Ciao, my name is Chiara Amadori, from Pavia Univ., and i just landed at the Lithosphere Dynamics dept. of ICTJA-CSIC, for a 3 moths stage with Daniel Garcia-Castellanos.
The main topic of my 3-years phD project is to create a 3D-model (3D-Move, by Midland) of the Po Plain-Northern Adriatic foredeep basin, defining the clastic distribution pattern during Plio-Pleistocene and its petrographic properties in order to understand the provenance source area.
The dataset, entirely provided by Eni E&P, is composed of more than 5000 regional seismic profiles, base Pliocene TWT-surface, hundreds well logs and thin sections.
During this first year, other 5 TWT-surfaces have been traced, describing also the lithologic facies transitions into the basin.
The model includes also the recent topography (DEM 1:10) and fluvial drainage pattern of the area, to compare the position of fluvial incisions along Western Southern Alps to the Late Messinian-Pliocene buried canyons.
To do that we need first to model the flexural subsidence of Late Messinian-Pliocene surface, decompacting the pre-Messinian sedimentary succession and removing the Northern-Appennines lithospheric load at least.
This flexural modeling will be conducted in collaboration with CSIC-ICTJA under the supervision of Daniel Garcia-Castellanos.
Master Thesis, Roma Tre University, 2013/2014: "High-resolution stratigraphy of the pre-evaporitic/evaporitic transition in the late Messinian Adriatic foreland domain"
Tutor: Cosentino D. Co-tutor: Florindo F., Caruso A., Cipollari P.
Ph.D, University of Pavia, 2014/2015: "Architecture and provenance of Plio-Pleistocene Po Plain-Northern Adriatic Basin: controlling factors, petrographic evidences and consequences on facies tracts and petrophysics of sand bodies."
Tutor: Di Giulio A. (Pavia U). Co-tutor: Toscani G., Fantoni R. (Eni)
