strata,
even
though
its
characteristics
were
absent.
This
approach
may
reflect
implicit
belief
behavioural
convergence
is
rampant
ichnologic
record
can
be
uncritically
adopted
almost
all
cases.
We
underscore
importance
definition
Scolicia
based
on
morphologic
features
supported
by
solid
analysis
from
perspective
function
mode
construction.
view
highlights
value
paleoenvironmental
reconstructions
significance
to
unravel
macroevolutionary
trends.
Attribution
an
should
involve
understanding
terms
production
rather
than
mere
observation
superficial
similarities.
Язык: Английский
Bioerosion pattern in a nearshore setting as a tool to disentangle multiphase transgressive episodes
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology,
Год журнала:
2020,
Номер
554, С. 109820 - 109820
Опубликована: Май 30, 2020
Язык: Английский
The environmental factors limiting the distribution of shallow-water terebratulid brachiopods
Paleobiology,
Год журнала:
2020,
Номер
46(2), С. 193 - 217
Опубликована: Май 1, 2020
Abstract
The
Cenozoic
genus
Terebratula
seems
to
be
an
exception
the
post-Permian
trend
in
brachiopod
retreat
offshore
habitats,
because
it
was
species
rich
and
numerically
abundant
warm-temperate
shallow-water
environments
Mediterranean
Paratethys
realms.
This
so
despite
general
dominance
of
bivalves
pervasive
bioturbation
predation
pressure
during
Neogene.
,
however,
went
extinct
Calabrian
(Pleistocene).
optimal
environmental
conditions
for
its
prime
are
poorly
known.
Águilas
Basin
(SE
Spain)
is
ideal
study
area
investigate
habitat
shell
beds
this
occur
there
cyclically
early
Pliocene
deposits.
We
evaluate
paleoecological
boundary
controlling
distribution
by
estimating
tolerances
using
benthic
planktic
foraminiferal
nannoplanktic
assemblages
oxygen
isotopes
secondary
layer
calcite.
Our
results
suggest
that
favored
oligotrophic
mesotrophic,
well-oxygenated
at
water
depths
60–90
m.
Planktic
point
sea-surface
temperatures
between
~16°C
22°C,
bottom-water
17°C
24°C.
analyzed
proxies
indicate
tolerated
local
variations
depth,
bottom
temperature,
oxygenation,
productivity,
organic
enrichment.
probably
excluded
grazing
from
well-lit
preferentially
occupied
sediment-starved,
current-swept
upper
habitats
where
coralline
red
algae
were
absent.
Narrow
temperature
ranges
might
have
been
a
disadvantage
high-amplitude
seawater
fluctuations
started
about
1
Ma,
when
extinct.
Язык: Английский
The offshore Alicante Basin: Late Neogene basin development at the Internal-External Zone Boundary of the eastern Betics, SE Spain
Research Square (Research Square),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Сен. 12, 2024
Abstract
The
offshore
Alicante
Basin
is
a
late
Neogene
post-orogenic
basin
located
at
the
northeastern
end
of
Eastern
Betic
Shear
Zone
southeastern
Spain.
Based
on
integration
legacy
2D
seismic
data,
well
data
and
outcrop
geology,
this
paper
provides
comprehensive
review
analysis
its
stratigraphy,
structural
geometry
tectonic
evolution.
was
formed
as
an
extensional
in
latest
Serravallian-early
Tortonian
time
(ca.
11.5
Ma),
accumulating
1500-2000m
marine
sediments
Tortonian-Recent
age.
overlies
boundary
between
low-grade
metamorphic
Alpujarride
units
Internal
Zone,
non-metamorphic
Mesozoic
to
Middle
Miocene
sedimentary
rocks
External
Cordilleras.
This
Internal-External
Boundary
by
north-dipping
backthrust
that
reactivated
bounding
fault.
Active
faulting
ceased
around
8
Ma,
followed
phase
compression
resulted
inversion
margin
uplift
Late
Pliocene-Pleistocene
time.
Strike-slip
tectonics
related
Crevillente
Fault
appear
have
played
minor
role
structuration
basin,
but
may
shaped
structure
Tabarca
Ridge
Mazarron
Escarpment
southern
basin.
appears
form
zone
separating
predominantly
strike–slip
south
southwest
from
normal
north,
accommodating
recent
northern
EBSZ.
Язык: Английский
Bichordites-dominated ichnofabrics from Spanish Pliocene calcarenites: traces of marine life in migrating dunes
Geological Quarterly,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
68(4)
Опубликована: Дек. 13, 2024
A
series
of
Pliocene
ichnofabrics
is
described
from
the
Cuevas
Formation,
Almería-Níjar
Basin
south-eastern
Spain,
where
a
thick,
cross-stratified,
mixed
bioclastic-siliciclastic
succession
exposed
along
laterally
continuous
section.
It
records
dynamic
conditions
ancient
subaqueous
dunes
during
their
deposition
and
activities
organisms
colonizing
them.
The
are
dominated
by
Bichordites,
traces
likely
made
burrowing
sea
urchins
adapted
to
live
in
shifting
sand.
Ichnofabrics
range
those
showing
weak
bioturbation
with
little
else
but
Bichordites
(representing
high-energy,
continuously
migrating
dunes)
featuring
high
degree
containing
low
moderately
diverse
ichnofauna
more
physically
stable
environments
could
gather
food
less
agitated
waters).
Strong
burrowers
like
producers
have
acted
as
ecosystem
engineers.
Piscichnus
may
preyed
on
benthic
sand-dune
organisms.
non-uniform
distribution
ichnotaxa
these
sand
dunes,
alongside
previous
studies,
suggests
that
bioturbating
communities
been
similar
modern
seas.
Язык: Английский