(KY) GEOLOGY

Developing sustainable resource exploitation

Development and technological improvement of marine renewable energy

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MGRG is active in promoting multidisciplinary research and related events about geomorphology in various dimensions. The group over the years has managed to produce a number of research initiatives and publications related to the study of coastal landforms, such as landslides, karst, shore platforms, shingle beaches, bouldered coasts, natural hazards and geoheritage. The group collaborates with a number of other geomorphology groups in Italy and UK.

In our research group we study past environmental change possible to reconstruct based on lake sediments. We focus on climate-related and human-related changes recorded over the last several thousand years. For correct interpretation of sediment records, we also investigate the conditions of modern sedimentation processes in lakes. We use mainly geochronological, sedimentological, geochemical, and biological methods.

Scientific activities of the Department of Marine Geology cover coast, coastal zone as well as open marine water, mainly of the Baltic Sea region, with the main research focus on Quaternary geology, sedimentology, geodynamics, litho- and biostratigraphy.

The main fields of research cover:

The LGO is a multi-approach geoscience laboratory covering geophysics, geochemistry, tectonics, sedimentology and paleontology. Our research involves observing, measuring and modeling processes. We carry out methodological and instrumental developments applied to the exploration of the oceans, from telluric coats to the superficial envelopes of coastal and offshore areas.