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The geology of Rome’s sampietrini
What’s so special about the “sampietrini”, those little square bricks typical of Rome’s old roads?
Pasquale Robustini
Jan 4, 2021
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Earthquakes in Rome
Can the Eternal City be shaken?
Pasquale Robustini
Feb 16, 2021
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The 2016 Central Italy Earthquake
A magnitude 6 earthquake wreaked havoc in Italy's central Apennines, in an area famous for typical pasta sauces...
Pasquale Robustini
Mar 5, 2021
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The Power of Silicon
Most rock-forming minerals are silicates, silicon-based chemical compounds. Like carbon holds the secret of living things, silicon has the power to…
Pasquale Robustini
Apr 9, 2021
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Death Bed
Clues of a mass extinction
Pasquale Robustini
Jan 12, 2021
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Death Bed
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Moho's mojo
How the coolest Croatian geophysicist and meteorologist discovered the crust-mantle boundary
Pasquale Robustini
Jul 4, 2021
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Earthquakes for dummies
Who do I think I am? Well… I’m a geologist. I know the problem.
Pasquale Robustini
Jan 4, 2021
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The Archdeacon of Calcutta and a Royal Astronomer in London suggested why mountains rise up high
The first episode of Geologica's journey to the discovery of the Earth: how the British topographic campaign in India led to the Isostasy Principle
Pasquale Robustini
May 21, 2021
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Inertial reference frames
Seeing things from a more neutral point of view allows for a better understanding
Pasquale Robustini
Jan 20, 2021
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An Earth's mantle made of uranium?
The search for an effective title misleads the readers of a post
Pasquale Robustini
Feb 1, 2021
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An old Italian tragedy that left a scar
My personal account of a destructive earthquake I witnessed when I was 16 and lived close enough to be affected
Pasquale Robustini
Jan 25, 2021
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Earthquakes are our friends
We usually think about disasters when we talk about earthquakes; but they carry important information from deep below our beloved planet...
Pasquale Robustini
Jun 26, 2021
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