Department of Earth Sciences

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• Protection and management of groundwater resources in a context of strong over-exploitation

• Analysis of sedimentary basins
• • Paleoenvironmental evolution during the Messinian
  • Paleonvironmental evolution during the Messinian salinity crisis.

• Applied petrography
• • Minero-petrographic and micro-Raman applications in public health
  • Minero-petrographic study for the determination of the origin of stone materials used in the field of Cultural Heritage
  • Piemonte region ornamental rocks and their use in the field of Cultural Heritage

• Environmental mineralogy and applied
• • Materials science and cultural heritage
  • Structure of Materials
  • Study of fibers and natural and synthetic mineral particles and their interactions with the biosphere

• Geodiversity and geosystem services mapping in the Alpine region

• Geology applied to the exploitation of natural resources
• • Georesources mining
  • Impacts of climate changes on groundwater
  • • Impact of climate change on the Piedmont Alps springs
    • Impacts of climate changes on groundwater
  • Management earth and rock excavation and rubble
  • Renewable energies
  • Sustainable georesources management: from mining and quarrying planning to waste recycling (from waste flow and extractive waste facilities)
  • Waste management mining

• Geology applied to the preservation of land and environment
• • Environmental geology
  • Groundwater contamination
  • Hydrogeology
  • Hydrology of rivers and irrigation canals
  • Slope stability

• Geomorphology and geomatics

• Geophysics
• • Environmental magnetism
  • Laboratory geophysics
  • Magnetism and archeology
  • Magnetism of speleothems
  • Paleomagnetism applied to volcanology
  • Precision Viticulture
  • Seismic site characterization
  • Waterborne Geophysics

• Mineralogy
• • Crystal growth
  • Quantum-mechanical modeling
  • Searches crystal-chemical
  • Structural changes in feldspar
  • Structural complexity in minerals
  • Studies difrattometrici of thermoelasticity in minerals
  • Study of crystal surfaces and interfaces
  • Systematic mineralogy

• Paleontology
• • Actuomicropaleontology
  • Paleontology - Palaeobotany - Paleocarpologia - paleoecology
  • Vertebrate paleontology

• Petrography, Petrology e Metallogenesis
• • Fluid-rock interaction in oceanic and continental lithosphere
  • Geodynamic role of metamorphic and metasomatic processes
  • Metamorphic evolution of continental crust units at 'extreme' conditions
  • Micro - raman and fluid inclusion applications in petrology and sedimentology
  • Origin, transfer, fixation and outgassing of carbon in active orogenic systems
  • P-T-t evolution of metamorphic and mantle rocks
  • Petrology of crustal and mantle rocks
  • Tectono metamorphic evolution and architecture of the Himalayan belt
  • The India-Asia Convergence zone before the continental collision

• Physical geography
• • Microclimate climate change
  • Risk geomorphological and outdoor tourism
  • Study of local climatology

• Quaternary Geology

• Rock Mechanics
• • Geotechnics for territory protection, regional planning and raw material exploitation

• Structural geology and tectonics
• • Mélanges, mélange forming processes and related natural hazards
  • Role of structural-stratigraphic inheritances in the evolution of convergent margins
  • The subduction and exhumation of the continental lithosphere: their effects on the structure and evolution of the orogens

• Teaching of Earth Sciences

• Volcanology
• • Experimental Petrology
  • Experimental Volcanology
  • Global volcano monitoring from space
  • Magma budget quantification
  • Measurement and monitoring of radon gas at active volcanoes
  • Multidisciplinary Volcanology

• Geological mapping