Italy

Emilia Le Pera

• Associate Professor of Sedimentary Petrology for Geological Sciences Course Degree and of Geology for Cultural Heritage
• Course Degree, both courses at the Department of Biology
• Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST)

University of Calabria
87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS)
Italy.
Email: emilia.lepera@unical.it

Report on the Short Course on Sedimentary Petrology, June 15-16, 2021, University of Bari (Italy)

Report-on-the-Short-Course-on-Sedimentary-Petrology-June-15-16-2021-University-of-Bari-Italy.pdf

Report on Zoom Global Conference on “Provenance analysis of sediments” January 9-10, 2021, Beijing, China

Report on 1st Global ConferenceZoom 09 January 2021, Beijing, China.pdf

Report from 34th IAS Meeting

Report on 34th IAS (Rome Italy 2019) for SEPM.pdf

Education

• M.Sc., Geological Sciences, University of Calabria (Cosenza, Italy), 1990
• Ph.D., Sedimentology, University of Bologna (Italy), 1998
• Advanced Fellowship Grant of the C.N.R., Departamento de Petrologia y Geoquimica, Facultad de Ciencias
• Geologicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 1998-1999

Honors & Awards

Tarquin C. Teale Award of the Imperial College of London (U.K.), 1990-1991

Research Interests

• Sand(stone) provenance
• Effects of weathering, lithology, transport and depositional environment on composition of sand
• Plutoniclastic sand and sandstone petrology
• Modern volcaniclastic sands petrology
• Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic reconstructions

Main Field Areas

• Southern Apennines, southern Italy
• Spain and Portugal
• Southern and central California
• Aeolian archipelago (Tyrrhenian sea)
• Cabo Verde archipelago (Atlantic Ocean)