Fabrizio Berra
Geologist

A site to share my experience as geologist

Publications and geological maps, but also a gallery of selected geological and sedimentological images for education (with a section in Italian)

About Me

 

Born in 1966

Geologist since 1990

PhD in 1994

 

From 1996 to 2002 at the Geological Survey of Regione Lombardia, as field geologist involved in the survey of different sheets of the new geological map of Italy. In those years, I also joined the team that defined the Geological GIS of Regione Lombardia.

From 2002 researcher and then professor at the Earth Sciences Department “A. Desio” of the University of Milano.

Stratigraphy, sedimentology, basin analysis and geological mapping. Field work in the Himalayas, Southern Alps, Central Alps, Austria, Cabo Verde, Iran, Sardinia & Corsica

Courses for Bachelor and MSc students: at present Basin Anayses, Sedimentary geology and Geological mapping, in the past also Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, GIS. 

Università degli Studi di Milano – Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio”

Via Mangiagalli 34—20133 Milano, Italy

Phone: ++39 0250315498

Fax: ++39 0250315494

E-mail: fabrizio.berra@unimi.it

Skype: fab.ber

Research

I am currently working mostly on the following subjects, but also on other topics that are not described here, including geological mapping, diagenesis, 3d modelling,  basin analysis and seismic interpretation. See also the list of my publications for more information about my research interests

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MEBE and Darius Programme

From 2003. The research focused on the multi-stage evolution of the Alborz chain, outlining time and significance of different events related to the Cimmerian Orogeny. In Central Iran, the research was mainly focused on the Triassic succession of Nakhlak. At present we are working in Eastern and Central Iran, on geological topics related to the Cimmerian Orogeny and later events (Cretaceous).

Carbonate sedimentology and modelling

At present I mainly work on the stratigrapic evolution of the Ladinian and Norian-Rhaetian successions of the Southern Alps, also producing 3D and forward models, constrained by field data (geometry, facies distribution and diagenesis). I also collaborate to studies on the Jurassic-Cretaceous succession of Sardinia.

 

Permian extensional basins of the Southern Alps

The research is focused on the study of the sedimentology and depositional architecture of Lower Permian continental deposits in fault-controlled basins of the Southern Alps. The project aims at the identification of the effects of the interplay between tectonic and sedimentation, mainly in terms of lateral and vertical distribution of the facies.

 


PUBLICATIONS: links to published papers

AIR (Archivio istituzionale)


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ORCID

Fabrizio berra

email: fabrizio.berra@unimi.it