Fabiana Console

• Researcher at Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)

Secondo Franchi (1859–1932) was one of the most important geologists of the Regio Ufficio Geologico of Italy. In collaboration with his colleagues of the Turin office, starting from 1888 Franchi surveyed in detail the Western Alps to contribute to the new Geological Map of Italy at the 1:100,000 scale. Franchi’s studies contributed to the definitio...

Antonio Stoppani marks the beginning of petroleum geology in Italy, stimulated by the developments of the newborn American oil industry (1859). Soon after the Italian unification, petroleum exploration was carried out in many areas of the Country, which generated the elaboration of several technical and statistical reports carried out by the Corps...

Ponte Sfondato is a hamlet of Montopoli di Sabina, Rieti; this name derives from a natural arch on the Farfa river, originating from a particular type of erosive phenomenon. This paramount landform and its formation represent an intriguing history. The Ponte Sfondato was a unique example of geomorphosite formed by the erosion of a long rocky relief...

Celebrating the centennial of Domenico Lovisato's death (1842-1916), this paper highlights the role played by this eminent Italian geologist as a pioneer for the geological knowledge of Calabria region (Southern Italy), a geologically complex area which became the subject of a long-lasting and still continuing debate. Lovisato spent only few years...

Immediately after the unification of Italy, in March 1861, due to the initiative of Quintino Sella, a project started with the aim of deepening the geological knowledge of the country through geological mapping. The Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade (MAIC) issued in July 1861 a Royal Decree setting up an Advisory Council for the rea-lizat...

Carlo Bruno (1831-1916) collaborated in the late 1860s and 1870s on the geological mapping of the Western Alps under the direction of Bartolomeo Gastaldi. During his surveys in the Ligurian and Maritime Alps, Bruno became convinced that the ophiolite-bearing Zona delle Pietre Verdi-considered Paleozoic by Gastaldi-should instead be attributed to th...

Nel 2021 la Società Geologica Italiana ha celebrato il suo 140˚ anniversario. Dopo il primo Presidente Giuseppe Meneghini, nominato il 29 Settembre 1881 durante il Secondo Congresso Geologico Internazionale a Bologna, altri 78 hanno guidato l’istituzione per quasi un secolo e mezzo. In previsione di tale ricorrenza, la Sezione di Storia delle Geosc...

The paper outlines the birth and development of petroleum resources mapping in Italy. Starting with the pioneering works of Antonio Stoppani, who in 1866 published the first map of petroleum zones of the Emilia region, thematic cartography went hand in hand with the preparation of the geological map of Italy, a project promoted by the government as...

Molta confusione è stata fatta nel tempo riguardo il Lago di Leprignano. Leprignano è l'antico nome dell'abitato di Capena, (provincia di Roma), un piccolo borgo medioevale ubicato su di un rilievo costituito prevalentemente da terreni piroclastici e delimitato da valli che ospitano alcuni torrenti, affluenti del F. Tevere. Nella valle del Fosso di...

Ponte Sfondato è il toponimo di una frazione del comune di Montopoli di Sabina, in provincia di Rieti. Questa denominazione deriva dalla presenza nell’area, fino al 1961, di un arco naturale che sovrastava il torrente Farfa, originato da un particolare tipo di fenomeno erosivo verificatosi probabilmente nel XV sec. L’arco si è formato a causa dell’...

Romolo Meli (1852-1921) dedicò gran parte della sua attività scientifica allo studio dei caratteri geologici dell’area laziale, dedicando particolare attenzione al settore costiero meridionale. Negli anni accademici che lo videro docente alla Scuola di applicazione per gli ingegneri di Roma, organizzò numerose escursioni didattiche rivolte ai suoi...

La Biblioteca dell'ISPRA possiede una preziosa e cospicua collezione di cartografia geologica e geotematica raccolta a partire dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo. Dopo aver studiato, catalogato, indicizzato e acquisito in formato digitale la parte ricadente in territorio italiano di questa collezione, recentemente è stato avviato un progetto di geor...

Matera, in the UNESCO List since the 1993, as well as other villages such as Gravina, Ginosa and Massafra, is located along the western flank of the Apulia Foreland (Southern Italy) and developed on spectacular river valleys slopes (locally “gravine”), cut in Plio-Pleistocene carbonate rocks. Due to their exceptional exposure these rocks have been...

The intra-conference field trip IM6 is centered on the physical/biological significance of the Sabellaria alveolata reefs in the intertidal and subtidal environments. Along the coastal area of Torre Caldara (Tyrrhenian Sea, Latium coastal area, about 60 km S of Rome, Central Italy), stunning bioconstructions of S. alveolata can be examinated in the...

It is a widely diffused opinion that the knowledge of the geologic features of the Calabrian territory may be referred to the early XX century; nevertheless, a thorough investigation carried out in the cartographic collection of the ISPRA Library, that preserves the historical heritage of the Geological Survey of Italy, allowed to access and analyz...

In XIX century, Italy represented an essential step for scientists aimed to study its most typical and significant geological sites. The result was the publication of a great number of papers dealing with the geological features of Italy in all the European languages. Among them, the German geologist Otto Hermann Wilhelm Abich was undoubtedly one t...

In the Norcia plain (Umbria, Central Italy) the springs of Torbidone are characterized by a peculiar behavior, i.e. the periodical appearing and vanishing for years. The reasons of this peculiarity are not yet well defined. In the popular opinion, the springs has a periodicity of 7 years, at least until 1859 afterward the Norcia earthquake that was...

Nell'archivio del Servizio Geologico d'Italia - Biblioteca ISPRA sono state di recente ritrovate 24 carte geologiche acquerellate inedite del Kaiserlich Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt appartenenti alla serie cartografica Geologische Spezialkarte der Österreichisch-Ungarischen monarchie in scala 1:75.000. Queste mappe riguardano il settore n...

Italian physicians have been interested in geology since the fifteenth century or earlier, with leading figures carrying out fundamental and enlightening studies in both fields of competence. Refined cultured men including Bernardino Ramazzini, Antonio Vallisneri, Tommaso Antonio Catullo, Carlo Gemmellaro, Leopoldo Pilla, Giuseppe Meneghini, Gaetan...

La cartografia del Servizio Geologico d'Italia è il tema affrontato nella monografia delle Memorie Descrittive della Carta Geologica d'Italia in occasione della pubblicazione del volume n. 100. La collana editoriale, presente da oltre 130 anni, affianca la cartografica geologico-tematico realizzata dal Servizio. Questo volume rappresenta l'occasion...

Introduzione L'analisi storico-scientifica di documentazione inedita, reperita presso l'archivio del Servizio geologico d'Italia (Biblioteca ISPRA), ha permesso l'elaborazione di un modello territoriale di un settore della Piana del Fucino oggetto della bonifica. Il materiale rinvenuto consiste in sei relazioni redatte dagli ingegneri Lotti, Montan...

The early geological studies of Libya were carried out by Rolland (1880) who made the first geological map. Nevertheless, Italian geologists have conducted pioneering studies, and accurately described the stratigraphical architecture of the country. Taramelli and Bellio (1890) published a volume devoted to the geography and geology of Africa, in wh...

One hundred years ago in 1915 ‘Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane’ by Alfred Wegener was published, destined to become one of the most controversial geological opus in the first half of the twentieth century. Wegener is the first to combine the most diverse geological (sensu lato) evidences in a single great synthesis. Nonetheless, apart from...

La cartografia geologica rappresenta una delle più innovative “scoperte” scientifiche del XIX secolo e la stessa cartografia ha costituito l’elemento di base per lo sviluppo economico di molti paesi europei ed extraeuropei. In Italia, nel 1873, viene istituito il Regio Ufficio Geologico ed avviato il rilevamento geologico sistematico del territorio...

La storia della cartografia rappresenta un elemento fondamentale per la comprensione dell'evoluzione del pensiero scientifico, in particolare per la geologia che ha visto una rapida evoluzione a partire dalla prima metà dell'800. Recuperare, catalogare, digitalizzare, rendere intellegibili attraverso nuove tecnologie e diffondere gli elementi conos...

At war with the eagles " represents the first national event organized by the History of Geosciences Section, established in 2012 by the Italian Geological Society in order to recover and endorse the national geological culture. A century after the Italian intervention in the First World War, the meeting focuses on the role of geologists and cartog...

The historic geological maps heritage of the Geological Survey of Italy is maintained into the ISPRA library. Actually the library oversee and organize a large and valuable biblio-cartographic assets on Earth Sciences theme, constituted by more than 50,000 geothematics maps, 21,000 of which are exclusively geologic. A deep analysis of this asset sh...

In the Archive of the Geological Survey of Italy-ISPRA Library, 24 hand-colored and unpublished geological maps of the KKGR Geologische Spezialkarte were recently discovered. These maps cover the NE sector of Italy and concern the territories annexed by Italy at the end of the First World War. The comparative analysis carried out with the Austrian...

At war with the eagles represents the first national event organized by the History of Geosciences Section, established in 2012 by the Italian Geological Society in order to recover and endorse the national geological culture. A century after the Italian intervention in the First World War, the meeting focuses on the role of geologists and cartogra...

The historic geological maps heritage of the Geological Survey of Italy is maintained into the ISPRA library. Actually the library oversee and organize a large and valuable biblio-cartographic assets on Earth Sciences theme, constituted by more than 50,000 geothematics maps, 21,000 of which are exclusively geologic. A deep analysis of this asset sh...

http://www.geoitaliani.it/2015/06/funghidighiaccio.html

After a long ‘epistemological sleep’ of almost two centuries, a renewed interest is finally focusing the pivotal role of Italian scientists in the early development of Earth Sciences. Study after study, the key contribution of prominent pre-unitarian Italian scientists from Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), to Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772-1826) has...

The Fucino Plain is one of the most important Central Apennines intermountain basins; originated by tectonic subsidence, the plain is filled by fluvial, lacustrine and glacial continental sediments settled from Pliocene to the recent. Until the second half of 1800 the plain hosted the Fucino lake, which was subject to a long and complex land reclam...

http://www.geoitaliani.it/2013/12/1792-ermenegildo-pini-il-bradisismo-e-i.html#more

The library of ISPRA is characterized by a vast collection of books and geological maps whose acquisition can be traced back to 1867. The core of the library's collection consists of more than 15,000 geological maps representing the entire Italian territory. The proposed digitization of cartographic material project is planned to keep intact the or...

http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/biblioteca/2014_SeverinoConsoleBiblioteche_oggi3220147pp4955.pdf

The Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 represents a turning point for geological surveys in Italy. Just a few years earlier, that is immediately after the Country Unification, the two national technical and scientific structures for this discipline were established: the Royal Geological Committee in 1867 and the Royal Geological Survey in 1873. The...