Simona Cavagna

TL;DR: In this article, the identification and description of fossil evidence of microbial activity in the Monferrato carbonates is described. But the authors focus on the identification of microbial structures represented by pyritic rods and dolomite tubes.

TL;DR: The Alba succession (Tertiary Piedmont basin, NW Italy) preserves the northernmost record of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) and was deposited on the southern margin of a wide wedge-top basin this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a well-exposed example of the geological record of the birth, life, and death of a mud volcano, showing that the chimneys were the pathway for the expulsion toward the sea floor of gas-and sediment-charged fluids likely originated from destabilization of methane gas hydrates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the seven Messinian microbial carbonate-rich layers cropping out in the Pollenzo section (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy) are interbedded with a precession-related cyclic succession composed of euxinic shale/marl couplets and straddle the onset of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC).

TL;DR: In this paper, the internal structure of the Late Cretaceous-late Oligocene Ligurian accretionary wedge in northwestern Italy has been studied and three different types of melanges that formed sequentially through time.