Convener: Ezio Vaccari This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Co-Conveners: Andrea Candela, Marco Pantaloni, Luigina Vezzoli
(sponsored by INHIGEO IUGS commission)
The great variety of lithological and structural features (particularly in mountain areas), volcanoes and sub-volcanic phenomena, made the Italian peninsula a sort of ‘paradise’ for geological fieldwork and attracted many travelling geologists since the early 17th century. The description of the Earth’s strata became an important issue of the naturalistic research after the work by N. Stensen. From the end of the 17th century until the end of the 18th century the lithostratigraphical research developed in Italy within the studies and fieldwork of remarkable scientists, such as A. Vallisneri, L.F. Marsili, G. Arduino, L. Spallanzani and others. The emergence of stratigraphy as significant part of the new science of geology was also supported by the work of Italian scientists and geological institutions from the 19th to the 20th century. Although several studies have investigated the development of Earth Sciences in Italy, the history of stratigraphy is still lacking systematic research. The session aims to consider some key issues of this relationship between the history of stratigraphy and the Italian environments.
The proceedings of the session will be printed on an international journal. The conveners will submit a proposal to Earth Sciences History