Andrea Pezzotta

University of Milan | UNIMI · Department of Earth Sciences "Ardito Desio"

Due to the ongoing development of new technologies, many instruments are available to assist geological in-vestigations at different scales. These techniques, including 3D outcrop modelling from aerial photogrammetryand quantitative microstructural analysis are useful in crystalline basements studies. This contribution combinestraditional and quant...

Proglacial lakes are complex environments that can unravel the sedimentary dynamics of glacier, giving a crucial insight during the deglaciation phases. In this optic, the interplay between proximal and distal glaciolacustrine facies is a fundamental record of paleoenvironmental, paleoglaciological and paleoclimate changes that occurred to glacier...

The Italian Archaeological Expedition in the Erbil Plain (MAIPE https://orienteantico.unimi.it/it/maipe/) of the University of Milan is experimenting with a GIS project based on the QGIS system. The project aims to combine data from survey, excavation, and geomorphological investigations carried out at the two sites of Helawa and Aliawa and their s...

Migmatitic rocks represent one of the most fascinating types occurring along orogenic chains, due to their huge variety of mineral assemblages and complex meso- and microstructures resulting from the interplay between multistage deformation and melt production. For this reason, it is often difficult to reconstruct the relative chronology of the def...

The Sultanate of Oman, located on the south-eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, offers a complex geological history, with a wide range of tectonic settings and stratigraphic sequences. The most prominent mountain chains in Oman are the Al-Hajar Mountains in its North, and the Dhofar Mountains in the South. We selected two different sites from bo...

Tells are multi-layered, archaeological mounds representing anthropogenic landforms common in arid regions. In such contexts, the preservation of the archaeological record is mined by ongoing climate changes, shift in land use, and intense human overgrazing. Such natural and human-driven factors tune the response of archaeological soils and sedimen...

The Al-Hajar Mountains (Northern Sultanate of Oman) characterise the northeastern part of the Arabian Plate and exhibit a complex tectonic history. They formed during the overthrusting of the Semail Ophiolite and the slope-basin sedimentary sequences over autochthonous sedimentary cover and metamorphic units. The post-orogenic history is characteri...

We present the result of the geomorphological mapping of the central sector of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Therein, landscape evolution was mostly overseen by the regional geodynamic, related to the Arabia-Eurasia convergence, and in the Quaternary, regional climate fluctuations contributed to shaping landforms. The combination of such processes...

Geomorphology offers fresh tools for mapping landforms that are continually modelled by erosional and depositional processes; the same tools can be applied to archaeological contexts. In arid and semi-arid regions, such as the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the preservation of the archaeological record is mined by ongoing climate changes and human overg...

Located along the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Mosul Dam reservoir is the second biggest dam of the Near East and represents an important water storage for local human activities. The dam was built between 1981 and 1988 north of the village of Eski Mosul, submerging the course of the Tigris River for ca 100 km. The analysis of...

The Italian Archaeological Expedition in the Erbil Plain (MAIPE) of the University of Milan is experimenting with a GIS project based on the QGIS system. It aims at combining data from survey, excavation, and geomorphological investigation carried out in the two sites of Helawa and Aliawa and the surrounding landscape. The MAIPE GIS is intended as...

We present a multiscalar approach for geomorphological and Quaternary geology mapping of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) aimed at understanding the Late Quaternary evolution of surface processes and their interaction with human agency. In the region, the interplay between tectonic activity of convergence between geomorphological processes. We pe...

Located along the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), the Mosul Dam reservoir is the second biggest dam of the Near East, and represents an important water storage for local human activities. The Dam was built between 1981 and 1988 north of the village of Eski Mosul; along this part of the Tigris River several archaeological sites w...