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Geosciences, Volume 14, Issue 3

March 2024 - 33 articles

Cover Story: The ancient Duchy of Urbino (Central Italy) is known for its spectacular landscapes linked to a unique geological history. This area owns an unexpected cultural resource, which concerns using its landscapes in art. Some great Renaissance artists were so impressed by these landscapes that they reproduced them in their most famous paintings. Starting from the geological history of the territory, this paper summarizes research concerned with the identification of the backgrounds of famous works by three great Renaissance artists, providing evidence and morphological details related to the recognition of places, including the “Nativity” by Piero della Francesca, “Madonna Litta” by Leonardo da Vinci and “Knight’s Dream” by Raphael. Finally, we propose to make these landscapes a timeless resource through their inclusion in UNESCO’s cultural heritage. View this paper
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Articles (33)

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,269 Views
11 Pages

The Biospeleological Station (BS) in Postojna Cave, with a volume of 36,000 m3, has served as an underground biological laboratory since 1931, receiving 100,000 visitors annually. Historical cave micro-climate monitoring was performed in 1933 and 196...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,564 Views
38 Pages

The Badenian/Sarmatian boundary in the Central Paratethyan basins is characterised by a change from open marine conditions during the late Badenian to the assumed brackish conditions during the early Sarmatian. The foraminiferal and palynological res...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,820 Views
30 Pages

This article investigates the role of different approaches and interpolation methods in gridding terrestrial gravity anomalies. In this regard, first of all, simple and complete Bouguer anomalies are considered in gravity data gridding. In the compar...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,081 Views
11 Pages

On Segurasaurus (Squamata: Pythonomorpha), a New Genus of Lizard from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Portugal

  • Mélani Berrocal-Casero,
  • Ricardo Pimentel,
  • Pedro Miguel Callapez,
  • Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla and
  • Senay Ozkaya de Juanas

Carentonosaurus soaresi was recently described in the uppermost middle Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Casais dos Carecos (Coimbra, western Portugal) based on a diverse set of new material (cervical and dorsal vertebrae) of the Pythonomorpha lizard....

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,145 Views
25 Pages

Metallogeny and Genesis of Fault-Filling Barite-Sulfide Veins (Ougnat, Morocco): Petrography, Fluid Inclusion, and Sr-S Isotopic Constraints

  • Samir Samaoui,
  • Ayoub Aabi,
  • Abdellah Boushaba,
  • Belkasmi Mohammed,
  • Abdellah Nait Bba,
  • Abderrahim Essaifi,
  • Lahssen Baidder and
  • Othmane Lamrani

The Ougnat Massif of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) hosts barite and sulfide vein-type deposits of vital economic importance. With over 150 mineralized structures reported in the Ougnat Massif, the ore-bearing ones are predominantly composed of bar...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,018 Views
19 Pages

Applications of Ground-Based Infrared Cameras for Remote Sensing of Volcanic Plumes

  • Fred Prata,
  • Stefano Corradini,
  • Riccardo Biondi,
  • Lorenzo Guerrieri,
  • Luca Merucci,
  • Andrew Prata and
  • Dario Stelitano

Ground-based infrared cameras can be used effectively and safely to provide quantitative information about small to moderate-sized volcanic eruptions. This study describes an infrared camera that has been used to measure emissions from the Mt. Etna a...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,111 Views
15 Pages

Selected Geoheritage Resources of “Atlantic Geopark” Project (Central Portugal)

  • Salomé C. Custódio,
  • Maria Helena Henriques,
  • Emmaline M. Rosado-González,
  • Nuno M. Vaz and
  • Artur A. Sá

The “Atlantic Geopark” Project corresponds to the first stage of a broad project addressing a future application to the Global Geopark Network of a territory located in Portugal: “The Atlantic Geopark: 600 million of geological hist...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,009 Views
23 Pages

Fabrication and Mechanical Evaluation of Eco-Friendly Geopolymeric Mortars Derived from Ignimbrite and Demolition Waste from the Construction Industry in Peru

  • Fredy Alberto Huamán-Mamani,
  • Cris Katherin Palomino-Ñaupa,
  • María del Mar Orta Cuevas and
  • Santiago Medina-Carrasco

Ignimbrite rock is a volcanic material located in the Arequipa region (Peru), and for centuries, it has been used as a construction material, giving a characteristic light pastel, white to pink color to the city of Arequipa, with white being the most...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,302 Views
13 Pages

Linear geo-textures are widely recognized on synthetic scaled images of planetary surfaces and consist of elongated alignments of tonal contrasts. When these linear patterns are clustered in azimuthal sets and organized in domains occurring on specif...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,389 Views
30 Pages

Soils have an important task in maintaining vegetation cover and natural resources on Earth and are indispensable to societies. However, the accelerated soil erosion has become an environmental problem related to land settlement for agricultural prac...

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Geosciences - ISSN 2076-3263