Research area: Geology - Paleontology
Coordinators: Miriam Cobianchi, Claudia Lupi, Nicoletta Mancin
ERC Sectors: PE10_6 Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology
1. The research focuses on the relationship between calcareous microbiota (calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera) and the carbon cycle in the oceans, especially during the climatic phases of the Pleistocene. In particular, for coccolithophores, a new research will be undertaken regarding the related taphonomic processes within the TAF (taphonomic active zone) through laboratory simulations and studies on the fossil record. Overall, the research theme is conducted by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences in collaboration with many research institutes including the National Institute of Oceanography and Geophysics (OGS, Trieste)
2. Carbonate platforms are sedimentary archives that record the evolution of the global carbon cycle. Their stratigraphic architecture depends on regional tectonics, which controls subsidence, on geometries as well as on paleoceanography and evolutionary trends that control the different bioconstructor organisms that produce the margin. The research, active for years in collaboration with the ETH Zurich and the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, aims to reconstruct the impacts of carbon cycle anomalies on the "carbonate factory"
3. The research deals with the integrated analysis of calcareous-foraminiferal nannofossils for biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental purposes for the reconstruction of the evolution of sedimentary basins.
Currently this research is applied to the Italian Geological Cartography projects (CARG Project) and in particular to the Foglio Pavia
Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland (V. Picotti, H. Weissert, S. Bernasconi, G. Fellin); Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, I–35131 Padova (L. Giusberti, N. Preto, G. Roghi); Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, I-41125 Modena (A.C. Papazzoni); Department of Biology - University of Malta (Evans J.); Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare - Università degli Studi di Palermo (Caruso A.); I; Department of Geosciences - University of Arizona, USA ( B. Carrapa); Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica (OGS) di Trieste (M. Bordiga); Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (V. Luciani)
1. Pleistocene paleoclimate, carbon cycle and calcareous microbiota interactions
2. Relations between climate and carbonate factory during Jurassic and Cretaceous
3. Integrated stratigraphy of the sedimentary basins
Bordiga, M., Lupi, C., Sacchi, R., Ferretti, P., Crowhurst, S.J.& Cobianchi, M. (2023). Eccentricity signal in the nannofossil time-series across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the northwestern Paci c Ocean (ODP Site 1209).Quaternary Science Reviews 316 (2023) 108253
Bordiga, M., Lupi, C., Cabrini, M., Zuccotti, M., Fiorentino, G., Zanoni, M., Garagna, S., Cobianchi, M.& Di Giulio, A (2023). Unexpected silicon localization in calcium carbonate exoskeleton of cultured and fossil coccolithophores. Scientifc Reports (2023) 13:7417
Lupi, C., Bordiga, M., Sacchi R. & Cobianchi, M. (2019). Calcareous Nannofossil Response to Climate Variability During the Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 198 Site 1209), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2018PA003488
Fleischmann, S. , Picotti, V. , Caves Rugenstein J., Cobianchi, M. , & Bernasconi, S. (2021). Effects of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian Boundary Event on Carbonate Productivity of a Tethyan Platform and Slope. Paleoeceanography and Paleoclimatology, 0.1029/2021PA004392.
Franceschi, M., Dal Corso, J., Cobianchi, M., Roghi, G., Penasa, L., Picotti, V., & Preto, N. (2019). Tethyan carbonate platform transformations during the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Pliensbachian, Southern Alps): Comparison with the Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode. The Geological Society of America Bulletin/10.1130/B31765.1/4639742/b31765.
Picotti, V., Cobianchi, M., Luciani, V., Blattmann, F., Schenker, T., Mariani, E., Bernasconi, S.M., & Weissert, H., Change from rimmed to ramp platform forced by regional and global
events in the Cretaceous of the Friuli-Adriatic Platform (Southern Alps, Italy), Cretaceous Research,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.07.007.
Ruh, J.B. , Valero, L. , Najafi, M. , Etemad-Saeed, N., Vouga ,N., Mohammadi, A., Landtwing, F.,
Guillong, M., Cobianchi, M. & Mancin, N. (2023).Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of Shale-Related Minibasins in the Karvandar Basin (South Sistan, SE Iran): Insights
From Magnetostratigraphy, Isotopic Dating, and Sandstone Petrology. Tectonics, 10.1029/2023TC007971.
Chapman, J.B., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Worthington, J., Mancin, N., Cobianchi, M., Stoica, M., Wang, X., Godoev, M. & Oimahmadov, . (2020). The Tajik Basin: A composite record of sedimentary basin evolution in response to tectonics in the Pamir. Basin Research, 10.1111/bre.12381.
Balley, L. R., Schenker, F. L., Fellin, M. G., Cobianchi, M., Adatte, T., Picotti, V. (2020).Birth and closure of the Kallipetra Basin: Late Cretaceousreworking of the Jurassic Pelagonian–Axios/Vardar contact (northern Greece), Solid Earth, 11, 2463–2485, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-2463-2020, 2020