Luca Giusberti

Mode and tempo of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in an expanded section from the Venetian pre-Alps

Mode and tempo of an expanded Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum section in the Venetian Pre-Alps

An early Eocene carbon cycle perturbation at 52.5 Ma in the Southern Alps: Chronology and biotic response

An early Eocene carbon cycle perturbation at ~52.5 Ma from the southern Alps: Chronology and biotic response

Integrated biomagnetostratigraphy of the Alano section (NE Italy): A proposal for defining the middle-late Eocene boundary

The Alano section has been presented at the International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS) as a potential candidate for defi ning the global boundary stratotype section and point (GSSP) of the late Eocene Priabonian Stage. The section is located in the Venetian Southern Alps of the Veneto region (NE Italy), which is the type area of the Priabonian, being exposed along the banks of the Calcino torrent, near the village of Alano di Piave. It consists of ~120–130 m of bathyal gray marls interrupted in the lower part by an 8-m-thick package of laminated dark to black marlstones. Intercalated in the section, there are eight prominent marker beds, six of which are crystal tuff layers, whereas the other two are bioclastic rudites. These distinctive layers are useful for regional correlation and for an easy recognition of the various intervals of the section. The section is easily accessible, crops out continuously, is unaffected by any structural deformation, is rich in calcareous plankton, and contains an expanded record of the critical interval for defi ning the GSSP of the Priabonian. In order to further check the stratigraphic completeness of the section and constrain in time the critical interval for defi ning the Priabonian Stage, we performed a high-resolution study of integrated calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and a detailed magnetostratigraphic analysis. Here, we present the results of these studies to open a discussion on the criteria for driving the “golden spike” that should define the middle Eocene–late Eocene boundary.

Organic carbon burial following the middle Eocene climatic optimum in the central western Tethys

We present trace metal geochemistry and stable isotope records for the middle Eocene Alano di Piave section, NE Italy, deposited during magnetochron C18n in the marginal Tethys Ocean. We identify a

The middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO): A multiproxy record of paleoceanographic changes in the southeast Atlantic (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge)

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Ovulaster protodecimae, n. sp. (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) and associated epifauna (Cirripedia, Verrucidae) from the Danian of Northeastern Italy

500 kyr long carbon isotope perturbation event we infer to be the middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) confirming the northern hemisphere expression and global occurrence of MECO. Interpreted peak climatic conditions are followed by the rapid deposition of two organic rich intervals (

Environmental perturbations at the early Eocene ETM2, H2 and I1 events as inferred by Tethyan calcareous plankton (Terche section, northeastern Italy)

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Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätten: new evidence from the Ypresian of Monte Postale (NE Italy)

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INTEGRATING SHALLOW BENTHIC AND CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL ZONES: THE LOWER EOCENE OF THE MONTE POSTALE SECTION (NORTHERN ITALY)

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NEW INSIGHTS ON ANTHRACOTHERIUM MONSVIALENSE DE ZIGNO, 1888 (MAMMALIA, CETARTIODACTYLA) FROM THE LOWER OLIGOCENE OF MONTEVIALE (VICENZA, NORTHEASTERN ITALY)

C excursions. These two intervals are associated with increases in the concentration of sulphur and redox-sensitive trace metals, and low concentrations of Mn, as well as coupled with the occurrence of pyrite. Together these changes imply low, possibly dysoxic, bottom water O