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 SGI-SIMP 2024: Congress of the Italian Geological Society (SGI) and the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP)

REPORT ON SGI_SIMP Congress 2024 (Bari, Italy).pdf

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)