Simonetta Monechi
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Personal details Place and date of birth: Florence, June 7, 1950 Italian nationality Academic Position: Ordinary Professor of Paleontology (Geo-01) Education and Career University 1974 - Degree in Geology at the Faculty of Mathematical Physics and Natural Sciences at the University of Florence. 1975 - 1981 - Holder of Scientific and Educational Training at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the University of Florence. 1981 - 1989 - Researcher Confirmed at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence. 1989 - 1992 - Associate Professor of Micropaleontology at the University of Bari. February 1989- August 1989 - Commanded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) as a Professor of Stratigraphy. 1992- 2000 Associate Professor of Paleontology at the University of Florence. Since 2000 - Ordinary Professor of Paleontology at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.
Research Interest
Main fields of interest: High Resolution Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography. Bio-magnetocronologia. Evolution of plankton with particular regard to the evolution and paleoecology of calcareous nano-fossils.
Publications
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Galeotti, S .; Moretti, M .; Sabatino, N .; Sprovieri, M .; Ceccatelli, M .; Francescone, F .; Lauretano, V .; Monechi, S. (2017). Cyclochronology of early Eocene carbon isotope records from a composite succession of the Contessa Road-Bottaccione composite section (Gubbio, Central Italy). NEWSLETTERS ON STRATIGRAPHY, vol. 50, pp. 231-244, ISSN: 0078-0421
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Coccioni R .; Montanari, A .; Bice, DM; Brinkhuis, H .; Deino, A .; Frontalini, F .; Lirer, F .; Maiorano, P .; Monechi, S .; Pross, J .; Rochette, P .; Sagnotti, L .; Sprovieri M., Sideri M. (In press). The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Chattian Stage (Paleogene System, Oligocene Series) at Monte Cagnero, Italy. EPISODES, pp. 1-13, ISSN: 0705-3797
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Agnini, C.; Monechi, S .; Raffi, I. (In press). Calcareous nano-phosphate biostratigraphy: Historical background and application in Cenozoic chronostratigraphy. LETHAIA, pp. 1-15, ISSN: 0024-1164
