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L'eta' dell'ossidiana di Pantelleria

Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti : Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, 2007
Obsidian is a volcanic glass which was highly prized in prehistoric times. Since its chemical composition depends on the local characteristics of the lava flow, several analytical methods have been employed to establish the provenance of the obsidian ...
Rapisarda, Massimo
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Rediscovering Pantelleria beyond the sea [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2022
This paper sets out a concept for a seasonal virtual exhibition located inside the Barbacane Castle on the island of Pantelleria. The virtual exhibition involves the animation of the cultural heritage icons of the island such as the Imperial portraits of
Szilvia Szeréna Baráth, Amanda Culoma, Giulia Morini   +2 more
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Across the Channel and Through Time: Did Lesser Horseshoe Bats Colonise Pantelleria From Europe or North Africa?

Ecology and Evolution
Islands provide unique opportunities to study historical biogeography, acting as both cradles of endemism and active corridors for species dispersal. The Sicilian Channel, which separates Sicily from the Maghreb, exemplifies this complexity.
Luca Cistrone, Emiliano Mori, Mariella Baratti, Mourad Ahmim, Simona Todaro, Andrea Viviano, Danilo Russo   +6 more
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Volcanological evolution of Pantelleria Island (Strait of Sicily) peralkaline volcano: a review

Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 2021
Pantelleria volcano has a particularly intriguing evolutionary history intimately related to the peralkaline composition of its explosively erupted magmas.
Rotolo, Silvio G., Scaillet, Stéphane, Speranza, Fabio, White, John C., Williams, Rebecca, Jordan, Nina J.   +5 more
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Agriculture and Water Availability Show Contrasting Effects on Bats in a Mediterranean Island of Outstanding Chiropteran Biogeographical Value

Ecology and Evolution
With their unique ecosystems and evolutionary dynamics, small islands offer fascinating contexts to explore animal diversity. Island bats are key players in maintaining ecological balance.
Luca Cistrone, Ana Margarida Augusto, Gaetano Fichera, Hugo Rebelo, Danilo Russo   +4 more
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The 1891 submarine eruption offshore Pantelleria Island (Sicily Channel, Italy): Identification of the vent and characterization of products and eruptive style

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014
High‐resolution bathymetry and seafloor sampling have been used to characterize the 1891 submarine eruption of the Pantelleria volcanic complex. This submarine eruption has been documented mainly by historical reports, describing basaltic scoria bombs ...
Aida Maria Conte, Eleonora Martorelli, Cristina Perinelli   +2 more
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Carbonate precipitation and phosphate trapping by microbialite isolates from an alkaline insular lake (Bagno dell'Acqua, Pantelleria Island, Italy)

Frontiers in Microbiology
The Bagno dell'Acqua lake is characterized by CO2 emissions, alkaline waters (pH = 9) and Eh values which indicate strongly oxidizing conditions. A typical feature of the lake is the presence of actively growing microbialites rich in calcium carbonates ...
Cristina Mazzoni, Letizia Di Bella, Cristina Perinelli   +2 more
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The Fucales (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae) of the Island of Pantelleria (Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea): a new contribution [PDF]

Italian Botanist, 2023
In the past, only a few studies were carried out on the marine vegetation of the Island of Pantelleria, reporting a high level of biodiversity in this island.
Giuliana Marletta, Andrea Lombardo
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Obsidians of Pantelleria (Strait of Sicily): A Petrographic, Geochemical and Magnetic Study of Known and New Geological Sources

Open Archaeology, 2021
This paper provides new petrochemical and paleomagnetic data from obsidian sub-sources on the island of Pantelleria, exploited since the Neolithic. Data has been obtained from 14 obsidian samples from 4 locations: Fossa della Pernice (2 sites), Salto la ...
Rotolo Silvio G., Carapezza Maria Luisa, Correale Alessandra, Martin Franco Foresta, Hahn Gregor, Hodgetts Alastair G.E., La Monica Mariangela, Nazzari Manuela, Romano Pierangelo, Sagnotti Leonardo, Siravo Gaia, Speranza Fabio   +11 more
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New Unexpected Species of Acheta (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) from the Italian Volcanic Island of Pantelleria

Diversity, 2022
In late April 2022, while listening to audio files from an unsupervised bioacoustic assessment of the shearwater populations (Aves, Procellariiformes) on the coast of Pantelleria island (Sicily, Italy), a cricket song of unknown attribution was heard ...
Bruno Massa, Camillo Antonino Cusimano, Paolo Fontana, Cesare Brizio   +3 more
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