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Barbara Cavalazzi

Full Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: GEOS-02/A Paleontology and Paleoecology

Coordinator of PhD Programme in Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences

Publications

Ossa Ossa F; El Albani A; Hofmann A; Bekker A; Gauthier-Lafaye A; Pambo F; Meunier A; Fontaine C; Boulvais P; Pierson-Wickmann A-C; Cavalazzi B; Macchiarelli R, Exceptional preservation of expandable clay minerals in the ca. 2.1Ga black shales of the Francevillian basin, Gabon and its implication for atmospheric oxygen accumulation, «CHEMICAL GEOLOGY», 2013, 362, pp. 181 - 192 [Scientific article]

Cavalazzi B., Global to nano-scale relevance of Ca-carbonate biosignatures, «BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA», 2013, 52, pp. 139 - 140 [Scientific article]

Coordination of a Research Project: 3D neutron and X-Ray tomography of cometary Carbon-Titanium grains in ferruginous terrestrial sediments: the problem of origin.

B. Cavalazzi; S. L. Cady, 3rd Conference on Terrestrial Mars Analogues (Marrakesh, 25-27 October), Post-Conference Field Excursion, MOROCCO, 28 October–01 November 2012, 2012. [Exhibition]

Danise S.; Cavalazzi B.; Dominici S.; Westall F.; Monechi S.; Giuoli S., Evidence of microbial activity in a Miocene whale carcass from shallow water sediments (Voghera, Northern Italy), «PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY», 2012, 317-318, pp. 13 - 26 [Scientific article]

Cavalazzi B.; Barbieri R.; Cady S.L.; George A.D.; Gennaro S.; Westall F.; Lui A.; Canteri R.; Rossi A.P.; Ori G.G.; TajHeddine K., Iron-framboids in the hydrocarbon-related Middle Devonian Hollard Mound of the Anti-Atlas mountain range in Morocco: Evidence of potential microbial biosignatures, «SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY», 2012, 263-264, pp. 183 - 193 [Scientific article]

Cavalazzi B.; Westall F.; Cady S.L., Vesicular Basalts as a Niche for Microbial Life, in: HANSLMEIER A. KEMPE S. SECKBACH J., Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, DORDRECHT, Springer Verlag, 2012, pp. 27 - 43 (CELLULAR ORIGIN, LIFE IN EXTREME HABITATS AND ASTROBIOLOGY) [Chapter or essay]

Westall F.; Cavalazzi B., Biosignatures in Rocks, in: Reitner J., Thiel V., Encyclopedia of Geobiology, DORDRECHT, Springer, 2011, pp. 189 - 201 [Chapter or essay]

G.G. Ori; B. Cavalazzi; K. Taj-Eddine, Geobiology in space exploration International Workshop (Marrakech, Morocco - Feb 7-9, 2011), Post Meeting Field Trip Geomicrobiology and Geology from PreCambrian to Quaternary (Feb. 10-14, 2011), 2011. [Exhibition]

Westall F.; Cavalazzi B.; Lemelle L.; Marrocchi Y.; Rouzaud J.-N.; Simionovici A.; Salomé M.; Mostefaoui S.; Andreazza C.; Foucher F.; Toporski J.; Jauss A.; Thiel V.; Southam G.; MacLean L.; Wirick S.; Hofmann A.; Meibom A.; Robert F.; Défarge C., Implications of in situ calcification for photosynthesis in a ~3.3Ga-old microbial biofilm from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, «EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS», 2011, 310, pp. 468 - 479 [Scientific article]

Cavalazzi B.; Westall F.; Cady S.L.; Barbieri R.; Foucher F., Potential fossil endoliths in vesicular pillow basalt, Coral Patch Seamount, Eastern North Atlantic Ocean, «ASTROBIOLOGY», 2011, 11, pp. 619 - 632 [Scientific article]

Westall F.; Foucher F.; Cavalazzi B.; de Vries S.T.; Nijman W.; Pearson V.; Watson J.; Verchovsky A.; Wright I.; Rouzaud J.-N.; Marchesini D.; Severine A., Volcaniclastic habitats for early life on Earth and Mars: A case study from ~3.5 Ga-old rocks from the Pilbara, Australia, «PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE», 2011, 59, pp. 1093 - 1106 [Scientific article]

Coordination of a Research Project: MOROCCAN MUD MOUND FIELD: an UNIQUE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT as a NEW EXPLORATION TARGET ON MARS and CLUES TO PRESENCE OF FOSSIL/LIVING MICROORGANISMS ON MARS.

Coordination of a Research Project: The nature of bacteriomorphs: biogenicity and its detection N. 3.

Barbieri R.; Cavalazzi B.; Stivaletta N.; Capaccioni B., Life at the extremes: physical environments and microorganisms in the Atacama region (Chile), «GEOACTA», 2009, Spec. Publ. 2, pp. 141 - 153 [Scientific article]