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Workshop report
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16 Dec 2024
Workshop report |
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) workshop on the Fucino paleolake project: the longest continuous terrestrial archive in the MEditerranean recording the last 5 Million years of Earth system history (MEME)
Biagio Giaccio
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, IGAG-CNR, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Bernd Wagner
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Giovanni Zanchetta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Adele Bertini
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Gian Paolo Cavinato
Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, IGAG-CNR, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Roberto de Franco
Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, IGAG-CNR, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Fabio Florindo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
David A. Hodell
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom
Thomas A. Neubauer
SNSB – Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, Munich, Germany
Sebastien Nomade
Laboratoire de Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA, UMR 8212, UVSQ, IPSL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Laboratory GEOPS, Université de Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Alison Pereira
Laboratory GEOPS, Université de Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Laura Sadori
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Sara Satolli
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia, Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio di Chieti–Pescara, Chieti–Pescara, Italy
Polychronis C. Tzedakis
Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Paul Albert
Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, United Kingdom
Paolo Boncio
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia, Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio di Chieti–Pescara, Chieti–Pescara, Italy
Cindy De Jonge
Biogeoscience Group, Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander Francke
School of Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Christine Heim
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Alessia Masi
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Marta Marchegiano
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18002 Granada, Spain
Helen M. Roberts
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, United Kingdom
Anders Noren
Continental Scientific Drilling Facility, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
A full list of authors appears at the end of the paper.
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Short summary
A total of 42 Earth scientists from 14 countries met in Gioia dei Marsi, central Italy, on 23 to 27 October 2023 to explore the potential for deep drilling of the thick lake sediment sequence of the Fucino Basin. The aim was to reconstruct the history of climate, ecosystem, and biodiversity changes and of the explosive volcanism and tectonics in central Italy over the last 3.5 million years, constrained by a detailed radiometric chronology.
A total of 42 Earth scientists from 14 countries met in Gioia dei Marsi, central Italy, on 23 to...
