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HISTORY OF THE ISPRA COLLECTIONS

In the years immediately following Italy’s unification in 1861, Quintino Sella and Felice Giordano began planning the creation of the Geological Map of Italy, defining also the regulatory framework for the organization of Italian territory survey campaigns and the...

TIPOLOGY OF THE ISPRA COLLECTIONS

Comprising over 150,000 natural findings and manmade artifacts, the ISPRA collections are now grouped into 3 sections: Paleontological Collections, Litho-Mineralogical Collections, and Historical Collections. The earliest collections, established in the second half of...

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS: THE GEOLOGICAL SERVICE OF ITALY MODELS

The Historical Collections—the most conspicuous collection of its kind in Italy documenting the production of maps by the Royal Geological Office—include, among other artifacts, 17 geological and historical models and plan reliefs produced from 1877 to 1920 that once...

INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART

International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)2024 Units of all ranks are in the process of being defined by Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Points (GSSP) for their lower boundaries, including those of the Archean and Proterozoic, long defined by Global...