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Seminar - The Rock Art of Serranía del Chiribiquete: a geoarchaeological and geomorphological heritage in the heart of the Amazon

29.04.2025

New discoveries in Amazonian rock art: paintings, pigments, and some of the oldest traces in South America. Deep in the Colombian Amazon lies the Chiribiquete Massif, a chain of table mountains with steep quartz-sandstone cliffs. It was in this remote and dramatic setting that anthropologist Carlos

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A Roman Ostriarium in the Venetian Lagoon: the Discovery at Lio Piccolo Reveals an Ancient Landscape

17.04.2025

In the northern Venetian lagoon, at Lio Piccolo, archaeologists have uncovered a Roman ostriarium dating to the 1st century CE—the first ever found in Italy. The structure is a rectangular basin built with bricks and wooden planks, buried in the lagoon sediment, and used to keep oysters alive before

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Crystallization and Bubble Formation in Basaltic Magmas: A Seminar with Fabio Arzilli

Speaker: Dr. Fabio Arzilli - University of Camerino | Tuesday 15 April 2025 | 4.30 PM - Arduino Classroom

15.04.2025

Hidden dynamics shaping magma mobility and eruptive styleOn Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Aula Arduino, the Department will host Fabio Arzilli from the University of Camerino for a seminar exploring the magmatic processes that precede and influence basaltic eruptions.Basaltic eruptions are

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Caves, Tepuis and Extreme Life: Francesco Sauro's New Book

11.04.2025

On Friday 11 April at 6 p.m., the Auditorium of the Museum of Nature and Humankind, located in Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 39, Padua, will host the presentation of Auyán-tepui, Caves at the Origins of Time (Edizioni La Venta), curated by Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences of

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Martha Pamato on Earth’s Deep Water Origins

11.04.2025

Online lecture by the 2024 EMU Research Excellence Medal awardee on hydrogen in mantle minerals and the origin of Earth’s water.On April 11, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. CET, an online lecture will be held by Professor Martha Giovanna Pamato, recipient of the 2024 EMU Research Excellence Medal. The event is

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