Who is Giovanna della Porta?

Giovanna Della Porta is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan (Italy), Department of Earth Sciences. Her research interests focus on the facies composition and architecture of carbonate platforms across the Phanerozoic geological record and on non-marine carbonates from lacustrine, fluvial and hydrothermal settings.

What is carbonateworld?

Carbonateworld.com is an academic initiative aimed for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Earth Sciences, researchers and industry geologists. The Carbonateworld website is funded by the IAS International Association of Sedimentologists.

Who are Giovanna and Paul Wright?

From 1999 to 2009, Giovanna acquired research and teaching experiences in sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (Netherlands), the University of Potsdam (Germany) and as lecturer at Cardiff University (Wales, UK). V. Paul Wright is an honorary research fellow at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.