TABLE OF CONTENTS

150 years of plans, geological survey and drilling for the Fréjus to Mont Blanc tunnels across the Alpine chain: an historical review

Giorgio V. Dal Piaz (1) & Alessio Argentieri (2)

Frost action and human occupation during the Late Pleistocene in the Italian Southern Alps: micromorphological evidences from the Caverna Generosa cave

Eleonora Sessa (1), Fabio Bona (2) & Lucia Angiolini (2)

Late Cretaceous black shales from the Tuscan Sedimentary Succession (northern Tuscany, Italy): geochemistry and ore mineralogy

Massimo D’Orazio (1), Cristian Biagioni (1) & Daniele Mantovani (1)

Structural investigation of background features and normal faults affecting the Calcari con Selce formation, Southern Apennines, Italy

Rocco Novellino (1), Francesco Bucci (2) & Enrico Tavarnelli (1)

Hybrid event bed distribution in a mixed siliciclastic-calcareous turbidite succession: a cross-current perspective from the Bordighera Sandstone, Ligurian Alps, NW Italy

Pierre Mueller (1), Marco Patacci (2) & Andrea Di Giulio (1)

Facies, composition and provenance of the Agnone Flysch in the context of the early Messinian evolution of the southern Apennine foredeep (Molise, Italy)

Salvatore Milli (1,2), Salvatore Critelli (3), Emanuele Amicone (4), Gloria Campilongo (3), Francesco Muto (3), Vincenzo Tripodi (3), Daniel Tentori (2) & Francesco Perri (3)

Texture and mineralogy as proxies of late Holocene tsunami deposits from the Doñana National Park (SW Spain)

Francisco Ruiz (1,8), María Isabel Carretero (2), Manuel Pozo (3), María luz González-Regalado (1), Guadalupe Monge (2), Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal (1,8), Luis Miguel Cáceres (1,8), Manuel Abad (4), Josep Tosquella (1), Tatiana Izquierdo (4,5), Juan Manuel Muñoz (6), María Isabel Prudencio (7), María Isabel Dias (7), Rosa Marques (7), Paula Gómez (1), Antonio Toscano (1), Verónica Romero (1) & Marta Arroyo (1)