Seminario - Asteroid impact-formed complex diamond structures

Relatore: Prof. Péter Németh - Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Hungary) | Martedì 5 Maggio 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

05.05.2026

Around 50,000 years ago an ~60 m metal asteroid traveling at 11 km/s impacted on the flat plains of northern Arizona (USA) creating the 200 m deep and 1.2 km diameter Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Crater). The impact, estimated to correspond to 10 megatons of TNT and generated an intense

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Seminario - Long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges in the solar system: what controls their formation?

Relatrice: Prof. Giulia Magnarini - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université | Martedì 28 Aprile 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

28.04.2026

Long-runout landslides are amongst the most catastrophic type of mass movements, and yet one of the least understood. Much work has already been done to study the behaviour of these landslides, yet the origin of their hypermobility is poorly understood. One key morphological feature that is

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Seminario - Understanding the Complexity of Fluid-Induced Microearthquake Ruptures: Insights from High-Resolution Observations and 3D Dynamic Modeling

Relatrice: Prof. Elisa Tinti – Sapienza Università di Roma | Giovedì 23 Aprile 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula 1F

23.04.2026

Understanding the dynamics of microearthquakes is a key challenge in modern seismology, particularly in the context of fluid-induced seismicity. We exploit unique datasets from hydraulic stimulation experiments at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory (Switzerland), where dense near-fault monitoring

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Seminario di "Avvio al Lavoro" - Presentation of the GEMS Master 2026-2027

Relatori: Dr. Giancarlo Davoli, Dr. Fabio La Valle, Dr. Giovanni Scrofani - ENI Italia. | Martedì 14 Aprile 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino - Introduzione: Prof. Giulio Di Toro (Dipartimento di Geoscienze)

14.04.2026

GEMS (Geoscience for Energy) is Eni’s advanced training program aimed at young graduates who are capable of tackling the challenges of energy and georesources. The seminar will offer an overview of GEMS Master program. - 14 April 2026

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Al Museo Naturalistico Archeologico di Vicenza un approfondimento sulla guastoniite-(Y), il minerale dedicato ad Alessandro Guastoni

09.04.2026

Giovedì 9 aprile il Museo Naturalistico Archeologico di Vicenza propone un doppio appuntamento dedicato alla mineralogia, tra visita guidata e approfondimento scientifico.Alle ore 18.00 è in programma la visita guidata alla mostra “Minerali e altre storie. La collezione mineralogica Aldo Allegranzi”

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Seminario - Coupling latent heat release with reaction kinetics in metamorphic systems

Relatore: Dr. Simon Schorn - Institute of Geosciences & Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. | Martedì 31 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

31.03.2026

In this seminar Dr. Schorn will first show the results of thermokinematic modeling and n the second part, he will dive into reactions that involve melting in large-scale granulite terranes, referring to two end-member heat sources - Martedì 31 Marzo 2026

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Seminario - The effects of fluids on geochronology

Relatore: Prof. Suzette Timmerman – Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland | Martedì 24 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

24.03.2026

In high temperature systems, reactions with fluid can result in resetting the formation age. Particularly for diamonds, where diamond formation age dating is done by analyses of its mineral inclusions, a fluid film at the interface of the mineral inclusion and diamond can result in resetting the age

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Minerali critici: Paolo Nimis e Gabriella Salviulo ne parlano in una serata divulgativa al MNU

17.03.2026

Martedì 17 marzo, alle ore 21, il Museo della Natura e dell’Uomo presenta un nuovo appuntamento pensato per avvicinare il pubblico a tematiche di attualità e alle sfide che l’umanità si trova ad affrontare nel momento presente.La crescente domanda di tecnologie digitali e soluzioni per la

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Seminario - Against the flow: how much can we control river sediment dynamics?

Relatore: Dr. Mirko Musa, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland | Martedì 17 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

17.03.2026

Sediment transport and river morphodynamics are among the most complex and least understood challenges in civil engineering and Earth sciences. While the ambition to control them may seem like wishful thinking, it has long driven scientific and engineering progress, from erosion mitigation and flood

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Seminario - Functional Soil Properties in Viticulture: Soil and Geological Controls on Terroir Across Scales

Relatore: Edoardo A.C. Costantini CNR-IBE - Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences Department, Sesto Fiorentino | Martedì 10 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

10.03.2026

The presentation examines how soil properties and geology shape terroir and wine quality at different scales. Terroir is defined as the unique combination of environmental and human factors influencing wine quality. Key soil properties—such as texture, stoniness, drainage, color, water and nutrient

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Seminario - How unique is our home planet? Geochemical evidence for an ancient subduction zone on Mars

Relatore: Prof. Frank E. Brenker – Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, Goethe University, Frankfurt | Giovedì 5 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula 1F

05.03.2026

Habitable Earth seems a rather unique place in our Solar System. Comparing processes like plate tectonics at different planetary bodies will help to better understand mechanism on our home planet.Although some moons of Jupiter show evidence for icy plate tectonic processes, recent plate tectonics

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Seminario - Geomorphic controls on organic carbon storage and flux in river corridors

Relatore: Prof. Katherine B. Lininger– Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) | Martedì 3 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

03.03.2026

River corridors (channels and floodplains) are active components of the carbon cycle, transporting, transforming, and storing carbon. However, the details of how carbon is partitioned and stored in river corridors are still relatively unexplored. In this seminar, I provide examples of how geomorphic

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Seminario - The Secret History of Sharks. A story of evolution and survival

Relatore: Prof. John Long - College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide (South Australia) | Giovedì 19 Febbraio 2026 | ore 15,30 - Aula 1F

19.02.2026

Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and holocephalans) originated around 465 million years ago, but their fossil record is very scant for the first few tens of millions of years. They survived all 5 of Earth's mass extinction events, but they haven't always had it easy. Their origin story (Ordovician

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Seminario - Testing the permeability of the barrier separating the inner and outer circumsolar disk

Relatore: Dr. Yves Marrocchi - Director of the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS, France) | Martedì 24 Febbraio 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

24.02.2026

Meteorites provide key insights on the evolution of the solar system. The recent discovery of a fundamental isotopic dichotomy between non-carbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (C) meteorites attests that the solar system was divided by a physical barrier into two distinct reservoirs. However, the

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Evoluzione geologica della Pianura Padana: presentazione del foglio CARG 185 Ferrara

23.01.2026

La Pianura Padana rappresenta uno degli elementi più rilevanti della geomorfologia italiana ed è il risultato di centinaia di migliaia di anni di accumulo sedimentario. In essa si conservano le tracce di complesse interazioni tra clima e tettonica, che hanno dato origine a articolate architetture

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