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Isabella Raffi is affiliated with the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, notably Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research focuses extensively on topics such as Drilling and Well Engineering, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Isabella Raffi's publications include recent papers such as:

  • Proposal for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Priabonian Stage (Eocene) at the Alano section (Italy), 2020, published in Episodes
  • Segmentation of the Apenninic Margin of the Tyrrhenian Back-Arc Basin Forced by the Subduction of an Inherited Transform System, 2021, published in Tectonics
  • The Monte San Nicola section (Sicily) revisited: A potential unit-stratotype of the Gelasian Stage, 2022, published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Neogene-Quaternary Mediterranean calcareous nannofossil biozonation and biochronology: A review, 2023, published in Stratigraphy
  • High-resolution climate variability across the Piacenzian/Gelasian boundary in the Monte San Nicola section (Sicily, Italy), 2023, published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Nicholas J Shackleton
  • Teresa King Hagelberg
  • David Schneider
  • Jean-Pierre Valet
  • Steven A. Hovan

The publication venues where Isabella Raffi most often appears include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Episodes
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis

    W. Krijgsman;F.J. Hilgen;I. Raffi;F.J. Sierro

  • Rapid acidification of the ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.

    James C. Zachos;Ursula Röhl;Stephen A. Schellenberg;Appy Sluijs

  • Late Neogene chronology: New perspectives in high-resolution stratigraphy

    William A. Berggren;F. J. Hilgen;C. G. Langereis;Dennis V. Kent

  • Astronomical pacing of late Palaeocene to early Eocene global warming events

    Lucas J. Lourens;Appy Sluijs;Dick Kroon;James C. Zachos

  • A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

    Isabella Raffi;Jan Backman;Eliana Fornaciari;Heiko Pälike

  • Pliocene-Pleistocene Calcareous Nannofossil Distribution Patterns in the Western Mediterranean

    D. Rio;I. Raffi;G. Villa

  • Direct stratigraphic dating of India-Asia collision onset at the Selandian (middle Paleocene, 59 ± 1 Ma)

    Xiumian Hu;Eduardo Garzanti;Ted Moore;Isabella Raffi

  • Biozonation and biochronology of Paleogene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

    Claudia Agnini;Eliana Fornaciari;Isabella Raffi;Rita Catanzariti

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • Biozonation and biochronology of Miocene through Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

    Jan Backman;Isabella Raffi;Domenico Rio;Eliana Fornaciari

  • Astronomical calibration of the Paleocene time

    Thomas Westerhold;Ursula Röhl;Isabella Raffi;Eliana Fornaciari

  • On the duration of magnetochrons C24r and C25n and the timing of early Eocene global warming events: Implications from the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208 Walvis Ridge depth transect

    Thomas Westerhold;Ursula Röhl;Jacques Laskar;Isabella Raffi

  • Chronology of the pleistocene oxygen isotope record: 0–1.88 m.y. B.P

    Douglas F. Williams;Robert C. Thunell;Eric Tappa;Domenico Rio

  • Late Neogene sedimentation patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean

    J. W. Farrell;I. Raffi;T. R. Janecek;D. W. Murray

  • Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Serravallian and lower Tortonian at Monte dei Corvi (Middle–Upper Miocene, northern Italy)

    F.J. Hilgen;H. Abdul Aziz;W. Krijgsman;I. Raffi

  • Long-period orbital control on middle Miocene global cooling: Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Blue Clay Formation on Malta

    H. A. Abels;F. J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;R. W. Kruk

  • Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical calibration of the Serravallian/Tortonian boundary section at Monte Gibliscemi (Sicily, Italy)

    F.J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;I. Raffi;E. Turco

  • Astronomical calibration of the Ypresian timescale: implications for seafloor spreading rates and the chaotic behavior of the solar system?

    Thomas Westerhold;Ursula Röhl;Thomas Frederichs;Claudia Agnini

  • Astronomical calibration age for the Oligocene-Miocene boundary

    Nicholas J. Shackleton;Michael A. Hall;Isabella Raffi;Lisa Tauxe

  • The Neogene Period

    Unknown

  • Pleistocene through Miocene calcareous nannofossils from eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (Leg 138)

    I. Raffi;J.-A. Flores

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Thomas Westerhold
Thomas Westerhold University of Bremen
James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos University of California, Santa Cruz
Roy H Wilkens
Roy H Wilkens University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
Eliana Fornaciari
Eliana Fornaciari University of Padua
Lucas Joost Lourens
Lucas Joost Lourens Utrecht University
Mitchell W Lyle
Mitchell W Lyle Oregon State University
Frederik J Hilgen
Frederik J Hilgen Utrecht University
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh

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