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Leonardo Sagnotti is affiliated with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions also in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, Sagnotti has focused especially on subfields such as Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, and Archaeology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Plant Responses to Elevated CO2

Sagnotti's frequent co-authors consist of Chiara Caricchi, Vadim A. Kravchinsky, Aldo Winkler, Patrizia Macrı́, and Renata G. Lucchi, indicating collaborative research efforts primarily in geophysical and geological sciences.

Their scholarly articles have been published in various scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth and the Geological Society of America Bulletin. Other publication venues include Ecological Indicators, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Open Archaeology.

Major recent papers authored or co-authored by Leonardo Sagnotti include:

  • "Urban trees for biomonitoring atmospheric particulate matter: An integrated approach combining plant functional traits, magnetic and chemical properties" (2021) in Ecological Indicators
  • "1.2 Myr Band of Earth-Mars Obliquity Modulation on the Evolution of Cold Late Miocene to Warm Early Pliocene Climate" (2022) in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Reconstruction of the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) path at high latitude for the last 22 kyr: The role of radial field flux patches as VGP attractor" (2022) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Interpreting Inverse Magnetic Fabric in Miocene Dikes From Eastern Iceland" (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Obsidians of Pantelleria (Strait of Sicily): A Petrographic, Geochemical and Magnetic Study of Known and New Geological Sources" (2020) in Open Archaeology

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary

    Tim R. Naish;Ken J. Woolfe;Peter J. Barrett;Gary S. Wilson

  • Biomonitoring of traffic air pollution in Rome using magnetic properties of tree leaves

    Eva Moreno;Leonardo Sagnotti;Jaume Dinarès-Turell;Aldo Winkler

  • Age of the Corsica-Sardinia rotation and Liguro-Provencal Basin spreading: new paleomagnetic and Ar/Ar evidence

    F. Speranza;I. M. Villa;L. Sagnotti;F. Florindo

  • MAGNETIC FABRIC OF WEAKLY DEFORMED CLAY-RICH SEDIMENTS IN THE ITALIAN PENINSULA : RELATIONSHIP WITH COMPRESSIONAL AND EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS

    M. Mattei;L. Sagnotti;C. Faccenna;R. Funiciello

  • Magnetic classification of stony meteorites: 2. Non-ordinary chondrites

    Pierre Rochette;Jérôme Gattacceca;Lydie Bonal;Michèle Bourot-Denise

  • Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

    Bernd Wagner;Hendrik Vogel;Alexander Francke;Alexander Francke;Tobias Friedrich

  • Magnetic fabric of clay sediments from the external northern Apennines (Italy)

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Fabio Speranza;Aldo Winkler;Massimo Mattei

  • Rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism of greigite-bearing mudstones in the Italian peninsula

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Aldo Winkler

  • Magnetobiostratigraphic chronology of the Eocene—Oligocene transition in the CIROS-1 core, Victoria Land margin, Antarctica: Implications for Antarctic glacial history

    Gary S. Wilson;Andrew P. Roberts;Kenneth L. Verosub;Fabio Florindo

  • Tectonics of the Umbria‐Marche‐Romagna Arc (central northern Apennines, Italy): New paleomagnetic constraints

    Fabio Speranza;Leonardo Sagnotti;Massimo Mattei

  • Apparent magnetic polarity reversals due to remagnetization resulting from late diagenetic growth of greigite from siderite

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Andrew P. Roberts;Richard Weaver;Kenneth L. Verosub

  • Postglacial sedimentary processes on the Storfjorden and Kveithola trough mouth fans: Significance of extreme glacimarine sedimentation

    R.G. Lucchi;A. Camerlenghi;A. Camerlenghi;M. Rebesco;E. Colmenero-Hidalgo;E. Colmenero-Hidalgo

  • Compositional, morphological, and hysteresis characterization of magnetic airborne particulate matter in Rome, Italy

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Jacopo Taddeucci;Aldo Winkler;Andrea Cavallo

  • Extremely rapid directional change during Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic polarity reversal

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Giancarlo Scardia;Biagio Giaccio;Joseph C. Liddicoat

  • Palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism in the upper Pliocene Valle Ricca (Rome, Italy) section

    Fabio Florindo;Leonardo Sagnotti

  • Magnetic properties of atmospheric particulate matter from automatic air sampler stations in Latium (Italy): Toward a definition of magnetic fingerprints for natural and anthropogenic PM10 sources

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Patrizia Macrì;Ramon Egli;Manlio Mondino

  • Holocene eruptive history of the Stromboli volcano: Constraints from paleomagnetic dating

    Fabio Speranza;Massimo Pompilio;Francesca D'Ajello Caracciolo;Leonardo Sagnotti

  • Environmental magnetism of Antarctic Late Pleistocene sediments and interhemispheric correlation of climatic events

    Leonardo Sagnotti;Patrizia Macrı́;Angelo Camerlenghi;Michele Rebesco

  • Extensional tectonics in the Amantea basin (Calabria, Italy): a comparison between structural and magnetic anisotropy data

    Massimo Mattei;Fabio Speranza;Alessio Argentieri;Alessio Argentieri;Federico Rossetti;Federico Rossetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Florindo
Fabio Florindo National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Fabio Speranza
Fabio Speranza National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Massimo Mattei
Massimo Mattei Roma Tre University
Jaume Dinarès-Turell
Jaume Dinarès-Turell National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
Biagio Giaccio
Biagio Giaccio Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Kenneth L. Verosub
Kenneth L. Verosub University of California, Davis
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington

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