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Silvia Fornasaro
Researcher at University of Florence
Publications - 12
Citations - 70
Silvia Fornasaro is an academic researcher from University of Florence. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental science & Biology. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications receiving 29 citations. Previous affiliations of Silvia Fornasaro include University of Genoa.
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Potentially Toxic Elements in Ultramafic Soils: A Study from Metamorphic Ophiolites of the Voltri Massif (Western Alps, Italy)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how geotectonic characteristics of ultramafic bedrocks, such as the degree of serpentinization, metamorphic imprint, and deformation, may affect the mineralogical and chemical variations of ultramerafic soils, including the occurrence and potential mobility of the potentially toxic elements (PTEs), in particular Cr, Ni, and Co.
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Lawsonite-bearing eclogite from a tectonic mélange in the Ligurian Alps: new constraints for the subduction plate-interface evolution
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed structural and petrological study of an area in the northwestern sector of the metaophiolitic high-pressure Voltri Massif (Ligurian Western Alps, Italy) is presented.
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Mercury distribution around the Siele Hg mine (Mt. Amiata district, Italy) twenty years after reclamation: Spatial and temporal variability in soil, stream sediments, and air
Silvia Fornasaro,Guia Morelli,Valentina Rimondi,Cesare Fagotti,Rossella Friani,Pierfranco Lattanzi,Pilario Costagliola +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the Siele system has a low resilience and natural recovery will take many years (probably decades), during which the area will remain an important source of Hg for the Paglia and Tiber River systems, and eventually for the Mediterranean Sea.
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The extensive mercury contamination in soil and legacy sediments of the Paglia River basin (Tuscany, Italy): interplay between Hg-mining waste discharge along rivers, 1960s economic boom, and ongoing climate change
Silvia Fornasaro,Guia Morelli,Valentina Rimondi,Cesare. Fagotti,Rossella Friani,Pierfranco Lattanzi,Pilario Costagliola +6 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors determined the implications of the morphological changes that occurred along the Paglia River in the last 200 years on the distribution of Hg along the floodplain and riverbed, which today represent one of the main Hg-reservoirs in the Monte Amiata mining district.
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Potentially toxic elements distribution in the serpentinized and deformed ultramafic rocks from the Voltri Massif (NW, Italy)
Silvia Fornasaro,Paola Comodi,Laura Crispini,Cristina Malatesta,Azzurra Zucchini,Pietro Marescotti +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of local-scale lithological, textural, and structural factors in the distribution of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in different ultramafic rocks from the high pressure ophiolitic Voltri Massif (Central Liguria, NW Italy).