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Emilia Le Pera

  • Associate Professor of Sedimentary Petrology for Geological Sciences Course Degree and of Geology for Cultural Heritage
  • Course Degree, both courses at the Department of Biology
  • Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST)

University of Calabria
87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS)
Italy.
Email: emilia.lepera@unical.it

Report on the SGI-SIMP 2024: Congress of the Italian Geological Society (SGI) and the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP)

REPORT ON SGI_SIMP Congress 2024 (Bari, Italy).pdf

Report on the Short Course on Sedimentary Petrology, June 15-16, 2021, University of Bari (Italy)

Report-on-the-Short-Course-on-Sedimentary-Petrology-June-15-16-2021-University-of-Bari-Italy.pdf

Report on Zoom Global Conference on “Provenance analysis of sediments” January 9-10, 2021, Beijing, China

Report on 1st Global ConferenceZoom 09 January 2021, Beijing, China.pdf

Report from 34th IAS Meeting

Report on 34th IAS (Rome Italy 2019) for SEPM.pdf

Education

  • M.Sc., Geological Sciences, University of Calabria (Cosenza, Italy), 1990
  • Ph.D., Sedimentology, University of Bologna (Italy), 1998
  • Advanced Fellowship Grant of the C.N.R., Departamento de Petrologia y Geoquimica, Facultad de Ciencias
  • Geologicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 1998-1999

Honors & Awards

Tarquin C. Teale Award of the Imperial College of London (U.K.), 1990-1991

Research Interests

  • Sand(stone) provenance
  • Effects of weathering, lithology, transport and depositional environment on composition of sand
  • Plutoniclastic sand and sandstone petrology
  • Modern volcaniclastic sands petrology
  • Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic reconstructions

Main Field Areas

  • Southern Apennines, southern Italy
  • Spain and Portugal
  • Southern and central California
  • Aeolian archipelago (Tyrrhenian sea)
  • Cabo Verde archipelago (Atlantic Ocean)

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