Geomorphologic and depositional characterization of marine and coastal areas, with particular regards to geohazard-related features and to indicators of Late-Quaternary and recent sea-level fluctuations. Monitoring of coastal and marine processes through integrated techniques and through sedimentological analyses. Analysis of the effects induced by coastal defense approaches to contrast erosion processe.
Marine geology studies in volcanic areas of the Mediterranean
(Aeolian Island and Tyrrhenian Sea, Sicily Channel) and extra-mediterranean (La Rèunion,
Azzorre, Iceland) areas. Morphological evolution of insular volcanoes in
different geodynamic contexts, with particular regards to:
gravitative instability and related tsunamigenic potential, demantling processes and post-eruptive marine erosion, reconstruction of vertical movements from sea-level indicators. Reconstruction of the eruptive record in the marine sediments (tefrochronology).
