ISSN 0037-8763

Editor in Chief:  

Sandro Conticelli

Associate Editors : 

Angelo Camerlenghi, William Cavazza, Raffaele Cioni, Giovanni Battista Crosta, Elisabetta Erba, Claudio Faccenna, Stefano Mazzoli, Daniela Pantosti

Editorial Manager: 

Alessandro Zuccari

Responsable Director and Compiler: 

Achille Zuccari

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Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Roma n. 6744/59 del 17-2-1959

Iscrizione Registro Operatori Comunicazione (R.O.C.) N° 18414 del 19/06/2009

The Italian Journal of Geosciences (Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana e del Servizio Geologico d’Italia) is the official journal of the Italian Geological Society (Società Geologica Italiana) and of the Italian Geological Survey. It is published every four months in February, June and October.

The Italian Journal of Geosciences (former Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana) is included in the Journal of Citation Report issued by the Institute of Scientific Information (Thomson ISI database) since 2004. It is indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), Web of Science, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (CC/PC&ES).

DISCLAIMER: The Società Geologica Italiana, the Editors (Chief, Associate and Advisory), and the Publisher are not responsible for the ideas, opinions, and contents of the papers published; the authors of each paper are responsible for the ideas opinions and contents published.

The challenge of the new millennium

During the past years the Italian Geological Society and the past Editorial management brought the “Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana” to achieve several important goals. First the transformation from a local society journal to an international journal with the inclusion in the Journal Citation Report^® (JCR) expanded by Thomson Reuters, and after two years, in 2006 being granted an ISI impact factor. Since 1882, when the Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana was established, the journal has represented a milestone for the Italian and Southern European Geological communities. During the last editorial direction it merged with the Bollettino del Servizio Geologico d’Italia, another long established geological journal (since 1870), becoming the Italian Journal of Geosciences, and thus deciding to publish papers exclusively English-written. We sincerely appreciate all these transformations that established the journal in the international geo-scientific firmament, but we are conscious of the challenge that we are facing taking the editorship of the Journal.

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