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HISTORICAL DEFINITION OF QUATERNARY: PALEONTOLOGICAL AND CLIMATIC CRITERIA. CAUSES OF THE QUATERNARY CLIMATIC CHANGES. GELASIAN AND PLEISTOCENE GLACIATIONS. HISTORICAL PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY DURING HOLOCENE. HISTORIC EXCURSUS ON THE PLIO-QUATERNARY CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY. THE PLIO-QUATERNARY BOUNDARY. AGES AND STAGES OF THE MARINE PLIO-QUATERNARY. GSSP AND THE MOST RELEVANT QUATERNARY MARINE ITALIAN SUCCESSIONS. THE HOLOCENE AND THE ICE CORES. THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE SUCCESSIONS IN THE ROME SURROUNDINGS.
PLIO-QUATERNARY ISOTOPIC STRATIGRAPHY. SEA-LEVEL OSCILLATIONS DURING QUATERNARY: THE EUSTATIC CURVES.
QUATERNARY MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY.
QUATERNARY DATING METHODS.
PLIO-QUATERNARY MARINE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: PLANKTONIC AND BENTHONIC FORAMINIFERS, CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS, MARINE MOLLUSCS AND OSTRACODS (CONCEPT OF “NORTHERN” AND “SENEGALESE” GUESTS).
HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY OF PLIO-QUATERNARY GLACIATIONS. ILLUSTRATION OF THE MOST RELEVANT GLACIAL DEPOSITS ON ALPS AND APENNINES.
AGES OF THE CONTINENTAL PLIO-QUATERNARY: BIOCHRONOLOGY BASED ON LARGE AND SMALL MAMMALS. PLIO-QUATERNARY FRESHWATER MOLLUSCS AND OSTRACODS. POLLEN STRATIGRAPHY AND CLIMATIC STRATIGRAPHY.
EXAMPLES OF RELEVANT CONTINENTAL QUATERNARY RECORDS: THE PLIO-QUATERNARY DEPOSITS OF THE ROMAN CAMPAIGN; THE INTERMONTANE BASINS IN CENTRAL ITALY (VALDARNO, TIBERINO AND L’QUILA BASINS).

PDF AND COPIES OF RECENT SPECIALISTIC SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS GIVEN BY THE TEACHER
ANDERSON, D.E., GOUDIE, A.S. & PARKER, A.G., 2007. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH THE QUATERNARY. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, PP. 392.
WILLIAMS, M., DUNKERLY, D., DE DECKKER, P., KERSHAW, P. & CHAPPELL, J., QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS. ARNOLD EDS., 1998.
ANDERSEN B. G. & BORNS, H. W. JR, THE ICE AGE WORLD, SCANDINAVIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994.
MALATESTA A., PALEOBIOLOGIA DELL’ERA GLACIALE. NIS, ROMA, 1985