Soil contamination is one of the greatest concerns among the threats to soil resources in
Europe and globally. Despite of its importance there was only very course scale (1/5000 km …

Fluvial lowlands have become attractive human settling areas all around the world over the
last few millennia. Because rivers kept changing their course and networks due to avulsion …

Although the Po river is the most important fluvial system of Northern Italy, the systematic
geochemical and isotopic investigations of its water are rare and were never reported for the …

One of the major issues when assessing soil contamination by inorganic substances is
reliable determination of natural metal concentrations. Through integrated sedimentological …

The main causes of soil organic matter (SOM) loss are land use (eg, conventional
agriculture) and land‐use change (eg, conversion of wetlands into croplands). Before World …

Heavy metals having both natural and anthropogenic origin are common contaminants in
soils and sediments, and can be transferred and bioaccumulated at all levels of the food …

Three hand augering campaigns were carried out between 2018 and 2020 in the hinterland
of Ravenna to gain new insights into the physical transformations that occurred in the area …

Abstract The toponym “Terre Calde di Medolla”(literally,“Warm Earths of Medolla”) refers to a
farming area, located near the town of Modena (Emilia‐Romagna region, northern Italy) …

A sedimentary sequence comprising a Late Bronze age archaeological site located in the
alluvial plain between Bologna and Ferrara (Northern Italy) was studied from geochemical …

In the rich of archaeological sites dated from the late Palaeolithic to the Modern Period
region of the Serteyka River, deposits of an extensive accumulative fan were studied in …