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Giovanni Muttoni

Giovanni Muttoni

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Earth Science

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56
Citations
8380
World Ranking
2495
National Ranking
40

Overview

Giovanni Muttoni is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology. Their research spans multiple aspects of geological and paleoclimatological sciences.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Giovanni Muttoni include:

  • Matteo Maron
  • Dennis V. Kent
  • Serena Perini
  • Andrea Zerboni
  • Mattia Marini

The preferred venues for publishing include:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Episodes
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary

Some recent papers authored by Giovanni Muttoni are:

  • "Pangea B and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age" (2020), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Proposal for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Priabonian Stage (Eocene) at the Alano section (Italy)" (2020), published in Episodes
  • "Magnetochronology and age models of deposition of the Melka Kunture stratigraphic sequence (Upper Awash, Ethiopia) and age assessments of the main archeological levels therein contained" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Campanian Stage at Bottaccione (Gubbio, Italy) and its Auxiliary Sections: Seaford Head (UK), Bocieniec (Poland), Postalm (Austria), Smoky Hill, Kansas (U.S.A), Tepayac (Mexico)" (2023), published in Episodes
  • "First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco)" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Early Permian Pangea 'B' to Late Permian Pangea 'A"

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Eduardo Garzanti;Peter Brack

  • Onset of major Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps

    Giovanni Muttoni;Cipriano Carcano;Eduardo Garzanti;Manlio Ghielmi

  • Opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the Pangea B to Pangea A transformation during the Permian

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  • Tethyan magnetostratigraphy from Pizzo Mondello (Sicily) and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Piero Di Stefano

  • The drift history of Iran from the Ordovician to the Triassic

    Giovanni Muttoni;Massimo Mattei;Marco Balini;Andrea Zanchi

  • Astrochronostratigraphic polarity time scale (APTS) for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic from continental sediments and correlation with standard marine stages

    Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Giovanni Muttoni

  • Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic climate trends

    Dennis V. Kent;Giovanni Muttoni

  • Tethyan oceanic currents and climate gradients 300 m.y. ago

    Lucia Angiolini;Maurizio Gaetani;Giovanni Muttoni;Michael H. Stephenson

  • The Cimmerian evolution of the Nakhlak–Anarak area, Central Iran, and its bearing for the reconstruction of the history of the Eurasian margin

    Andrea Zanchi;Stefano Zanchetta;Eduardo Garzanti;Marco Balini

  • Eocene biostratigraphy and magnetic stratigraphy from Possagno, Italy: The calcareous nannofossil response to climate variability

    Claudia Agnini;Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Domenico Rio

  • The geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Triassic: linkage to stage boundary definitions

    Mark W. Hounslow;Giovanni Muttoni

  • Evolution of Pangea: paleomagnetic constraints from the Southern Alps, Italy

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;James E.T. Channell

  • Human migration into Europe during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition

    Giovanni Muttoni;Giancarlo Scardia;Dennis V. Kent

  • Rhaetian magneto-biostratigraphy from the Southern Alps (Italy): Constraints on Triassic chronology

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Flavio Jadoul;Paul E. Olsen

  • Modulation of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic climate by variable drawdown of atmospheric pCO 2 from weathering of basaltic provinces on continents drifting through the equatorial humid belt

    Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;G. Muttoni

  • Early Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in the APTICORE drill core and adjacent outcrop at Cismon (Southern Alps, Italy), and correlation to the proposed Barremian-Aptian boundary stratotype

    J.E.T. Channell;E. Erba;G. Muttoni;F. Tremolada

  • Motion of Africa and Adria since the Permian: paleomagnetic and paleoclimatic constraints from northern Libya

    Giovanni Muttoni;Eduardo Garzanti;Laura Alfonsi;Simonetta Cirilli

  • Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy

    Giovanni Muttoni;Giancarlo Scardia;Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Carl C. Swisher

  • Permian climatic and paleogeographic changes in Northern Gondwana: the Khuff Formation of Interior Oman

    L. Angiolini;M. Balini;E. Garzanti;A. Nicora

  • Mesozoic Alpine facies deposition as a result of past latitudinal plate motion

    Giovanni Muttoni;Elisabetta Erba;Dennis V. Kent;Dennis V. Kent;Valerian Bachtadse

  • The drift history of Adria and Africa from 280 Ma to Present, Jurassic true polar wander, and zonal climate control on Tethyan sedimentary facies

    G. Muttoni;E. Dallanave;J.E.T. Channell

  • Magnetostratigraphy, nannofossil stratigraphy and apparent polar wander for Adria-Africa in the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary interval

    J.E.T. Channell;C.E. Casellato;G. Muttoni;E. Erba

  • Tracking the Late Jurassic apparent (or true) polar shift in U‐Pb‐dated kimberlites from cratonic North America (Superior Province of Canada)

    Dennis V. Kent;Bruce A. Kjarsgaard;Jeffrey S. Gee;Giovanni Muttoni

  • The Cimmerian evolution of the Nakhlak-Anarak area (Central Iran) and its bearing for the reconstruction of the history of the Eurasian margin

    A. Zanchi;M. Balini;F. Berra;E. Garzanti

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Domenico Rio
Domenico Rio University of Padua
Manuel Rigo
Manuel Rigo University of Padua
Luca Lanci
Luca Lanci University of Urbino
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Andrea Zanchi
Andrea Zanchi University of Milano-Bicocca
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Eliana Fornaciari
Eliana Fornaciari University of Padua
Massimo Mattei
Massimo Mattei Roma Tre University
Lucia Angiolini
Lucia Angiolini University of Milan

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