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Preface / Christian Koeberl -- The little big history of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco / Alessandro Montanari -- A review of the Earth history record in the Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene pelagic carbonates of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy) : twenty-five years of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco / Walter Alvarez -- Thermophysical properties and mineralogical composition of the Umbria-Marche carbonate succession (central Italy) / Jessica Chicco, Massimo Verdoya, Gabriele Giuli, and Chiara Invernizzi -- Model for development of small carbonate platforms in the Umbria-Marche Apennines supported by strontium isotope stratigraphy / Steven P. Lundblad -- Cyclostratigraphic investigations in the Calcare Massiccio (Early Jurassic, Umbria-Marche Basin) through photogrammetry / Luca Penasa, Marco Franceschi, Giovanni Gattolin, Nereo Preto, Marc-Pierrot Deseilligny, and Alessandro Montanari -- ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its offset from the global seawater reference curve / J. Belza, W. Alvarez, F. Vanhaecke, and P. Claeys -- Terrestrial Cr-spinels in the Maiolica limestone : where are they from? / Davide Lenaz, Birger Schmitz, and Walter Alvarez -- Multiproxy Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event stratigraphy : an Umbria-Marche basinwide perspective / Matthias Sinnesael, Alessandro Montanari, Fabrizio Frontalini, Rodolfo Coccioni, Jérôme Gattacceca, Christophe Snoeck, Wencke Wegner, Christian Koeberl, Leah E. Morgan, Niels J. de Winter, Donald J. DePaolo, and Philippe Claeys -- Zircon provenance analysis from Lower Paleocene pelagic limestones of the Bottaccione section at Gubbio (Umbria-Marche basin, Italy) / L.E. Aguirre-Palafox, W. Alvarez, S. Boschi, E. Martin, and B. Schmitz -- Seismicity of central Italy in the context of the geological history of the Umbria-Marche Apennines / Massimiliano R. Barchi and Cristiano Collettini -- The role of structural inheritance in the evolution of fold-and-thrust belts : insights from the Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy / Enrico Tavarnelli, Vittorio Scisciani, Stefano Patruno, Fernando Calamita, Paolo Pace, and David Iacopini -- Synsedimentary deformation in Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene limestones within a thrust anticline of the Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy / Sofia Tognaccini, Enrico Tavarnelli, and Alessandro Montanari -- Expansion breccias in Lower Cretaceous Apennine pelagic limestones : I. Geological observations / Walter Alvarez, Joke Belza, Lung S. Chan, Philippe Claeys, Peter Geiser, Marco Menichetti, David H. Shimabukuro, and Enrico Tavarnelli -- Expansion breccias in Lower Cretaceous Apennine pelagic limestones : II. Geochemical constraints on their origin / J. Belza, W. Alvarez, E. Tavarnelli, F. Vanhaecke, J.-M. Baele, and P. Claeys -- What causes mass extinctions? Large asteroid/comet impacts, flood-basalt volcanism, and ocean anoxia : correlations and cycles / Michael R. Rampino, Ken Caldeira, and Andreas Prokoph -- A record of the micrometeorite flux during an enigmatic extraterrestrial ³He anomaly in the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) / Ellinor Martin, Birger Schmitz, and Alessandro Montanari -- Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary tsunamite on the Adriatic carbonate platform and possible source of a hypothetical Atlantic-to-western-Tethys megatsunami / Tvrtko Korbar -- Reconnaissance reassessment of the late Eocene Oceanic unit, Barbados : Microtektite geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology, micropaleontology, and provenance / John Weber, Brent Wilson, Christian Koeberl, Paul O'Sullivan, Ray Donelick, and Esther S. Posner -- Late Eocene impact ejecta in Italy : attempts to constrain the impactor composition from isotopic analyses of spinel-rich samples / Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari, Toni Schulz, Jonas Tusch, Berengere Mougel, and Frédéric Moynier -- Popigai impact ejecta layer and extraterrestrial spinels recovered in a new Italian location: The Monte Vaccaro section (Marche Apennines, Italy) / Samuele Boschi, Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt, Linus Ros, Mikael Elfman, Per Kristiansson, Camilla Sulas, Simonetta Monechi, and Alessandro Montanari -- Positive Ir anomaly at 6.19 m, Massignano, Italy : most likely not from the Chesapeake Bay impact / B.P. Glass -- Distribution of chrome-spinel grains across the ³He anomaly of the Tortonian stage at the Monte dei Corvi section, Italy / Samuele Boschi, Birger Schmitz, and Alessandro Montanari -- Paleoclimate implications of earliest Pleistocene tree rings from the Dunarobba Fossil Forest, Umbria, Italy / David M. Bice, Adam Csank, Alison Macalady, Alessandro Montanari, Devin Tierney, and Angela Baldanza -- Luminescence geochronology of Pleistocene slack-water deposits in the Frasassi hypogenic cave system, Italy / Alessandro Montanari, Christopher Lüthgens, Johanna Lomax, Maurizio Mainiero, Sandro Mariani, and Markus Fiebig -- Implications for central Italy paleoclimate from 95,000 yr B.P. until the early Holocene as evident from Frasassi Cave speleothems / Gerhard Kudielka, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Mabs Gilmour, Avner Ayalon, Christian Koeberl, and Alessandro Montanari -- Late Pleistocene tectonic tilting of the Frasassi anticline from offset stalagmites in the Grotta Grande del Vento (Marche, Italy) / David M. Bice, Michael Lacroce, David McGee, and Alessandro Montanari -- Last Glacial Maximum giant sand dunes on the island of Vis, Croatia / Lara Wacha, Alessandro Montanari, Johanna Lomax, Markus Fiebig, Christopher Lüthgens, Tvrtko Korbar, and Christian Koeberl -- Provenance studies of amphorae from the Greek colony Pharos on the island of Hvar, Croatia / Maja Miše, V. Serneels, A. Matana, A. Montanari, and B. Kirigin -- Pelagosite revisited : the origin and significance of a laminated aragonitic encrustration of Mediterranean supralittoral rocks / Alessandro Montanari, David M. Bice, A.J. Timothy Jull, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, Jennifer L. Macalady, Irene Schaperdoth, Warren D. Sharp, David Shimabukuro, William J. Schopf, and Visnja Vucetić. |
