Riccardo Assereto

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Riccardo Assereto ( 1937 - September 15, 1976 ) was an Italian paleontologist and geologist. He was a professor in Milan.

He died in a landslide in Friuli due to an earthquake together with his nine-year-old son Andrea and the geologist Giulio Pisa (professor in Bologna).

He was an expert on ammonites and stratigraphy of the Triassic (especially the anisium) and on field studies next to the Alps (Carnic Alps) in Iran (stratigraphy and geology of the Elburs Mountains ), Bulgaria, North Africa, North America (Texas) and Turkey. As a sedimentologist, he worked with Wolfgang Schlager in Miami in 1976, also dealing with recent carbonate formation in the sea off Florida.

In 1974 he proposed two new sub-stages of the anisium : Bithynium and Aegeum . These were also accepted internationally.

Fonts

  • Fossili dell Anisico superiore della Val Camonica, Rev. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr., 69, 1963, 1-120
  • Revisione della stratigrafia permo-triassica della Val Camonica meridionale (Lombardia), Rev. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr., 71, 1965
  • The paleozoic formations in central Elburz (Iran), Rev. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr., 69, 1963, 503-543
  • The Jurassic Shemshak formation (central Elburz, Iran), Rev. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr., 72, 1966
  • with P. Barnard, Nerina Fantini Sestini: The stratigraphy of jurassic deposits of central Elburz, Rev. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr., 74, 1968
  • with Christopher Kendall: Megapolygons in Ladinian limestones of Triassic of southern alpes: evidence of deformations by penecontemporaneous dessication and cementation, J. Sedim. Petrology, 41, 1971, 715-723
  • with Kendall: Nature, origin and classification of peritidal tepee structures and related breccias, Sedimentology 74, 1977, 153–210
  • with Robert Folk: Giant aragonite rays and baroque white dolomite in tepee fillings, Triassic of Lombardy, Italy, 1974 Annual Convention American Association of Petroleum Geologists, San Antonio
  • Coordinator and author: Triassico, Geologia dell'Italia, UTET, Turin 1973, pp. 174–284
  • with A. Desio: Permiano, Geologia dell'Italia, UTET, Turin 1973, pp. 123-173
  • Article Permian and Triassic in Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica, Mondadori, Milan 1973
  • The Binodusos Zone. A Century of Scientific Opposites, Sb. Akad. Wiss. Vienna, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, 179, 1971, pp. 25-55
  • Aegean and Bithynian: proposal for two new Anisian substages, in: The Stratigraphy of the Alpine-Mediterranean Trias, Erdwiss series. Commission, Österr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Volume 2, 1974, pp. 23-39

literature

  • Maurizio Gaetani (Ed.): Contributions to the Triassic stratigraphy. Proc. Riccardo Assereto and Giulio Pisa Field Symp. Triassic Stratigr. Southern Alps, Bergamo, June 1979, Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr. 85 (3-4), 1980, 665-1236

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personal data
SURNAME Assereto, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1976