Guido Bonarelli

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Guido Bonarelli (born July 25, 1871 in Ancona , † January 11, 1951 in Rome ) was an Italian petroleum geologist and paleontologist who worked in Argentina.

Bonarelli received his doctorate in Turin in 1894. As a post-doctoral student he was in Bologna, where he completed his habilitation. In 1897 he became professor of geology and mineralogy at the agricultural research station in Perugia. He then worked as a petroleum geologist, working for the Royal Dutch Shell in Indonesia from 1901 to 1907 (Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes), and then for a Belgian company in Spain, Algeria and Tunisia. He was particularly successful in Argentina. From 1911 to 1918 he worked for the geological exploration of Argentina, which was part of the Ministry of Mines and Agriculture, was back in Italy from 1919 (and for the SIPEBA company in Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania and Egypt) and worked again from 1923 in Argentina for the oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales, YPF), whose geological department he headed. He also brought other Italian geologists to the country as employees of the YPF (Danilo Ramaccioni, Egidio Feruglio, Ivo Conci, Enrico Fossa-Mancini, Maria Casanova, the geophysicist Vicenzo Franceschi). He also dealt with moors in Tierra del Fuego and the geology of the Andes pre-Cordillera in the context of the oil exploration (Provinces Salta , Jujuy ) and as a petrogeologist with the region Comodoro Rivadavia , Neuquén , the north of the province of Mendoza and northwest Argentina. In addition to Argentina, he also worked in Chile and Bolivia. From 1927 to 1935 he worked for the Italian oil company Agip , from 1936 to 1938 he was head of the Italian geological service in East Africa and was looking for oil in Eritrea, and from 1939 to 1944 he was head of geological research at the natural gas company ENM (Ente Nazionale Metano). After the Second World War, he helped Enrico Mattei to build a new national oil industry in Italy, which led to the establishment of Eni .

He wrote the sheets Jesi and Macerata (1933) and Pesaro-Urbino (1935) of the geological map of Italy. In addition to geology, he had broad interests, for example in anthropology and history, and as a staunch democrat was also politically active.

From him an oceanic anoxic event was described in the upper Cenoman . The associated layer, which marks the end of the cenomancy, is called Livello Bonarelli (Bonarelli horizon) in Italian , and the dinosaur Notoceratops bonarelli (Tapia 1918) is named in his honor.

In 1946 he was President of the Italian Geological Society. He was a member of the academy in Turin.

Fonts

  • with Carlo Fabrizio Paróna : Sur la faune du Callovien Inférieur de Savoie, Mémoires de l'Academie de Savoie, Volume 6, 1895–96
  • Descrizione geologica dell'Umbria Centrale, manuscript from 1901, published posthumously in 1967
  • Trenta mesi a Borneo, "Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana", fasc. 5, 1909
  • Le razze umane e le loro probabili affinità, Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, fasc. 8-9, 1909
  • La stele pesarese, "Rendiconti dell'Istituto Marchigiano di Scienze, Lettere e Arti", Volume 4, 1928
  • America Meridionale. Geologia, Enciclopedia Treccani, Volume 2, 1929
  • Le regioni petrolifere italiane, in: La Miniera Italiana, 1929–30
  • Glottologia sistematica, "Ultima Miscellanea", Volume 1, 194;
  • Sylloge synonymica hominidarum fossilium hucusque cognitorum systematice ordinata, Ultima Miscellanea, Volume 1, 1944;
  • Nomenclatura e sistematica in paleontologia, Ultima Miscellanea, Volume 2, 1946
  • Generi e specie in antropologia sistematica, Ultima Miscellanea, Volume 2, 1946
  • Las sierras subandinas del Alto y Aguaragüe, y los yacimientos petrlíferos del distrito minero de Tartagal, departamento de Orán, provincia de Salta. Anales del Ministerio de Agricultura, Sección Geología, Mineralogía y Minería 8 (4), 1913
  • Tierra del Fuego y sus turberas. Anales del Ministerio de Agricultura, Sección Geología. Mineralogía y Minería 12 (3), 1917
  • Tercera contribución al conocimiento geológico de las regiuones petrolíferas subandinas del norte, provincias del Salta y Jujuy. Anales del Ministerio de Agricultura, Sección Geología, Mineralogía y Minería 15 (1), 1921
  • with E. Longobardi: El Mapageo-agrologicoy minero de la provinciade Corrientes 1929

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SURNAME Bonarelli, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian petroleum geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Ancona
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1951
Place of death Rome