Emiliano mom

Emiliano Mutti (* 1933 near Lake Orta ) is an Italian geologist and sedimentologist.

Life

Mutti grew up in a mountain village in the northern Apennines and studied geology at the University of Milan with a diploma in 1959. His thesis was on turbidites in the northern Apennines, and turbidites remained his specialty. He was then an assistant professor in Milan before joining Esso in 1965 at Esso's Production Research Lab in Bordeaux. In 1969 he became a professor at the University of Turin . In 1971 he received his doctorate there and was given a full professorship in 1975. Later he went to the University of Parma . In 2007 he retired.

He is mainly concerned with turbidites in the Spanish Pyrenees, the Apennines and Greece. He investigated their character as petroleum bedrock and their relationship to river and delta deposits. He also investigated the formation of deep-water turbiditic sediments at continental margins using reflection seismics.

In 2004 he received the William H. Twenhofel Medal and in 2012 the Lamarck Medal .

Fonts

• with R. Tinterri, E. Remacha, N. Mavilla, S. Angella, L. Fava: An Introduction to the Analysis of Ancient Turbidite Basins from an Outcrop Perspective, American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1999
• with G. Davoli: Turbidite Sandstones, AGIP, Istituto di geologia, Università di Parma 1992
• with Franco Ricchi Lucchi: Turbidites of the Northern Apennines: Introduction to Facies Analysis, American Geological Institute 1978
• with Lucchi: Le torbiditi dell'Appennino Settentrionale: introduzione all'analisi di facies, Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital., 11-2, 1972, pp. 161-199
• with Lucchi: Turbidite facies and facies associations. In: Mutti E. u. a. (Ed.), Turbidite facies and facies associations in some selected formations of northern Apennines, IAS Intern.Congress "Nice '75", Exc.Guidebook A-11, 1975, pp. 21-36.

Web links

• To receive the Lamarck Medal, European Geosciences Union (English)