RICERCA ITALIANA     

Similar research programs:

• 1 - Integrated geological-geophysical approach for the study of emplacement modalities and associated structures of magmatic bodies in the upper crust: the northern Apennines hinterland area.
• 2 - Integrated methodologies (organic matter dispersed in sediments, fluid inclusions, clay mineralogy and geochemistry, fission tracks and U-Th/He ages) to unravel the tectonic/sedimentary burial and exhumation in the southern Apennines (Calabria-Lucania border) and eastern Sicily (sedimentary fold-and-thrust belt)
• 3 - Prediction of thermo-fluid-dynamic and structural effects of tunnel fires, for risk analysis and emergency management
• 4 - New method for the analysis of biodiversity: application of pyrosequencing to the study of soil organisms
• 5 - Learning Hierarchical, Abstract Models from Temporal or Spatial Data
• 6 - Cryptographic databases
• 7 - Tyrrhenian Seamounts ecosystems: an Integrated Study (TySEc)
• 8 - Dynamics of the northern Apennine, Po plain and Alpine system
• 9 - Blending geophysics, space techniques, geochemistry and petrology for a reference geodynamical model of the Italian region
• 10 - The Third Greece and the West

Scientific and education field classification

• Field: Scienze della terra
  • GEOLOGIA STRUTTURALE
  • GEOCHIMICA E VULCANOLOGIA
  • GEOFISICA DELLA TERRA SOLIDA
  • GEOFISICA APPLICATA

International Patent Classification

• FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • SHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS (soil-conditioning or soil-stabilising materials C09K17/00; drilling or cutting machines for mining or quarrying E21C; safety devices, transport, rescue, ventilation or drainage E21F)
• PHYSICS
  • MEASURING (counting G06M); TESTING
    • GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS (detecting or locating foreign bodies for diagnostic, surgical or person-identification purposes A61B; means for indicating the location of accidentally buried, e.g. snow-buried persons A63B29/02; investigating or analysing earth materials by determining their chemical or physical properties G01N; measuring electric or magnetic variables in general, other than direction or magnitude of the earth\'s field G01R; electronic or nuclear magnetic resonance arrangements G01R33/20; radar, sonar or analogous methods in general, detecting masses or objects involving these methods G01S)
    • INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (separating components of materials in general B01D, B01J, B03, B07; apparatus fully provided for in a single other subclass, see the relevant subclass e.g. B01L; measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or micro-organisms C12M, C12Q; investigation of foundation soil in situ E02D1/00; sensing humidity changes for compensating measurements of other variables or for compensating readings of instruments for variations in humidity, see G01D or the relevant subclass for the variable measured; testing or determining the properties of structures G01M; measuring or investigating electric or magnetic properties of materials G01R; systems or methods in general, using reception or emission of radiowaves or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, direction of propagation, G01S; determining sensivity, graininess, or density of photographic materials G03C5/02; testing component parts of nuclear reactors G21C17/00; [N: controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; measuring degree of ionisation of ionised gases, i.e. plasma H05H1/00A; testing electrographic developer properties G03G15/08H6])
    • MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (means structurally associated with lightning or other over-voltage discharging apparatus for recording the operation thereof G01R; displaying information in general G09F; recording in a way which requires playback through a transducer G11B) [C0411]

Geographical classification

• Region: Emilia Romagna

Bibliografia

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Keywords

THERMOCHRONOLOGY, EXHUMATION, HEAT FLOW, TOPOGRAPHY, 3-D THERMAL MODELLING, FLUID CIRCULATION, SIMPLON TUNNEL, LEPONTINE DOME