Michele Domenico MORSILLI
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra
Via G. Saragat, 1 – 44100 Ferrara – Italy
e-mail: mrh@unife.it
tel . +39 0532974735
Orcid Researcher ID: 0000-0001-6950-3659
SCOPUS
h-index: 21; citation 1539; Co-authors: 139; Documents:46
SUMMARY
Michele Morsilli is an Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy), with a MA (1994) in field mapping and geomorphology, and PhD (1999) in Carbonate Sedimentology from Bologna University.
His research is focused about the stratigraphic-sedimentological features of Meso-Cenozoic carbonate successions with field work in many places such as Italy (Apulia Carbonate Platform, Dolomites, Lessini Shelf, Ligurian Basin, Sardinia), Spain (Balearic Islands, Pyrenees and Iberian Basin), Caribbean (Aruba and Curacao), Ethiopia (Negele area), Egypt (Red Sea), Iran (Zagros area), Oman, Saudi Arabia, Emirates.
Research interests include carbonate depositional systems, facies analysis, stratigraphic evolution, and depositional architecture of Mesozoic and Cenozoic systems. He is also investigating the role of internal waves in sedimentary records and about paleogeographic distribution of carbonate platforms during the Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene, as well as Oceanic Anoxic Events and Climatic changes of the past. Recently he started to collaborate in applying machine learning on facies identifications and on Geological Heritage and UNESCO Global Geoparks.
He has done numerous collaborations with many researchers from Italian and foreign universities and has presented the results of his research at national and international conferences. He has been lecturing and advising student research since 2000 and has organized numerous carbonate field trips within Italy, Spain, Netherland Antilles and Red Sea (Egypt). He was involved since 2017 in the partnership with KFUPM, Stanford, Trinity (San Antonio), leading the field work in southern Italy.
He is a RPS-Nautilus leader for field course N494-Salento since 2018, and co-leader with Luis Pomar from 2008 to 2018 for field course M59- Balearic Islands.
E D U C A T I O N
• Ph.D. 1998 - Sedimentology, University of Bologna, dissertation title: Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Apulian carbonate platform margin in the Gargano Promontory (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) (in Italian).
• M.A. 1993 – Earth Sciences, University of Bologna, dissertation title: Geological and geomorphological mapping of the eastern area of the Lake of Varano – Italy (in Italian).
P O S I T I O N S H E L D
• National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor from 2018 in the sector 04/A2 - Structural Geology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology.
. Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2008-present).
• Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2004-2008).
• Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2001-2003).
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (1999-2001).
R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S
• Sedimentology with an emphasis on carbonate depositional systems, facies analysis, stratigraphic evolution and depositional architecture of sedimentary deposits, field geology and applying new technologies to outcrop studies as seismic modelling, GPS survey, portable GIS software and 3D reconstruction of carbonate platforms.
• Geological mapping of sedimentary systems and relationships with tectonic and sea-level changes.
• Sedimentary features related to fluid escape in Lower Cretaceous basinal sediments.
• Mixed silicilastic-carbonate sediments and facies architecture (Spain and Italy).
• Paleogeographic reconstructions of Cretaceous and Miocene carbonate in the Tethys realm and Indo-Pacific province.
• Role of internal waves in creation of sedimentary structures, such as Hummocky-cross stratification, and in the development and facies response of carbonate buildups.
• Controlling factors in development of carbonate platform and ramps, depositional geometries and facies architecture.
• Machine learning application in carbonate sedimentology.
. Forward models for carbonate systems.
• Geoheritage and UNESCO Geoparks.
S O F T W A R E S K I L L S
• Software GIS: ESRI ArcGis 10.0, Arcview 3.2, Arcview 3D analysts and ArcPad 6.0; Autocad map, Fieldmove, Move and ER mapper (basic level), PETREL-Schlumberger (basic level); Open-dtec.
• Graphics: Macromedia Freehand 10.0; Deneba Canvas 9.0, Corel Draw 12.0, Illustrator CS6;
• Others: File Maker; Page Maker 6.5, Quark x-press, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Microsoft suite.
R E S E A R C H G R A N T S
• 2018-2023 - National Research Project: Biota resilience to global change: biomineralization of planktic and benthic calcifiers in the past, present and future. PI, Prof. Elisabetta Erba (Milano)
. 2017-2020 – Stanford University and King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM - Arabia Saudita) project: Predictive rules for the development of carbonate platforms that incorporate the combined influences of physics, chemistry, and biology in the formation, deposition, and early diagenesis of carbonate strata. contract No. CPG-17-0058 – Principal Investigator: Prof. Jonathan Payne.
• 2014-2018 – Spanish Research Projects (BOE:8/8/2014) for Plataformas carbonatadas; variabilidad arquitectural en funcion de los cambios de produccion de los sistemas carbonaticos y de controles externos. Principal investigator: Prof. Luis Pomar Goma.
• 2010 -2014 - Spanish Research Projects CGL2009-13254 for “Variabilidad en plataformas carbonatadas en funcion de los cambios de produccion y de acomodacion” – Carbonate platform variability as a function of production and accomodation changes.
• 2013 – REPSOL –field work research and data analysis and synthesis in Cenozoic carbonate succession of Netherland Antille (Caribbean area).
• 2009-2012 - ENI - Exploration and Production, founding. Scientific coordinator for “Ricostruzioni paleogeografiche delle piattaforme carbonatiche del Cretaceo tetideo e del Miocene dell’area mediterranea e indo-pacifica” – Paleogeographic reconstructions of Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Tethys area and of Miocene of the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific area.
• Fellownship young researcher 2007 at Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Science in San Diego (California – USA). Grant: Ferrara University.
• Cofin 2004-2006 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Paleoclimatic fluctuations and its impact on benthic community, carbonate productivity and depositional dynamics of meso-caenozoic Italian platform.
• Cofin 2002-2004 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Response of carbonate platforms to climatic changes: examples from the Triassic and Tertiary of the Mediterranean Region.
• Cofin 2000-2002 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Paleoecology, carbonate productivity, depositional geometry and seismostratigraphic simulation of the italian meso-caenozoic carbonate platform margin and slope.
• Post-doctoral fellownship (2000-2001) - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara.
P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
Consultant petroleum industry
• 2013-2015 REPSOL spa.
• 2009-2012 ENI spa.
Research project reviewer
• European Science Foundation (ESF)
• MIUR - Ministero Università e Ricerca Italy
• ACP – Association Chemical Petroleum Research Fund. USA
Articles reviewer
• • Earth Science review (Elsevier)
• Geology (GSA)
• Sedimentology (Blackwell)
• Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier)
• Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Elsevier)
• A.A.P.G. Bulletin
• Marine and Petroleum Geology (Elsevier)
• Ore Geology Review (Elsevier)
• Geological Journal
• Journal of African Earth Science (Elsevier)
• Italian Journal of Geoscience (Società Geologica Italiana)
• Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
• Minerals
• Geoscience
• Frontiers in Earth Sciences
Official Field Trips organized
• 08-10 September 2023 – Field trip along the Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano) – International meeting Bathurst 2023, Napoli.
• June 2022 – AAPG European Region - Naples – Field Trip - Inner platform to base of slope of the Apulia Carbonate Platform in the Gargano Promontory: facies, sedimentary processes and potential reservoirs. Leader: Prof. M. Morsilli and Prof. Jean Borgomano.
. September 2019 – NAUTILUS - RPS field course I49A. Salento Peninsula, southern Italy. Leader: Prof. M. Morsilli.
• October 2008, June, 2009, October, 2009, June 2010, October, 2010, May, 2011, June, 2011, April, 2012, June, 2012, March 2014, June 2014, April 2015, September, 2016, 2017, 2019, – NAUTILUS-RPS field course N-59. Balearic Islands. Leaders: Prof. Luis Pomar and Prof. M. Morsilli.
• April 2009 and May,2010 – Field Course on coral reef biogeology. Abu Dabbab Bay, Marsa Alam, Red Sea. Leaders: Prof. F. Bosellini, Dr. Morsilli, G. Silvestri & Dr. M. Taviani.
• August 2004 – Field trip P18 - The Apulia carbonate platform margin and slope, Late Jurassic to Eocene of the Maiella and Gargano Promontory: physical stratigraphy and architecture. Leaders: Dr. Michele Morsilli, Dr. Giovanni Rusciadelli and Prof. Alfonso Bosellini. 32° International Geological Congress, Florence 2004.
• October 2002 – Montagna della Maiella: geometry and depositional architecture of the eastern margin of the Apulia carbonate platform. Leaders: Dr. Michele Morsilli, Dr. Giovanni Rusciadelli. IX Riunione annuale del Gruppo Informale di Sedimentologia, Pescara.
• September 2000 – Gargano Promontory: The eastern margin of the Apulia carbonate platform, the Gargano Transect. Leaders: Prof. Alfonso Bosellini, Dr. Michele Morsilli and Prof. Claudio Neri. Internationa Congress of WG4 "Quantitative models on Cretaceous carbonates and the eastern margin of the Apulia Platform". Vieste, 25-28 Settembre 2000.
Geological mapping
• 2001-2004 – Field geological mapping at scale 1:10.000 and 1:5.000 of the northern part of the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy) for the Italian Geological Survey (APAT) – new geologic cartography of Italy at scale 1:50.000, Sheet n° 384 Vico del Gargano.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Passaseo, C. and Morsilli, M. (2025). Characterization of Halimeda Bioherms of the Pre-Evaporitic Messinian of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy). Sediment. Geol. 475, 106782. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2024.106782.
2. Cardelli, S., Křížová, B., Morsilli, M., Posenato, R., Adatte, T., Bomou, B., Spangenberg, J.E., Consorti, L., Corradetti, A., Franceschi, M., Brombin, V., Frijia, G. (2025). Paleoenvironmental changes in the western Tethys carbonate platforms during OAE-2: Implications from phosphorus, δ18O, δ13C and facies analysis. Cretac. Res. 173.
3. Bosellini, F.R., Vescogni, A., Briguglio, A., Piazza, M., Papazzoni, C.A., Silvestri, G., and Morsilli, M. (2024) - Resilient coral reef ecosystems: The case study of turbid-mesophotic coral buildups during the Late Oligocene Warming Event (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 649, 112330. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112330.
4. Fournier, F., Léonide, P., Marié, L., Quillévéré, F., Margerel, J., Miholjek, I., Dugonjić, P., Carre, M., Cavassa, L., Morsilli, M., and Boetto, G. (2024) - Provenance of the ballast stones from the Roman Republican ship Ilovik-Paržine 1: A hypothesis about its place of construction. J. Archaeol. Sci. Reports 57, 104580. doi: 0.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104580.
5. Morabito, C., Papazzoni, C.A., Lehrmann, D.J., Payne, J.L., Al-Ramadan, K., and Morsilli, M., (2024) - Carbonate Factory Response through the MECO (Middle Eocene climate Optimum) event: Insight from the Apulia Carbonate Platform, Gargano Promontory, Italy: Sedimentary Geology, p. 106575, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106575.
6. Borrelli, M., Perri, E., Morsilli, M., and Critelli, S. (2023) - Late Permian-Triassic sedimentary evolution of the Southern Adriatic area based on wells and cores analysis: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 150, August 2022, p. 106154, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106154.
7. Morsilli M., A. Hairabian, J. Borgomano, S. Nardon, E. W. Adams & G.L. Bracco Gärtner (2022) - A journey along the Gargano Promontory (Southern Italy): The Late Jurassic to Eocene Apulia Carbonate Platform evolution. In: Field guides to exceptionally exposed carbonate outcrops, International Association of Sedimentologists, 395–480. doi: 10.54780/IASFG3/08.
8. Tella, T.O., Winterleitner, G., Morsilli, M. and Mutti, M. (2022) Testing sea-level and carbonate production effects on stratal architecture of a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Upper Miocene, Menorca): A 3D forward modelling approach. Sediment. Geol., 441, 106267. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106267
9. Koeshidayatullah, A., Trower, E.J., Li, X., Mukerji, T., Lehrmann, D.J., Morsilli, M., Al‐Ramadan, K. and Payne, J.L. (2022) - Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls. Sedimentology, v. 69: 2486-2506. doi: 10.1111/sed.12998.
10. Del Viscio, G., Morsilli, M., Posenato, R., Frijia, G., Moro, A. and Mezga, A. (2022). Proliferation of Chondrodonta in upper Cenomanian shallow-water limestones of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (Croatia) as a proxy of environmental instability. Cretaceous Research, 105151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105151.
11. Del Viscio G., Frijia G., Posenato R., Singh P., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Al-Ramadan K., Struck U., Jochum K.P. & Morsilli M. (2021). Proliferation of Chondrodonta as a proxy of environmental instability at the onset of OAE1a: Insights from shallow-water limestones of the Apulia Carbonate Platform. Sedimentology, v. 68: 3191-3227. doi: 10.1111/sed.12887.
12. Gheiasvand, M., Föllmi, K.B., Stampfli, G.M., Luciani, V. and Morsilli, M. (2021) Paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography of the Lower Cretaceous carbonate successions of northern Tethyan margin: Examples from Northeastern and Central Iran. J. Asian Earth Sci., 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104752
13. Michel, J., Lanteaume, C., Lettéron, A., Kenter, J., Morsilli, M., Borgomano, J. (2021) - Oligocene and Miocene Global Spatial Trends of Shallow- Marine Carbonate Architecture. The Journal of Geology. v. 128. https://doi.org/10.1086/712186
14. Biscotti, N., Morsilli, M., Bonsanto, D., Biondi, E., Casavecchia, S. (2021) - Integrated Approach to the Auto-Ecological Study of Presence of Brassica incana Ten. in the Gargano Promontory (Puglia, Southern Italy), on the Adriatic Side of the Italian Peninsula. Glob. J. Sci. Front. Res. H Environ. Earth Sci. 21, 57–64.
15. Koeshidayatullah, A., Morsilli M., Lehrmann D., Al-Ramadam K., Payne J. (2020) - Fully automated carbonate petrography using deep convolutional neural networks. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 122, doi.org/104687. 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104687
16. Morsilli M., Giona Bucci M., Gliozzi E., Lisco S., Moretti M. (2020) - Sedimentary features influencing the occurrence and spatial variability of seismites (late Messinian, Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Sedimentary Geology, art. 105628. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105628.
17. Posenato R., Frijia G., Morsilli M., Moro, A., Del Viscio, G. & Mezga, A. (2020) - Paleoecology and proliferation of the bivalve Chondrodonta joannae (Choffat) in the upper Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Adriatic Carbonate Platform of Istria (Croatia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, art. 109703. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109703.
18. Li X., Falivene O., Minzoni M., Lehrmann D., Reijmer J., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K., Yu M., Payne J. (2020) - Interactions between sediment production and transport in the geometry of carbonate platforms: Insight from forward modeling of great bank of Guizhou (early to Middle Triassic), south China. Marine and Petroleum Geology,V. 118, art. 104416. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104416
19. Dell’Università E., Muntoni I.M., Allegretta I., Tarantini M., Monno A., Maiorano P., Girone A., Morsilli M., Terzano R. & Eramo G. (2019) - Development of a multiparametric characterisation protocol for chert investigation and application on the Gargano Promontory mines. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11:6037-6063. doi:10.1007/s12520-019-00875-8
20. Kiani Harchegani F. & Morsilli M. (2019) - Internal waves as controlling factor in the development of stromatoporoid-rich facies of the Apulia Platform margin (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, Gargano Promontory, Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 380: 1-20. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.11.011.
21. Posenato R., Morsilli M., Bassi D. & Guerzoni S. (2018) - Palaeoecology of Chondrodonta (Bivalvia) from the lower Aptian (Cretaceous) Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 508: 188-201. doi: 0.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.002.
22. Morsilli M., A. Hairabian, J. Borgomano, S. Nardon, E. W. Adams & G.L. Bracco Gärtner (2017). The Apulia Carbonate Platform In The Gargano Promontory (Upper Jurassic To Eocene - Southern Italy). AAPG Bulletin, 101/4: 523–531. doi:10.1306/011817DIG17031.
23. Morsilli M. (2016). Sintesi delle conoscenze geologiche e stratigrafiche del Promontorio del Gargano. Geologi & Territorio, v. 2, p. 15–38, doi:10.1130/B26326.1.A.
24. Morsilli M. (2016). Aspetti geologici del Gargano e dell’area di Monte Pucci, In L’Ecomuseo Naturalistico-Archeologico Monte Pucci: Uno spaccato prestorico e storico del Gargano. Comune di Vico del Gargano – Soprintendenza ai Beni archeologici della Puglia. p. 31-42, Edizioni Centro Grafiche. ISBN:978-889654-563-8.
25. Pomar L., Aurell M., Bádenas B., Morsilli M. & Al-Awwad S.F. (2015). Depositional model for a prograding oolitic grainstone wedge (Lower Kimmeridgian, Iberian basin). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 67: 556-582. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.05.025
26. Pomar L., Mateu-Vicens G., Morsilli M. & Brandano M. (2014). Carbonate ramp evolution during the Late Oligocene (Chattian), Salento Peninsula, southern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 404: 109-132. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.023.
27. Bourgault D., Morsilli M., Richards C., Neumeier U. & Kelley D.E (2014). Sediment resuspension and nepheloid layers induced by long internal solitary waves shoaling orthogonally on uniform slopes. Continental Shelf Research, 72: 21-33. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.019
28. Alnazghah M.H., Badenas B., Pomar L., Aurell M. & Morsilli M. (2013). Facies heterogeneity at interwell-scale in a carbonate ramp, Upper Jurassic, NE Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 44: 140-163. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.03.004
29. Pomar L., Morsilli M., Hallock P., Badenas B. & Bourgault D. (2012). Reply to Shanmugam, G., Comment on “Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record” (Earth-Science Review, 111: 56-81). Earth-Science Review, 116: 206-210. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.11.006.
30. Badenas B., Pomar L., Aurell, M. & Morsilli M. (2012). A facies model for internalites (internal wave deposits) on a gently sloping carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, Ricla, NE Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 271-272: 44-57. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.020
31. Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2012). Internal waves vs. surface storm waves: a review on the origin of hummocky cross-stratification. Terra Nova, 24: 273-282. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01070.x
32. Pomar L., Morsilli M., Hallock P. & Badenas B. (2012). Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record. Earth-Science Review, 111: 56-81. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.12.005
33. Morsilli M., Bosellini F., Pomar L., Hallock P., Aurell M. & Papazzoni C.A. (2012) - Mesophotic coral buildups in a prodelta setting (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): a mixed carbonate siliciclastic system. Sedimentology, 59: 766-794. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01275.x
34. Taviani M., Angeletti L., Campiani E., Ceregato A., Foglini F., Maselli V., Morsilli M., Parise M. & Trincardi F. (2012) - Drowned karst landscape offshore the Apulian Margin (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy). Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 74: 197-212. doi:10.4311/20111JCKS0204
35. Belvedere M., Franceschi M., Morsilli M., Zoccarato P.L. & Mietto P. (2011). Fish feeding traces from Middle Eocene limestones (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, southern Italy). Palaios, 26: 893-899.
36. Morsilli M. (2011). 1. Introduzione alla geologia del Gargano. In: Le miniere di selce del Gargano, VI-III millennio a.C. Alle origini della storia mineraria europea. A cura di Massimo Tarantini e Attilio Galiberti. pp. 17-27. All’Insegna del Giglio Editore, Borgo S. Lorenzo (Firenze). ISBN 978-88-7814-532-0.
37. Morsilli M. & Moretti M. (2011). Gli slumps del Gargano: paleofrane sottomarine del Cretaceo Inferiore. Geoitalia, 36: 47-51.
38. Coltorti M., Boraso R., Mantovani F., Morsilli M., Fiorentini G., Riva A., Rusciadelli G., Tassinari R., Tomei C., Di Carlo G. & Chubakov V. (2011) - U and Th content in the Central Apennines continental crust: a contribution to the determination of the geo-neutrinos flux at LNGS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75: 2271-2294. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.01.024
39. Guido A., Papazzoni C.A., Mastrandrea A., Morsilli M., La Russa F., Tosti M. & Russo F. (2011) - Automicrite in a “nummulite bank” from the Monte Saraceno (southern Italy): evidence for synsedimentary cementation. Sedimentology, 58: 878-889.
40. Morsilli M., Bosellini F., Pomar L., Hallock P., Aurell M. & Papazzoni C.A. (2010) - Coral Buildups in Mesophotic, Siliciclastic Prodelta Settings (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): An As Yet Unexplored Play?. Search and Discovery Article #50311 (2010).
41. Brandano M., Morsilli M., Vannucci C., Bosellini F.R. & Mateu-Vicens G. (2010). Rhodalgal lithofacies of the Porto Badisco Calcarenites (upper Chattian, Salento, Apulia, southern Italy). Ital. J. Geosci. (Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana), 129: 119-131, doi: 10.3301/IJG.2009.10, Roma.
42. Andreetta R., Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2008) - Sedimentological features of coarse-grained deep water backset beds in a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Late Miocene, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 19-22.
43. Gramigna P., Morsilli M. & Russo F. (2008) - Facies Changes in siliclastic-carbonate depositional environments of Monte Porro area (Upper Miocene, Southern Calabria). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 101-104.
44. Silvestri G., Bosellini F.R. & Morsilli M. (2008)- Turbid-water coral assemblages: a case study from the Oligocene Tertiary Piedmont Basin (N Italy). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 177-180.
45. Petti F.M., Conti M.A., D'orazi Porchetti S., Morsilli M., Nicosia U. & Gianolla P. (2008) - A theropod dominated ichnocoenosis from late Hauterivian-early Barremian of Borgo Celano (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 114: 3-17.
46. Russo A. & Morsilli M. (2007) - New insight on architecture and microstructure of ellipsactinia and sphaeractinia (demosponges) from the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy). Geologica Romana, v. 40:1-16, Roma.
47. Nicosia U., Avanzini M., Barbera C., Conti S., Dalla Vecchia F., Dal Sasso C., Gianolla P., Leonardi G., Loi M., Mariotti N., Mietto P., Morsilli M., Paganoni A., Petti F.M., Piubelli D., Raia P., Renesto S., Sacchi E., Santi G. & Signore M. (2005) - I vertebrati continentali del Paleozoico e del Mesozoico. In "Paleontologia dei Vertebrati in Italia", a cura di Laura Bonfiglio, Verona, 2005, Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona / 2. Serie Sezione Scienze della Terra 6, pp. 41-79.
48. Conti M.A., Morsilli M., Nicosia U., Sacchi E., Savino V., Wagensommer A., Di Maggio L. & Gianolla P. (2005) – Jurassic Dinosaur Footprints from Southern Italy: Footprints as Indicators of Constraints in Paleogeographic Interpretation. Palaios, v. 20: 534-550. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.p03-99
49. Morsilli M. (2004) – Introduzione alla geologia del Promontorio del Gargano. Spelaion 2003. Atti del Raduno Nazionale di Speleologia. Edizioni del Parco – Claudio Grenzi editore: 9-32. Foggia.
50. Adams E. W., Morsilli M., Schlager W., van Hoek T. & Keim L. (2002) - Quantifying the geometry and sediment fabric of linear slopes: examples from the Tertiary of Italy (Southern Alps and Gargano Promontory). Sedimentary Geology, v. 154: 11-30.
51. Bracco Gartner G., Morsilli M., Schlager W. & Bosellini A. (2002) – Toe-of-slope of a Cretaceous carbonate platform in outcrop, seismic model and offshore seismic data (Apulia, Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences. Geologische Rundschau, v. 91: 315-330.
52. Morsilli M., Rusciadelli G. & Bosellini A. (2002) - Large-scale gravity-driven structures: control on margin architecture and related deposits of a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Central Apennines, Italy). Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana, Volume Speciale n° 1: 619-628.
53. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (2001) - Il Promontorio del Gargano: cenni di geologia e itinerari geologici. Quaderni del Parco Nazionale del Gargano, 48 pp.
54. Morsilli M., Rusciadelli G., Vichi G. & Bosellini A. (2000) - Gravity-driven processes: Control on margin architecture and slope evolution in a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Italy). A.A.P.G. Bulletin, 84 (9), Association Round Table Abstract, p.1467, Tulsa, USA.
55. Bosellini A., Morsilli M. & Neri C. (1999) - Long-term event stratigraphy of the Apulia Platform Margin (Upper Jurassic to Eocene, Gargano, southern Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69/6: 1241-1252, Tulsa.
56. Posenato R. & Morsilli M. (1999) - New species of Peregrinella (Brachipoda) from Lower Cretaceous of the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy). Cretaceous Research, v. 20/5: 641-654, Belfast.
57. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (1997) - A Lower Cretaceous drowning unconformity on the eastern flank of the Apulia Platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Cretaceous Research, v. 18: 51-61, Belfast.
58. Morsilli M. & Bosellini A. (1997) - Carbonate facies zonation of the Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Apulia platform Margin (Gargano promontory, Southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, V. 103, n°2, pp. 193-206. Milano.
59. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (1994) - Il Lago di Varano (Gargano, Puglia settentrionale): una nicchia di distacco da frana sottomarina cretacea. Annali Università di Ferrara (N.S.), Sez. Scienze della Terra, v. 5/1: 39-52, Ferrara.
SELECTED MEETING ABSTRACT
Morsilli M. (2024) - Mesophotic carbonate systems: A sedimentological point of view. MURKY Workshop: Mesophotic and turbid reefs as key ecosystems for the future? Erlangen, 24-27 June. Invited presentation. Morsilli M. (2024) - Urban Geology and Geoheritage Conservation: Enhancing aspiring UNESCO Geopark Development in the Gargano Promontory. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 301. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morsilli M. (2024) - Unraveling the evolution of the Apulia Carbonate Platform and its sedimentary dynamics. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1002. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morabito C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The Eocene carbonate deposits of the Gargano Promontory and Tremiti Islands (southern Italy). SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1001. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morabito C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The importance of lithofacies mapping: a case study of Eocene base-of-slope deposits of the Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano Promontory, Southern Italy). SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1258. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Passaseo C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - Lower Messinian Halimeda bioherms from the Mediterranean area: new insights on the controlling factors. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1003. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Della Porta G., Wright V.P., Samankassou E., Preto N., Morsilli M. (2024) - Carbonate Platforms: what can still be learned from outcrops? SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 997. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Preto N., Caggiati M., Della Porta G., Franceschi M. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The record of paleoenvironmental change in Mesozoic carbonate platforms of Western Tethys: some half-baked ideas. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1005. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Braga R., Ballato P., Barani S., Bentivenga M., Bordoni M., Buosi C., Ciarcia S., Donato P., Fanti R., Forni
F., Francese R., Giovanardi T., Invernizzi C., Lozar F., Morsilli M., Pondrelli M., Punturo R., Ragaini
L., Renzulli A., Rigo M., Saldi G., Sciascia L., Sottili G., Tavarnelli E., Tropeano M., Vezzoli G., Vitale S. & Zini L. (2024). A nationwide effort to engage secondary school students in geology - The new Progetto Nazionale Geologia of the Piano Lauree Scientifiche. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 846. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morsilli M., Liso S. & Parise M. (2024). Geological constraints at the origin of karst springs in the Ischitella-Vico territory (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, Italy). Eurokarst Conference, Rome, June 10-14.
Morsilli M, & Ferretto P. (2024). Mesophotic Carbonate Facies in a Fandelta System (Miocene, Seroe Domi Formation, Curaçao Island). AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Passaseo C. & Morsilli M (2024). Halimeda-rich beds in a mixed carbonate system from a pre-evaporitic Messinian reef (Crete Island, Greece). AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Bosellini F, Morsilli M., Vescogni A., Papazzoni C.A., Piazza M., Silvestri G. and Briguglio A. (2024) - Late Oligocene Coral Buildups in a Siliciclastic Framework: Unraveling coralpaleoecology in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy. AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Koeshidayatullah A, Payne JL, Stolper D, Turner A, Morsilli M, Lehrmann DJ, Singh P, and Al-Ramadan K (2024). Revisiting the impact of diagenesis across the Permian-Triassic boundary: insights from the Khuff carbonates, Saudi Arabia. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19.
Singh P, Weaver KL, Dunn CA, Morsilli M, Lehrmann DJ, and Payne JL (2024). Large variations in redox- and diagenesis-sensitive trace metals in sedimentary carbonates: insights from micro-scale geochemistry. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15.
Morsilli M., Gianolla P. (2023) - The Gargano Promontory (Italy): a perfect destination for carbonate sedimentology and geotourism in an aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Passaseo C., Morsilli M., Vescogni A. (2023) - Characterization of Halimeda bioherms of the pre-evaporitic Messinian of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy). 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Morabito C., Alramadan K.A, Payne J.L., Lehrmann D.J., Papazzoni C., Morsilli M. (2023) - Carbonate factory response through the MECO event: insight from the Middle Eocene of the Apulia Carbonate Platform. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Morabito C., Borrelli M., Morsilli M. (2023) - Eocene base-of-slope resedimented carbonate deposits of the Gargano Promontory (Italy). 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Borrelli M., Perri E., Criniti S., Morsilli M. (2023) - Permian–Triassic sedimentary and diagenetic reconstruction of the southern Adriatic area. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Singh P., Ferre J., Del Viscio G., Cantrell D.L., Alramadan K.A., Morsilli M., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Babalola L.O. & Humphrey J.D. (2022). A 514-million-year record of skeletal content in marine limestones. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-380902
Morsilli M. & Gianolla P. (2022) - Gargano Promontory (Apulia, Italy): a natural aspiring candidate for the UNESCO Global Geoparks network. Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana: Geoscience for a sustainable future, Torino 19-21 Settembre 2022. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2022.02
Morsilli M., Rizzo L., Morabito C., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Alramadan K.A., Babalola L.O. & Humphrey J.D. (2021). Carbonate factory changes associated with the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum: Apulia Carbonate Platform, Gargano Promontory, Italy. 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, June 21-25, 2021.
Morabito C. and Morsilli M. (2021). Large benthic foraminifers-corals facies transition during the middle Eocene: Tremiti Islands (Italy). 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, June 21-25, 2021.
Frijia G., Forkner R., Parente M., Morsilli M., Godet A., Struck U., Adatte T., Bomou B., Consorti L., Cardelli S., Krizova B. (2021). “The OAE-2 in the carbonate platforms of the Tethys Ocean: new geochemical and sedimentological data”, accepted at 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology (postponed to June 22-24, 2021)
Frijia G., Forkner R., Parente M., Morsilli M., Godet A., Struck U., Adatte T., Bomou B., Cardelli S. (2021). Facies analysis and geochemical record across the OAE-2 in the shallow water platforms of the Tethys ocean. Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Sedimentary Geoscience Congress 2020 (postponed to April 11-14, 2021).
Koeshidayatullah, A., Payne J., Lehrmann D., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K. (2020). Real time carbonate petrography with deep learning. GSA 2020 meeting. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 52, No. 6 doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-356742
Morsilli M., Giona Bucci M., Lisco S., Moretti M. (2019) - The sedimentary features influencing the occurrence and spatial variability of seismites (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Del Viscio G., Frijia G., Morsilli M., Posenato R. & Jochum K.P. (2019) - Chondrodonta-bearing levels in Lower Aptian shallow-water carbonates of the Southern-Central Tethys. 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Li X., Falivene O., Minzoni M., Lehrmann D., Reijmer J., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K., Yu M., Payne J. (2019) - Interactions between sediment production and transport in the development of carbonate platforms: A case study from the Great Bank of Guizhou, south China. 4th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Godet A., Morsilli M., Rigo M., Struck U., Humood Salim N., Saleh Salim Alshaqsi A. (2019) - Is the OAE-2 recorded in Oman? New data from the Natih Formation in the Oman Mountains. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy – Strati 2019 – 2-5 July – Milan – Italy. Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Scharf A., Morsilli M., Humood Salim N., Belushi A., Struck U. (2019) - C-isotope stratigraphy and outcrop based ɣ-ray measurements of the Natih Formation in Jabel Akdhar area of Oman: a mean to improve surface to sub-surface correlation. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy – Strati 2019 – 2-5 July – Milan – Italy. Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Scharf A., Morsilli M., Humood Salim N., Belushi A., Saleh Salim Alshaqsi A., Godet A. (2018) - The bio-sedimentary record of the OAE-2 in the Natih Fm of Oman: global or local signature? 20th International IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Quebec, Canada. 13 – 17 August, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Pomar, L., Baceta, J.I., Hallock, P., Morsilli, M. & Mateu-Vicens, G. (2015) - Follow the food; the waxing & waning of coral buildups during the Cenozoic). 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Kracow, Poland. 22 – 25 June, 2015; Abstract Volume, pp. .
Pomar, L., Morsilli, M. & Hallock, P., (2015) – Internal waves and carbonate systems. 15th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. 13th - 16th July, 2015; Abstract Volume, pp. .
Taviani M., Angeletti L., Campiani E., Canese S., Ceregato A., Foglini F., Maselli V., Morsilli M., Parise M., Rossi L. & Trincardi F. (2010) - Drowned karst features identified on the Adriatic Sea continental shelf (Italy). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, n. 5, p. 450. GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010).
Papazzoni C.A., Guido A., Mastandrea A., Morsilli M., Naccarato A., Tagarelli A., Tosti F. & Russo F. (2010) - The role of microbial organic matter in “nummulite banks”: an example from the Monte Saraceno (southern Italy). Giornate di Paleontologia X Edizione, Convegno della Società Paleontologica Italiana, UNICAL- Cosenza. Riassunti, p. 42-43.
Boraso R., Coltorti M., Fiorentini G., Mantovani F., Morsilli M., Riva A., Rusciadelli G. (2009) - Contents of radionuclides in Central Appennines continental crust: a contribution to the determination of the geoneutrinos flux at LNGS. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,From Core to Crust: Toward an Integrated Vision of Earth's Interior, Trieste,.20/07/2009 - 24/07/2009.
Morsilli M. & Moretti M. (2009) - Soft-sediment deformation structures in a tidal-dominated lagoonal deposits of the Gargano Promontory (late Messinian?, Apulia, southern Italy). 27 th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero 20-23 September, Abstract book.
Morsilli M., Bosellini F.R., Silvestri G. (2009) - Coral bioherms and biostromes in the muddy bottomset of a fandelta system (Oligocene, Tertiary Piedmont Basin, Italy). 27 th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero 20-23 September, Abstract book.
Andreetta R., Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2008) - Sedimentological features of coarse-grained deep water backset beds in a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Late Miocene, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain). Gruppo Italiano Carbonati, meeting annuale, 28-30 Aprile 2008, San Donato Milanese.
Gramigna P., Morsilli M. & Russo F. (2008) - Facies Changes in siliclastic-carbonate depositional environments of Monte Porro area (Upper Miocene, Southern Calabria). Gruppo Italiano Carbonati, meeting annuale, 28-30 Aprile 2008, San Donato Milanese.
Silvestri G., Bosellini F.R. & Morsilli M. (2008)- Turbid-water coral assemblages: a case study from the Oligocene Tertiary Piedmont Basin (N Italy). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-06463, 2008 EGU General Assembly 2008.
Gianolla P., Morsilli M., Furin S., Riva A., Andreetta R., Stefani M. (2006) - A genetic approach applied to Triassic carbonate platforms of the Dolomites (Triassic, Italy). AAPG European Region, Conference on the Architecture of Carbonate Systems Through Time, Reference Models for the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern Europe, North Africa and The Middle East. Palma de Mallorca, 30 April - 3 May 2006, Abstract Book.
Bosellini A., Furin S., Gianolla P., Morsilli M., Posenato R., Riva A.M., Stefani M. (2005) - Paleoclimatic fluctuations modulating the carbonate platform dynamics in the Middle and Upper Triassic of the Dolomites. Geoitalia 2005, 5 forum italiano di Scienze della Terra", Spoleto, Federazione Italiana di Scienze della Terra - Epitome, vol. 1: 79.
Morsilli M., Noferini M., Bosellini A., Bosellini F., Brandano M., Furlanis S., Gianolla P., Neri C., Rusciadelli G., Russo A. (2005) The Oligo-Miocene of the Gargano Promontory: new insights on the paleoenvironmental evolution of the Apulia domain (southern Italy). Abstract book European Science Foundation LESC Exploratory workshop - Potsdam, Germany - 22-26 February 2005.
Morsilli M. (2004) - Coeval drowning and emersion of a carbonate platform (Apulia, southern Italy): implication for the stratigraphic reconstructions. 32nd IGC Florence 2004 - Scientific Sessions 268-21: abstract, p.1206.
Morsilli M. & Rusciadelli G. (2004) - Event stratigraphy and correlation between two sectors of the Apulia carbonate platform during the Cretaceous (Italy). 32nd IGC Florence 2004 - Scientific Sessions 191-28: abstract, p. 891.
Morsilli M. & Rusciadelli G. (2000) - 2D and 3D reconstruction of an erosional to by-pass margin and related slope deposits of a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Central Apennines, Italy). In "Quantitative Models on Cretaceous Carbonate" S.E.P.M Cretaceous Resource Events and Rhythms, WG4 meeting, September 2000, Vieste, Italy, abstract: 20.
Bosellini A., Morsilli M. & Neri C. (1998) - Sequence-stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic to Eocene succession in the Gargano Promontory (Apulian Carbonate Platform-Southern Italy). Geological Society of London, Petroleum Group, (Beckett D. & Wright V.P. convenors), Conference on: Exploration and production of carbonate plays on the southern margin of the mediterranean Tethys, abstract, 2 p., 16-18th June, London.
PARTECIPATION TO GEOLOGICAL MEETINGS
• • 2-4 September 1997. 18° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Heidelberg, Germania.
• 12-17 April 1998. 15° International Congress of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Alicante, Spagna.
• 16-18 June 1998. Geological Society of London “Exploration and production of carbonate plays on the southern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys”. Londra
• 24-26 Agosto 1999. 19° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Copenhagen, Danimarca.
• 6-9 March 2002 – Peter Vail Conference. Sequenze stratigraphy. Rice University – Houston, USA.
• 11-13 March 2002 – American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Conventum Center, Houston, USA.
• 17-19 September 2003 – 22° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Opatjia, Croatia.
• 20-28 August 2004 – 32° International Geological Congres – Firenze.
• 30 April – 3 Maggio 2006 - AAPG European Region, Conference on the Architecture of Carbonate Systems Through Time, Reference Models for the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern Europe, North Africa and The Middle East. Palma de Mallorca.
• 18 -20 July 2007 - Gas Hydrates Observatories (GHOBS) Workshop- Portland, Oregon (USA).
• 12-15 September 2007 - Geoitalia 2007, 6° forum italiano di Scienze della Terra", Federazione Italiana di
• 20-23 September 2009 - 27° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. -
• 5-8 July 2011 - 28° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Zaragoza, Spain.
• 22-25 June 2015 – 31st Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Krakow, Poland. 13-16 July 2015 - 15th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
• 12-13 May 2020 - The Carbonate Forum – Online meeting IAS and Sedsonline association.
• 21-23 June 2021 – 33th Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Prague.
• 22-23 June 2022 – AAPG European Meeting - Naples
• 19-21 September 2022 – International Meeting, Società Geologica Italiana (SGI) e Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (SIMP) “Geoscience for a sustainable future. Torino, Italy.
• 12-15 Giugno 2023 – 36th Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Dubrovnik (Croatia).
• 4-7 Settembre 2023 - 17th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Napoli.
• 22-24 Aprile 2024 - AAPG Europe Region "Cross Regional Carbonate and Mixed Carbonate Systems Symposium” Palermo.
• 10-14 Giugno 2024 - Eurokarst Conference on the Hydrogeology of Karst and Carbonate Reservoirs, Roma.
• 24-27 June 2024 - MURKY Workshop: Mesophotic and turbid reefs as key ecosystems for the future?, Erlangen
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara
• 2019-present – Carbonate Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2003-2018 – Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2014-Present – Geology (9 credits)
• 2003-Present – Geology of Italy (6 credits)
• 2016-2017 – Petroleum Geology (6 credits)
• 2003-2014 – Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2001-Present - Teaching in the field - geological and geomorphological mapping (Dolomites area).
• 2000-2002 - Carbonate Sedimentology
ADVISING PhD THESIS
• • Chiara Passaseo (2025), Title: Distribution and significance of the Messinian Halimeda biocostructions in the Mediterranean area.
• Claudia Morabito (2024), Title: Facies analysis and forward modelling of Eocene shallow-water to resedimented carbonates of the Apulia Carbonate Platform as analog for coeval subsurface systems of the Mediterranean area
• Gabriella del Viscio (2021), Title: Chondrodonta-dominated benthic communities (Cretaceous): proxy of Oceanic Anoxic Events in shallow marine carbonate platforms? Co-supervisor: Prof. Renato Posenato; Dr. Gianluca Frijia (Unife).
• Farkhondeh Kiani Harchegani (2019), Title: Role of internal waves in carbonate systems: Upper Jurassic of the Apulia Platform and Oligocene system of the Asmari Formation (Iran). Co-supervisor: Prof. Alfredo Izquierdo Gonzales (Università di Cadice).
• Stefania Guerzoni (2016), in italian. Title: Analisi delle facies di piattaforma interna del Promontorio del Gargano nell’intervallo Barremiano superiore - Aptiano inferiore e confronto con le piattaforme tetidee durante l’Evento Anossico OAE1a.
• Rachele Andreetta (2009), Title: Sediment composition and transport mechanisms along the Miocene carbonate ramp of Menorca Island (Spain). Co-supervisor: Prof. Luis Pomar (Università delle Isole Baleari)
ADVISING MASTER THESIS
• Chiara Passaseo (2021). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Studio dei depositi ad Halimeda della Penisola Salentina.
. Claudia Morabito (2019). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico delle facies carbonatiche a coralli del Miocene nell’area di Siracusa (Sicilia, Italia).
• Fabio Piazzi (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi stratigrafica da dati di sottosuolo (dati di pozzo e sismica) del margine occidentale della Piattaforma Apula tra Abruzzo, Molise e Puglia.
• Luigi Rizzo (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi stratigrafica da dati di sottosuolo (dati di pozzo e sismica) del margine orientale della Piattaforma Apula in offshore della Puglia meridionale. Co-relatore: Dr. Alberto Riva.
• Gaetano Costa (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Ricostruzione tridimensionale della distribuzione di facies da dati di pozzo e di affioramento della piattaforma carbonatica del Miocene Superiore dell’Isola di Maiorca (Isole Baleari).
• Domenico Ravidà (2017). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi sedimentologica, stratigrafica e distribuzione delle pressioni di giacimento da dati di sottosuolo della Formazione Scaglia (Cretaceo Superiore – Paleogene) – Mar Adriatico centrale. Co-Relatore: Dr. Sandro Venturini (Eni spa).
• Mario Borrelli (2017). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Rilevamento e analisi di facies di depositi carbonatici di base scarpata (Formazione di Peschici, Eocene medio) nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia).
• Roberta D’Avolio (2016), Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Stratigrafia sismica dell’offshore garganico. Co-relatore: Dr. Alberto Riva.
• Alex Panfilo (2010), Laurea magistrale. Titolo: Le ricostruzioni paleogeografiche della Piattaforma Apula durante il Cretaceo. Co-relatore: Dr. Sergio Nardon (Eni spa).
• Nicola Marzola (2007), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Superfici di abrasione marina nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia).
• Chiara Guaiumi (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Analisi sedimentologica dei corpi di breccia filoniani affioranti lungo la costa orientale del Gargano (Puglia).
• Maurizio Noferini (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Sedimentologia e stratigrafia dei depositi carbonatici neogenici nei dintorni del Lago di Varano (Gargano, Puglia).
• Marco Droghetti (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Zonazione di facies dei depositi paleogenici delle Isole Tremiti (Mar Adriatico, Puglia).
• Pietro De Cosmo (2003), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Rilevamento geologico e stratigrafia dell'area di Apricena (Provincia di Foggia).
• Dario Bignardi (2003), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Sedimentazione recente all'interno del Lago di Varano (FG). Co-Relatore: Dr. Paolo Ciavola (Unife).
ADVISING UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
• Ana Iuliana Rece (2017), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Rilevamento geologico dell’area archeologica della necropoli di Monte Pucci (Gargano).
• Riccardo Brunetta (2015), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Architettura di facies delle Calcareniti di Porto Badisco (Oligocene superiore) nell’area di Torre S. Emiliano (Salento, Puglia).
• Roberta D’Avolio (2014), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Blocchi plurimetrici affioranti sul litorale di Rodi Garganico (Puglia): possibili testimonianze di eventi di tsunami?
• Saverio Tamburino (2013), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico delle variazioni laterali di facies all’interno delle Calcareniti di Porto Badisco (Oligocene superiore, Salento).
• Serena Bortot (2012), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico-stratigrafico della parte inferiore delle Calcareniti di Castelgomberto nell’area tipo (Oligocene inferiore, Monti Lessini).
• Alessandro Fiore (2011), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico dell’area di Torre S. Emiliano (Salento, Puglia).
• Roberta D’Onofrio (2010), Laurea Triennale (Università di Perugia): La transizione piattaforma-bacino durante l’intervallo Berriasiano-Valanginiano nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia, Italia).
• Alex Panfilo (2008), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Caratterizzazione isotopica dei corpi di breccia filoniani affioranti lungo la costa orientale del Gargano (Puglia).
• Marco Mantovani (2006), Laurea triennale, come Corelatore. Titolo: Realizzazione di un database in ambiente GIS (Esri Arcview) delle caratteristiche geomorfologiche della Conca del Tesino (TN).
• Andrea Suma (2006), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Il Cretacico superiore della Piattaforma Apula nell’area di Ostuni (Puglia, Brindisi).
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra
Via G. Saragat, 1 – 44100 Ferrara – Italy
e-mail: mrh@unife.it
tel . +39 0532974735
Orcid Researcher ID: 0000-0001-6950-3659
SCOPUS
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SUMMARY
Michele Morsilli is an Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy), with a MA (1994) in field mapping and geomorphology, and PhD (1999) in Carbonate Sedimentology from Bologna University.
His research is focused about the stratigraphic-sedimentological features of Meso-Cenozoic carbonate successions with field work in many places such as Italy (Apulia Carbonate Platform, Dolomites, Lessini Shelf, Ligurian Basin, Sardinia), Spain (Balearic Islands, Pyrenees and Iberian Basin), Caribbean (Aruba and Curacao), Ethiopia (Negele area), Egypt (Red Sea), Iran (Zagros area), Oman, Saudi Arabia, Emirates.
Research interests include carbonate depositional systems, facies analysis, stratigraphic evolution, and depositional architecture of Mesozoic and Cenozoic systems. He is also investigating the role of internal waves in sedimentary records and about paleogeographic distribution of carbonate platforms during the Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene, as well as Oceanic Anoxic Events and Climatic changes of the past. Recently he started to collaborate in applying machine learning on facies identifications and on Geological Heritage and UNESCO Global Geoparks.
He has done numerous collaborations with many researchers from Italian and foreign universities and has presented the results of his research at national and international conferences. He has been lecturing and advising student research since 2000 and has organized numerous carbonate field trips within Italy, Spain, Netherland Antilles and Red Sea (Egypt). He was involved since 2017 in the partnership with KFUPM, Stanford, Trinity (San Antonio), leading the field work in southern Italy.
He is a RPS-Nautilus leader for field course N494-Salento since 2018, and co-leader with Luis Pomar from 2008 to 2018 for field course M59- Balearic Islands.
E D U C A T I O N
• Ph.D. 1998 - Sedimentology, University of Bologna, dissertation title: Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Apulian carbonate platform margin in the Gargano Promontory (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) (in Italian).
• M.A. 1993 – Earth Sciences, University of Bologna, dissertation title: Geological and geomorphological mapping of the eastern area of the Lake of Varano – Italy (in Italian).
P O S I T I O N S H E L D
• National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor from 2018 in the sector 04/A2 - Structural Geology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology.
. Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2008-present).
• Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2004-2008).
• Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (2001-2003).
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (1999-2001).
R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S
• Sedimentology with an emphasis on carbonate depositional systems, facies analysis, stratigraphic evolution and depositional architecture of sedimentary deposits, field geology and applying new technologies to outcrop studies as seismic modelling, GPS survey, portable GIS software and 3D reconstruction of carbonate platforms.
• Geological mapping of sedimentary systems and relationships with tectonic and sea-level changes.
• Sedimentary features related to fluid escape in Lower Cretaceous basinal sediments.
• Mixed silicilastic-carbonate sediments and facies architecture (Spain and Italy).
• Paleogeographic reconstructions of Cretaceous and Miocene carbonate in the Tethys realm and Indo-Pacific province.
• Role of internal waves in creation of sedimentary structures, such as Hummocky-cross stratification, and in the development and facies response of carbonate buildups.
• Controlling factors in development of carbonate platform and ramps, depositional geometries and facies architecture.
• Machine learning application in carbonate sedimentology.
. Forward models for carbonate systems.
• Geoheritage and UNESCO Geoparks.
S O F T W A R E S K I L L S
• Software GIS: ESRI ArcGis 10.0, Arcview 3.2, Arcview 3D analysts and ArcPad 6.0; Autocad map, Fieldmove, Move and ER mapper (basic level), PETREL-Schlumberger (basic level); Open-dtec.
• Graphics: Macromedia Freehand 10.0; Deneba Canvas 9.0, Corel Draw 12.0, Illustrator CS6;
• Others: File Maker; Page Maker 6.5, Quark x-press, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Microsoft suite.
R E S E A R C H G R A N T S
• 2018-2023 - National Research Project: Biota resilience to global change: biomineralization of planktic and benthic calcifiers in the past, present and future. PI, Prof. Elisabetta Erba (Milano)
. 2017-2020 – Stanford University and King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM - Arabia Saudita) project: Predictive rules for the development of carbonate platforms that incorporate the combined influences of physics, chemistry, and biology in the formation, deposition, and early diagenesis of carbonate strata. contract No. CPG-17-0058 – Principal Investigator: Prof. Jonathan Payne.
• 2014-2018 – Spanish Research Projects (BOE:8/8/2014) for Plataformas carbonatadas; variabilidad arquitectural en funcion de los cambios de produccion de los sistemas carbonaticos y de controles externos. Principal investigator: Prof. Luis Pomar Goma.
• 2010 -2014 - Spanish Research Projects CGL2009-13254 for “Variabilidad en plataformas carbonatadas en funcion de los cambios de produccion y de acomodacion” – Carbonate platform variability as a function of production and accomodation changes.
• 2013 – REPSOL –field work research and data analysis and synthesis in Cenozoic carbonate succession of Netherland Antille (Caribbean area).
• 2009-2012 - ENI - Exploration and Production, founding. Scientific coordinator for “Ricostruzioni paleogeografiche delle piattaforme carbonatiche del Cretaceo tetideo e del Miocene dell’area mediterranea e indo-pacifica” – Paleogeographic reconstructions of Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Tethys area and of Miocene of the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific area.
• Fellownship young researcher 2007 at Scripps Institution of Oceanographic Science in San Diego (California – USA). Grant: Ferrara University.
• Cofin 2004-2006 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Paleoclimatic fluctuations and its impact on benthic community, carbonate productivity and depositional dynamics of meso-caenozoic Italian platform.
• Cofin 2002-2004 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Response of carbonate platforms to climatic changes: examples from the Triassic and Tertiary of the Mediterranean Region.
• Cofin 2000-2002 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – research title: Paleoecology, carbonate productivity, depositional geometry and seismostratigraphic simulation of the italian meso-caenozoic carbonate platform margin and slope.
• Post-doctoral fellownship (2000-2001) - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara.
P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
Consultant petroleum industry
• 2013-2015 REPSOL spa.
• 2009-2012 ENI spa.
Research project reviewer
• European Science Foundation (ESF)
• MIUR - Ministero Università e Ricerca Italy
• ACP – Association Chemical Petroleum Research Fund. USA
Articles reviewer
• • Earth Science review (Elsevier)
• Geology (GSA)
• Sedimentology (Blackwell)
• Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier)
• Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Elsevier)
• A.A.P.G. Bulletin
• Marine and Petroleum Geology (Elsevier)
• Ore Geology Review (Elsevier)
• Geological Journal
• Journal of African Earth Science (Elsevier)
• Italian Journal of Geoscience (Società Geologica Italiana)
• Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
• Minerals
• Geoscience
• Frontiers in Earth Sciences
Official Field Trips organized
• 08-10 September 2023 – Field trip along the Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano) – International meeting Bathurst 2023, Napoli.
• June 2022 – AAPG European Region - Naples – Field Trip - Inner platform to base of slope of the Apulia Carbonate Platform in the Gargano Promontory: facies, sedimentary processes and potential reservoirs. Leader: Prof. M. Morsilli and Prof. Jean Borgomano.
. September 2019 – NAUTILUS - RPS field course I49A. Salento Peninsula, southern Italy. Leader: Prof. M. Morsilli.
• October 2008, June, 2009, October, 2009, June 2010, October, 2010, May, 2011, June, 2011, April, 2012, June, 2012, March 2014, June 2014, April 2015, September, 2016, 2017, 2019, – NAUTILUS-RPS field course N-59. Balearic Islands. Leaders: Prof. Luis Pomar and Prof. M. Morsilli.
• April 2009 and May,2010 – Field Course on coral reef biogeology. Abu Dabbab Bay, Marsa Alam, Red Sea. Leaders: Prof. F. Bosellini, Dr. Morsilli, G. Silvestri & Dr. M. Taviani.
• August 2004 – Field trip P18 - The Apulia carbonate platform margin and slope, Late Jurassic to Eocene of the Maiella and Gargano Promontory: physical stratigraphy and architecture. Leaders: Dr. Michele Morsilli, Dr. Giovanni Rusciadelli and Prof. Alfonso Bosellini. 32° International Geological Congress, Florence 2004.
• October 2002 – Montagna della Maiella: geometry and depositional architecture of the eastern margin of the Apulia carbonate platform. Leaders: Dr. Michele Morsilli, Dr. Giovanni Rusciadelli. IX Riunione annuale del Gruppo Informale di Sedimentologia, Pescara.
• September 2000 – Gargano Promontory: The eastern margin of the Apulia carbonate platform, the Gargano Transect. Leaders: Prof. Alfonso Bosellini, Dr. Michele Morsilli and Prof. Claudio Neri. Internationa Congress of WG4 "Quantitative models on Cretaceous carbonates and the eastern margin of the Apulia Platform". Vieste, 25-28 Settembre 2000.
Geological mapping
• 2001-2004 – Field geological mapping at scale 1:10.000 and 1:5.000 of the northern part of the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy) for the Italian Geological Survey (APAT) – new geologic cartography of Italy at scale 1:50.000, Sheet n° 384 Vico del Gargano.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Passaseo, C. and Morsilli, M. (2025). Characterization of Halimeda Bioherms of the Pre-Evaporitic Messinian of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy). Sediment. Geol. 475, 106782. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2024.106782.
2. Cardelli, S., Křížová, B., Morsilli, M., Posenato, R., Adatte, T., Bomou, B., Spangenberg, J.E., Consorti, L., Corradetti, A., Franceschi, M., Brombin, V., Frijia, G. (2025). Paleoenvironmental changes in the western Tethys carbonate platforms during OAE-2: Implications from phosphorus, δ18O, δ13C and facies analysis. Cretac. Res. 173.
3. Bosellini, F.R., Vescogni, A., Briguglio, A., Piazza, M., Papazzoni, C.A., Silvestri, G., and Morsilli, M. (2024) - Resilient coral reef ecosystems: The case study of turbid-mesophotic coral buildups during the Late Oligocene Warming Event (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 649, 112330. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112330.
4. Fournier, F., Léonide, P., Marié, L., Quillévéré, F., Margerel, J., Miholjek, I., Dugonjić, P., Carre, M., Cavassa, L., Morsilli, M., and Boetto, G. (2024) - Provenance of the ballast stones from the Roman Republican ship Ilovik-Paržine 1: A hypothesis about its place of construction. J. Archaeol. Sci. Reports 57, 104580. doi: 0.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104580.
5. Morabito, C., Papazzoni, C.A., Lehrmann, D.J., Payne, J.L., Al-Ramadan, K., and Morsilli, M., (2024) - Carbonate Factory Response through the MECO (Middle Eocene climate Optimum) event: Insight from the Apulia Carbonate Platform, Gargano Promontory, Italy: Sedimentary Geology, p. 106575, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106575.
6. Borrelli, M., Perri, E., Morsilli, M., and Critelli, S. (2023) - Late Permian-Triassic sedimentary evolution of the Southern Adriatic area based on wells and cores analysis: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 150, August 2022, p. 106154, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106154.
7. Morsilli M., A. Hairabian, J. Borgomano, S. Nardon, E. W. Adams & G.L. Bracco Gärtner (2022) - A journey along the Gargano Promontory (Southern Italy): The Late Jurassic to Eocene Apulia Carbonate Platform evolution. In: Field guides to exceptionally exposed carbonate outcrops, International Association of Sedimentologists, 395–480. doi: 10.54780/IASFG3/08.
8. Tella, T.O., Winterleitner, G., Morsilli, M. and Mutti, M. (2022) Testing sea-level and carbonate production effects on stratal architecture of a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Upper Miocene, Menorca): A 3D forward modelling approach. Sediment. Geol., 441, 106267. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106267
9. Koeshidayatullah, A., Trower, E.J., Li, X., Mukerji, T., Lehrmann, D.J., Morsilli, M., Al‐Ramadan, K. and Payne, J.L. (2022) - Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls. Sedimentology, v. 69: 2486-2506. doi: 10.1111/sed.12998.
10. Del Viscio, G., Morsilli, M., Posenato, R., Frijia, G., Moro, A. and Mezga, A. (2022). Proliferation of Chondrodonta in upper Cenomanian shallow-water limestones of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (Croatia) as a proxy of environmental instability. Cretaceous Research, 105151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105151.
11. Del Viscio G., Frijia G., Posenato R., Singh P., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Al-Ramadan K., Struck U., Jochum K.P. & Morsilli M. (2021). Proliferation of Chondrodonta as a proxy of environmental instability at the onset of OAE1a: Insights from shallow-water limestones of the Apulia Carbonate Platform. Sedimentology, v. 68: 3191-3227. doi: 10.1111/sed.12887.
12. Gheiasvand, M., Föllmi, K.B., Stampfli, G.M., Luciani, V. and Morsilli, M. (2021) Paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography of the Lower Cretaceous carbonate successions of northern Tethyan margin: Examples from Northeastern and Central Iran. J. Asian Earth Sci., 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104752
13. Michel, J., Lanteaume, C., Lettéron, A., Kenter, J., Morsilli, M., Borgomano, J. (2021) - Oligocene and Miocene Global Spatial Trends of Shallow- Marine Carbonate Architecture. The Journal of Geology. v. 128. https://doi.org/10.1086/712186
14. Biscotti, N., Morsilli, M., Bonsanto, D., Biondi, E., Casavecchia, S. (2021) - Integrated Approach to the Auto-Ecological Study of Presence of Brassica incana Ten. in the Gargano Promontory (Puglia, Southern Italy), on the Adriatic Side of the Italian Peninsula. Glob. J. Sci. Front. Res. H Environ. Earth Sci. 21, 57–64.
15. Koeshidayatullah, A., Morsilli M., Lehrmann D., Al-Ramadam K., Payne J. (2020) - Fully automated carbonate petrography using deep convolutional neural networks. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 122, doi.org/104687. 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104687
16. Morsilli M., Giona Bucci M., Gliozzi E., Lisco S., Moretti M. (2020) - Sedimentary features influencing the occurrence and spatial variability of seismites (late Messinian, Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Sedimentary Geology, art. 105628. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105628.
17. Posenato R., Frijia G., Morsilli M., Moro, A., Del Viscio, G. & Mezga, A. (2020) - Paleoecology and proliferation of the bivalve Chondrodonta joannae (Choffat) in the upper Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Adriatic Carbonate Platform of Istria (Croatia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, art. 109703. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109703.
18. Li X., Falivene O., Minzoni M., Lehrmann D., Reijmer J., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K., Yu M., Payne J. (2020) - Interactions between sediment production and transport in the geometry of carbonate platforms: Insight from forward modeling of great bank of Guizhou (early to Middle Triassic), south China. Marine and Petroleum Geology,V. 118, art. 104416. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104416
19. Dell’Università E., Muntoni I.M., Allegretta I., Tarantini M., Monno A., Maiorano P., Girone A., Morsilli M., Terzano R. & Eramo G. (2019) - Development of a multiparametric characterisation protocol for chert investigation and application on the Gargano Promontory mines. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11:6037-6063. doi:10.1007/s12520-019-00875-8
20. Kiani Harchegani F. & Morsilli M. (2019) - Internal waves as controlling factor in the development of stromatoporoid-rich facies of the Apulia Platform margin (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, Gargano Promontory, Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 380: 1-20. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.11.011.
21. Posenato R., Morsilli M., Bassi D. & Guerzoni S. (2018) - Palaeoecology of Chondrodonta (Bivalvia) from the lower Aptian (Cretaceous) Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 508: 188-201. doi: 0.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.002.
22. Morsilli M., A. Hairabian, J. Borgomano, S. Nardon, E. W. Adams & G.L. Bracco Gärtner (2017). The Apulia Carbonate Platform In The Gargano Promontory (Upper Jurassic To Eocene - Southern Italy). AAPG Bulletin, 101/4: 523–531. doi:10.1306/011817DIG17031.
23. Morsilli M. (2016). Sintesi delle conoscenze geologiche e stratigrafiche del Promontorio del Gargano. Geologi & Territorio, v. 2, p. 15–38, doi:10.1130/B26326.1.A.
24. Morsilli M. (2016). Aspetti geologici del Gargano e dell’area di Monte Pucci, In L’Ecomuseo Naturalistico-Archeologico Monte Pucci: Uno spaccato prestorico e storico del Gargano. Comune di Vico del Gargano – Soprintendenza ai Beni archeologici della Puglia. p. 31-42, Edizioni Centro Grafiche. ISBN:978-889654-563-8.
25. Pomar L., Aurell M., Bádenas B., Morsilli M. & Al-Awwad S.F. (2015). Depositional model for a prograding oolitic grainstone wedge (Lower Kimmeridgian, Iberian basin). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 67: 556-582. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.05.025
26. Pomar L., Mateu-Vicens G., Morsilli M. & Brandano M. (2014). Carbonate ramp evolution during the Late Oligocene (Chattian), Salento Peninsula, southern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 404: 109-132. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.023.
27. Bourgault D., Morsilli M., Richards C., Neumeier U. & Kelley D.E (2014). Sediment resuspension and nepheloid layers induced by long internal solitary waves shoaling orthogonally on uniform slopes. Continental Shelf Research, 72: 21-33. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.019
28. Alnazghah M.H., Badenas B., Pomar L., Aurell M. & Morsilli M. (2013). Facies heterogeneity at interwell-scale in a carbonate ramp, Upper Jurassic, NE Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 44: 140-163. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.03.004
29. Pomar L., Morsilli M., Hallock P., Badenas B. & Bourgault D. (2012). Reply to Shanmugam, G., Comment on “Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record” (Earth-Science Review, 111: 56-81). Earth-Science Review, 116: 206-210. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.11.006.
30. Badenas B., Pomar L., Aurell, M. & Morsilli M. (2012). A facies model for internalites (internal wave deposits) on a gently sloping carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, Ricla, NE Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 271-272: 44-57. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.020
31. Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2012). Internal waves vs. surface storm waves: a review on the origin of hummocky cross-stratification. Terra Nova, 24: 273-282. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01070.x
32. Pomar L., Morsilli M., Hallock P. & Badenas B. (2012). Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record. Earth-Science Review, 111: 56-81. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.12.005
33. Morsilli M., Bosellini F., Pomar L., Hallock P., Aurell M. & Papazzoni C.A. (2012) - Mesophotic coral buildups in a prodelta setting (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): a mixed carbonate siliciclastic system. Sedimentology, 59: 766-794. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01275.x
34. Taviani M., Angeletti L., Campiani E., Ceregato A., Foglini F., Maselli V., Morsilli M., Parise M. & Trincardi F. (2012) - Drowned karst landscape offshore the Apulian Margin (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy). Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 74: 197-212. doi:10.4311/20111JCKS0204
35. Belvedere M., Franceschi M., Morsilli M., Zoccarato P.L. & Mietto P. (2011). Fish feeding traces from Middle Eocene limestones (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, southern Italy). Palaios, 26: 893-899.
36. Morsilli M. (2011). 1. Introduzione alla geologia del Gargano. In: Le miniere di selce del Gargano, VI-III millennio a.C. Alle origini della storia mineraria europea. A cura di Massimo Tarantini e Attilio Galiberti. pp. 17-27. All’Insegna del Giglio Editore, Borgo S. Lorenzo (Firenze). ISBN 978-88-7814-532-0.
37. Morsilli M. & Moretti M. (2011). Gli slumps del Gargano: paleofrane sottomarine del Cretaceo Inferiore. Geoitalia, 36: 47-51.
38. Coltorti M., Boraso R., Mantovani F., Morsilli M., Fiorentini G., Riva A., Rusciadelli G., Tassinari R., Tomei C., Di Carlo G. & Chubakov V. (2011) - U and Th content in the Central Apennines continental crust: a contribution to the determination of the geo-neutrinos flux at LNGS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75: 2271-2294. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.01.024
39. Guido A., Papazzoni C.A., Mastrandrea A., Morsilli M., La Russa F., Tosti M. & Russo F. (2011) - Automicrite in a “nummulite bank” from the Monte Saraceno (southern Italy): evidence for synsedimentary cementation. Sedimentology, 58: 878-889.
40. Morsilli M., Bosellini F., Pomar L., Hallock P., Aurell M. & Papazzoni C.A. (2010) - Coral Buildups in Mesophotic, Siliciclastic Prodelta Settings (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): An As Yet Unexplored Play?. Search and Discovery Article #50311 (2010).
41. Brandano M., Morsilli M., Vannucci C., Bosellini F.R. & Mateu-Vicens G. (2010). Rhodalgal lithofacies of the Porto Badisco Calcarenites (upper Chattian, Salento, Apulia, southern Italy). Ital. J. Geosci. (Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana), 129: 119-131, doi: 10.3301/IJG.2009.10, Roma.
42. Andreetta R., Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2008) - Sedimentological features of coarse-grained deep water backset beds in a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Late Miocene, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 19-22.
43. Gramigna P., Morsilli M. & Russo F. (2008) - Facies Changes in siliclastic-carbonate depositional environments of Monte Porro area (Upper Miocene, Southern Calabria). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 101-104.
44. Silvestri G., Bosellini F.R. & Morsilli M. (2008)- Turbid-water coral assemblages: a case study from the Oligocene Tertiary Piedmont Basin (N Italy). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 2; p. 177-180.
45. Petti F.M., Conti M.A., D'orazi Porchetti S., Morsilli M., Nicosia U. & Gianolla P. (2008) - A theropod dominated ichnocoenosis from late Hauterivian-early Barremian of Borgo Celano (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 114: 3-17.
46. Russo A. & Morsilli M. (2007) - New insight on architecture and microstructure of ellipsactinia and sphaeractinia (demosponges) from the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy). Geologica Romana, v. 40:1-16, Roma.
47. Nicosia U., Avanzini M., Barbera C., Conti S., Dalla Vecchia F., Dal Sasso C., Gianolla P., Leonardi G., Loi M., Mariotti N., Mietto P., Morsilli M., Paganoni A., Petti F.M., Piubelli D., Raia P., Renesto S., Sacchi E., Santi G. & Signore M. (2005) - I vertebrati continentali del Paleozoico e del Mesozoico. In "Paleontologia dei Vertebrati in Italia", a cura di Laura Bonfiglio, Verona, 2005, Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona / 2. Serie Sezione Scienze della Terra 6, pp. 41-79.
48. Conti M.A., Morsilli M., Nicosia U., Sacchi E., Savino V., Wagensommer A., Di Maggio L. & Gianolla P. (2005) – Jurassic Dinosaur Footprints from Southern Italy: Footprints as Indicators of Constraints in Paleogeographic Interpretation. Palaios, v. 20: 534-550. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.p03-99
49. Morsilli M. (2004) – Introduzione alla geologia del Promontorio del Gargano. Spelaion 2003. Atti del Raduno Nazionale di Speleologia. Edizioni del Parco – Claudio Grenzi editore: 9-32. Foggia.
50. Adams E. W., Morsilli M., Schlager W., van Hoek T. & Keim L. (2002) - Quantifying the geometry and sediment fabric of linear slopes: examples from the Tertiary of Italy (Southern Alps and Gargano Promontory). Sedimentary Geology, v. 154: 11-30.
51. Bracco Gartner G., Morsilli M., Schlager W. & Bosellini A. (2002) – Toe-of-slope of a Cretaceous carbonate platform in outcrop, seismic model and offshore seismic data (Apulia, Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences. Geologische Rundschau, v. 91: 315-330.
52. Morsilli M., Rusciadelli G. & Bosellini A. (2002) - Large-scale gravity-driven structures: control on margin architecture and related deposits of a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Central Apennines, Italy). Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana, Volume Speciale n° 1: 619-628.
53. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (2001) - Il Promontorio del Gargano: cenni di geologia e itinerari geologici. Quaderni del Parco Nazionale del Gargano, 48 pp.
54. Morsilli M., Rusciadelli G., Vichi G. & Bosellini A. (2000) - Gravity-driven processes: Control on margin architecture and slope evolution in a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Italy). A.A.P.G. Bulletin, 84 (9), Association Round Table Abstract, p.1467, Tulsa, USA.
55. Bosellini A., Morsilli M. & Neri C. (1999) - Long-term event stratigraphy of the Apulia Platform Margin (Upper Jurassic to Eocene, Gargano, southern Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69/6: 1241-1252, Tulsa.
56. Posenato R. & Morsilli M. (1999) - New species of Peregrinella (Brachipoda) from Lower Cretaceous of the Gargano Promontory (southern Italy). Cretaceous Research, v. 20/5: 641-654, Belfast.
57. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (1997) - A Lower Cretaceous drowning unconformity on the eastern flank of the Apulia Platform (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). Cretaceous Research, v. 18: 51-61, Belfast.
58. Morsilli M. & Bosellini A. (1997) - Carbonate facies zonation of the Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Apulia platform Margin (Gargano promontory, Southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, V. 103, n°2, pp. 193-206. Milano.
59. Bosellini A. & Morsilli M. (1994) - Il Lago di Varano (Gargano, Puglia settentrionale): una nicchia di distacco da frana sottomarina cretacea. Annali Università di Ferrara (N.S.), Sez. Scienze della Terra, v. 5/1: 39-52, Ferrara.
SELECTED MEETING ABSTRACT
Morsilli M. (2024) - Mesophotic carbonate systems: A sedimentological point of view. MURKY Workshop: Mesophotic and turbid reefs as key ecosystems for the future? Erlangen, 24-27 June. Invited presentation. Morsilli M. (2024) - Urban Geology and Geoheritage Conservation: Enhancing aspiring UNESCO Geopark Development in the Gargano Promontory. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 301. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morsilli M. (2024) - Unraveling the evolution of the Apulia Carbonate Platform and its sedimentary dynamics. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1002. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morabito C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The Eocene carbonate deposits of the Gargano Promontory and Tremiti Islands (southern Italy). SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1001. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morabito C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The importance of lithofacies mapping: a case study of Eocene base-of-slope deposits of the Apulia Carbonate Platform (Gargano Promontory, Southern Italy). SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1258. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Passaseo C. & Morsilli M. (2024) - Lower Messinian Halimeda bioherms from the Mediterranean area: new insights on the controlling factors. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1003. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Della Porta G., Wright V.P., Samankassou E., Preto N., Morsilli M. (2024) - Carbonate Platforms: what can still be learned from outcrops? SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 997. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Preto N., Caggiati M., Della Porta G., Franceschi M. & Morsilli M. (2024) - The record of paleoenvironmental change in Mesozoic carbonate platforms of Western Tethys: some half-baked ideas. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 1005. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Braga R., Ballato P., Barani S., Bentivenga M., Bordoni M., Buosi C., Ciarcia S., Donato P., Fanti R., Forni
F., Francese R., Giovanardi T., Invernizzi C., Lozar F., Morsilli M., Pondrelli M., Punturo R., Ragaini
L., Renzulli A., Rigo M., Saldi G., Sciascia L., Sottili G., Tavarnelli E., Tropeano M., Vezzoli G., Vitale S. & Zini L. (2024). A nationwide effort to engage secondary school students in geology - The new Progetto Nazionale Geologia of the Piano Lauree Scientifiche. SGI-SIMP Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 846. Bari. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2024.02
Morsilli M., Liso S. & Parise M. (2024). Geological constraints at the origin of karst springs in the Ischitella-Vico territory (Gargano Promontory, Apulia, Italy). Eurokarst Conference, Rome, June 10-14.
Morsilli M, & Ferretto P. (2024). Mesophotic Carbonate Facies in a Fandelta System (Miocene, Seroe Domi Formation, Curaçao Island). AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Passaseo C. & Morsilli M (2024). Halimeda-rich beds in a mixed carbonate system from a pre-evaporitic Messinian reef (Crete Island, Greece). AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Bosellini F, Morsilli M., Vescogni A., Papazzoni C.A., Piazza M., Silvestri G. and Briguglio A. (2024) - Late Oligocene Coral Buildups in a Siliciclastic Framework: Unraveling coralpaleoecology in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy. AAPG Workshop, Palermo, April 22-24.
Koeshidayatullah A, Payne JL, Stolper D, Turner A, Morsilli M, Lehrmann DJ, Singh P, and Al-Ramadan K (2024). Revisiting the impact of diagenesis across the Permian-Triassic boundary: insights from the Khuff carbonates, Saudi Arabia. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19.
Singh P, Weaver KL, Dunn CA, Morsilli M, Lehrmann DJ, and Payne JL (2024). Large variations in redox- and diagenesis-sensitive trace metals in sedimentary carbonates: insights from micro-scale geochemistry. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15.
Morsilli M., Gianolla P. (2023) - The Gargano Promontory (Italy): a perfect destination for carbonate sedimentology and geotourism in an aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Passaseo C., Morsilli M., Vescogni A. (2023) - Characterization of Halimeda bioherms of the pre-evaporitic Messinian of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy). 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Morabito C., Alramadan K.A, Payne J.L., Lehrmann D.J., Papazzoni C., Morsilli M. (2023) - Carbonate factory response through the MECO event: insight from the Middle Eocene of the Apulia Carbonate Platform. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Morabito C., Borrelli M., Morsilli M. (2023) - Eocene base-of-slope resedimented carbonate deposits of the Gargano Promontory (Italy). 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Borrelli M., Perri E., Criniti S., Morsilli M. (2023) - Permian–Triassic sedimentary and diagenetic reconstruction of the southern Adriatic area. 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 12-16, 2023.
Singh P., Ferre J., Del Viscio G., Cantrell D.L., Alramadan K.A., Morsilli M., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Babalola L.O. & Humphrey J.D. (2022). A 514-million-year record of skeletal content in marine limestones. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-380902
Morsilli M. & Gianolla P. (2022) - Gargano Promontory (Apulia, Italy): a natural aspiring candidate for the UNESCO Global Geoparks network. Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana: Geoscience for a sustainable future, Torino 19-21 Settembre 2022. https://doi.org/10.3301/ABSGI.2022.02
Morsilli M., Rizzo L., Morabito C., Lehrmann D.J., Payne J.L., Alramadan K.A., Babalola L.O. & Humphrey J.D. (2021). Carbonate factory changes associated with the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum: Apulia Carbonate Platform, Gargano Promontory, Italy. 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, June 21-25, 2021.
Morabito C. and Morsilli M. (2021). Large benthic foraminifers-corals facies transition during the middle Eocene: Tremiti Islands (Italy). 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, June 21-25, 2021.
Frijia G., Forkner R., Parente M., Morsilli M., Godet A., Struck U., Adatte T., Bomou B., Consorti L., Cardelli S., Krizova B. (2021). “The OAE-2 in the carbonate platforms of the Tethys Ocean: new geochemical and sedimentological data”, accepted at 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology (postponed to June 22-24, 2021)
Frijia G., Forkner R., Parente M., Morsilli M., Godet A., Struck U., Adatte T., Bomou B., Cardelli S. (2021). Facies analysis and geochemical record across the OAE-2 in the shallow water platforms of the Tethys ocean. Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Sedimentary Geoscience Congress 2020 (postponed to April 11-14, 2021).
Koeshidayatullah, A., Payne J., Lehrmann D., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K. (2020). Real time carbonate petrography with deep learning. GSA 2020 meeting. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 52, No. 6 doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-356742
Morsilli M., Giona Bucci M., Lisco S., Moretti M. (2019) - The sedimentary features influencing the occurrence and spatial variability of seismites (Gargano Promontory, southern Italy). 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Del Viscio G., Frijia G., Morsilli M., Posenato R. & Jochum K.P. (2019) - Chondrodonta-bearing levels in Lower Aptian shallow-water carbonates of the Southern-Central Tethys. 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Li X., Falivene O., Minzoni M., Lehrmann D., Reijmer J., Morsilli M., Al-Ramadam K., Yu M., Payne J. (2019) - Interactions between sediment production and transport in the development of carbonate platforms: A case study from the Great Bank of Guizhou, south China. 4th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy. 10-13 September, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Godet A., Morsilli M., Rigo M., Struck U., Humood Salim N., Saleh Salim Alshaqsi A. (2019) - Is the OAE-2 recorded in Oman? New data from the Natih Formation in the Oman Mountains. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy – Strati 2019 – 2-5 July – Milan – Italy. Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Scharf A., Morsilli M., Humood Salim N., Belushi A., Struck U. (2019) - C-isotope stratigraphy and outcrop based ɣ-ray measurements of the Natih Formation in Jabel Akdhar area of Oman: a mean to improve surface to sub-surface correlation. 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy – Strati 2019 – 2-5 July – Milan – Italy. Abstract Volume, pp.
Frijia G., Scharf A., Morsilli M., Humood Salim N., Belushi A., Saleh Salim Alshaqsi A., Godet A. (2018) - The bio-sedimentary record of the OAE-2 in the Natih Fm of Oman: global or local signature? 20th International IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Quebec, Canada. 13 – 17 August, 2018; Abstract Volume, pp.
Pomar, L., Baceta, J.I., Hallock, P., Morsilli, M. & Mateu-Vicens, G. (2015) - Follow the food; the waxing & waning of coral buildups during the Cenozoic). 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Kracow, Poland. 22 – 25 June, 2015; Abstract Volume, pp. .
Pomar, L., Morsilli, M. & Hallock, P., (2015) – Internal waves and carbonate systems. 15th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. 13th - 16th July, 2015; Abstract Volume, pp. .
Taviani M., Angeletti L., Campiani E., Canese S., Ceregato A., Foglini F., Maselli V., Morsilli M., Parise M., Rossi L. & Trincardi F. (2010) - Drowned karst features identified on the Adriatic Sea continental shelf (Italy). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, n. 5, p. 450. GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010).
Papazzoni C.A., Guido A., Mastandrea A., Morsilli M., Naccarato A., Tagarelli A., Tosti F. & Russo F. (2010) - The role of microbial organic matter in “nummulite banks”: an example from the Monte Saraceno (southern Italy). Giornate di Paleontologia X Edizione, Convegno della Società Paleontologica Italiana, UNICAL- Cosenza. Riassunti, p. 42-43.
Boraso R., Coltorti M., Fiorentini G., Mantovani F., Morsilli M., Riva A., Rusciadelli G. (2009) - Contents of radionuclides in Central Appennines continental crust: a contribution to the determination of the geoneutrinos flux at LNGS. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,From Core to Crust: Toward an Integrated Vision of Earth's Interior, Trieste,.20/07/2009 - 24/07/2009.
Morsilli M. & Moretti M. (2009) - Soft-sediment deformation structures in a tidal-dominated lagoonal deposits of the Gargano Promontory (late Messinian?, Apulia, southern Italy). 27 th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero 20-23 September, Abstract book.
Morsilli M., Bosellini F.R., Silvestri G. (2009) - Coral bioherms and biostromes in the muddy bottomset of a fandelta system (Oligocene, Tertiary Piedmont Basin, Italy). 27 th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero 20-23 September, Abstract book.
Andreetta R., Morsilli M. & Pomar L. (2008) - Sedimentological features of coarse-grained deep water backset beds in a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Late Miocene, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain). Gruppo Italiano Carbonati, meeting annuale, 28-30 Aprile 2008, San Donato Milanese.
Gramigna P., Morsilli M. & Russo F. (2008) - Facies Changes in siliclastic-carbonate depositional environments of Monte Porro area (Upper Miocene, Southern Calabria). Gruppo Italiano Carbonati, meeting annuale, 28-30 Aprile 2008, San Donato Milanese.
Silvestri G., Bosellini F.R. & Morsilli M. (2008)- Turbid-water coral assemblages: a case study from the Oligocene Tertiary Piedmont Basin (N Italy). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-06463, 2008 EGU General Assembly 2008.
Gianolla P., Morsilli M., Furin S., Riva A., Andreetta R., Stefani M. (2006) - A genetic approach applied to Triassic carbonate platforms of the Dolomites (Triassic, Italy). AAPG European Region, Conference on the Architecture of Carbonate Systems Through Time, Reference Models for the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern Europe, North Africa and The Middle East. Palma de Mallorca, 30 April - 3 May 2006, Abstract Book.
Bosellini A., Furin S., Gianolla P., Morsilli M., Posenato R., Riva A.M., Stefani M. (2005) - Paleoclimatic fluctuations modulating the carbonate platform dynamics in the Middle and Upper Triassic of the Dolomites. Geoitalia 2005, 5 forum italiano di Scienze della Terra", Spoleto, Federazione Italiana di Scienze della Terra - Epitome, vol. 1: 79.
Morsilli M., Noferini M., Bosellini A., Bosellini F., Brandano M., Furlanis S., Gianolla P., Neri C., Rusciadelli G., Russo A. (2005) The Oligo-Miocene of the Gargano Promontory: new insights on the paleoenvironmental evolution of the Apulia domain (southern Italy). Abstract book European Science Foundation LESC Exploratory workshop - Potsdam, Germany - 22-26 February 2005.
Morsilli M. (2004) - Coeval drowning and emersion of a carbonate platform (Apulia, southern Italy): implication for the stratigraphic reconstructions. 32nd IGC Florence 2004 - Scientific Sessions 268-21: abstract, p.1206.
Morsilli M. & Rusciadelli G. (2004) - Event stratigraphy and correlation between two sectors of the Apulia carbonate platform during the Cretaceous (Italy). 32nd IGC Florence 2004 - Scientific Sessions 191-28: abstract, p. 891.
Morsilli M. & Rusciadelli G. (2000) - 2D and 3D reconstruction of an erosional to by-pass margin and related slope deposits of a Cretaceous carbonate platform (Montagna della Maiella, Central Apennines, Italy). In "Quantitative Models on Cretaceous Carbonate" S.E.P.M Cretaceous Resource Events and Rhythms, WG4 meeting, September 2000, Vieste, Italy, abstract: 20.
Bosellini A., Morsilli M. & Neri C. (1998) - Sequence-stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic to Eocene succession in the Gargano Promontory (Apulian Carbonate Platform-Southern Italy). Geological Society of London, Petroleum Group, (Beckett D. & Wright V.P. convenors), Conference on: Exploration and production of carbonate plays on the southern margin of the mediterranean Tethys, abstract, 2 p., 16-18th June, London.
PARTECIPATION TO GEOLOGICAL MEETINGS
• • 2-4 September 1997. 18° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Heidelberg, Germania.
• 12-17 April 1998. 15° International Congress of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Alicante, Spagna.
• 16-18 June 1998. Geological Society of London “Exploration and production of carbonate plays on the southern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys”. Londra
• 24-26 Agosto 1999. 19° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, International Association of Sedimentologist. Copenhagen, Danimarca.
• 6-9 March 2002 – Peter Vail Conference. Sequenze stratigraphy. Rice University – Houston, USA.
• 11-13 March 2002 – American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Conventum Center, Houston, USA.
• 17-19 September 2003 – 22° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Opatjia, Croatia.
• 20-28 August 2004 – 32° International Geological Congres – Firenze.
• 30 April – 3 Maggio 2006 - AAPG European Region, Conference on the Architecture of Carbonate Systems Through Time, Reference Models for the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern Europe, North Africa and The Middle East. Palma de Mallorca.
• 18 -20 July 2007 - Gas Hydrates Observatories (GHOBS) Workshop- Portland, Oregon (USA).
• 12-15 September 2007 - Geoitalia 2007, 6° forum italiano di Scienze della Terra", Federazione Italiana di
• 20-23 September 2009 - 27° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. -
• 5-8 July 2011 - 28° Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Zaragoza, Spain.
• 22-25 June 2015 – 31st Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Krakow, Poland. 13-16 July 2015 - 15th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
• 12-13 May 2020 - The Carbonate Forum – Online meeting IAS and Sedsonline association.
• 21-23 June 2021 – 33th Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Prague.
• 22-23 June 2022 – AAPG European Meeting - Naples
• 19-21 September 2022 – International Meeting, Società Geologica Italiana (SGI) e Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (SIMP) “Geoscience for a sustainable future. Torino, Italy.
• 12-15 Giugno 2023 – 36th Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS - International Association of Sedimentologist. Dubrovnik (Croatia).
• 4-7 Settembre 2023 - 17th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Napoli.
• 22-24 Aprile 2024 - AAPG Europe Region "Cross Regional Carbonate and Mixed Carbonate Systems Symposium” Palermo.
• 10-14 Giugno 2024 - Eurokarst Conference on the Hydrogeology of Karst and Carbonate Reservoirs, Roma.
• 24-27 June 2024 - MURKY Workshop: Mesophotic and turbid reefs as key ecosystems for the future?, Erlangen
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara
• 2019-present – Carbonate Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2003-2018 – Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2014-Present – Geology (9 credits)
• 2003-Present – Geology of Italy (6 credits)
• 2016-2017 – Petroleum Geology (6 credits)
• 2003-2014 – Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (6 credits)
• 2001-Present - Teaching in the field - geological and geomorphological mapping (Dolomites area).
• 2000-2002 - Carbonate Sedimentology
ADVISING PhD THESIS
• • Chiara Passaseo (2025), Title: Distribution and significance of the Messinian Halimeda biocostructions in the Mediterranean area.
• Claudia Morabito (2024), Title: Facies analysis and forward modelling of Eocene shallow-water to resedimented carbonates of the Apulia Carbonate Platform as analog for coeval subsurface systems of the Mediterranean area
• Gabriella del Viscio (2021), Title: Chondrodonta-dominated benthic communities (Cretaceous): proxy of Oceanic Anoxic Events in shallow marine carbonate platforms? Co-supervisor: Prof. Renato Posenato; Dr. Gianluca Frijia (Unife).
• Farkhondeh Kiani Harchegani (2019), Title: Role of internal waves in carbonate systems: Upper Jurassic of the Apulia Platform and Oligocene system of the Asmari Formation (Iran). Co-supervisor: Prof. Alfredo Izquierdo Gonzales (Università di Cadice).
• Stefania Guerzoni (2016), in italian. Title: Analisi delle facies di piattaforma interna del Promontorio del Gargano nell’intervallo Barremiano superiore - Aptiano inferiore e confronto con le piattaforme tetidee durante l’Evento Anossico OAE1a.
• Rachele Andreetta (2009), Title: Sediment composition and transport mechanisms along the Miocene carbonate ramp of Menorca Island (Spain). Co-supervisor: Prof. Luis Pomar (Università delle Isole Baleari)
ADVISING MASTER THESIS
• Chiara Passaseo (2021). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Studio dei depositi ad Halimeda della Penisola Salentina.
. Claudia Morabito (2019). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico delle facies carbonatiche a coralli del Miocene nell’area di Siracusa (Sicilia, Italia).
• Fabio Piazzi (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi stratigrafica da dati di sottosuolo (dati di pozzo e sismica) del margine occidentale della Piattaforma Apula tra Abruzzo, Molise e Puglia.
• Luigi Rizzo (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi stratigrafica da dati di sottosuolo (dati di pozzo e sismica) del margine orientale della Piattaforma Apula in offshore della Puglia meridionale. Co-relatore: Dr. Alberto Riva.
• Gaetano Costa (2018). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Ricostruzione tridimensionale della distribuzione di facies da dati di pozzo e di affioramento della piattaforma carbonatica del Miocene Superiore dell’Isola di Maiorca (Isole Baleari).
• Domenico Ravidà (2017). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Analisi sedimentologica, stratigrafica e distribuzione delle pressioni di giacimento da dati di sottosuolo della Formazione Scaglia (Cretaceo Superiore – Paleogene) – Mar Adriatico centrale. Co-Relatore: Dr. Sandro Venturini (Eni spa).
• Mario Borrelli (2017). Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Rilevamento e analisi di facies di depositi carbonatici di base scarpata (Formazione di Peschici, Eocene medio) nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia).
• Roberta D’Avolio (2016), Laurea Magistrale. Titolo: Stratigrafia sismica dell’offshore garganico. Co-relatore: Dr. Alberto Riva.
• Alex Panfilo (2010), Laurea magistrale. Titolo: Le ricostruzioni paleogeografiche della Piattaforma Apula durante il Cretaceo. Co-relatore: Dr. Sergio Nardon (Eni spa).
• Nicola Marzola (2007), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Superfici di abrasione marina nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia).
• Chiara Guaiumi (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Analisi sedimentologica dei corpi di breccia filoniani affioranti lungo la costa orientale del Gargano (Puglia).
• Maurizio Noferini (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Sedimentologia e stratigrafia dei depositi carbonatici neogenici nei dintorni del Lago di Varano (Gargano, Puglia).
• Marco Droghetti (2005), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Zonazione di facies dei depositi paleogenici delle Isole Tremiti (Mar Adriatico, Puglia).
• Pietro De Cosmo (2003), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Rilevamento geologico e stratigrafia dell'area di Apricena (Provincia di Foggia).
• Dario Bignardi (2003), Tesi di Laurea quinquennale. Titolo: Sedimentazione recente all'interno del Lago di Varano (FG). Co-Relatore: Dr. Paolo Ciavola (Unife).
ADVISING UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
• Ana Iuliana Rece (2017), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Rilevamento geologico dell’area archeologica della necropoli di Monte Pucci (Gargano).
• Riccardo Brunetta (2015), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Architettura di facies delle Calcareniti di Porto Badisco (Oligocene superiore) nell’area di Torre S. Emiliano (Salento, Puglia).
• Roberta D’Avolio (2014), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Blocchi plurimetrici affioranti sul litorale di Rodi Garganico (Puglia): possibili testimonianze di eventi di tsunami?
• Saverio Tamburino (2013), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico delle variazioni laterali di facies all’interno delle Calcareniti di Porto Badisco (Oligocene superiore, Salento).
• Serena Bortot (2012), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico-stratigrafico della parte inferiore delle Calcareniti di Castelgomberto nell’area tipo (Oligocene inferiore, Monti Lessini).
• Alessandro Fiore (2011), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Studio sedimentologico dell’area di Torre S. Emiliano (Salento, Puglia).
• Roberta D’Onofrio (2010), Laurea Triennale (Università di Perugia): La transizione piattaforma-bacino durante l’intervallo Berriasiano-Valanginiano nel Promontorio del Gargano (Puglia, Italia).
• Alex Panfilo (2008), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Caratterizzazione isotopica dei corpi di breccia filoniani affioranti lungo la costa orientale del Gargano (Puglia).
• Marco Mantovani (2006), Laurea triennale, come Corelatore. Titolo: Realizzazione di un database in ambiente GIS (Esri Arcview) delle caratteristiche geomorfologiche della Conca del Tesino (TN).
• Andrea Suma (2006), Laurea triennale. Titolo: Il Cretacico superiore della Piattaforma Apula nell’area di Ostuni (Puglia, Brindisi).
